This biographical article is written like a résumé .(December 2021) |
Lisa Vollendorf | |
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6thPresident of Empire State University | |
Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Beth Berlin (interim) Jim Malatras |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | The body imperiled: Violence against women in Maria de Zayas's novellas (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Marina S. Brownlee |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Spanish literature |
Institutions | |
Lisa Vollendorf is an American academic and current President of Empire State University,part of the State University of New York (SUNY). [1] Previously she served as Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Northern Colorado,and as Special Advisor for Academic Planning and Operational Continuity for the California State University system (2020–21),where she provided strategic support related to crisis management and longer-term continuity planning for the nation's largest four-year public education system. [2]
From 2017-2020,she served as Provost and Executive Vice President of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park,California. [3] At Sonoma State,Vollendorf led campus strategic planning and implementation while working collaboratively with all stakeholders and campus leadership to create a strategic budgeting framework under Building Our Future @ SSU:Strategic Plan 2025. During this time,Sonoma State pivoted to serve the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area more purposefully by opening its doors wider to transfer students. This shift was part of an overall strategy to help a region ravaged by the 2017 wildfires recover and thrive.
Previously,Vollendorf was Dean of Humanities and the Arts at San JoséState University (2012-2017),where she led efforts in collaboration with the city of San Joséto bring the Hammer Theatre to life. Prior to SJSU,she was department chair,senate chair,and professor of Spanish at California State University,Long Beach (2005–12). She began her teaching career at Miami University of Ohio (1995–97) and earned tenure at Wayne State University in Detroit (1997-2005). She received a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995,an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from University of Pennsylvania in 1992,and a BA in English and Spanish from Colorado State University in 1990.
Vollendorf is a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century women’s cultural history in Iberia and Latin America. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,the Mellon Foundation,the Newberry Library,the Huntington Library,and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. She has published two monographs,six edited books,and 35 chapters and articles. She is a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Historical Association.
Vollendorf's eight books include:
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