Carroll Joynes

Senior Fellow

Ph.D., European History, University of Chicago

Carroll Joynes co-founded the Cultural Policy Center at NORC and served as Executive Director for its first ten years. He received his Ph.D. in European History at the University of Chicago in 1981, taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York and at New York University, and returned to the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of Humanities in 1994. In addition to establishing the CPC in 1999 and overseeing its development, he has served on the majority of its research projects, helping produce a comprehensive map of minority participation in Chicago cultural life, and contributing to Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in Nonprofit Arts. With Norman Bradburn, he is currently serving as director of a large-scale study of cultural infrastructure in the United States. He also serves as a trustee of several cultural organizations in Chicago.

Representative Projects

Cultural Infrastructure in the United States. The Cultural Policy Center's largest continuing project is the research funded by the Kresge, Mellon, and MacArthur foundations on "Cultural Infrastructure in the United States," a national study of the organizational decisions behind, implementation strategies for, and consequences of the building boom in museums, theaters, and performing arts centers in the U.S. between 1994 and 2008. It is the first comprehensive analysis of cultural building in the United States to be carried out at this scale and depth. More