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American historian

Nancy Joan Weiss Malkiel (born 1944)^[1] is an American historian. She became the first woman to join Princeton University's Department of History and served as Princeton's Dean of the college for 24 years.

Weiss Malkiel holds the title of Professor of History Emerita upon her retirement.

Early life and education

Weiss Malkiel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College where she received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard University for her Master's degree and PhD.^[2]

Career

While completing her PhD in 1969, Weiss Malkiel became the first woman to join Princeton University's Department of History faculty.^[3] After four years, she was recommended for tenure in November 1975, becoming the first woman in six years to be put up for a promotion.

However, after a negative departmental vote she was denied the promotion and as a result, history department chairman Richard D. Challener resigned