Kristin E. Gager *92

Kristin Gager, an advising dean for the Columbia University honors program, died July 17, 2016, at the University Medical Center of Princeton, after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 54.

Gager was born in New Haven, Conn., grew up in Princeton, and resided for much of her life in New York City. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1980 and Barnard College in 1984, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Princeton in 1992. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Pratt Institute in 2005.

Gager taught at the University of New Hampshire, served as an editor of the Princeton University Press, and was a librarian at Emory University. For the past five years, she was an advising dean at Columbia.

To those who knew her, she is remembered as “a brilliant, beautiful, well-read woman who traveled the world and spoke several languages.”

Gager is survived by her father, John G. Gager Jr., Princeton professor of religion emeritus; two siblings; and three nieces. She had been married to Moshe Sluhovsky *92. A memorial gathering was held at the Chancellor Green Rotunda.

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