Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences since August 2008, Douglas Greenberg came from his position as Professor of History at the University of Southern California (USC) and Executive Director of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, the successor to Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (of which he was President and CEO). Dean Greenberg holds a B.A. from Rutgers University (1969) with Highest Distinction in History, and he received his M.A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) from Cornell University. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the Society of American Historians.

Dr. Greenberg's career has focused on the strategic repositioning of the organizations he has led and the use of technology to advance academic and institutional missions. President and CEO of the Chicago Historical Society from 1993 to 2000, he also served as Vice President of the American Council of Learned Societies and as Associate Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University. He has taught history at Rutgers, Lawrence, and Princeton Universities, and joined the faculty at USC in 2006. The author and editor of many books and essays on the history of early America and American law, as well as on technology, scholarship, and libraries, he also writes and speaks widely about the Holocaust, genocide, and Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust United States.

Dr. Greenberg has served on the boards of many non-profit organizations, including the American Historical Association, the National Humanities Alliance, the Organization of American Historians, the Latin School of Chicago, and the Research Libraries Group. He served as Chair of the New Jersey Historical Commission and the California Council for the Humanities. In 2005, he was appointed a member of the American delegation to the International Task Force on Holocaust Remembrance, Education, and Research. In October 2009, he received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities. As Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Greenberg leads the largest academic unit in the University and oversees its entire program of teaching, research, and service.