George B. Stauffer
Dean Emeritus, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University


George B. Stauffer is Dean Emeritus of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Music History at Rutgers University. During his 19-year deanship, from 2000-2019, he greatly expanded school enrollments and launched new divisions such as the Rutgers Filmmaking Center, Rutgers Community Arts, and Rutgers Arts Online, which presents online courses to more than 9,000 enrollees. He also joined forces with the City of New Brunswick to create the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, a $200 million town-and-gown project that brings together three professional performance companies—George Street Playhouse, Crossroads Theatre, and American Repertory Ballet—with the Mason Gross School. A Guggenheim, Fulbright, and ACLS scholar, Stauffer has published eight books on music of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach and is a contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books.

George B. Stauffer
Dean Emeritus, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers University
(848) 932-9360
[email protected]