Jamshed Bharucha

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Jamshed Bharucha has been Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University since August, 2002.

Prior to coming to Tufts, he spent his academic career at Dartmouth College, where he was the John Wentworth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and served in several leadership posts, most recently as Deputy Provost and Dean of the Faculty. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, where he majored in biopsychology, then received an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. He has been the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception, was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-94, and was a Trustee of Vassar College from 1991 to 1999, where he chaired the Budget and Finance Committee. He has received numerous grants for his research, and has served on the National Science Foundation’s advisory panel for Perception and Cognition. His research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music. He has published widely on this subject, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio, US News & World Report, Discover magazine, and the New York Times. At Dartmouth, he received the Huntington Teaching Award in 1989, and the Undergraduate Teaching Initiative Special Award in 2002. He is a violinist, and enjoys playing chamber music.