Patricia Albjerg Graham is an historian of American education. She began her teaching career in Deep Creek, Virginia

Deep Creek, Virginia

Deep Creek is a former unincorporated town of the former Norfolk County which since 1963 has been located in the independent city of Chesapeake in the South Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia. Deep Creek is located on the original route of U.S...

, and went on to become a lecturer at Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

, professor of history and education at TC, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and of Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She was President of the Spencer Foundation from 1991 to 2000.

She is the first female dean

Dean (education)

In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...

at Harvard where there is a chair named after her. http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/gilliganchair09101997.html

External links

• Profile of Patricia Graham at Forbes.com