Sherri-Ann Butterfield, PhD

Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University–Newark. She is a nationally recognized scholar, teacher, and thought leader in race and ethnicity, immigration, and diversity in higher education. Sherri-Ann is also a sought-after facilitator on managing diversity within complex institutions. As an advocate for leveraging diversity in all its dimensions, she works with her RU-N colleagues to actualize the public mission of colleges and universities as engines of social mobility and as anchor institutions that collaborate with partners from multiple sectors to help communities succeed. While at Rutgers-Newark Sherri-Ann has served in numerous academic and administrative capacities. She received her B.A. in Sociology from Yale University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.