Shirley Strum Kenny
Shirley Strum Kenny | |
|---|---|
Kenny in 2019 | |
| Interim President of Augusta State University | |
| In office July 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012 | |
| Preceded by | William A. Bloodworth |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| 4th President of Stony Brook University | |
| In office July 1, 1994 – July 1, 2009 | |
| Preceded by | John Marburger |
| Succeeded by | Samuel L. Stanley |
| 7th President of Queens College | |
| In office July 1, 1985 – July 1, 1994 | |
| Preceded by | Saul B. Cohen |
| Succeeded by | Allen Lee Sessoms |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 28, 1934 Tyler, Texas, U.S. |
| Education | University of Texas at Dallas University of Minnesota University of Chicago |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | An edition of Sir Richard Steele's The funeral and the tender husband (1964) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature |
| Sub-discipline | Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama |
| Institutions | |
Shirley Strum Kenny (born 1934) is an English scholar and retired university president. Kenny was the fourth president of Stony Brook University from 1994 until the end of the 2008–2009 academic year. She was the first woman to hold that position. She had served as the president of Queens College from 1985 to 1994. In 2012, Kenny served as the interim president of Augusta State University upon the retirement of its long time president William A. Bloodworth from July 1 until the position was eliminated on December 31, 2012 as a result of Augusta State University's merger with Georgia Health Sciences University on August 10 of the same year.