American Antiquarian Society
Dwight A. McBride, PhD, currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity, Sr. Advisor to the Chancellor, and Gerald Early Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, starting in August 2023. McBride is a member of the Board of Directors at Con Edison since 2021 and has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2022. Additional roles include Trustee at the Institute of International Education and Advisory Council Member for the Princeton University Program in Gender & Sexuality Studies, both since 2021 and 2017, respectively. McBride is also a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Association for a Better New York Foundation Board. Previously, McBride was a Trustee for the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities from March 2022 to August 2023 and served as President and University Professor at The New School from October 2019 to August 2023. McBride holds an AB in English and a Certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University and both a Master's degree and PhD in English from UCLA.
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American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American history and culture. Our mission is to collect, preserve, and make available for study the printed record of what is now the United States of America from first European settlement through the year 1876. As a learned society, we offer a wide variety of programs for diverse audiences including: professional scholars, pre-collegiate, undergraduate and graduate level students and educators, professional artists and writers, genealogists, and the general public. The library collections encompass three million books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, graphic arts materials and manuscripts housed on twenty-five miles of shelving.