Katherine Rowe | |
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| President of the College of William and 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 (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Bruce Jacobson |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Carleton College (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
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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 |
| Institutions | |
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.[1] 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.[2] After seven months in office, Rowe was formally inaugurated on February 8, 2019 as part of the university's annual Charter Day ceremony.[3]
- ^ "Katherine A. Rowe - William & Mary". www.wm.edu. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
- ^ "William & Mary announces Katherine Rowe as 28th President". Wm.edu. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- ^ "Rowe looks toward W&M's future in inaugural address". www.wm.edu. Retrieved March 14, 2019.