and staff". The Harrison Patch also noted that, with respect to the resigning administrators, "Many of the students protesting were international students who said that [one of those departing admins] had played a major part of their decision to come to the school." At the time of her resignation in 2011, a communique from Robert Hall, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, stated: "the Manhattanville College Board of Trustees is announcing an executive management transition. Molly Easo Smith, Ph.D. has decided to step down from her role as President effective today, May 31." J.J. Pryor, a school spokesperson, said in a statement that Smith left after achieving specific goals and objectives for which she was appointed by the Board of Trustees in 2009. "This includes the recruitment of a strong leadership team, refocusing the college's commitment to its core values of academic excellence, civic engagement and social action and the engagement of alumni to the Manhattanville College community." In 2019, Dr. Easo Smith served as interim Provost at Stonehill College. In 2020, she was announced as the inaugural provost of Thomas More University. As of 2022, she is a professor in the English department at the university. Books Breaking Boundaries: Politics and Play in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (1998) The Darker World Within: Evil in the Tragedies of Shakespeare and his Successors (1991) References 1958 births Living people Manhattanville College faculty Indian emigrants to the United States Writers from Chennai Auburn University alumni University of Madras alumni American women writers of Indian descent American academics of Indian descent American women academics 21st-century American women Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty