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Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino, founding director of Lehigh University’s Global Citizenship Program, has been appointed dean of the College at Lafayette effective July 1.
She is also a professor of political science and former associate dean of Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences.
The announcement was made by Lafayette President Daniel Weiss and Anthony Cummings, provost and dean of the faculty.
“We are delighted that Hannah Stewart-Gambino will join Lafayette as dean of the College,” Weiss and Cummings said. “An accomplished advocate for the importance of effective and creative teaching, she is a distinguished teacher-scholar with impressive experience in curriculum development, new pedagogies, co-curricular programming, academic support services, and other areas of academic administration. Her creative vision will be an asset as the College moves forward in new strategic directions.”
Reporting to Cummings, Stewart-Gambino will have overall administrative responsibility for students’ academic experience at Lafayette, working closely with both the faculty and senior administrators. The position of dean of the College is being created through a revamping of the position of dean of studies. That post is currently held on an interim basis by Rose Marie L. Bukics, Jones Professor of Economics and Business, who will return to full-time teaching and scholarship.
Lehigh’s Global Citizenship Program, founded in 2004, is a four-year, multidisciplinary, co-curricular program that offers educational experiences through which students from all disciplines learn to negotiate international boundaries and develop their own sense of personal and corporate responsibility to the global community.
Stewart-Gambino is also founder and co-director of Lehigh’s Community Fellows Graduate Program, established in 2001, a multidisciplinary master’s degree program that places graduate students in yearlong projects in community agencies.
Stewart-Gambino served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh 2001-04. She holds Ph.D. and master of arts degrees in comparative politics and political theory from Duke University, where her subfield was Latin American politics, and participated in the Harvard Management Development Program. She earned a bachelor of arts degree with majors in politics and religion at Converse College.
Stewart-Gambino joined the Lehigh faculty as assistant professor of political science in 1989 and was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and to full professor in 2002. Her teaching areas include comparative politics, Latin American political systems, politics of developing areas, gender and Third World development, U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, and religion and politics in Latin America.
Her current research interests focus on the way in which religious belief motivates individual political action which, in turn, affects broad social movements. Her latest book is Activist Faith: Women from the Popular Church and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil and Chile, coauthored with Carol Ann Drogus. It was published in 2005 by Pennsylvania State University Press. She is also author of The Catholic Church and Rural Politics in Chile, 1925-1973 (Westview Press, 1992).
She coedited two books with Edward L. Cleary, Conflict and Competition: The Latin American Church in a Changing Environment (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992) and Power, Politics and Pentecostals: Religious Competition in Latin America (Westview Press, 1996).
As director of the Lehigh in London Program 1996-2001, she created the university’s first winter-term study abroad program.
Prior to moving to Lehigh, Stewart-Gambino was assistant professor of political science at Eckerd College 1986-88. Her experience at Eckerd included chairing the political science department and directing the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholars Program and Semester Abroad Program.