Director of Faculty Development and Diversity
Vose 217, 10 Stoughton Street
Boston, MA 02118
617-414-1508
617-638-7199 fax
Peter S. Cahn joined the Department of Medicine as the Director of Faculty Development and Diversity in April 2010. In that role, he designs, implements, and evaluates programs aimed at recruiting, retaining, and revitalizing faculty.
Before coming to BU, Dr. Cahn was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. He has published in academic journals such as American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology as well as in a column for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
M. Phil. University of Cambridge, 1997
A.B. Harvard University, 1996
Peter Cahn’s blog
- Stuck in the Middle June 12, 2012Associate professors register more job dissatisfaction than faculty of other ranks according to a national survey conducted by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. In several categories, associate professors feel less valued and less supported. Their dissatisfaction may reflect a concentration of resources for early career faculty and t […]
- Women PhDs and the Pipeline May 25, 2012Why women doctoral students are shunning academia. […]
- The Lost Art of Asking May 8, 2012How to pose a question to a speaker. […]
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