Maurie D. McInnis

Maurie D. McInnis is an American author and cultural historian.

She currently serves as the 6th president of Stony Brook University.

McInnis attended the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar.

She received a B.A. in Art History with Highest Distinction, and her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University.

McInnis served as vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Virginia.

Over her almost 20 years' experience at UVA, McInnis held various academic leadership and administrative appointments, including vice provost for academic affairs, associate dean for undergraduate education programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, director of American Studies, and as a professor of art history.

She joined the faculty of UVA in 1998, earned tenure in 2005 and became a full professor in 2011.

Her penultimate book, "Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade" was published in 2011 and awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Book Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as the Library of Virginia Literary Award for nonfiction.

She recently published, "Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University."

She has also served as a curator, consultant, and advisor to multiple art museums and historic sites.

She served as the provost of the University of Texas at Austin from 2016 to 2020.

On March 26, 2020, Dr. McInnis was announced as the 6th President of Stony Brook University.

She began serving in this role on July 1, 2020.

McInnis is a scholar in the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South.

Her work has focused on the relationship between art and politics in early America, especially on the politics of slavery.

Her first book, "The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston," was awarded the Spiro Kostof Award by the Society of Architectural Historians.