Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost
Gail Dubrow
Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School
Contact: 612-625-2809, or dubrow@umn.edu
Gail Dubrow, as the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School dean and vice provost, provides central leadership for the university’s graduate programs. She is responsible for fostering best practices in graduate education and advancing innovation through interdisciplinary initiatives.
Prior to her appointment, Dr. Dubrow was professor of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, with adjunct appointments in history and women’s studies at the University of Washington. Her administrative appointments there included service as Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the Graduate School and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Research, and Computing in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
During the 2003-04 year Dr. Dubrow was a fellow of the American Council on Education. She has produced two award-winning books, Sento at Sixth and Main, with Donna Graves (Smithsonian Books, 2004), and Restoring Women’s History Through Historic Preservation, edited with Jennifer Goodman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). She received a doctorate in urban planning from the University of California Los Angeles in 1991.