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Jill Ker Conway

Room
E51-163F
Phone
617-253-6743
Email
kerconway@aol.com
website


Professor Conway received her B.A. in History and English from the University of Sydney (1958), and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (1969). In 1975 she became the first woman president of Smith College, and served ten years in that post. Professor Conway is a director in a number of major American companies and serves as a trustee on several foundation and university boards.

Her books include The Female Experience in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century America: A Guide to the History of American Women (1982), The Road from Coorain (1989), Written by Herself, volumes I and II (1993, 1995), When Memory Speaks (1998) and A Woman's Education (2001).