Maud Mandel
Maud S. Mandel is an American historian and academic administrator. She is the 18th and current President of Williams College, the first woman to hold that role. Mandel was previously a Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Dean of the College at Brown University. She specialises in twentieth-century French history, with a particular focus on the interaction of Muslim, Jewish, and Armenian communities in France. She is the daughter of Ruth Mandel who was the director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
Early life and education
Mandel received her B.A. in English from Oberlin College in 1989. In 1993, she received an M.A. from the University of Michigan, followed in 1998 by a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history from the same institution.Brown University
Professorship
In 1997, she joined the Brown faculty as a visiting assistant professor in the History department.Mandel's scholarship focuses on ethnic and religious minorities in twentieth-century France. She has written about immigration, nationalism, integration, and inter-ethnic relations. Mandel has particularly emphasized the Muslim, Jewish, and Armenian communities in France and has investigated how these groups interact with each other and with broader society.
Mandel became a full member of the faculty in 2001, served as chair of the Judaic studies program from 2012-2014, and was named a full professor in 2014.