Carol T. Christ

Carol Christ
Christ in 2015
11th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
Incumbent
Assumed office July 1, 2017
Preceded by	Nicholas Dirks
Succeeded by	Richard Lyons
10th President of Smith College
In office 2002–2013
Preceded by	Ruth Simmons
Succeeded by	Kathleen McCartney
Personal details
Born	Carol Tecla Christ 1944 (age 79–80) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA) Yale University (MPhil, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	The Aesthetic of Particularity in the Poetry of Rossetti, Browning, and Hopkins (1970)
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Smith College

Carol Tecla Christ (born 1944) is an American academic administrator. In March 2017, she was named the 11th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, the first woman to hold that position. She succeeded outgoing Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks on July 1, 2017.^[1]