printable versionStephen Hinton named senior associate dean for humanities
Stephen Hinton
Stephen Hinton, professor of musicology in the Department of Music, has been appointed senior associate dean for the humanities in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Hinton, whose appointment becomes effective in September, will succeed Arnold Rampersad, the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities. Rampersad, a member of the English Department, has served as senior associate dean for the humanities since September 2003.
Hinton is an expert on modern German music and German music and cultural history. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1994 and served as the chair of the Department of Music from 1997 to 2004. Hinton earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Birmingham, England, where he was awarded a doctorate in musicology in 1984. He previously taught at the Technical University in Berlin and was a professor in the Department of Music at Yale University from 1990 to 1994.
Hinton, the editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum, has contributed widely to scholarship on German music, with a particular focus on Kurt Weill.
His 1990 book, Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera, examined that work's genesis, production history and critical reception. Hinton's 2000 publication, Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper, a critical edition of The Threepenny Opera in the original German, restored the work to its 1928 version. The musical score received its first public performance at Stanford in 1999 and is now used worldwide as the standard performing edition. Hinton currently is at work on a book titled Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform.
In an e-mail message sent announcing the appointment, Sharon Long, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, congratulated Hinton and thanked him for his willingness to take on the crucial role. Rampersad, currently the senior associate dean for humanities, is an "invaluable colleague, and I am very grateful for his partnership," Long wrote. "So at the same time that we look forward to Stephen's start in his new role, we will greatly miss Arnold."