Ralph Hexter
| Ralph J. Hexter | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Hexter at the Gala Event in 2012 celebrating 50 years of achievement at the UC Davis College of Engineering | |
| Acting Chancellor University of California, Davis | |
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Assumed office April 27, 2016 | |
| 5th President of Hampshire College | |
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In office 2005–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Gregory S. Prince, Jr. |
| Succeeded by |
Jonathan Lash Marlene Gerber Fried (interim) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 25, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Manfred Kollmeier (m. 2007) |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (A.B., 1974) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (M.A/B.A., 1977/1982) Yale University (M.Phil./Ph.D., 1979/1982) |
Ralph Jay Hexter (born 1952) is the Acting Chancellor[1] of the University of California, Davis. He is a classics scholar and the former fifth president of Hampshire College.[2][3][4]
Biography
Education
Hexter received an A.B. in English literature from Harvard College in 1974. He then studied in England, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in classics and modern languages at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1977 and 1982, respectively. He also earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Hexter subsequently taught in the classics department at Yale from 1981 to 1991.[2][3]
Career
He taught classics and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder and at Yale University.[2][3] He was also the Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3] Hexter assumed the Hampshire College presidency on August 1, 2005, a post he relinquished on December 31, 2010.[3]
He has been involved with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa, the American Philological Association, and the National Conference for Community and Justice.[3]
On August 2, 2010, Hexter announced his resignation as president of Hampshire.[5][6] On August 20, Hampshire College announced that Marlene Gerber Fried would serve as acting president and that Hexter would be on sabbatical beginning on September 1.[7]
On November 22, 2010, it was announced that Ralph Hexter would be the next Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis, effective January 1, 2011.[8] His faculty title is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.
Personal life
Hexter is openly gay.[9][10] He was among the founding members of LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Hexter married his longtime partner, Manfred Kollmeier, in 2007.[11]
Bibliography
- Equivocal Oaths and Ordeals in Medieval Literature, by Ralph J. Hexter, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975.
- Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Epistulae Heroidum, by Ralph J. Hexter, Munich: Arbeo-Gesellschaft, 1986.
- Innovations of Antiquity, edited by Ralph Hexter and Daniel Selden, New York: Routledge, 1992.
- A Guide to the Odyssey: A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald, by Ralph J. Hexter, New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
- The Faith of Achates: Finding Aeneas' Other, by Ralph J. Hexter, Berkeley, CA: Doe Library, University of California, 1997.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, edited by Ralph J. Hexter and David Townsend. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
References
- ↑ http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article74181532.html. Missing or empty
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts biography
- ↑ Berkeley webpage
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- ↑ Hampshire College, Marlene Gerber Fried to be Acting Hampshire College President 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
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- ↑ The Chronicle of Higher Education
- ↑ Inside Higher Ed interview
- ↑ A Gay President Says 'I Do'
External links
- Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter via University of California, Davis