Emily P. Bakemeier *02 ART
Humanist, Mentor, Leader
Vice Provost for Arts and Faculty Affairs, Yale University
Emily Bakemeier is vice provost for arts and faculty affairs at Yale University, working closely with the four professional schools in the arts — art, architecture, drama and music — as well as having oversight of the Institute of Sacred Music, the Norfolk Summer Programs and Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, among others. As part of her responsibilities, Bakemeier is a member of the dean’s advisory council of the Yale Divinity School and the board of trustees of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. She is also responsible for specific aspects of faculty recruitment, retention and retirement across the university. Bakemeier’s academic area of expertise is in 16th- and 17th-century northern European art, particularly early modern French royal portraiture and iconography. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College and her M.F.A. and Ph.D. in art and archaeology from Princeton. She has been an active alumna of both institutions, having served on the Dartmouth board of trustees and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni governing board.