Pauline Ruth Yu, American former dean, educational association administrator. Guggenheim fellow, 1983-1984, American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1983-1984; recipient Professional Achievement award University California at Irvine Alumni Association, 1993.
Background
Yu was born in 1949 in Rochester, New York, to two recent immigrants from China, Doctor Paul N. Yu, a cardiologist who was later elected president of the American Heart Association. And Doctor I Ling Tang, a pediatrician. Her account of her father"s funeral in Taiwan was recently published in The American Scholar in 2013.
Education
Bachelor in History and Literature magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1971. Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1976.
Doctor of Laws, Bates College, 2008. Doctor of Laws, Washington Lee University, 2010.
Career
She is also known for her research and advocacy on issues in the humanities. Yu received her Bachelor of Arts in modern French and German history and literature from Harvard University. She received her Master of Arts Yu taught at the University of Minnesota from 1976 to 1985, at Columbia University from 1985 to 1989, and was founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine from 1989 to 1994.
Yu was dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994 to 2003.
She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1983) and the American Council of Learned Societies (1983). A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yu is on the Academy"s national Commission on the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Since 2003, Yu has served as president of the American Council of Learned Societies (American Council of Learned Societies), an organization created to represent and support scholars and scholarship in the humanities. Yu was married to Theodore Doctorate.
Member national advisory board Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2004—2007. Member international advisory board Asia Research Institute, National University Singapore, 2002—2006. Member western center executive council American Academy Arts and Sciences, 2000—2003.
Board directors American Council Learned Society, since 1998. Trustee National Humanities Center, since 2000, Asian Cultural Council, since 2006, member executive committee, since 2006, American Academy in Berlin, since 2008. Board directors The Teagle Foundation, since 2003, member executive committee, since 2005, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation International Scholarly Exchange, since 2010.
Member advisory council department East Asian studies Princeton University, since 2003. Board overseers Harvard University, 2003—2009, member executive committee, 2006—2009. Member advisory board Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2001—2005.
Board governors Hong Kong America Center. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association, American Philosophical Society, Association Asian Studies (member China and Inner Asia council 1982-1985), American Comparative Literature Association, American Oriental Society, Phi Beta Kappa Society (senator 1997-2009, executive committee member 2001-2009).
Connections
Married Theodore D. Huters, August 23, 1975 (divorced February 2000). Children: Emily Elizabeth, Matthew Charles, Alexander David.
Guggenheim fellow, 1983-1984, American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1983-1984. Recipient Professional Achievement award University California at Irvine Alumni Association, 1993.
Guggenheim fellow, 1983-1984, American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1983-1984. Recipient Professional Achievement award University California at Irvine Alumni Association, 1993.