Announcing the new Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
A Message from Dr. Renée T. White, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Rubin has been appointed as the new Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, succeeding Michael Schober. In this reshaped role, Lisa will lead and oversee key areas related to full- and part-time faculty, including full-time faculty searches; reviews for reappointment and promotion for full-time faculty and part-time faculty applying for multi-year status; compliance with collective bargaining agreements (CBAs); development and implementation of policies and procedures that impact full- and part-time faculty; and support for faculty in their professional development.
Lisa has been a key leader of our community since she joined The New School in 2006. For the past academic year, she has served as the Interim Executive Dean of the Schools of Public Engagement (SPE), working collaboratively with faculty and staff during this moment of transformation and change, while always foregrounding a commitment to equity and shared governance. Her dedication to this work has helped to ensure that the core values of SPE’s programs – commitments to interdisciplinary thought and action; engaged pedagogy; creativity and experimentation; accessibility and civic engagement; shared governance; and equity, inclusion and social justice – remain centered.
A dedicated member of our faculty, Lisa is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research (NSSR), where she has taught for over eighteen years. During her tenure, Lisa has served in various leadership roles that have encompassed undergraduate and graduate studies as Co-Director of the university-wide Gender and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate, Chair of Psychology in the School of Undergraduate Studies at SPE, and Assistant Director of Clinical Training in NSSR’s APA-Accredited Clinical Psychology program. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University.
Her scholarship connects health psychology and psychology of gender, exploring the lived experiences of embodiment, illness, and disability across intersections of gender, race, and class. Her research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and the NIH/Human Genome Project Ethical Legal Social Implications program, and she has published widely in leading journals in psychology, social science and medicine, and bioethics, including Health Psychology; Cancer; Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; and the American Journal of Bioethics. She has served on the editorial board of the leading journals in feminist psychology, including Psychology of Women Quarterly, Feminism & Psychology, and is currently on the editorial board of Women’s Reproductive Health and the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Lisa is a past recipient of The New School’s Distinguished University Teaching Award, and most recently the 2024 recipient of the Florence Denmark Distinguished Mentoring Award from the Association for Women in Psychology.
Please join me in thanking Lisa for her continued dedication and service to the university, and in welcoming her to her new role in the Provost’s Office.