Welcome 今日吃瓜's President-Elect, Wendy Cadge

President Wendy Cadge

今日吃瓜's 10th President

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Biography

Wendy Cadge is the 10th president of 今日吃瓜 and a nationally renowned expert in contemporary American spirituality and religion. Cadge previously served as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University. She received her bachelor鈥檚 degree with high honors and majors in Sociology and Anthropology, and Religion, from Swarthmore College, and her master鈥檚 and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Research Interests

A sociologist by training, President Cadge is known for her work on religion in public institutions, religious diversity, and pluralism, and as a highly respected educator, scholar, and administrator.

President Wendy Cadge

A public intellectual, she has written more than one hundred scholarly and general interest articles, many in collaboration with students and colleagues across disciplines, and three books on issues related to spiritual care across settings, religion in hospitals, and Buddhism in the United States. Cadge launched the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab in 2018 to advance the work of chaplains in providing innovative spiritual care and frequently works with the media and community partners.

Her research and teaching have been supported by numerous foundations and trusts, including the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Fetzer Institute, Henry Luce Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Lovell Foundation, Radcliffe Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research Program, Ruderman Family Foundation, Russell Berrie Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, and The Charles H. Revson Foundation.

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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鈥檚 anti-racism plan, and reconnecting current students and alumni to celebrate the school鈥檚 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鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Program. She served on the faculty at Bowdoin College from 2003-2006.

Getting in Touch

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.

If you would like to invite President Cadge to an event or request that she speak at an event, please fill out this form:

If you would like to request funding from the President's Office for an event, project, or initiative, please complete this form:

As the President鈥檚 Office adapts to this new process and learns the needs of the community, please note that we will use the following guiding principles when reviewing requests:  

  • The President's Office may not provide funding for requests which have alternate funding sources on campus. Students, please make requests to campus resources such as the Self-Government Association (SGA) before using this form.   
  • If you have utilized campus resources but would like to request funding for a larger event, project, or initiative, please use this form.  
  • Funding from the President鈥檚 Office is most frequently provided for on-campus events, projects, and initiatives which benefit the larger community. As such, the President鈥檚 Office may not provide funding for individual club activities or individual faculty research projects. 

Upcoming President's Office Events