Nannerl Overholser Keohane
Nannerl O. Keohane, a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Behavior Studies in 2004-2005, has served as President of Duke University and Wellesley College. Dr. Keohane has written extensively in the fields of political philosophy, feminism, and education, and from 1973-1981 was on the political science faculty at Stanford University. She is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 1980) and, with Barbara Gelpi and Michelle Rosaldo, co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology (University of Chicago Press, 1982). She was vice president of the American Political Science Association from 1988 to 1990. Dr. Keohane currently serves on the boards of IBM, the National Humanities Center, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Overseers Committee to Visit the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by numerous colleges and universities. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995, and in 2003 received one of the first Marshall Medals honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the Marshall Scholarships in London.
The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Keohane was born in Blytheville, Arkansas, and grew up in Arkansas, Texas, and South Carolina. She is a 1961 graduate of Wellesley, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in political science. Following graduation from Wellesley, she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to Oxford University, where she earned the B.A.-M.A. with First Class Honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. She earned her Ph.D. in political science on a Sterling Fellowship from Yale University in 1967. Before assuming the presidency of Wellesley in 1981, she taught at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. As a faculty member at Stanford, she chaired the faculty senate and won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was also a founding member of the Center for Research on Women and the Feminist Studies Program, and a member of the editorial board of Signs when it was based at Stanford.