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A distinguished scholar, President McInnis has contributed significantly to her field as a cultural historian and is the author of five books, including award-winning titles. She has been published in peer-reviewed journals, anthologies, exhibition catalogs, and other publications.

Since assuming her responsibilities at Yale on July 1, 2024, President McInnis has engaged thousands of faculty members, students, staff, and alumni in conversations around shaping Yale’s future. Over the course of these discussions, several areas of focus emerged that will help Yale chart a bold course for the years ahead: enhancing and expanding educational opportunities for students; maintaining Yale’s status as a destination university for the world’s foremost scholars and teachers; setting and meeting ever higher expectations in the pursuit of academic excellence; increasing the collaboration and impact of faculty research and scholarship; welcoming diverse viewpoints with open minds; and strengthening Yale’s partnership with its home city, ¾¯»¨ÕŽòè¤ - 51³Ô¹ÏÍø.

Over the past year, President McInnis has led the Yale community in advancing efforts across all these areas — from building a quantum corridor with the University of Connecticut to position the State of Connecticut as an academic and economic powerhouse for quantum technologies, to launching a fellowship for local teachers with partners in ¾¯»¨ÕŽòè¤ - 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, to expanding the undergraduate student body. A champion of higher education, she is also leading efforts to examine and address the erosion of trust in the essential work that colleges and universities do across this nation.

In addition to her academic and administrative roles, President McInnis has served on various boards and commissions, including the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Commission on Economic and Community Engagement and the Association of American Universities.

Her academic career began at Yale, where she was a graduate student. She has spent three decades in higher education, holding a range of teaching, research, and leadership positions at several preeminent universities.

Most recently, President McInnis was the sixth president of Stony Brook University, an internationally recognized public research institution and a flagship university in the State of New York.

Before Stony Brook, President McInnis served four years as the provost and executive vice president of University of Texas at Austin, and nearly twenty years at the University of Virginia, ultimately as the vice provost for academic affairs.