Barbara A. Shailor

Ms. Shailor joined Yale in 2001 as the director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Prior to that, she was dean of Douglass College, professor of classics at Rutgers University (1996–2001), and a faculty member and administrator at Bucknell University (1975–1996). Her field of specialization is Latin paleography and codicology, which encompasses the study of Visigothic manuscripts copied and illuminated in northern Spain in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Ms. Shailor assumed the position of Deputy Provost for the Arts in July 2003 and is currently on assignment to the Vice President for Development. In this role she is extensively involved in campus-wide arts planning, promotion and development, and will continue to convene the Arts Area Advisory Committee. She is also a trustee of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and was elected to the Comité Internationale de paléographie latine in 2000, and as a Fellow of the Medieval Academy in 2006.