Anthony W Marx

Anthony W. Marx became Amherst’s president on July 1, 2003. In July 2011, he will become President of the New York Public Library. Marx served for 13 years on the faculty at Columbia University, where he was professor and director of undergraduate studies of political science. Marx attended Wesleyan and Yale, where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree in 1981. He received his M.P.A. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1986, then earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton in 1987 and 1990. In 1984, when he was in his early 20s, Mr. Marx went to South Africa, where he helped found a secondary school for black students. He ended up writing his dissertation, at Princeton University, about black politics in South Africa during the transition from apartheid. He became a professor at Columbia University, where he founded the Columbia Urban Educators Program, a program to recruit and train public school teachers. In his last year at Columbia, he also ran the Gates Foundation-financed Early College/High School Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which establishes model public high schools as partnerships between school systems and universities.