Prof. Hendrik Lorenz, Philosophy, Princeton University
Princeton University
Hendrik Lorenz, Ph.D.
2024-25 Role: Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Hendrik Lorenz will join the Graduate School as a Vice Dean and Mellon Fellow for two years. Professor Lorenz will focus on strategic initiatives for the Graduate School. Initial initiatives will include examining the graduate admission process and mentorship. Regarding the latter, in summer 2020, the Graduate School released the Graduate Student Mentoring Report. Professor Lorenz will work to ensure the implementation of the recommendations in the report and consider new ways to improve mentorship for graduate students, including building new training and support structures
Lorenz has written that community building and informal conversations about the “unwritten syllabus,” academic etiquette, and norms and practices are vital parts of academic life that should be given care and attention. In his announcement of the appointment, Graduate School Dean Rodney Priestley – calling the relationship between a student and research advisor “critically important” – said that he shares Lorenz’s view that informal mentoring can be equally valuable.
Supervisor: Rodney D. Priestley, Graduate Dean, Princeton University
Mentors: Cole Crittenden, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Princeton University ; Debra Satz, Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
In the News:
“Enhanced mentoring” (2024 Sep 6)
“Enhancing faculty mentoring of graduate students: A Q&A with Vice Dean Hendrik Lorenz” (2024 Oct 22)
“Hendrik Lorenz named Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives“ (2024 Oct 24)
“Hendrik Lorenz to Strengthen Mentoring Program as Vice Dean of Strategic Initiatives at the Graduate School” (2024 Nov 7)