Our Trustees

Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr. has served as assistant to the president of Northwestern University since 1999. He joined the senior administration of the University in 1995 as associate provost for faculty affairs. He also holds faculty appointments in the Religious Studies Department in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education and Social Policy, where he teaches regularly in the master's program in Higher Education Administration and Policy.

He has served as principal investigator for the Mellon postdoctoral program in the humanities since 1996, and chaired university-wide committees on the status of underrepresented minorities and integrity in intercollegiate athletics. In 2008, he began serving as the coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Mr. Lowe also represents Northwestern on the Faculty Advisory Council of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and on the Senior Diversity Officers Group of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

His writings about religion, race, and American culture have appeared in a number of books and journals, including the recently published Encyclopedia of Religion in America (CQ Press, 2010). He served as a member of the Teagle Foundation-sponsored working group of the American Academy of Religion on the religious studies major and liberal education. His book, Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education (Princeton University Press, 1999), is based on work sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

He is a trustee of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, and Seabury Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, and has served as president of the Board of Episcopal Charities and Community Services in Chicago.

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Steven G. Poskanzer became Carleton’s 11th president in August, 2010.  A scholar of higher education law, Poskanzer’s research focuses on issues of academic freedom and how colleges and universities seek to achieve educational goals in a complex legal and policy environment.  At each institution where he has worked, Poskanzer has also made a point of teaching students in the classroom.  Last fall he taught a seminar, “Legal Issues in Higher Education,” to Carleton students.

Before coming to Carleton, Poskanzer held senior administrative and academic positions at both private and public universities. This breadth of experience makes him somewhat unusual among college presidents.

President Poskanzer received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1980 and a law degree from Harvard University in 1983.  After practicing law briefly in Washington, D.C., his entire career has been spent in higher education.  He first worked in the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania, becoming the University's Associate General Counsel.  He then spent a year as an American Council on Education Fellow back at Princeton, working as an assistant to the University’s Provost.  In 1993, Poskanzer moved to the University of Chicago, where he served as Executive Assistant to the President and, among other duties, was responsible for the University’s Public Affairs department and for policy planning for the Board of Trustees.

In 1997, Poskanzer shifted from private to public higher education, joining the State University of New York (SUNY).  Initially based in Albany at SUNY’s System Administration, he quickly rose to the position of Vice Provost for the 64-campus System and headed the Office of Academic Affairs.  From 2001-2010, Poskanzer served as President of SUNY New Paltz. His time in New Paltz was marked by a visible transformation in the College’s selectivity, retention, and graduation rate of students; the level of resources devoted to hiring full time faculty; and an unprecedented set of the physical improvement to the campus (including the acquisition of a 40-acre land bank for future campus growth). As a result of these enhancements to academic quality, New Paltz was acclaimed the “Hottest Small State School” in the nation byNewsweek magazine.

As President of Carleton, Poskanzer devised and led a comprehensive strategic planning process that brought together faculty, students, staff, alumni, and parents to chart the College’s course for the coming decade.  This plan, Carleton’s Future, is now being implemented.  The last few years at Carleton have been marked by a dramatic increase in the number of applications, along with continued success in faculty recruitment.

Steve is married to Dr. Jane Nofer Poskanzer, a clinical child psychologist who specializes in the diagnosis of autism and related disabilities.  The couple has two children:  Jill, a rising senior at Carleton; and Craig, an Exeter graduate who will be a first-year student at Princeton University in the fall.

Michael H. Schill is a national expert on real estate and housing policy, deregulation, finance and discrimination. He has written or edited three books and over 40 articles on various aspects of housing, real estate and property law. He is an active member of a variety of public advisory councils, editorial boards and community organizations. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, Dean Schill was Dean and Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, the Wilf Family Professor in Property Law at New York University School of Law, and professor of urban planning at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. From 1994 to 2004, Dean Schill served as the director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Prior to that, Schill was a tenured professor of law and real estate at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

Judith Shapiro became president of Barnard College in 1994 after serving eight years as provost of Bryn Mawr College. She taught at the University of Chicago before joining Bryn Mawr's Department of Anthropology in 1975, where she was successively assistant professor, associate professor, and professor, becoming chair of the department in 1982.  

