The University of Chicago has established a committee to conduct an international search for a new director of the Smart Museum.

The committee, chaired by Canice Prendergast, includes representatives from the Smart Museum's Board of Governors and University faculty and is advised by University leadership and museum professionals.

Search Committee

Gay-Young Cho
Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Smart Museum of Art

Darby English
Carl Darling Buck Professor, Department of Art History and the College; and Consulting Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art

Lorna Ferguson
Vice Chair and Treasurer, Board of Governors, Smart Museum of Art

Christine Mehring
Chair and Professor, Department of Art History

Charles Mottier
Member, Board of Governors, Smart Museum of Art

Brien O'Brien
Member, Board of Governors, Smart Museum of Art

Canice Prendergast*
W. Allen Wallis Professor of Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Jessica Stockholder
Chair and Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor, Department Visual Arts

*Committee chair

The committee will be staffed by Somaiyya Ahmad, Assistant Director of Special Projects, Office of the Provost.

Have questions or comments? Please direct inquiries about the search to committee chair Canice Prendergast at canice.prendergast@chicagobooth.edu.

Updated September 16, 2016