Dean's Bio

Lynne Pepall, Dean, Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)

Dean Lynne Pepall earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics at the University of Toronto. After earning her bachelor's, she was selected as a Commonwealth Scholar to attend the University of Cambridge in England, where she earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1983. Before coming to Tufts in 1987, Pepall was a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and an assistant professor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was promoted to full professor at Tufts in 2003.

Pepall was awarded a Jean Monet Fellowship at the European University in 1987 and received funding as a German Marshall Fellow in 1994-95. Her research in industrial organization explores issues in business strategy and the implications these have for market outcomes, social welfare and public policy. Her work has appeared in many journals, including the Economic Journal, Journal of Business, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the Journal of Industrial Economics. She is also a co-author with two Tufts economics colleagues, Daniel Richards and George Norman, of a leading textbook, Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Practice.

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Tufts Fact

The first dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was J.Sterling Kingsley, a biology professor. He assumed the position in 1903 and, at the time, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences consisted of nine departments. Today, there are twenty-five departments offering master's and doctoral degrees in everything from Art History to Physics.