Lynda Coon
The University of Arkansas said Thursday that Lynda Coon has been named dean of the Honors College, succeeding Bob McMath, who retired in August.
Coon will begin her new duties on June 1.
“I am honored to be selected as the second dean of the Honors College,” Coon said in a news release. “There are many reasons for my enthusiasm: the team, both internal and external to the college, the extraordinary students, the solid foundation that has already been built, and the new directions ahead.”
Coon is associate dean of fine arts and humanities in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Religious Studies Program in the college. In 1995, she helped launch the Honors Humanities Project in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.
Coon joined the faculty in 1990 and became a full professor in 2011. She was chair of the History Department from 2008 to 2013. She is the author of two books on the history of Christianity in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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