Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton is an American sociologist and academic administrator who has been the 12th president ofSmith College since 2023. She was previously the provost and dean of faculty atSwarthmore College from 2018 to 2023.

The daughter of sociologistCharles Vert Willie,^[1] Willie-LeBreton attended high school inConcord, Massachusetts.^[2] She earned a B.A. fromHaverford College in 1986.^[3] She completed a semester atSpelman College during her undergraduate studies.^[4] She earned a M.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) in sociology fromNorthwestern University.^[3] Her dissertation was titled,When We Were Black: The College Experiences of Post-Civil Rights Era African-Americans.^[5]Charles M. Payne, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, andAldon Morris served as her committee members.^[5]

Willie-LeBreton taught atColby College from 1991 to 1995 andBard College from 1995 to 1997.^[3] She served as the coordinator of the Black Studies program for 11 years and chair of the department of sociology and anthropology for 6 years at Swarthmore College.^[2][3] In 2018, she was appointed provost and dean of faculty.^[3] On July 1, 2023, Willie-LeBreton became the 12th president ofSmith College, succeedingKathleen McCartney.^[2] She was officially inaugurated as president on October 21, 2023.^[6][7] She is the second African American in the role afterRuth Simmons who served from 1995 to 2001.^[2]

• Willie, Sarah Susannah (2003).Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race. Routledge.ISBN 978-0-415-94409-0.^[8]
• Willie-LeBreton, Sarah, ed. (2016).Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy. Rutgers University Press.ISBN 978-0-8135-6508-8.

• President Sarah Willie-LeBreton | Smith College

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