Barbara Wallace Grossman

Barbara Wallace Grossman, Ph.D., chairs the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts University, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1991. Her specialties include American popular entertainment, musical theater, women in theater and the Holocaust on stage and screen. Author of Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice, she is writing a book on American actress Clara Morris. A Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts (1994–1999) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (2000–2005), she continues to serve on the Holocaust Museum’s Committee on Conscience. She has received several awards for arts activism and community service, among them the Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award from the National Jewish Democratic Council, the Dean’s Arts and Humanitarian Services Award from Boston University, the American Repertory Theater’s first Leadership in the Arts Award and Opera Boston’s 2005 Innovation Award.