G. Gabrielle Starr | |
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.jpg) Starr in 2023 | |
| 10th President of Pomona College | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | David W. Oxtoby |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse | John C. Harpole |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Emory University (BA, MA) University of St Andrews Harvard University (PhD) |
| Profession | Academic |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The frame of sense: The epistolary novel and the lyric mode in eighteenth-century England (1999) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature |
| Institutions | |
Gina Gabrielle Starr (born 1974) is an American literary scholar, neuroscientist, and academic administrator who is the 10th president of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She is known for her work on 18th-century British literature and the neuroscience of aesthetics. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,[1] an NSF ADVANCE award (joint with Nava Rubin), and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University. In 2017, she became the first woman and first African-American president of Pomona College.[2][3] Starr was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.[4] In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[5]
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | G. Gabrielle Starr". www.gf.org. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
- ^ "Pomona College's new president will be the first woman and African American to lead the campus". Los Angeles Times. December 8, 2016. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
- ^ Rod, Marc (October 18, 2017). "G. Gabrielle Starr Inaugurated As 10th President Of Pomona College". The Student Life. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ "New Members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
- ^ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2024".