Dr. Cantor received her A.B. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1974
and her Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University in 1978. She
currently serves as Provost and Executive President for Academic
Affairs at the University of Michigan. Prior to this appointment,
Dr. Cantor served as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs-Graduate
Studies and Dean of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
at the University of Michigan.
Prior to July, 1996 she served as Chair of the Department of Psychology and Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Dr. Cantor spent ten years as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, serving as Associate Dean for Faculty Programs at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies from 1989-1991 when she left Michigan to join the faculty at Princeton. Among her many publications in the area of personality and social psychology, she has contributed a monograph with John Kihlstrom (Personality and Social Intelligence, 1987) and a recent review article (Life Task Problem Solving Situational Affordances and Personal Needs, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1994). Dr. Cantor received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology of the Personality and Social Psychological (Division 8, APA 1992-1993). She has served as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin (1986-1989) and of the Journal of Personality Review. Dr. Cantor has been a member of several panels and advisory boards at the National Science Foundation, including a task force that recommended establishing a new directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (1992-1993), and as member (1993-1996) and Vice-Chair of the National Research Council Committee on Women in Science and Engineering (1995-1996). She currently serves as a member of the National Research Council Advisory Committee for the Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (1997-2000).