The RCAC is overseen by a Director and an Advisory Board whose biographies can be displayed by clicking on their names.
Advisory Board Members:
Mary
V. Ahern
June Besek
Paul DiMaggio
Ronald
Feldman
Glenn Hubbard
Anthony Keller
Morris B.
Holbrook
Walter Mischel
David M. Schizer
Bernd Schmitt
Donald
E. Sexton
Graeme Sullivan
Barbara
Weisberger
Board Members In Memoriam:
John M. Kernochan, 1919-2007
Mark Schuster, 1951-2008
Stephen E. Weil, 1928-2005
Joan Jeffri
Joan Jeffri is the Founder and Director of the Research
Center for Arts and Culture as well as the Director of the Program in
Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the
President of the Association of Arts Administration Educators, and past
President of the International Arts Medicine Association.
Ms. Jeffri is the author of Arts Money: Raising It, Saving It, Earning
It (1989) and The Emerging Arts: Amangement, Survival and Growth
(1990). She is also the editor of Artisthelp: The Artist’s Guide
to Work-Related Human and Social Services (1990) and The Actor
Speaks, The Painter Speaks, and The Craftsperson Speaks (1994, 1993,
1992). From 1981-1990, she served as an executive director of The Journal
of Arts Management and Law. She has conducted numerous studies including
Information on Artists I and II and The Artists Training and
Career Project.
Early in her career, Ms. Jeffri was a poet and protégé of
Louis Untermeyer. A former professional actress, she appeared in the national
tour of The Homecoming and in the Boston Company of The Effect
of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. She also appeared with
the Lincoln Center Repertory Company in New York City.
Current projects include a National Endowment for the Arts study of jazz
musicians in four U.S. cities and guest editorship of a special issue
of "Poetics" devoted to artist research.
Mary V. Ahern
Mary Ahern has produced features on music, history
and theater for "Omnibus" including a series of seven programs
with the late Leonard Bernstein and a three-part dramatic presentation
of the U.S. Constitution with Joseph N. Welch and historian Richard Hofstadter.
She also was a script editor for Profiles in Courage; the 26 one-hour
series based on John F. Kennedy’s book and editor and production
coordinator for Walter Kerr’s Guide to the Theater, and 8-hour
audiocassette album.
Ms. Ahern served as Vice President and Associate at Robert Saudek Associates,
Inc., producers of The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, Sol Hurok
Presents I and II, Opening Night of Lincoln Center, and 20
other television specials. She was also Vice President of IQ Films, Inc.,
producers and distributors of educational films and an Executive Producer
in the ABC Public Affairs Department. Earlier in her career she was an
Acquisitions Specialist at the Library of Congress (Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division) and a curator for the Museum of Broadcasting
(now named the Museum of Television and Radio).
She has been a Consulting Editor for "The Journal of Arts Management
and Law" and has written articles that have been published by the
Theatre Library Association and the "ARSC Journal."
Ms. Ahern graduated from Radcliffe College with an AB cum laude. She also
received the Harvard-Radcliffe Business Administration degree and an Alumnae
Achievement Award in 1967.
June M. Besek joined the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts in 1999, where she oversees studies on national and international intellectual property issues. She was formerly Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters America Inc. and, before that, a partner at Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay in New York. She is an active member of the ABA Intellectual Property Section and the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She received her B.A. from Yale and J.D. from New York University.
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Paul DiMaggio
Paul DiMaggio joined the faculty of Princeton University
in 1992, where he is a Professor of Sociology, as well as a faculty associate
at the Woodrow Wilson School, and Research Coordinator of the Princeton
University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. Current and recent
research projects address such topics as polarization in Americans' attitudes
on social and cultural issues; public conflicts over the arts; explaining
trends in public participation in the arts; and trends in public attitudes
towards federal arts funding. From 1979 to 1992 he taught at Yale University,
as Assistant Professor and Professor of Sociology, with appointments at
the School of Organization and Management and the Institution for Social
and Policy Studies.
