PCA Welcomes Dr. Loren Wolfe as Its New Provost
Paris College of Art is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Loren Wolfe as our new Provost, effective Summer 2025. Dr. Wolfe will succeed Marisa C. Hayes, who is currently serving as Interim Provost.
As Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Wolfe will uphold the academic integrity and excellence of all degree-granting and certificate programs, oversee summer and study abroad initiatives, and champion academic pluralism, equity, and inclusion. She will manage academic budgets, provide leadership in accreditation efforts with the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), and collaborate with faculty and students to advance the mission of Paris College of Art. This mission is to prepare the next generation of creative professionals to be globally aware, engaged, and open-minded citizens, equipped with the critical thinking and creative skills necessary to address complex challenges.
Dr. Wolfe will work closely with the President, Trustees, and the tight-knit community of faculty, staff, and students to plan and implement strategies for growth, while preserving PCA’s core values and enhancing its identity as an international hub of creative expression in the global art and design landscape.
Wolfe holds a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and has taught for nearly twenty years in American and French universities and liberal arts colleges including Harvard University, Columbia University, Barnard College, the American University of Paris and Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne. She has co-directed the Harvard Summer School Program in Paris since 2010. From 2015-2020, she directed public programming at the Columbia University Global Center in Paris where she knit together a diverse and far-reaching network of collaborators in all sectors. There, she organized hundreds of conferences, seminars, exhibitions, concerts and workshops, bringing Columbia faculty and students into dialogue with academics, artists, journalists and other public and private actors from around the world. Her own research and writing transcend disciplines, exploring representations of embodiment and examining how creative practice can shape medical care and vice versa. Recently, she served as an instructor and academic liaison for the Professional Master II in Arts and Cultural Management at l’Ecole des Arts de la Sorbonne, helping students foster connections with Paris’s most prestigious and innovative cultural and artistic institutions and associations.
“I am thrilled and honored to join the PCA community. I truly feel that all of my life experiences—starting when I was foreign exchange student with CUPA, PCA’s long-standing, affiliated study abroad program—have led me here, to assist PCA’s exceptional leadership in stewarding this dynamic and ever–evolving institution. The faculty, students and staff members have all impressed me with their knowledge, commitment and novel approaches to marrying creative practice, aesthetic experimentation, and civic engagement. I look forward to working with them to cement PCA’s excellence as a leading international institution devoted to supporting professors and fostering students as they imagine and enact ways to weave the arts and humanities as generative forces of creation and change into all aspects of society.”