Richard H. Brodhead
American academic administrator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Halleck Brodhead is an American scholar of 19th-century American literature and served as the 9th president of Duke University in North Carolina from 2004 to 2017. Early life and education Brodhead was born April 17, 1947, in Dayton, Ohio. His family moved to Fairfield, Connecticut when he was six years old, where he attended public schools. He attended Phillips Academy, where his high school classmates included Dick Wolf and George W. Bush. He attended Yale University, where, during his senior year, he was tapped for membership in the secret society Manuscript and as a member of the Elizabethan Club. He received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1968, a Master of Philosophy in 1970, and continued at Yale for graduate school, earning a Ph.D. in English in 1972. He met his wife, Cynthia Degnan, while both were graduate students at Yale.
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