Founder, Dr. Arien Mack
The New UIE Consortium was founded by Dr. Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, where she has edited Social Research since 1970. She established the Social Research conference series in 1988, and she continues to direct it through the Center for Public Scholarship.
Arien is also the founder and director of the Journal Donation Project, which has made academic and research journals available to libraries and universities in countries where access to those publications has been difficult for either political or economic reasons and often for both.
In 2007, she launched Endangered Scholars Worldwide, dedicated to drawing attention to the plight of scholars, students, and researchers around the world whose lives and livelihoods are under threat due to the nature of their work or political positions.
As a research psychologist, her current interests focus on perception, cognition, and attention. She teaches graduate-level psychology courses and oversees a research lab at The New School for Social Research. Her publications include more than 60 articles and the coauthored volume Inattentional Blindness (MIT Press 1998).
Founding Faculty
The New University in Exile Consortium was founded in collaboration with other New School faculty, including:
- University Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
- Richard Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research
- Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Advisory Group Members
- Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
- Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University
- Jerome Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University; Director, US-Asia Law Institute
- Jonathan Fanton, President emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Masha Gessen, staff writer, The New Yorker
- Hadi Ghaemi, Executive Director, Center for Human Rights in Iran
- Richard Goldstone, former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa; former chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
- Allan Goodman, President and CEO, Institute of International Education
- Michael Ignatieff, Rector and President, Central European University
- Ann Werner Johnson, Trustee emeritus, Connecticut College
- Alison von Klemperer, Communications Consultant
- Aryeh Neier, President emeritus, Open Society Foundations
- Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
Ex Officio Advisory Members
- Linda Bell, Provost, Barnard College
- Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President, Trinity College
- Katherine Bergeron, President, Connecticut College
- Lee Bollinger, President, Columbia University
- Paula Johnson, President, Wellesley College
- Richard M. Locke, Provost, Brown University
- Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University
- Peter Salovey, President, Yale University
- David Van Zandt, President, The New School
- Jerome Williams, Provost, Rutgers University -Newark
- M. Roy Wilson, President, Wayne State University