Patricia Albjerg Graham is a historian of American education. She began her teaching career in
Deep Creek, Virginia, and went on to become a lecturer at
Indiana University
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, professor of history and education at Barnard College and TC,
Columbia University
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, dean of the
Radcliffe Institute and of
Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was President of the
Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. This foundation makes grants to support research in areas of education that are widely construed.
Founder
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from 1991 to 2000. On May 28, 2015, Graham was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
.
She is the first female
dean
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at Harvard where there is a chair named after her
References
21st-century American historians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty
Indiana University faculty
Columbia University faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women writers
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