Steven Knapp

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Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 [1]. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006. Previously he served as the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins. He succeeds longtime GW president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.

Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his postgraduate work at Cornell University, earning his Master's degree in 1977 and his doctorate in 1981. He served for 16 years on the faculty of University of California, Berkeley as a a specialist in 18th and 19th century English literature and in literary theory, before coming to Johns Hopkins in 1994.[2]