A native of New York City, she received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and her doctor of philosophy in anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous studies in the areas of gender differentiation, social theory, and missionization, many based on her field research in lowland South America. She has been president of the American Ethnological Society, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Anthropological Association, and the American Ethnological Society. Ms. Shapiro is chair of the board of the New York-based nonprofit Common Cents.

Jeffrey Sine is the co-founder and a partner of Raine, a merchant bank focused on advising and investing in the global entertainment, sports, and digital media industry. Prior to founding Raine in 2009, Mr. Sine was vice chairman and global head of Technology, Media & Telecommunications Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank. In 1991 Mr. Sine was global head of Media Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, and named global co-head of the firm’s combined Media and Communications Investment Banking in 2001.

Mr. Sine has sat on the boards of The Manhattan Theatre Club, The International Radio and Television Society, The Museum of Television and Radio Media Center, The USC Annenberg School of Communication / Law Center Joint Venture, and is currently chair of the Board of Trustees of American University in Washington DC He has produced numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway, touring, and West End plays and musicals. He has been nominated for six Tony Awards and is a three-time Tony Award Winner. He lives in New York with his wife, Samira, and has three sons and one daughter.

Mr. Sine received his bachelor of arts from American University and his juris doctor from the University of Southern California.

In addition to his role as professor, Stephen M. Stigler also holds an appointment in the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and in the Social Science Collegiate Division. He has taught at the university since 1979; prior to that he taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Mr. Stigler has worked on a variety of topics in mathematical statistics, ranging from asymptotic theory to the theory of experimental design, and on applications of statistics including anthropology, forensic science, paleontology, psychology, information transfer, and sports. In recent years he has concentrated on the history of statistics, with inquiries ranging from the development of statistical methods in astronomy and geodesy and their spread to biological and social sciences, to lotteries and the modern development of statistical theory. He has published two books, The History of Statistics (1986) and Statistics on the Table (1999).

Honors include election to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Humboldt Foundation Research Award, and election as a Membre Associé of the Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences. Mr. Stigler received his bachelor of arts and doctor of science (hon) from Carleton College, and his doctor of philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the International Statistical Institute, and as editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association: Theory and Methods.

Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur Jr. has served as the chairman and chief executive officer of the private investment firm Capricorn Holdings, Inc. since 1987. He also has been the managing general partner of a number of affiliated limited partnerships, whose goals are to invest in companies with the potential of long-term superior capital appreciation through financial or operating restructuring and industry consolidation. These partnerships controlled companies whose aggregate revenues exceeded $3 billion, and which employed more than 25,000 people. From 1973 to 1987, Mr. Winokur served as senior executive vice president and director of the Penn Central Corporation, and held senior management positions at Pacific Holding Corporation, Victor Palmieri and Company, and Pennsylvania Company.

From 1969 to the early 1970s, Mr. Winokur was co-founder and chairman of ICF Inc., a management consulting and investment firm specializing in policy planning for senior government and business officials, and also concentrating on socially oriented investments. He served as a U.S. Army officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1967 to 1969. He is an honorary director of the UCLA Medical Center Board of Advisors, a former trustee of Greenwich Academy, and a former co-chair of the New York Historical Society. He currently serves on the boards of the National Humanities Center, Ithaka Harbors, Inc., and Squash Haven, which he co-founded. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Columbia Journalism Review, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Mr. Winokur served as a fellow of the Harvard Corporation and on the board of Harvard Management Company. He earned an artium baccalaureus, artium magister, and a doctor of philosophy from Harvard University, the last in decision and control theory.