Henry S. Turner

Vice President for Academic Initiatives
Professor of English

Email: hsturner@oq.rutgers.edu

Location:
Winants Hall
7 College Avenue
Suite 410
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Related Links: Henry S. Turner, Rutgers English 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Universitywide Interdisciplinary Initiatives: Roadmaps for Collective Academic Excellence: Faculty Diversity Hiring Programs: REACH, Research Council Award Program
• Academic and Research Convergence 

Biography

Henry S. Turner, Ph.D., is vice president for academic initiatives in University Academic Affairs at Rutgers University, and professor of English at Rutgers–New Brunswick, where he has taught since 2007. In his role as vice president, he provides leadership for universitywide interdisciplinary programs, including Roadmaps for Collective Academic Excellence; Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health; Research Council Awards; and faculty diversity hiring. He also oversees the Office of Postdoctoral Advancement and the Rutgers University Press.

Prior to joining the University Academic Affairs, Dr. Turner was the inaugural associate vice chancellor for research in the humanities and arts for Rutgers–New Brunswick, and former director of the Center for Cultural Analysis, an interdisciplinary think tank for advanced research in the relationships between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Before arriving at Rutgers, Turner taught in the English department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and, prior to that, in the Département d’Anglais at the Université de Nice. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and received a Diplôme Supérieur d’Études Françaises from the Université de Bourgogne. He holds a Master of Arts in Renaissance studies and critical theory from the University of Sussex, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Turner has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the UW Vilas Trust, the Whiting Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.