Institute for Advanced Study Appoints New Trustees

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Cynthia Carroll and Carmela Vircillo Franklin to its Board of Trustees. Carroll, whose appointment was effective May 7, is Chief Executive of Anglo American plc in London, England. Franklin has been nominated by the Institute’s School of Historical Studies and her term will begin on July 1. She is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and will succeed David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, who served a five-year term.

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Cynthia Carroll, who is originally from Princeton, was appointed Chief Executive of the London-based Anglo American plc in March 2007. Anglo American, a major producer of copper, nickel, iron ore, coal, phosphates and niobium, is one of the largest diversified mining companies in the world, with 85 percent of its operations in developing countries. Carroll received a B.S. in Geosciences from Skidmore College in 1979, an M.S. in Geology from the University of Kansas in 1982 and an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1989. She began her career with Amoco in oil and gas exploration in the western United States, in states including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Montana. After earning her business degree from Harvard, she joined the Canadian company Alcan and held a broad range of roles including four years in Kentucky as general manager of a packaging company, and three years in Ireland as managing director of Europe’s largest alumina refinery. Her last five years at Alcan were spent as President and CEO of the Primary Metals business, which operated in 25 countries across South America, North America, Europe and Africa. Carroll serves on the boards of BP plc and De Beers Ltd, and she is Chairman of Anglo American Platinum Limited, a South African listed subsidiary of Anglo American plc. She is a member of the American Society of Corporate Executives, a former Director of the Sara Lee Corporation, and has recently been appointed chairman of the Stop Organised Abuse Board of the non-profit National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Carmela Vircillo Franklin, a native of Italy, received a B.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1977) in Classics from Harvard University. Her work focuses on Medieval Latin texts and their manuscripts, and she conducts her research in Europe’s great manuscript repositories, especially the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In 1977, Franklin joined the faculty of the Department of History and the Department of Classics of St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where she served also as Chair of the Department of History from 1988 to 1992, and Interim Director of the school’s Hill Monastic Manuscript Library. Franklin joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1993, where she is Professor of Classics. From 2005 to 2010 Franklin served as director of the American Academy in Rome, an institution for independent research in the humanities and advanced work in the arts. Franklin was awarded the Rome Prize as a Mellon Fellow in post-Classical Humanistic Studies in 1984–85, and was named the Lucy Shoe Meritt Resident in Classics in 2001-02 by the American Academy. Additional honors include the Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome, which she was awarded in 2010, and the Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities from the American Philosophical Society in 2003. Franklin is a trustee of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Traditio. She was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2008.