Elizabeth Knoll

Elizabeth Knoll

Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments
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Elizabeth works with the senior administration and deans across the University on faculty appointments and processes. She oversees the review of all faculty appointments, serves on the Provost's Appointments Review Committee, and develops and implements projects to improve Harvard's faculty searches and its processes of promotion and tenure review. Before joining FD&D, she was Executive Editor-at-Large at Harvard University Press, where over the course of seventeen years she created a widely praised and influential list of books on teaching, learning, and current social forces in higher education, and strengthened the Press’s lists in law and behavioral sciences. She has also been a science editor at W. H. Freeman, the University of California Press, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge in history, and philosophy of science, and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in Comparative Literature.

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(617) 495-5390