Anne D'Alleva

As Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Anne D’Alleva serves as UConn’s chief academic officer, with responsibility for all academic units and operations. Dr. D'Alleva was named permanent provost by President Maric effective December 1, 2022. Prior to her appointment in May 2022 as interim provost, Dr. D’Alleva served as dean of the School of Fine Arts since 2015. She is the first woman to serve as provost in UConn’s history.

As provost, Dr. D’Alleva oversees the university’s academic enterprise, including strategic planning, budgetary management, faculty development, and curriculum innovation across the University’s 14 schools and colleges. She leads transformative initiatives that support student success, faculty excellence, and institutional impact. She is currently engaged in multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts to expand UConn’s work in AI and quantum technologies, partner with the state’s tribal nations, and expand academic offerings at the University’s four regional campuses.

A cornerstone of her work as provost has been a focus on holistic student success, recognizing that academic success is built on a strong foundation of social and emotional wellness as well as food, housing, and transportation security.  She established the position of Vice Provost for Student Success to enhance innovative academic support for students. Through an organizational realignment, she now oversees the Dean of Students Office, Center for Students with Disabilities, Student Activities, and the cultural centers to enhance their connections to the academic enterprise. She established the university’s partnership with Foodshare CT to address student food insecurity, opening or expanding food pantries across all seven UConn campuses.

As dean of the School of Fine Arts, Dr. D'Alleva founded, along with the College of Engineering, the Krenicki Arts & Engineering Institute. She collaborated with the Human Rights Institute on the creation of a research cluster in arts and human rights. She established the School of Fine Arts Advisory Board and, as part of larger alumni engagement efforts, also established the Recent Alumni Council. With philanthropic support, she expanded career-readiness and professional-development resources for both undergraduate and graduate students. She also created the SFA STEAM research grant, the SFA Anti-Racism Research Grant, and expanded research funding in the school by five-fold in her time as dean.

Dr. D'Alleva first joined the university in the fall of 1999 as a joint appointment to Art History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  She received her B.A in Art History from Harvard University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University with a graduate certificate in feminist theory. Prior to her arrival at UConn, she completed postdoctoral fellowships at Australian National University and through the Getty Foundation. She has received additional research funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the College Art Association.  Her books Fundamentals of Art History (3rd ed., 2021) and Methods and Theories of Art History (3rd ed., 2021) have been published in multiple languages worldwide.