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Quigley is named dean

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert
At the annual University Convocation on September 9, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, introduced historian David Quigley as the new dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, succeeding Patrick Maney. The transition should be fairly smooth for Quigley: He has served as interim dean since last fall, following Maney’s return to teaching.
A professor at Boston College since 1997, specializing in 19th-century American and urban history, Quigley helped develop the history department’s honors program, which supports seniors pursuing an honors thesis, and has mentored history majors training to be high school teachers through the Lynch School’s program Teachers for a New Era. In 2007, he received the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2008 he became the founding director of Boston College’s Institute for Liberal Arts, which promotes innovation and interdisciplinary study.
Quigley earned his Ph.D. from New York University. He is the author of Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy (2004) and is currently at work on a study of the Boston busing crisis.
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