Hamilton Friends is proud to announce that last month Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, joined the Hamilton Friends Board of Directors. Dr. Mirrer was integral in the launch of our Experience New York Internship Project by helping Hamilton Friends secure three paid internships for Hamilton Scholars at The New-York Historical. As a board member Dr. Mirrer will be central in the planning of our internship program and will also advise Hamilton Friends as they expand awareness in the New York area.

“Louise Mirrer is a strong nonprofit executive with experience running one of the most respected nonprofit institutions in America,” said George Cox, Hamilton Friends President. “Her experience will help us tremendously as we expand.”

As CEO and President of the New-York Historical Society, Dr. Mirrer is responsible for all exhibitions, programs, activities, and administrative functions of the Society. Before joining the Society in June 2004, Dr. Mirrer was the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the City University of New York. She served as Vice Provost for Arts, Sciences and Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where she held joint appointments as Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature. Prior to her appointment at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Mirrer was a member of the faculty at Fordham University in New York and Chair of Fordham's Division of Humanities. Dr. Mirrer has also been visiting professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Mirrer holds a double doctorate in Spanish and Humanities from Stanford University. She also has a diploma in linguistics from Cambridge University. Dr. Mirrer has published widely on language, literature, medieval history, and women's studies, both books and articles, in Spanish and English, and has delivered papers at scholarly meetings in the United States and abroad. Her most recent books are Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe and Women, Jews, and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile, both published by the University of Michigan Press. She is married and has three children.