Nannerl O. Keohane
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Nannerl Overholser Keohane (known as Nan) is an American political scientist. She became the eighth president of Duke University on July 1, 1993, after serving as President of her alma mater, Wellesley College from 1981 to 1993. She also taught at Swarthmore. She retired from the presidency of Duke in 2004, after raising more than two billion dollars for the university. She was succeeded by Richard H. Brodhead and is currently a visiting scholar at Princeton University.
In addition to her undergraduate education at Wellesley, Keohane also holds degrees from Oxford University - where she studied as a Marshall Scholar - and Yale University.
She is a member of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of Harvard University.
Her husband is Robert Keohane, also a noted political scientist.
External links
- [National Women's Hall of Fame Biography]
- [Duke University Biography]
- [Current information at Princeton]
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