Margaret S. Clark

Margaret (“Peggy”[1]) Sydnor Clark is an American psychologist.

Clark received her B.A. in Government and Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College in 1973, and obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Maryland in 1977.[2][3] She joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University as Assistant Professor upon completing her studies, and taught there until moving to Yale University in 2005. At Carnegie Mellon she served as chair of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for a year.[2] At Yale, Clark has served first as master, a position subsequently renamed as head, of Trumbull College since 2013,[2] was named John M. Musser Professor of Psychology in 2015.[4][5][6] and in 2021 was named Dean of Academic Affairs for Yale College. She has served as the president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. In 2015, Clark was elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7] -Wikipedia