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Leadership

Leadership Roles

‍Dean of Liberal Arts | Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell and Pottstown, PA

February 2025–present • Public community college serving approximately 10,000 students

‍Academic and administrative leader for a multidisciplinary division encompassing the humanities, fine and performing arts, communication, media, and related transfer and career pathways. Provide strategic, fiscal, curricular, operational, and personnel leadership for 60 full‑time faculty, 125+ part‑time faculty, four staff, and budgets exceeding $10 million in a collective bargaining environment.

Founding Chair, Center for Integrated Humanities | Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA

‍August 2019–January 2025 • Full Professor of English, 2019–2025 • Associate Professor, 2012–2019 • Assistant Professor, 2005–2012 • Private Liberal Arts college serving approximately 1,500 students

‍Founded and led an interdisciplinary academic unit created through the merger of six departments at a mission-driven liberal arts college. Directed strategy, curriculum, budget, personnel, faculty development, program vitality, and external engagement while sustaining teaching, scholarship, mentoring, and institution-wide service.

Chair, Media Committee | The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society

‍February 2014-present • Author Foundation and Society with 500+ members and over a 700K endowment

Lead cross-functional team for the Hemingway Society’s Media outlets (journal, newsletter, website, blog, podcast, and social media) in planning and executing the Society’s media presence, manage operations and budgets for all outlets, manage membership, edit the Society’s biannual journal.

Strategic Planning & Institutional Advocacy • Shared Governance & Collective Bargaining • Budget, Staffing & Resource Deployment • Faculty Development & Personnel Leadership • Curriculum, Assessment & Program Review • Research & Creative Activity Support • Data Analytics & Evidence-Based Storytelling • AI-Aware Pedagogy, Online & Hybrid Learning • Fundraising, Grants & External Partnerships • Student Success, Access & Belonging • Public Humanities & Community Engagement

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