Mary Maples Dunn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Maples Dunn

American historian

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1931

Place of Birth: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 19-Mar-2017

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Mary Maples Dunn (April 6, 1931 – March 19, 2017) was an American historian.
Born in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Dunn graduated from William and Mary College in 1954 and received her Ph.D.
from Bryn Mawr College in 1959, where she taught and served as Dean from 1978 to 1985.
She served as the eighth president of Smith College, for ten years beginning in 1985.
Dunn was also the Director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000.
She was acting president when Radcliffe College merged with Harvard University, and she became the acting Dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after the merger.
Retired, Dunn became a Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
She was the co-Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society from 2002 to 2007.