Experience

Council of Independent Colleges

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Projects

  • Sep 2013 - Present

  I help direct a portfolio of national projects that support institutional excellence and improved student outcomes at smaller independent colleges and universities. All projects have been supported by external funders, including the Andrew W. Mellon, Lumina, Kresge, Henry Luce, and Walmart Foundations. Learn more about CIC and the projects listed below at http://www.cic.edu.Ongoing projects include Humanities Research for the Public Good (a grant program to support undergraduate research projects and public programming to address issues of public interest); Talking about Private Colleges (a national series of workshops to introduce institutional teams to data and messaging strategies about the value of private colleges); New Currents in Teaching Philosophy (a faculty development program); and Legacies of American Slavery (a national network of colleges and community partners designed to promote better understanding of the multiple legacies of slavery). Past projects include the CIC Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction (a pilot program to develop and share upper-division online courses in the humanities); an institute for college faculty and administrators on Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts; the Project on the Future of Independent Higher Education (which included two years of research activities followed by eight regional workshops for college leaders in 2016-17); an initiative to explore barriers and opportunities in community college student transfers to private four-year institutions; and a national symposium on best practices to promote the success of first-generation college students.



American Alliance of Museums

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Director, Research

  • May 2007 - Sep 2013

  Coordinated institutional research for the largest association of museums and museum workers in the United States and scanned trends for the Center for the Future of Museums. Areas of research focus included the economic performance of museums, their social value and community impact, the future of museums, and the shape of the museum workforce.

• Senior Advisor

  • Dec 2005 - Apr 2007

  Designed, promoted, and administered a national graduate fellowship program intended to improve the admissions pipeline from small liberal arts colleges to the top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities.



University of Maryland University College

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Adjunct Associate Professor, History

  • Sep 2005 - Dec 2006

  Taught upper-division history courses (American Civil War and Reconstruction). Created online instructional content, alone and in collaboration with other faculty members. Completed UMUC’s rigorous training program for online faculty in July 2005. Ranked in the top 10% of all instructors by UMUC students during the Fall 2006 semester.



American Historical Association

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Director, Graduate Education

  • Jan 2001 - Oct 2004

  Principal investigator for a multi-year study of graduate training for historians in the United States, focused on both doctoral education (2001-02) and the master’s degree (2003-04).



New York Council for the Humanities (now Humanities New York)

• Program Officer/Director of Public Programs/Acting Executive Director

  • Aug 1997 - Dec 2000

  As Acting Executive Director, responsible for all operations at the Council (now called Humanities New York), a private, nonprofit foundation with a staff of nine and annual budget of $1.5 million. As Program Officer and then Director of Public Programs: administered an extensive grants program in support of public humanities events across New York State; helped create and administer a statewide humanities festival; served on advisory committee of the “New York Institute on Public History Interpretation”; administered a nationwide book discussion group supported by a grant from the NEH; developed a statewide lecture bureau; initiated and administered other original programming in the humanities. Also served as Associate Editor (then Editor) of the Council’s quarterly magazine, culturefront, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 1999.



Princeton University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in History

  • Sep 1993 - Jun 1997

  Led discussions, advised students, and graded assignments in courses in American history (Early Republic to the 1980’s), history of the American West, legal history, and Modern European history. Created and taught upper-division seminar on comparative democratic politics in the nineteenth century. Advised honors theses and junior independent work.