President

Michael J. Hogan became the 14th president of the University of Connecticut on September 14, 2007.

Prior to coming to UConn, he was the Executive Vice President and Provost and F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at The University of Iowa.  Previously he was at The Ohio State University where he served as chair of the Department of History from 1993 to 1999, as dean of the College of Humanities from 1999 to 2003, and as executive dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences from July, 2001, during which time the position of executive dean evolved into a separate free-standing office with oversight of five colleges and forty-one departments.

Before joining the faculty at Ohio State in 1986, President Hogan was a faculty member at Miami University.  His nine years at that institution were preceded by service at Stony Brook University and at the University of Texas, Austin.  Born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, he earned his B.A. degree at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English with minors in history and classics; his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were conferred by The University of Iowa.

A specialist in the history of American diplomacy, President Hogan is the author or editor of nine books and a host of scholarly articles and essays. 

President Hogan and his wife Virginia have four adult children.

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