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'Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane' (born September 18, 1940, in Blytheville, Arkansas)^[1] is an American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University.
Keohane earned her first undergraduate degree in 1961 from Wellesley,^[2] and her second bachelor's degree at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. Keohane received her doctorate in political science from Yale University in 1967.^[1]
Keohane began her career in academia teaching at Swarthmore College (1967-73), Stanford University (1973-81), and the University of Pennsylvania.^[1] At Stanford, she was chair of the faculty senate and won the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, the university's highest teaching honor.
Koehane served as eleventh president of Wellesley from 1981 to 1993, while also continuing to teach political science.^[1] 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.^[6]
Keohane became the eighth 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.^[7]
Leaving her position at Duke in 2004, Keohane was named Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2005.^[8]
The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Keohane was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.^[1] She is also a member of the Harvard Corporation, the governing body of Harvard University, and is the only current member of that body (as of April 2007) not to have earned a degree from Harvard.
Keohane's books include ''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''.^[1]
Her husband is Robert Keohane, also a noted political scientist. Her sister, Geneva Overholser, is a prominent journalist and currently Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting in the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.^[11]
Keohane was born in Blytheville, Arkansas and graduated from high school in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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1. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
2. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007
3. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
4. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
5. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
6. Wellesley College Presidents. ''Wellesley College website.'' Retrieved on 13 August 2007.
7. The Campaign for Duke. ''Robertson Scholars Program.'' Retrieved on 1-12-2007.
8. Nannerl O. Keohane: Faculty Associate. ''Princeton University website.'' Retrieved on 13 August 2007.
9. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
10. Nannerl Overholser Keohane. ''Encyclopedia Britannica.'' Retrieved on 30 April 2007.
11. Missouri School of Journalism: Geneva Overholser. ''Missouri School of Journalism website.'' Retrieved on 13 August 2007.

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★ National Women's Hall of Fame Biography

★ Duke University Biography