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Published July 1, 2015 at 60 × 60 in ReframingHistoryHousingDiscriminationLOC-60

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Sign supporting white tenants in white neighborhoods. Library of Congress.

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Carol Tecla Christ

1944

Born in New York City

1964

Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society

1966

Graduated with a B.A. from Douglass College, with high and general honors

1969

Graduated from Yale with a master’s in English

1970

Earned her Ph.D. in English from Yale

1970-2002

Hired as assistant professor of English literature at Berkeley; promoted to associate and then
full professor

1975

Publication of her first book, The Finer Optic: The aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian
Poetry, Yale University Press

1978–79

Awarded and fullfilled National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

1979–83

Vice chair in Charge of Courses, English department, Berkeley

1983

Served on faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English (summer)

1983–84

Served as faculty assistant to the chancellor for the status of women and Title IX
compliance coordinator

1985–88

Chair, English department

1985

Co-edited The Norton Anthology of English Literature, W.W. Norton & Company

1988–89

Dean of Humanities

1989–90

Acting provost and dean of the College of Letters and Science

1990–94

Provost and dean of Letters and Science

1994

Publication of her book, Victorian and Modern Poetics, University of Chicago Press

1994

Edited George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (A Norton Critical Edition) W.W. Norton & Company

1995

Co-edited Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination,
University of California Press

1994–98

8 Vice chancellor and provost

1998

Gayley lecturer, Department of English, Berkeley

1998–2000

Executive vice chancellor and provost

2002–13

President at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts

2004

Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow

2007

Awarded Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale

2013

Elected to American Philosophical Society

2015–16

Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley

2016–17

Interim executive vice chancellor and provost at Berkeley

March 13, 2017

Announced as Berkeley’s 11th chancellor

March 16, 2017

Appointed to be Berkeley’s next chancellor, starting July 1