Dean David Quigley
Quigley Named A&S Dean
David Quigley has been named dean of the University’s College of Arts and Sciences
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David Quigley has been named dean of the University’s College of Arts and Sciences, after serving as interim dean since last fall, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, announced at Wednesday’s University Convocation.Quigley, who came to BC in 1997, is the founding director of the Boston College Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA). An expert on 19th-century United States history and American political and urban history, he has explored the history of race and democracy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction in the local political cultures of New York. In 2007, he was a winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University.
He is the author of Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy and a co-authored e-book, Jim Crow New York: A Documentary Reader on Race and Citizenship, 1777-1877 — the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award Winner in 2004 — and is finishing up publications on the Boston busing crisis, American urban history and the American Civil War.