Maurie McInnis
American historian and author (born 1966)
Maurie Dee McInnis (born January 11, 1966) is an American art historian who has been the 24th president of Yale University since July 2024. She was previously the 6th president of Stony Brook University from 2020 to 2024.2
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Born Jan 11, 1966.1
About
McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American art in the colonial and antebellum South, focusing on the history of academia, cultural trends, and slavery.
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Companies
- Yale UniversityChair 2024 to now13
Early life and education
McInnis received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in art history from the University of Virginia in 1988. She was a Jefferson Scholar when she was an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia.
McInnis received a Master of Arts in 1990, a Master of Philosophy in 1993, and a Ph.D. in 1996, all in art history from Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation was titled The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840. Her doctoral advisor was Edward S. Cooke.
Academic research
McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South. Her work has focused on the relationship between art and politics in early America, especially on the politics of slavery. Her first book, "The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston," was awarded the Spiro Kostof Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.
Her 2011 book, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade" was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Book Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as the Library of Virginia Literary Award for nonfiction. In 2019 University of Virginia Press published her co-edited volume, "Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University." She has also served as a curator, consultant, and advisor to multiple art museums and historic sites.
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Stony Brook University
On March 26, 2020, McInnis was announced as the sixth president of Stony Brook University. She began serving in this role on July 1, 2020. McInnis won several political battles in support of Stony Brook University, including securing a $500 million donation from Jim Simons' Simons Foundation (the second-largest gift to a public university in American history), and a $700 million bid to lead the New York Climate Exchange campus on Governors Island.
On May 13, 2024, the Stony Brook University Faculty Senate defeated a motion to censure McInnis, by a count of 55–51, over her role with regards to the arrest of 29 pro-Palestinian campus protestors and removal of a pro-Palestinian encampment earlier that month.
Yale University
In April 2024, the Yale Daily News reported that McInnis, who was appointed to Yale's Board of Trustees in 2022, was a candidate for the presidency of Yale University. On May 29, 2024, McInnis was announced as the 24th president of Yale University. McInnis was formally installed on April 6, 2025 at an inauguration disrupted by pro-Palestine protestors calling for university divestment from weapons companies, becoming the first woman to serve as a non-interim president at Yale.
In 2026, McInnis began negotiations to settle an investigation by the Trump administration that accused Yale of giving preferential treatment to Black and Hispanic applicants. The move drew backlash from students, faculty, alumni, and Connecticut politicians.
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Career
Occupation: art historian, university teacher, university president, historian.10
- Since 2024President, Yale University7
- Since 2024Chair, Yale University9
- 2020 to 2024President, Stony Brook University6 7
- Since 2020Chair, Stony Brook University8
- Date not recordedWorked at Yale University4 5
- Date not recordedWorked at University of Texas at Austin4
- Date not recordedWorked at Stony Brook University4 6
Provostship
McInnis served as vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia. Over her almost 20 years' experience at UVA, McInnis held various academic leadership and administrative appointments, including vice provost for academic affairs, associate dean for undergraduate education programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, director of American Studies, and as a professor of art history. She joined the faculty of UVA in 1998, earned tenure in 2005 and became a full professor in 2011.
McInnis served as the provost of the University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2020.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipUnited States11
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- 1WikidataMaurie McInnis on Wikidata
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- 14Wikimedia CommonsMaurie McInnis photo by Yale University, CC BY 4.0