Attended Roosevelt Elementary and Lincoln Jr. High Schools in Park Ridge, and graduated from Maine Township High School in 1964. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1968, and UCLA, taking a Ph.D. in 1974. He taught at UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and UC San Diego before moving in 1976 to the Philadelphia area to take a position at the University of Pennsylvania. He married Beatriz C. de Jesus de Souza on December 31, 1967, divorcing in 1971. They had one child, Adrian Geoffrey Harpham (b. 10 November 1968). Adrian graduated from Winchester Middle School in 1986, and attended Berklee College of Music from 1988-91.
Geoffrey Galt Harpham is an American academic who currently serves as the fifth President and Director of the National Humanities Center, succeeding Charles Frankel, William Bennett, Charles Blitzer, and Robert Connor. One of the characteristics of his tenure has been the encouragement of dialogue between the humanities on the one hand and the natural and social sciences on the other.
He is at the same time a Visiting Research Professor of English at Duke University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and also a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.[3] He is in addition a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College. (Source:
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