Nannerl O. Keohane

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Nannerl Overholser "Nan" Keohane is an American political theorist. 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, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. At Stanford, she was chair of the faculty senate and won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor.

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.

Keohane was born in Blytheville, Arkansas and graduated from high school in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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• National Women's Hall of Fame Biography
• Duke University Biography
• Current information at Princeton

Presidents of Duke University*

Brantley York (1838—1842) • Braxton Craven (1842—1863, 1866—1882) • Marquis Lafayette Wood (1883—1884) • John Franklin Crowell (1887—1894) • John Carlisle Kilgo (1894—1910) • William Preston Few (1910—1940) • Robert Lee Flowers (1941—1948) • Arthur Hollis Edens (1949—1960) • Julian Deryl Hart (1960—1963) • Douglas Knight (1963—1969) • Terry Sanford (1969—1985) • H. Keith H. Brodie (1985—1993) • Nannerl O. Keohane (1993—2004) • Richard H. Brodhead (2004—) * The institution was not officially established as Duke University until 1924.