Dean Caswell-Klein directly oversees the academic and residential life advising for all students affiliated with New College West, and works closely with the head of college and the staff at First to provide support and programming.

Anne Caswell-Klein earned her A.B. at the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Princeton. She has taught in Princeton’s writing program and in the department of comparative literature. Before becoming dean of First College in 2013, she was director of studies at Rockefeller College. She has been an athletic-academic fellow for the softball team since 2010.