| Kimberly Benston | |||
| Birth Name: | Kimberly W. Benston | ||
| Birth Date: | 18 January 1953 | ||
| Order: | 15th | ||
| President of Haverford College | |||
| Predecessor: | Daniel Weiss | ||
| Successor: | Wendy Raymond | ||
| Termstart: | July 1, 2015 | ||
| Term End: | June 30, 2019 | ||
| Alma Mater: | Yale University | ||
| Occupation: | historian | ||
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Kimberly W. Benston (born January 18, 1953) is an American literary historian and academic administrator.
Benston earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from Yale University.[1] He taught at his alma mater and Princeton University before joining the Haverford College faculty in 1984.[1] [2] Benston was appointed Francis B. Gummere Professor of English in 2002 [3] and served as provost between 2012 and 2015. He was named president of Haverford College later that year and took office on July 1, 2015.[2] [4] Benston stepped down from the presidency and returned to teaching in 2019.[5]