Richard Brodhead
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 President Richard Brodhead, taken while at Yale. | |
| Status | President of Duke University, 2004- |
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| Education | BA in English, Yale, 1968 Ph.D. in English, Yale, 1972 |
Richard Brodhead is the President of Duke University. He is the chief adminstrator at Duke, and welcomes students to the university during Convocation and presides over their departure at Graduation. His administration also weathered the Duke Lacrosse Scandal in the spring of 2005.
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Richard Halleck Brodhead was born in 1947 in Dayton, Ohio. He moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when he was six years old, and attended public school there before going to Phillips Andover Academy. He graduated from Yale University in 1968, and completed a graduate degree in English in 1972.
As a Freshman at Yale, Brodhead lived on the notorious fourth floor of Wright Hall. Academically, Brodhead enrolled in Directed Studies his freshman year and took a course on American literature his sophomore year with R.W.B. Lewis that led him to dedicate his life to English. R.W.B. Lewis would become his doctoral dissertation adviser. He also took an undergraduate english course with a young Harold Bloom.
While at Yale, Brodhead was tapped for the Manuscript Society a senior secret society at Yale.
Brodhead graduated from Yale summa cum laude in the spring of 1968 and entered the English graduate program that fall. He earned his doctorate in only four years. While in graduate school, Brodhead met Cynthia Degnan, Yale GRD '72 — whom he began dating his first year. He married her three weeks after his PhD Oral Exams.
| Preceded by: Nannerl Keohane | President of Duke University 2004-Present | Succeeded by: Still Serving |
