Installation of Professor Carol Camp Yeakey as the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Dean Barbara A. Schaal look forward to your attendance at the installation of Carol Camp Yeakey, Professor of Education, Urban Studies, International & Area Studies, and American Culture Studies, and the founding Director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Urban Studies program, as the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences.
Professor Camp Yeakey's research focus is in social welfare policy and how that pertains to marginalized children, young adults, families, and the neighborhoods in which those groups live, especially in urban areas both in the United States and internationally. She has published more than 15 authored or co-edited books.
Carol Camp Yeakey is a graduate of Northwestern University's Ph.D. program in Social Policy. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow and a Bush fellow at the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, a Ford Fellow in the National Academy of Education, and a Dartmouth Fellow at the Center of Comparative Politics and Inter-Group Relations at Dartmouth College. She was recently elected a full member of the National Academy of Education.
Marshall S. Snow, born in 1842 and an 1865 alumnus of Harvard University, was appointed a professor of belles lettres at Washington University in 1870. In 1874 he was appointed the first full-time professor of history at Washington University, a position he held until he retired in 1912. He was named the first Dean of Arts & Sciences in 1871, and was acting Chancellor of Washington University from 1887 to 1891 and again in 1907. He served as president of the Missouri Historical Society from 1894 to 1900 and was a founder of the University Club, in addition to being a sought-after speaker on the topics of history, literature, and aesthetics - all of this in addition to the full-time teaching load he maintained for his 42 years on the faculty. Snow Way Drive, on the north side of the Danforth Campus, is named for Dean Snow, who died in 1916.
To RSVP or for more information, contact Marissa Engeling at 314-935-4785 or mengeling@wustl.edu.