Charlotte G. Borst

American Conference of Academic Deans

Board of Directors
Charlotte Borst
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Whittier College


Charlotte G. Borst is a professor of history, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of the Faculty at Whittier College in Whittier, California. She has had a substantial administrative career at a number of liberal arts colleges—prior to joining Whittier College in 2009, she was Provost and Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee from 2006-2008, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Union College in Schenectady, New York, from 2001 to 2006. She also has had faculty and administrative experience at several research universities—she was Chair of History at Saint Louis University and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also served as Executive Director of Historical Collections.

Borst’s research has focused upon the history of the intersection of gender and race in American health care. She has published widely on the history of midwifery and obstetrics in the United States and the history of medical school admissions in the twentieth century. Her areas of teaching have included the history of American medicine and public health, Gender and Health in American history, American women’s history, American social and intellectual history, historiography, and the American history survey. She holds the B.A. in biology from Boston University, an M.A. in history from Tufts University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.