[1][2][3] Coleman also served as the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The New School for Social Research.
[4] Coleman graduated with honors from the University of Chicago, where she was a Ford Foundation Scholar, and completed her master's degree in English and American Literature at Cornell University, where she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
She received her Ph.D. with distinction at Columbia University, where she was a Woodbridge and President's Fellow.
Coleman began her career as a professor at Stony Brook University.
She then founded the College of Arts and Sciences at The New School for Social Research, where she served as dean.