Search Committee for Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian
Northwestern University is conducting a search for the next Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian. A search committee, which includes faculty, students, staff and a member of the Northwestern University Library Board of Governors, is undertaking the search. The committee has engaged WittKieffer to support the search.
Members of the Northwestern community are invited to share input on the search and nominations for the next leader of the Northwestern University Libraries by emailing UniversityLibrarianSearch@northwestern.edu.
News
- Oct. 7, 2026: Search committee formed to find new Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian
- June 30, 2026: Xuemao Wang to step down as University Librarian after the 2026-27 academic year
Northwestern University Librarian Search Committee
- Laura Brueck (Chair), Professor of South Asian and Comparative Literature and Director, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Megan Paynter Anderson, Northwestern University Libraries Board of Governors, Bienen School of Music Advisory Board, and Northwestern University Women’s Board Member; School of Education and Social Policy Alumna, Class of 1976; Deering Family Award Recipient (2023)
- Ryan Dohoney, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Musicology, Bienen School of Music
- Clara Drummond, Director of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives, Northwestern University Libraries
- Jeff Eden, Associate Professor of History, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Susannah Gottlieb, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Director, Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and Cluster, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Peri Green, PhD Candidate in Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy; Presidential Fellow
- Michelle Guittar, Director of Learning and Engagement and Librarian for Latin American and Latina/o Studies, Northwestern University Libraries
- Jackie Milhans, Director of Research Computing and Data, Northwestern University Information Technology
- David Morton, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Kelsey Rydland, Director of Operations, Academic Innovation, Northwestern University Libraries
- Juniper Shelley, Undergraduate Student, Class of 2027, School of Education and Social Policy
- Charles F. Whitaker, Dean and Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Committee staff
- Lorraine Cassis, Program Manager
- Roma Khanna, Associate Provost for Strategy and Policy
- Andrianna Kurzenberger, Associate Director for Strategy and Policy
- Tori Saxum, Assistant Director for Strategy and Policy