Bridget Gorman is Dean of Undergraduates and Trustee Professor of Sociology at Rice.

Bridget Gorman received her Ph.D. in sociology and demography from Pennsylvania State University in 2000. She joined the Rice faculty in 2002 after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bridget has held a variety of leadership positions at Rice, including sociology department chair (2014-2018), Magister of Will Rice College (2011-2018), and Resident Associate of Jones College (2004-2008). She has served as Dean of Undergraduates since July 2018.

Bridget’s research examines how social conditions and experiences shape group differences in health and well-being. She is also an acclaimed teacher, having won multiple awards for teaching, mentoring, and service to students since joining the Rice faculty, including the Presidential Mentoring Award and the George R. Brown Award for Excellence in Teaching (the university’s top teaching prize).

In her role as Dean of Undergraduates, Bridget is broadly responsible for overseeing the undergraduate experience at Rice, including the general education curriculum. The Dean of Undergraduates Division includes 15 departments and the residential college system.