Adele Lindenmeyr, Ph.D., a professor of history, pictured left, has been appointed dean of Graduate Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. Lindenmeyr will succeed Dr. Gerald Long, who will step down from his current position at the end of August.

Dr. Lindenmeyr joined the Villanova faculty in 1987 as an assistant professor of history, bringing with her a lifelong fascination with Russian history and culture, a passion for teaching, and a wealth of experience in the classroom. Dr. Lindenmeyr graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of arts in Russian in 1971 and earned her Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in 1980. She also served as assistant to the Provost at Penn while she completed her doctorate.

Prior to her arrival at Villanova, Dr. Lindenmeyr educated students at Princeton, Rutgers, and Carnegie Mellon Universities, as well as the University of Pennsylvania. At Villanova, Dr. Lindenmeyr was named associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1999.

Dr. Lindenmeyr has published two books and more than 18 professional articles, reviewed more than 20 books, and presented her research internationally. She has received several grants, including the American Philosophical Research Grant and the Villanova University Faculty Summer Research Grant. The Association for Women in Slavic Studies has honored Adele three times: in 1993 for an article she wrote; in 1996 with the Heldt Prize for Best Book Published by a Woman in Slavic Studies for Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society and the State in Imperial Russia; and in 2003 with the organization’s Outstanding Achievement Award.

Concerning her impact on graduate education in the College, Dr. Lindenmeyr was director of the history graduate program from 1992 until 1998 when she was named the department’s chair. In these roles of program director and chairperson, she has fostered a remarkably strong graduate program whose reputation goes well beyond the walls of Villanova. By all criteria, the master‘s program in History is truly excellent on a number of recognized dimensions: impressive credentials of incoming graduate students each year, superlative scholarship of faculty, well recognized teaching quality of faculty, highly complimentary survey results from current students as well as graduate alumni, strong placement of graduates in doctoral programs, and the like.

Dr. Lindenmeyr has served the University community as vice-president, an executive committee member of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of numerous curriculum, operating, and search committees, and on the Middle States Accreditation Task Force.