Catherine Gunther Kodat was appointed provost and dean of the faculty at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Lawrence University enrolls about 1,600 students. Women make up 55 percent of the student body.
Dr. Kodat has been serving as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. There, she is also a professor of twentieth-century English literature and American studies. Dr. Kodat will become provost at Lawrence University on July 1.
Dr. Kodat is the former chair of the English and creating writing department at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She spent 17 years on the Hamilton College faculty. Professor Kodat is the author of Don’t Act, Just Dance: The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2014).
Dr. Kodat is a graduate of the University of Baltimore, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Boston University.