Teresa Amott | |
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19th President of Knox College | |
Assumed office July 2011 | |
Preceded by | Roger Taylor |
Personal details | |
Education | Smith College (BA) Boston College (PhD) |
Teresa Amott is an American economist and academic administrator,who served as the 19th president of Knox College in Galesburg,Illinois.
Prior to serving as president of Knox College,Amott was a professor of economics at Wellesley College,the University of Massachusetts Boston,University of Massachusetts Amherst,Gettysburg College,and the Hobart and William Smith Colleges. [1] She was also a visiting professor of women's studies at Harvard Divinity School. Amott worked as a policy advisor on the Jesse Jackson 1988 presidential campaign. Amott has worked as an editor for Dollars &Sense ,an economics publication. From 1988 to 1995,she was a member of the board of Bread for the World,a Christian advocacy organization. [2]
She served as a professor of economics and chair of the economics department at Bucknell University. [3] Amott was selected to serve as the president of Knox College in 2011. [4] [5]
In March 2020,Amott announced her intention to retire as president in June 2021. [6] [7] [8]
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