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Kennedy, Chris
Chris Kennedy
- Title:
- Senior Deputy Director of Athletics
and Adjunct Assistant Professor of English
- Tenure at Duke:
- 1977-2025
Chris Kennedy served as Senior Deputy Director of Athletics from July 1, 2013, until his retirement in 2025. He was a member of the Duke Athletics staff for nearly five decades, first joining the department in 1977.
Over the course of his tenure, Kennedy held a variety of roles, including academics coordinator, compliance coordinator and senior associate director of athletics. In 2008, he also served as interim director of athletics. As senior deputy director, Kennedy oversaw Compliance, Academic Support and External Relations, which included Communications, Ticketing, Marketing & Promotions, Creative Services, Photography and Blue Devil Network. He also served as the departmental Title IX coordinator and as lead administrator for the men’s and women’s lacrosse and soccer programs.
Under his leadership, Duke won the College Academic Achievement Award a record 12 times, including five consecutive years from 1993-97, for the graduation rate of its football student-athletes. Kennedy has been presented five times with a special citation from the College Football Association for his excellence in academic advising. Additionally, Duke consistently ranks among the nation’s best in overall graduation rates of its student-athletes. In compliance, Kennedy has overseen the growth of a department that now includes five full-time professionals. In addition to his administrative duties, he also taught courses as an adjunct assistant professor of English at Duke and in the Kenan Institute of Ethics.
A native of Hillsborough, Calif., Kennedy earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. from Duke.
Kennedy is the author of "Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II," which was a finalist for the 2017 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. He and his wife, the late Ana Beamud, have two children – Joe, a 2005 Duke graduate and former captain of the men’s lacrosse team, and Marion, a 2009 Duke graduate.
Over the course of his tenure, Kennedy held a variety of roles, including academics coordinator, compliance coordinator and senior associate director of athletics. In 2008, he also served as interim director of athletics. As senior deputy director, Kennedy oversaw Compliance, Academic Support and External Relations, which included Communications, Ticketing, Marketing & Promotions, Creative Services, Photography and Blue Devil Network. He also served as the departmental Title IX coordinator and as lead administrator for the men’s and women’s lacrosse and soccer programs.
Under his leadership, Duke won the College Academic Achievement Award a record 12 times, including five consecutive years from 1993-97, for the graduation rate of its football student-athletes. Kennedy has been presented five times with a special citation from the College Football Association for his excellence in academic advising. Additionally, Duke consistently ranks among the nation’s best in overall graduation rates of its student-athletes. In compliance, Kennedy has overseen the growth of a department that now includes five full-time professionals. In addition to his administrative duties, he also taught courses as an adjunct assistant professor of English at Duke and in the Kenan Institute of Ethics.
A native of Hillsborough, Calif., Kennedy earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. from Duke.
Kennedy is the author of "Battlefield Surgeon: Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II," which was a finalist for the 2017 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. He and his wife, the late Ana Beamud, have two children – Joe, a 2005 Duke graduate and former captain of the men’s lacrosse team, and Marion, a 2009 Duke graduate.
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