Positions:
Executive Director, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement 2016-present
NCSCE is a national non-profit STEM reform initiative involving educators from over 500 colleges and universities as well as community-based science centers. Founded in 2003, Its mission is to support science education, in both formal and informal settings, that both improves learning and builds civic awareness and accountability among faculty, students, and the general public. As Executive Director I have responsibility for coordinating the professional development and curricular programming activities of the Center, and have served as Senior Personnel on the NCSCE’s signature initiatives Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER), SENCER Informal Science (SENCER-ISE), and the Engaging Mathematics project, all funded by the National Science Foundation. I have served as PI or co-PI on grants from NSF-IUSSE, NSF-AISL, Keck Foundation, and NEH. As General Editor of the SENCER course model series http://www.sencer.net/Resources/models.cfm I have selected and presented over 50 exemplary courses and programs that teach rigorous STEM content “through” local and global civic challenges, and serve as the co-editor of the Center’s journal Science Education for New Civic Engagement: An International Journal (http://seceij.net/index.html) NCSCE was hosted by the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University from 2015-2021, where I had an appointment as Research Professor.
Senior Fellow, Institute for Learning Innovation, 2020-present Member of Leadership Team. Fellows and staff at ILI in address equity, professional development, data analysis, community input, and removing barriers for engagement in informal and community-based learning environments. (instituteforlearninginnovation.org )
Franklin & Marshall College, Director, Phillips Museum of Art, 2007-2013, Director, Center for Liberal Arts and Society (CLAS), 2004-2009, Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department, 2003-4, American Studies Program, 2004-2013.
American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) Executive Director, 1996-2001 (Post held concurrently with positions at AAC&U). Served as executive officer of national membership organization for Chief Academic Officers and Deans (www.acad-edu.org) committed to advancing and improving liberal education and providing networking and professional development opportunities for academic leaders.
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Director of Programs, Office of Science, Health, and Student Engagement, 2001-2003; Annual Meeting Program Manager, 1996-2001. Responsible for design and implementation of professional development programs for AAC&U Annual Meeting, attended by over 1000 academic administrators and faculty each year. I was also the program manager for six regional meetings a year in the Network for Academic Renewal series.
Education
Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Oxford, July 2014
Museum Leadership Institute, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern U., June, 2012
Ph.D. American History, Rutgers University, History, October 2000
M.A. Art History, Rutgers University, June 1990
Barnard College, NY, major: architecture, 1976-78
University of Chicago, major: art history, 1971-73
Grants, Fellowships, Awards
Elected Fellow, (Division Q) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018
NEH Summer Institute, American Material Culture: 19th Century New York. Bard Graduate Center, July, 2013
Society for the Preservation of American Modernism, Publications Support Grant, 1997.
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1988-89.
Marion Johnson Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1986-1988, 1989-1990.
Scholarly and Professional Service
Arts and Sciences Advisory Board, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2010-present
Director’s Circle, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Coalition 2015-present
Co-editor, Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal (www.seceij.net)
An on-line journal of science education. 2011-2018
Review Panelist, National Science Foundation: Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI), Social Science Division 2009; Cyberlearning EXP 2016; SBIR/STTR Higher Education 2018; SBIR/STTR Maker Education 2018; SBIR/STTR COVID-19 2020.
Editorial Board, Radical History Review (Duke University Press), September, 1993-2010. Co-Chair, 2002-2006.
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Disseminating Curricular Models: Bringing SENCER to the Next Level,” Science Education And Civic Engagement: The Next Level, Richard D. Sheardy and Wm. David Burns, ed., American Chemical Society, 2012.
“The SENCER Models,” Science Education and Civic Engagement: The SENCER Approach, Richard D. Sheardy, ed., American Chemical Society, 2010.
“A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania New Deal Post Office Murals” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July, 2009, Volume 133, Number 3
Co-Editor, Politics, Performance, History (Radical History Review, Spring 2007)
Co-Editor, Homeland Securities (Radical History Review, Fall 2005, Awarded “Best Special Issue” by the Council of Learned Journals 2006)
Co-Editor, Race, Nation, and Cultural Memory (Radical History Review, Fall 2004)
“Concrete Possibilities: William James and the European Avant-Garde, “ Streams of William James, Volume 2, Issue 3, (Fall 2000) p. 22-29.
“Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,” Woman’s Art Journal 18:1 (May, 1997) p. 26-33.
“Taylorizing the Text: A Political Economy of Narrative,” (review of Martha Banta’s Taylored Lives), Radical History Review, 65 (Spring, 1996), pp. 169-173.
“Liberalism and the Left: Rethinking the Relationship,” (Editor’s Introduction), Radical History Review, Fall, 1998
European Immigrant Women in the United States, J. B. Litoff, ed., Garland Publishers, 1995. Biographical entries on: Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970); Mina Loy (1882-1966); Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1878-1927).