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Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane (born September 18, 1940, in
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)Nannerl Overholser Keohane
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is an American
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and former president of
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and
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. Until September 2014, Keohane was the
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Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at
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.Sharon Walsh and Jeffrey Brainard, 'Duke's Ex-President and Her Husband Head to Princeton; Penn's Medical School Denies Tenure to 2 Bioethicists', in ''
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/ref> She is now a professor in social sciences at the
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, Princeton, where she is researching the theory and practice of leadership in democratic societies.


Academic career

Keohane earned her first undergraduate degree in 1961 from
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, and her second bachelor's degree at Oxford University as a
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. Keohane received her doctorate in political science from Yale University in 1967. Keohane began her career in academia teaching at
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(1967–73),
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(1973–81), and the University of Pennsylvania. At Stanford, she was chair of the faculty senate and won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor. Keohane served as eleventh president of Wellesley from 1981 to 1993, while also continuing to teach political science. At Wellesley, she oversaw increased enrollment of minority students, led the expansion of the Sports Center and the construction of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, and implemented major advances in technology throughout the campus. Keohane became the thirteenth president at Duke in 1993. During her tenure, she was also a professor of political science, led efforts to increase minority student enrollment, diversified faculty, and oversaw the Women's Initiative. Keohane also helped raise $2.36 billion during The Campaign for Duke, which ended in 2003, making it the fifth-largest campaign in the history of American higher education. Keohane left her position at Duke in 2004, and in 2005 was named Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values at
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. Keohane's books include ''Thinking about Leadership'' (2010), ''Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment'' (1980), and ''Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology'' (1982). Some of Keohane's speeches were published in 1995 in ''A Community Worthy of the Name'', and more in 2006 in ''Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University''. In 2009-11, Keohane chaired a committee on undergraduate women's leadership at
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, appointed by President
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. She has also launched discussions on the future of women's leadership, and on the future of
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. In fall 2013 she was at the American Academy in Berlin as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor.


Other positions

In 1991, Keohane was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Keohane was inducted into the
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in 1995. In 1998, Keohane received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. She has served on many community and professional bodies, including being active in the Marshall Scholarship Alumni Association. In 1996, following nearly 3 years of intense litigation over the estate of Doris Duke, Keohane was named as one of the "six people howould sit as trustees of the charitable foundations established by Miss Duke's will.". In 2008, Keohane was chair of the Board of Trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDC

during the controversy over the Trustees decision to close and dismantle Duke Gardens (New Jersey), Duke Gardens, established in 1958 by Doris Duke in honor of her father James Buchanan Duke. Representatives of the DDCF stated that the Gardens were "perpetuating the Duke family history of personal passions and conspicuous consumption." Keohane is also a member of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of Harvard University, and is the only current member of that body, save for current Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust, not to have earned a degree from Harvard. In April 2013, Keohane told Harvard students advocating for climate change divestment that they should instead "Thank BP" for its investment in clean energy. The comment caused an uproar among Harvard students, leading climate activist
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to tweet the following:
"Harvard behaving outrageously to divestment campaign, trustee urges students to 'thank BP' https://web.archive.org/web/20130415025059/http://divestharvard.com/2013/04/09/divest-harvard-meets-with-trustees-again/" Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) April 10, 2013


Biographical notes

Keohane was born in
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, and graduated from high school in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Her first husband was Patrick Henry, a Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College. Her husband is
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, also a noted political scientist. Her sister,
Geneva Overholser Geneva Overholser is a journalism consultant and adviser. A former editor of the Des Moines Register now living in New York City, Overholser speaks and writes about the future of journalism. She advises numerous organizations, including the Trust ...
, is a prominent journalist and currently director of the
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at the University of Southern California. Keohane and her husband have four grown children: Sarah, Stephan, Jonathan, and
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. Keohane's last name is often subject to mispronunciation. While the most common pronunciation is ''Kee-oh-hayne'', following the name's phonetics, the correct pronunciation is ''Koh-hann'', incorporating a silent 'e' and a hard 'a'.


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External links


National Women's Hall of Fame Biography

Inventory of the Nannerl O. Keohane Reference Collection
University Archives, Duke University
Nannerl O. Keohane as the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Visitor
at the American Academy in Berlin *
"Oral History with Nannerl Keohane,"
Stanford Oral History Project, 1988.
Nannerl O. Keohane: An Oral History
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