Caroline Bynum

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Caroline Walker Bynum is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches, and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is a former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies.

Bynum received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1962 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. Her many honors include the Jefferson Lectureship (the highest American honor in the humanities), a MacArthur Fellowship, and honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and several other institutions.