Professor DiMaggio is a current member of the editorial board of "Administrative
Science Quarterly", a senior editor of "Theory and Society",
and associate editor of "Poetics." He was 1995-96 Robin M. Williams
Jr. Distinguished Lecturer of the Eastern Sociological Society. He is
a past chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Culture
and the ASA Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, a past member
of the ASA Publications and Nominations Committees, and has been elected
to membership in the ASA Council. He also held a fellowship from the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1990 and was a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1984-85.
Professor DiMaggio received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1971 and his
Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard in 1979.
Ronald Feldman
Since 1971, Ronald Feldman has been the President
of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. in New York, a gallery that exhibits
works from the United States, Europe, Russia, Ukraine and Asia. The gallery
also publishes artists’ prints, a catalogue raisonne – Andy
Warhol Prints, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and brochures.
Currently Mr. Feldman serves on the Boards of Creative Capital Foundation;
People for the American Way; Washington University, School of Fine Arts;
and Exit Art. In 1997 he received the Larry Award from the Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art. He also received the Project VOTE! Leadership Award
presented to himself and Frayda Feldman for their efforts to raise funds
for the voter registration drive in 1992.
Some of Mr. Feldman’s publications include BEUYS zu Ehren (1986) which includes essays by Ronald Feldman and others, and the article,
“Leonardo: The Silent Language of Hidden Images and Moving Pictures”
published in "Artforum" (October, 1983). He also is co-author
of “The Future of the National Endowment for the Arts: A Transition
Report for President Elect Clinton,” which was first published in
Artforum in January 1993. Mr. Feldman is widely interviewed and quoted
as a spokesperson for the arts. He has made numerous appearances on PBS,
Fox Network, NBC, CNN, New York One and Channel 4 (Great Britain).
In 1991 Mr. Feldman was an Adjunct Professor in Art History at Brown University.
From 1963–1971 he was a Partner in the private law practice of Helfand,
Traub and Lesser.
Mr. Feldman received his Bachelors Degree from Syracuse University, Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 1959 and his Juris Doctor
from New York University Law School in 1962.
Morris B. Holbrook is the W. T. Dillard Professor of Marketing in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Professor Holbrook graduated from Harvard College with a BA degree in English and received his MBA and Ph.D. in Marketing from Columbia University. Since 1975, he has taught courses at the Columbia Business School in such areas as Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, Research Methods, Consumer Behavior, and Commercial Communication in the Culture of Consumption. His research has covered a wide variety of topics in marketing and consumer behavior with a special focus on issues related to communication in general and to aesthetics, semiotics, hermeneutics, art, entertainment, nostalgia, and stereography in particular. He pursues such hobbies as playing the piano, attending jazz and classical concerts, going to movies and the theater, collecting musical recordings, taking stereographic photos, and being kind to cats.
Glenn Hubbard is a Dean from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
Professor Hubbard is a specialist in public finance, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 90 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has co-authored Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. In a recent book, Tax Policy and Multinational Corporations, he argues that U.S. tax policy significantly affects financing and investment decisions of multinational corporations. Professor Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a consultant on taxation and corporate finance to many corporations), in government (as deputy assistant of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard).
Anthony S. Keller
Anthony Keller’s 35-year career in arts administration
has focused on public cultural policy and community cultural development.
He was the first executive director of the Connecticut Commission on the
Arts between 1966 and 1981 and most recently completed eight years as
executive director of the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford. At
Charter Oak he instituted programs in neighborhood cultural and economic
development, multicultural performance and gallery programming, city wide
celebration and educational services and historic restoration of the cultural
center’s building, the first synagogue in Connecticut.
Mr. Keller has lectured on cultural policy at many colleges and universities,
served on national, regional and local funding panels, and written book-length
studies on cultural policy and practices for the National Endowment for
the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. A double issue of the "Journal
of Arts Management and Law" he edited in 1983 on cultural policy
is still being used in graduate arts management courses in the U.S. He
helped establish the New England Foundation for the Arts and the National
Association of State Arts Agencies and was on the original NEA Expansion
Arts panel. He has been a member of many boards and chaired the board
of Real Art Ways, Hartford’s cutting-edge performance, cinema and
gallery space. He currently chairs A City Celebrates!, a program designed
to expose the celebratory traditions of many cultures to each other, is
a trustee of the Roberts Foundation, directs a group in Hartford known
as the Charter Oak Affiliated Artists in collaborative performance activities,
is beginning a new writing project and is conducting the preliminary studies
for a major wall mural along Hartford’s riverfront.
