Stanley Chodorow

Stanley Chodorow is a historian and former academic administrator. He was employed recently as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Questia Media [1]. Prior to that, Chodorow was at University of California, San Diego from 1968 to 1994, first as a professor of history and later a dean. In 1994, he left UCSD to become Provost at University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1997. He received his BA from Cornell University and received his PhD from Cornell's Department of History in 1968 [2]. Chodorow has since returned to UCSD and has lectured in the Humanities and Making of the Modern World sequences.

Professional interests

Chodorow has widely published on scholarly communication and political history, especially as related to the Middle Ages. These interests merged in his later work with his role as a university administrator, where he critically examined the issues around the role of libraries and academic information.

External links

• University of Pennsylvania Biography
• Questia Press Release
• California Postsecondary Education Biography