Sarah Winslow ’00
Sarah Winslow ’00 was recently named the inaugural dean of the Clemson University Honors College. The position elevates Winslow’s leadership in managing the immense growth of the Honors College over the past decade. The dean also oversees additional units that recruit, develop, and support students in scholarship programs and in applying for nationally competitive awards.
Before her current appointment, Winslow was the College’s senior associate director, National Scholars Program director, and full professor of sociology, specializing in social inequality. In her 17 years at Clemson, she has been deeply involved in the undergraduate experience, previously serving as the undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice and faculty-in-residence for the Honors Living-Learning Community.
A Glens Falls, N.Y., native, Winslow double-majored in sociology-psychology and women’s studies at Skidmore and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She credits her Skidmore education as an indispensable part of her career trajectory. At Clemson, she leads with the same approach to undergraduate education and close student-faculty relationships that she benefited from at Skidmore.
”I owe so much to Skidmore’s Sociology Department (previously the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work). The requirement that all majors complete a research project/thesis was foundational for my admission to graduate school,” she says. “I gravitated toward leadership roles in undergraduate education, and specifically honors education, because of my experiences at Skidmore.”
At Clemson, Winslow has continued to work and keep in touch with Skidmore faculty, including Professor Emeritus Susan Walzer, Professor and Sociology Department Chair John Brueggeman, and Tisch Family Distinguished Professor Catherine White Berheide. Berheide served on the external advisory board for Clemson’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant, of which Winslow was a co-principal investigator.