A 1961 graduate of Harvard, Mr. Keller has a Columbia MA degree in English.
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel is currently Niven Professor of Humane
Letters as well as a Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Subsequent
to his current position, he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology
at Columbia University from 1988 to 1991, and held the same position at
Stanford University from 1977 to 1978, and then again from 1982-1983.
From 1958 to 1983, he held professorships Stanford University, Harvard
University and University of Colorado.
Currently the Editor of "Psychological Review", some of Professor
Mischel’s most recent publications include articles in the "European
Journal of Personality" and "Psychological Review". He
also recently contributed a chapter to the book, Integrating Dispositions
and Processing Dynamics Within a Unified Theory of Personality: The Cognitive
Affective Personality System (co-author) (1999), and a chapter in
The History of Behavior Therapy. Recent honors include being elected
as Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 1999 and receiving
an honorary Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1997. He is a fellow of
the American Psychological Association and is a member of the Society
of Experimental Social Psychologists.
Professor Mischel graduated from New York University with a degree in Psychology
in 1951. He then received his Masters in Psychology from the College of
City of New York in 1953. In 1956 he received his Ph.D. in Psychology
from Ohio State University.
David M. Schizer is a Dean at the Law School at Columbia University, as well as the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law.
Professor Schizer was Law clerk to Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, from 1993-94, and Law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, from 1994-95. He practiced law in the tax department of Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, from 1995-98.
Professor Schizer currently serves on the Tax Club, the Tax Forum, and on the executive committee and as co-chair of the Committee on Financial Institutions, N.Y. State Bar Association Tax Section.
He joined the Columbia faculty in 1998 and currently teaches federal income taxation, the taxation of financial instruments, corporate tax, and professional responsibility.
Bernd Schmitt is Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Professor Schmitt is widely recognized for his major contributions to branding, marketing and management through his unique focus on the customer experience. He teaches the course Managing Brands, Identity and Experiences, and won an award for innovation in the classroom for the course Corporate Creativity. He has also taught several other courses including Consumer Behavior and Advertising, as well as the Marketing core course. He has held visiting appointments in China, Germany and Poland. Professor Schmitt’s research focuses on experiential marketing, brand management and international business. Schmitt has authored or coauthored several books which have been translated into 15 languages (see books on complete biography). He has also published more than 50 articles in marketing, management and psychology journals. [ please click here for his complete bio ]
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Donald E. Sexton
Donald Sexton has been teaching for more than thirty
years at Columbia University in the areas of marketing, international
business, and operations management and is a recipient of the Business
School’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Sexton has taught at several
institutions, including the European Institute for Business Administration,
the Beijing Management Institute, the University of New South Wales, and
the U.S. Business School in Prague. He has worked with numerous organizations
such as General Electric, Kodak, Metropolitan Opera, IBM, and Pfizer.
His research and writings focus on the design and implementation of marketing
and branding strategy. He is also a painter and has won awards in several
juried shows.
Professor Sexton received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in economics, mathematics,
and fine arts and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago
in business economics and management science.
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Graeme Sullivan
Graeme Sullivan has been Professor of
Art Education, Department of Arts and Humanities at Teachers College,
Columbia University since 1999. Previous to his current appointment, he
was Senior Lecturer in Art Education at the College of Fine Arts, University
of New South Wales, Australia where he began teaching in 1988.
Since the early 1990s, Professor Sullivan has been conducting research regarding
the thinking process involved in the visual arts, in order to help develop
models for use in university and school visual arts programs. In 1998,
he produced a CD-ROM, "Critical Influence," that documented
the influences and contexts surrounding the procedure of two artists preparing
for an exhibition. He is the author of Seeing Australia: Views of Artists
and Artwriters as well as numerous published articles on art education.
In 1999 he was elected the Co-Editor of "Studies in Art Education",
the research journal of the National Art Education Association.
Professor Sullivan received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio in 1984.
