D'arms Appointed To Institute For Advanced Study Board Of Trustees

John H. D'Arms, President of the American Council of Learned Societies, has been named a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study. He is also Adjunct Professor of History and Classics at Columbia University. Prior to his appointment at the ACLS, he was Professor of Classical Studies and Professor of History at the University of Michigan (1972-97); Chairman of the Department of Classical Studies (1972-77; 1980-85); Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1985-95); and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (1990-95).

From 1977 to 1980, he was Director of the American Academy in Rome (a residential advanced study center chartered by Congress), and the A.W.Mellon Professor in its School of Classical Studies.

His scholarly work focuses on the history and archaeology of Ancient Rome and the Bay of Naples, especially social, economic, and cultural history. His publications include Romans on the Bay of Naples (1970) and Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome (1981).

A former trustee of the American Academy and the National Humanities Center, he is also a former member of the National Council for the Humanities.

D'Arms is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, as well as a former member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study.

A 1956 graduate of Princeton University, he received a B.A. degree at New College, Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. in classical philology from Harvard University in 1965.