NU-Q ADMINISTRATION
John D. Margolis |
Timothy J. Fournier |
Richard J. Roth |
Mimi White |
Susan Dun |
JOHN D. MARGOLIS, PhD, is Dean and Chief Executive Officer of Northwestern University in Qatar. A Professor of English on the Evanston campus, Margolis received his PhD from Princeton University. Margolis has served on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) and was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, where he was affiliated with Trinity College. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century British and American literature, he is the author and editor of several books including T. S. Eliot’s Intellectual Development and Joseph Wood Krutch: A Writer’s Life. At the invitation of the governments of Thailand and Bangladesh he has served as a consultant issues relating to higher education. Prior to assuming the leadership of NU-Q, Margolis served as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.
TIMOTHY J. FOURNIER, EdD, is the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration and the Chief Operating Officer for Northwestern University in Qatar. Fournier earned his doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and his bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After working in broadcast television and video production, Fournier served as a management and operations consultant to many of the largest research universities and academic medical centers in the United States, He has served as Institutional Compliance Officer for the University of Pennsylvania and its health system and as Northwestern's first Associate Vice President for Research Integrity. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Forum on Conflict of Interest in Academe.
RICHARD J. ROTH, MA, is the Senior Associate Dean for the Journalism Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. As a reporter in Buffalo (NY), Roth earned a 1972 Pulitzer Prize nomination for his coverage of the bloody 1971 riot at Attica prison, where he was one of two newspaper reporters inside the prison yard, he has served as editor in chief of the newspaper at Terre Haute, IN, and he was a guest editor in the early days of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, now called wsj.com. Roth has taught at DePauw University and has been a member of the Medill faculty since 1998. Roth has served as an officer of The Newspaper Guild; president of the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors association; adviser to the U.S. Project for Excellence in Journalism; and a director of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has lectured on journalism issues in the US and abroad.
MIMI WHITE, PhD, is the Senior Associate Dean for the Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. A Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film in the School of Communication, she has served as Chair of that department and as Director of the Gender Studies Program ( Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences) on the Evanston campus. More recently she has been the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Communication. Her research and teaching focus on film and television culture , with primary emphasis on American media. Publications include Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television, Media Knowledge (co-author), and Questions of Method in Cultural Studies (co-editor), as well as essays in journals and books published in the U.S., England, Finland, China, and Italy. In 2004-05 she held the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland ).
SUSAN DUN, PhD, is Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs at Northwestern University in Qatar. Dun received her doctorate in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include message design, politeness theory, and interpersonal communication in organizational settings, with particular focus on the relationship between communicator goals and message features. Prior to joining NU-Q, Dun served as Assistant Dean for Advising and Student Affairs in the School of Communication on the Evanston campus, where she worked with undergraduates on all aspects of their academic careers including major planning, course selection, study abroad, changing majors and other related undergraduate concerns.
