Steven Tepper
American sociologist (born 1967) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Tepper is a cultural sociologist and the Dean and Director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He was named as the 21st President of Hamilton College on February 7, 2024.[1]
Steven J. Tepper | |
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Born | (1967-07-16) July 16, 1967 (age 56) Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
Alma mater | Princeton University (Ph.D.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A.) |
Occupation(s) | Writer, Scholar, President-elect |
Known for | Scholar of creativity and education |
Spouse |
Dana Mossman Tepper (m. 1994) |
Children | Sally, Sam |
He was an early architect of the field of cultural policy studies, serving as the deputy director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and then as associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Tepper served on the steering committee that helped launch the Creative Campus movement [2] and gave it broad visibility in 2004 with his cover story for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “The Creative Campus: Who’s Number 1?”.[3] His views about creativity and education, creative work and cultural policy have been covered widely in higher education and the national press.[4][5][6][7]