Carol T. Christ
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For other people with the same name, see Carol Christ (disambiguation).
Carol Tecla Christ (born 1944) is an American academic administrator. In March 2017, she was named the 11th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, the first woman to hold that position. She succeeded outgoing Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks on July 1, 2017.[1]
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Carol Christ | |
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11th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley | |
Assumed office July 1, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Nicholas Dirks |
Succeeded by | Richard Lyons |
10th President of Smith College | |
In office 2002–2013 | |
Preceded by | Ruth Simmons |
Succeeded by | Kathleen McCartney |
Personal details | |
Born | Carol Tecla Christ 1944 (age 79–80) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Education | Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA) Yale University (MPhil, PhD) |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The Aesthetic of Particularity in the Poetry of Rossetti, Browning, and Hopkins (1970) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Smith College |
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