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Headshot of a man in his 50s with light skin tone and brown balding hair. He is wearing a black suit and white button up and has on thin rimmed rectangle glasses. He is smiling at the camera.

Craig Harwood

Craig Harwood joined the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans as the director in August of 2013. He is a musicologist, musician, educator, and administrator with extensive experience in student and academic affairs. Prior to his work with PD Soros, Craig served as the director of the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter and as the dean of Davenport College at Yale University. Craig earned a BA in music from Queens College and a doctorate in music theory from Yale, where he conducted research on Mozart and on Eastern European Jewish instrumental music known as Klezmer. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Amherst College, where he taught music theory and directed student world music ensembles. In his spare time, Craig can be found playing mandolin with the band Professors of Bluegrass, perfecting his latte art, or exploring New York with his wife, Julie, and two children, Asher and Ellie. Living on the Lower East Side of New York City, Craig enjoys visiting the Tenement Museum and the many immigrant-owned businesses that make the city an immigrant capital.