In 2015, she was the Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She taught at Harvard University from 1969–1976, the University of Washington from 1976–1988, Columbia University from 1988–2003, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2003–2011. Her honors include the Jefferson Lecture, a MacArthur Fellowship, and fourteen honorary degrees including degrees from the University of Chicago in 1992, Harvard University in 2005, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Education and career īynum attended Radcliffe College before completing a bachelor's degree with high honors in history at the University of Michigan in 1962, and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1969. She is former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies, served as president of the American Historical Association in 1996, and President of the Medieval Academy of America in 1997–1998. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA (born May 10, 1941, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Medieval scholar from the United States.
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