Keohane, who was born in Arkansas, received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1961. She studied at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1967.
She has served on the faculty at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania in addition to her tenures at Stanford, Wellesley and Duke. Keohane has written widely on education, political philosophy and feminism.
She is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Next fall, she will become a visiting professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Her husband, Robert O. Keohane, was Harvard’s Stanfield Professor of International Peace from 1985 to 1996 and chaired the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Government Department from 1988 to 1992.
The couple has four children, including two Harvard alumni.
—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.