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Barbara Weisberger
Barbara Weisberger is founder of the Pennsylvania
Ballet, a company that developed after she formed the School of Pennsylvania
Ballet in 1962. In 1953 she established the Wilkes-Barre Ballet Theatre
and dance school. She also developed the Carlisle Project, a distinguished
national program for the professional development of choreographers and
dancers, which she led until September 1996.
Ms. Weisburger’s own ballet training came from Balanchine’s
School of American Ballet (where she was the first child accepted), the
Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, and the Littlefield Sisters.
Ms. Weisberger has received honorary doctorates from Swarthmore, Temple
University, Villanova University, King’s College and The University
of New England, and has been recognized by Pennsylvania State University
as Distinguished Alumnus. She has also received several awards, including
the Hazlett Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Governor of Pennsylvania
and the Gimbel Philadelphia Award. She has served on the National Endowment
for the Art’s dance panel, on the executive committee of the American
Arts Alliance, and on the Board of Directors of Dance/USA.
Board Members In Memoriam
We express our deep gratitude for the time, advice, and good work of the following people as they served the RCAC:
John M. Kernochan, 1919-2007
John Kernochan was Nash Professor Emeritus of Law
and Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia
University.
Joining the Columbia faculty in 1952, Professor Kernochan became a full Professor
of Law in 1955. From 1977 to 1990 he was appointed Nash Professor of Law.
He organized and supervised projects and studies in witness immunity,
correction law, financial protection against nuclear hazards and other
risks of catastrophic accident, arms control, health and air pollution
regulation, housing maintenance, and model constitutions and charters
for state and local governments.
Professor Kernochan served on the Boards of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and E.C. Shirmer Music Company. He was also President of Gaudia Music and
Arts, Inc. Publications include Cases and Materials on Business Torts;
the Legislative Process; and Legal Method: Cases and Materials (co-author).
Professor Kernochan received his Bachelors Degree from Harvard University in
1942 and his Law Degree from Columbia University in 1948. He made the
rank of Captain in the U.S. Army where he served from 1943 to 1946.
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Mark Schuster, 1951-2008
Mark Schuster was Professor of Urban Studies and
Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served
as the 1999 Scholar-in-Residence of the Program in Arts Administration
at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was a public policy specialist,
specializing in the analysis of government policies and programs with
respect to the arts, culture, and environmental design.
Professor Schuster was the author of numerous books, articles and reports, including Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation, Patrons Despite
Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy and Who’s to Pay for the Arts? An International Model of Arts Support. He was a founding member of the
Association for Cultural Economics, co-editor of its journal,
and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Cultural
Policy, The Journal of Planning Education and Research,
and Poetics. He served as a consultant to the National
Planning Commission, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Canada Council, and the Council of Europe. He conducted
research under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, the Arts
Council of New Zealand, and the University of Barcelona.
Professor Schuster received an A.B. in Applied Mathematics, magna cum laude,
from Harvard College in 1972. He received a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and
Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979.
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Stephen E. Weil , 1928-2005
Stephen E. Weil was a leading administrator, teacher, and scholar of museums, art and the law, who believed strongly in museums' potential for making a difference in people's lives.
Mr. Weil was a vice president and general manager of the Marlborough Gallery from 1963 to 1967 and an administrator, secretary and trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art from then until 1974. From 1974 to his retirement in 1995, he served as deputy director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Following his retirement he was scholar emeritus at the Smithsonian’s Center for Education and Museum Studies.
Mr. Weil was an expert in copyrights, trusteeships and the sale of artworks from museum collections. He was on the faculty of the Museum Management Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1979 to 1996. He served as a presidential appointee on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the Department of State (1995-2000) and on the board of the International Committee on Management for the International Council of Museums. His books include A Cabinet of Curiosities; Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations; Beauty and the Beasts: On Museums, Art, the Law, and the Market; and Making Museums Matter. He received his field's highest honor, the American Association of Museums (AAM) Award for Distinguished Service to Museums. Weil was also the first inductee on the AAM Centennial Honor Roll.
Mr. Weil graduated from Brown University in 1949 and the Columbia University Law School in 1956.