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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.
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.
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Active in numerous professional and civic organizations, he currently serves on the Boards of Caterpillar, Inc., San Antonio Medical Foundation, Texas Research Park Foundation, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, Southwest Research Institute, and the World Affairs Council of San Antonio. He also serves on the Boards for the academic organizations of the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU), Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (ICUT), Texas Independent College Fund (TICF), and is President of the Higher Education Council of San Antonio (HECSA). His 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, Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society in business administration, and an honorary member of Gold Key and 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, a son, Adrian, and a daughter, Morgan. |