SJNY PROVOST NAMED TRAILBLAZER IN HIGHER EDUCATION

May 28, 2025 BK LI

BROOKLYN and PATCHOGUE, N.Y. – May 28, 2025 – St. Joseph’s University, New York (SJNY) is pleased to announce that Heather Barry, Ph.D., provost and vice president for academic affairs, has earned a spot on City & State’s Trailblazers in Higher Education list. The list features public officials, leaders of colleges and universities, groundbreaking researchers and policymakers, and other individuals in the world of higher education. 

“I am proud to congratulate Dr. Barry on her inclusion on this year’s Trailblazers in Higher Education list,” said SJNY President Donald R. Boomgaarden, Ph.D. “This is a well-deserved honor that reflects her strong leadership and dedication to the entire St. Joseph’s community.”

Dr. Barry serves as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at St. Joseph’s University, New York. Dr. Barry earned a B.A. and M.A. in History from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. 

She has published several works, including her latest on seventeenth-century Quakers, and has taught an array of courses during her tenure, including Women and Gender in American History, African-American History, History of New York State and City, Historiography and Senior Capstone.  

Dr. Barry has been at the University since 2002 and previously served as Associate Provost, Assistant Provost for Strategic Planning and Assessment, Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, and Associate Dean.
 
She is the author of A ‘Dress Rehearsal’ for Revolution: John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon’s Works in Eighteenth-Century British America. Her current research involves seventeenth-century religious groups in colonial America and her latest published article appeared in Quaker History in 2023 and is titled “The Real Housewives of the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World: Elizabeth Hooton, Katherine Marbury Scott, Mary Dyer and Cassandra Southwick.” In 2015, her article titled “Naked Quaker Who Were Not So Naked: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women in the Massachusetts Bay Colony” was published in the Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 

For more information about SJNY, visit sjny.edu. 

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