Dr. Jos Hackforth-Jones To Lead Richmond

26/09/2007

RICHMOND HAS A NEW PRESIDENT

DR. JOS HACKFORTH-JONES APPOINTED RICHMOND'S PRESIDENT--THE FIRST TO BE APPOINTED FROM THE FACULTY

Dr. Jos Hackforth-Jones took over the role as President on 1 July, 2007 after Dr. Norman Smith left to return to the USA.

A member of the Richmond faculty since 1992, Dr. Hackforth-Jones directed Richmond’s MA in Art History from 1996-2001 when she became Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2002 she was made Vice-Provost, becoming Provost in 2003. She was appointed President in 2007. She combines extensive experience in university education in the UK and Australia with a number of international research fellowships, most recently at Yale University.

Her research interests include colonialism, identity, travel art and post-colonial readings of landscape painting and she has published widely in these fields. Like many Richmond faculty, her research and writing have been influenced by the university’s intercultural and international mission, most notably in two of her recent books (Re)forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998) and Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture (2005, co-authored with Mary Roberts). She recently curated ‘Between Worlds: Non-European visitors to London 1700-1850’, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London (2007).

Dr. Hackforth-Jones was awarded a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Sydney, an MA from the Courtauld Insititue of Art and a PhD from the University of Sydney.

Richmond's Board of Trustees have asked Jos to take over as President. An international search is in place to find a new President.

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