Katherine Rowe
Katherine Anandi Rowe is an American scholar of Renaissance literature and media history. She was named the twenty-eighth president of the College of William & Mary on February 20, 2018. She began her service on July 2, 2018 succeeding W. Taylor Reveley III, who had served as president since 2008 and is the first woman to be named president. After seven months in office, Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8, 2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.
Katherine Rowe | |
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Rowe in 2018 | |
| 28th President of the College of William & Mary | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | W. Taylor Reveley III |
| Provost and Dean of Faculty at Smith College | |
| In office July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Marilyn Schuster |
| Succeeded by | Joseph O'Rourke (interim) |
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| Born | United States |
| Spouse | Bruce Jacobson |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Carleton College (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
| Profession | Educator |
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| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The dead hand: Fictions of agency and the physiology of possession ( 1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marjorie Garber |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English and American Literature |
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