Retreat Panels

Public Forum 

Jane McAuliff, Director of National and International Outreach, Library of Congress

Peter Brooks, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar, Princeton University

Julie Meloni, Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Hobsons Education Solutions Company

Katja Zelljadt, Director of the Office of Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities


Welcome and Introduction to the Issues

Kathryn Temple, Connected Academics P.I. 

Ricardo Ortiz, Chair of the English Department, Georgetown University

Jessie Allen, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law


Innovation and Programmatic Change

Carlos Alonso, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Columbia University

Peter Pfeiffer, Professor of German, Georgetown University


Contingent Faculty Perspectives

Rebecca Boylan, Lecturer in the English Department, Georgetown University

Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor in the English Department, Georgetown University

Chris Shinn, Lecturer in the English Department, Georgetown University


What’s Next? Alt-Ac Perspectives

Bridget McFarland, Faculty of Literature, Bard High School/Early College Newark

Nicky Agate, Connected Acadamics Team, Modern Language Association 

Sasha Hoffman, PhD Candidate in History, George Mason University