Princeton Prof. Jill Dolan Named to Lawrence University Board of Trustees

Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English, professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the director of the program in gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University, has been named to the Lawrence University Board of Trustees. Dolan begins a three-year term on the Board Oct. 1.  
 
First-year Lawrence President Mark Burstein, who spent nine years as executive vice president at Princeton before coming to Lawrence in July, said Dolan "strengthens an already excellent group of trustees. Jill brings an important and valued perspective that will help Lawrence continue its forward momentum."  

Dolan, one of the most highly regarded leaders in the field of theater, performance studies and feminist theatre, joined the Princeton faculty in 2008. She previously spent nine years at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and headed the department of theatre and dance's master's/Ph.D. program. 

Dolan was inducted into the University of Texas' Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2006, was inaugurated into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in 2009 and was the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.