Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers has appointed Kanwal Singh as its next dean, effective Aug. 1.
Singh, the associate dean of the college, will succeed Dean Jerrilynn D. Dodds, with whom she has worked on a wide range of curricular, programmatic and faculty issues, according to the college’s announcement. Dodds, who has been the dean for six years, will remain on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence.
- Kanwal Singh
“Kanwal Singh is a gifted administrator who can balance a deep understanding of our distinguished faculty with a keen mastery of the administrative demands of the position of dean of the college,” Dodds said in a statement. “We are so fortunate she will take the helm.”
Singh earned her master’s and doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley and her Bacher of Science in physics at the University of Maryland at College Park.
She has taught at Middlebury College, Wellesley College and Eugene Lang College. She also received a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, working at the National Science Foundation”™s Directorate for Education and Human Resources. She has worked with Bank Street College of Education as a consultant.
“She is a respected scholar and teacher, a much valued colleague and an accomplished administrator,” college President Karen R. Lawrence said in a statement.
