Anthony Marx
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Anthony W. Marx (born 1959) is the current president of Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was inaugurated on October 26, 2003. Prior to assuming the post, Marx was Professor and Director of undergraduate studies of Political Science at Columbia University, New York City.
He is an alumnus of the Bronx High School of Science after which he attended Wesleyan and Yale; in 1981 he received a B.S. magna cum laude from Yale. He received an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1986, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton in 1987 and 1990.
Between his undergraduate and graduate school time, Marx spent several years in South Africa, where he participated in the founding of Khanya College, a secondary school which prepared black students for university.[1]
Marx is author of three books on nation-building, and has concentrated on South Africa.
He is married to Karen Barkey, a professor of history and sociology at Columbia University. They have two children, Joshua and Anna-Claire.
[edit] References
- Anthony Marx bio on Amherst web site
- Amherst.edu
- Article about Marx in BusinessWeek
- Khanya College website
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