Presidential Inauguration

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Dr. John R. Brazil, President
Trinity University

...Dr. John R. Brazil became Trinity University's 17th president in June 1999. Previously, Dr. Brazil was president of Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. He received his A.B. in History in 1968 from Stanford University. He holds the Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

...Prior to his presidency at Bradley University, which began in January 1992, Dr. Brazil was President/Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University). Before that he was the interim Academic Vice President at San Jose State University, where he also held several positions, including Associate Academic Vice President for Undergraduate Studies, Executive Assistant to the President, and Special Assistant to the Academic Vice President.

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...He began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow in English, History, and American Studies at Yale University in 1968. He moved to San Jose State University in 1973 and taught Humanities and American Studies, reaching the rank of Professor there. Dr. Brazil has published extensively in such scholarly journals as the American Quarterly, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, American Literary Realism, and the Mississippi Quarterly and has made numerous presentations. He currently has two books in progress, Murder and Twenties America and The Twenties on Trial.

...Active in numerous professional and civic organizations, he currently serves on the Boards of Caterpillar, Inc., Texas Independent College Fund, San Antonio Medical Foundation, Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT), Texas Research Park Foundation, and the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. His numerous professional honors include serving as a member of the U.S. Department of Education and American Association of State Colleges and Universities' mission of American university presidents to the Soviet Union in 1989 and being a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sydney in 1980. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies and was elected an honorary member of Delta Mu Delta national honor society in business administration. In 1997 Dr. Brazil was awarded an Honorary Doctor degree from the Samara State Aerospace University in Russia.

...Dr. Brazil and his wife, Janice Hosking Brazil, have two children. His son, Adrian, received his B.A. degree from Bradley University, and his daughter, Morgan, recently graduated from Washington University and is now attending the University of Texas Law School.