Vice President, Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence, Miami University
Cristina Alcalde is Vice President, Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), where she also holds an appointment as professor of global and intercultural studies. In her role as vice president, she provides strategic vision and leadership for a holistic, coordinated institutional approach to inclusive excellence for faculty, staff, and students.
Prior to joining Miami, she served as Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, where she also held the Marie Rich Endowed Professorship. While at UK, she served in various capacities, including Director of Graduate Studies and Curriculum Chair in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and as Residential College/Living Learning Community Director, Chair for the Latinx affinity group, and Director of the Online Graduate Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion, which she also designed. She started her career in higher ed at Southwestern University, in Georgetown, Texas.
She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology and M.A. in Latin American Studies from Indiana University and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Louisville. She has been an invited visiting professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Lima, Peru.
As a scholar-practitioner, she has published widely and speaks nationally and internationally on exclusion, race and racialization, gender violence, migration, inclusion, belonging, and leadership. Her books include Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education (2022, with Mangala Subramaniam); #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement (2022, with Paula-Irene Villa); Familia, exclusión y racismo de la peruanidad: la tía Eliana (2022); Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home (2018); Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought (2015, with Susan Bordo and Ellen Rosenman); La mujer en la violencia (2014); The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru (2010); and Visión del Perú de académicos peruanos en Estados Unidos (2008, with Joseph Zavala). In addition to journal articles and chapters on her areas of expertise, recent shorter pieces on women in leadership positions, re-envisioning leadership in higher ed, and women of color and burnout have appeared in Inside Higher Ed and Ms. Magazine.
She serves as co-editor of the Navigating Careers in Higher Ed Book Series through Purdue University Press, Editorial Board Member of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, National Advisory Board Member of the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Conference, Member of the Professional Development Committee for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, and as liaison for the APLU’s Council on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEI) on the Council on Research. Dr. Alcalde also regularly serves as an expert witness on domestic violence asylum cases.
She has certificates in Crisis Leadership in Higher Education (Harvard Kennedy School, Executive Education), Leadership for Senior Executives (Harvard Business School, Executive Education), Gallup Successful Strengths Coaching, and EQ-i 2.0.®
