Karen L. Gould

Karen L. Gould
9th President of Brooklyn College
In office
August 1, 2009  July 31, 2016
Preceded byChristoph Kimmich
Succeeded byMichelle Anderson
Personal details
Born(1948-06-17)June 17, 1948
San Francisco, California, U.S.
EducationSorbonne University (GrDip)
Occidental College (BA)
University of Oregon (PhD)
AwardsGovernor General’s Award for Canadian Studies (2003)
Donner Medal in Canadian Studies (2005)

Karen L. Gould (born June 17, 1948) is a scholar of French-Canadian literature, and an academic administrator who has been a dean at Old Dominion University and the University of Cincinnati, provost and senior vice president at California State University, Long Beach, and the ninth president of Brooklyn College, the first woman to hold that position.