Office of the Provost

 
 
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
and John Stein Professor of Disability Research


Marty W. Krauss is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Stein Professor of Disability Research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Prior to assuming the position of Provost, she was the Associate Dean for Faculty at The Heller School. Professor Krauss has served on numerous federal advisory panels, including panels of the National Research Council and the National Institutes of Health. She was Chairperson of the Governor's Commission on Mental Retardation in Massachusetts from 1993-1999. Her research focuses on the lifelong impacts on families of having a member with developmental disabilities, the development of community-based systems of care for persons with disabilities, and the special health care needs of children with disabilities. She taught courses on research methods and on disability policy issues. She received her Ph.D. in 1981 from Brandeis University.

Professor Krauss is the co-author of five books and the author of scores of articles in scholarly journals. She has also served as the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous research projects funded by the federal government and private or corporate foundations. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation International Award for Leadership, the Christian Pueschel Memorial Research Award of the National Down Syndrome Congress and the Distinguished Research Award of the Association for Retarded Citizens of the United States, among others. She is also a Fellow of the American Association on Mental Retardation.


4/17/2008


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