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Linda G. Mills is the 17th president of New York University and the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law. She joined NYU in 1999 as an Associate Professor of Social Work and was promoted to full Professor in 2001. Prior to NYU, she served as a Lecturer in the School of Law and Assistant Professor in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research from 1994 to 1998, where she received early tenure. Mills held several administrative positions at NYU, including Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life starting in 2002, Senior Vice Provost in 2006, and Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life from 2012 until her appointment as president in 2023. She is the founder of the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery and a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.
Mills received her BA in history and social thought from the University of California, Irvine in 1979, her JD from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco in 1983, her MSW from San Francisco State University in 1986, and her PhD in Health Policy from Brandeis University in 1994, where she was a Pew Scholar. She was admitted to the California Bar in 1983 and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 1990. Her principal areas of scholarly focus include trauma, bias, and domestic violence. Her research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice, has reshaped the field of treatment in domestic violence, with restorative justice-based programs adopted in several U.S. jurisdictions. She has published articles in the Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Nature: Human Behavior, among others. Her books have been published by Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Springer, and Basic Books. As a filmmaker, she has produced award-winning documentaries that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.
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