Wendy Cadge

Wendy Cadge (born c. 1976) is an American sociologist and academic administrator and president-elect of Bryn Mawr College.

Life

Cadge was born c. 1976 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.[1] She received a B.A. in religion, sociology, and anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1997.[2] She earned a M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2002) in the department of sociology at Princeton University.[2]

Cadge worked at Bowdoin College.[1] She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.[1] Cadge worked at Brandeis University for eighteen years where she is the Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanistic Social Sciences, dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences, and a professor of sociology.[2][1] In April 2024, she was announced as the incoming president of Bryn Mawr College. Cadge succeeds Kimberly Wright Cassidy on July 1.[1]

Cadge and her wife have two children.[1]

Selected works
  • Cadge, Wendy (2005). Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-08900-3.
  • Cadge, Wendy (2012). Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-92210-2.

References
  1. Snyder, Susan (2024-04-09). "Delaware County native and sociologist named next president of Bryn Mawr College". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  2. "Faculty profile". Brandeis University.
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