President Wendy Cadge
Bryn Mawr College's 10th President
Welcome to the office of Wendy Cadge, Bryn Mawr College’s 10th president. Since taking office in July 2024, Wendy has immersed herself in an energetic process of deep learning and reflection about Bryn Mawr. In classrooms, offices, labs, playing fields and Zoom rooms, she is engaging with the College’s remarkable worldwide community – students, staff, faculty, and alums – to understand the distinctive power of a Bryn Mawr education.
Grounded in her experience as a scholar, educator, and academic leader, Wendy has invited the campus to learn alongside her, launching a series of campus forums on current issues in higher education as well as presentations at Coffee Hours on such topics as student summer research, fellowships, voting and civic engagement.
Wendy, her wife Deborah, their middle-school-aged children – and the family menagerie of pugs, cats, and a frog – have enthusiastically embraced Bryn Mawr’s traditions and have even introduced the campus community to a few of their own, including a family tradition involving the Bones Family of skeletons popping up in unexpected places.
The work of the President’s Office happens in partnership and in community, with the Board of Trustees, the Senior Staff, and our colleagues across campus. Let us know how we can support you.
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Cadge is a member of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR). She is a founder and past chair of the Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Program Unit of the AAR. She is a previous chair of the Religion Section and the Committee on Professional Ethics of the ASA. Her published books include Spiritual Care: The Everyday Work of Chaplains, Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, and Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America. She is co-editor of Introduction to Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care and Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion.
At Brandeis, her achievements included centering the graduate student experience by rebuilding and expanding student professional development, collaborating to extend degree programs into new modalities, advancing the graduate school’s anti-racism plan, and reconnecting current students and alumni to celebrate the school’s 70th anniversary. She received the Thomas A. King Faculty Award from the Gender & Sexuality Center, the Dean of Art and Sciences Mentoring Award for Outstanding Teaching of Students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Michael Walzer '56 Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also served as the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, led the Division of Social Sciences, and chaired the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program. She served on the faculty at Bowdoin College from 2003-2006.
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Contact Us for Student Office Hours
President Cadge is holding space for office hours with students during the academic year. To schedule a meeting, please contact Susan Lewis at sklewis@brynmawr.edu. Students are invited to share the topic(s) they would like to discuss with President Cadge ahead of their meeting.
Invite President Cadge to Campus Events
If you would like to invite President Cadge to an event or request that she speak at an event, please fill out this form: Invitation and Speaking Requests for President Cadge
Request Funding from the President's Office
If you would like to request funding from the President's Office for an event, project, or initiative, please complete this form: Presidential Office Funding Request Form