Curriculum Vitae

Katherine Mary Faull 

Moravian University  

Bethlehem, PA 18018

faullk@moravian.edu 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3753-8878

Current position 

Vice President for Moravian Heritage; Executive Director, Institute for Moravian History and World Heritage

World Heritage Site Manager for Moravian Church Settlements, Bethlehem

Employment 

2025-present Professor of Practice, German and Humanities, Moravian University

2002-2025 Professor of German and Humanities, Bucknell University 

1993-2002 Associate Professor of German, Bucknell University 

1987-1993 Assistant Professor of German, Bucknell University 

Education 

1983-1987 Princeton University, German Literature PhD 1988 

1982-1983 King’s College, University of London M.A. 1983 (History of German Novel) 1978-1982 King’s College, University of London B.A. (Hons.) 1982 (German/Russian) 

Administrative Leadership 

Vice President for Moravian Heritage and Executive Director, Institute for Moravian History and World Heritage, Moravian University 

Academic Excellence & Curriculum Innovation

• Establish Foundational Academic Programs
• Promote Interdisciplinary Integration
• Enhance Academic Recruitment

Grants, Fundraising, and Revenue Generation

• Secure Major Grants
• Develop a Fundraising Plan
• Pursue Revenue Opportunities

International Relations and Partnerships

• Formalize and Deepen Global Academic Partnerships
• Lead Transnational Collaboration
• Support UNESCO and Global Heritage Work

Develop Local Partnerships and Community Engagement

• Build Local Networks
• Collect and Preserve Local Oral Histories

Curriculum and Technology Support

• Develop Digital Humanities Infrastructure
• Advance Technology Partnerships
• Integrate AI and Digital Tools

Governance, Administration, and Sustainability

• Implement Robust Governance Structures
• Ensure Institutional Sustainability

World Heritage Site Manager for Moravian Church Settlements, Bethlehem

• Establish Local Management Structure

• • • Formalize governance at the component part level and operationalize coordination with the Transnational Coordination Group (TCG) within 6 months of inscription
    • Ensure regular participation in TCG meetings and establish communication protocols with the Intergovernmental Committee.

• Implement Pilot Monitoring System 

• • • Establish baseline data collection for all monitoring indicators outlined in Section 5.1, including state of conservation metrics, use and function data, and external pressure assessments. 
    • Submit first annual monitoring report to TCG.

• Install World Heritage Signage and Interpretation 

• Complete installation of World Heritage signage that “endorses site-specific identity” while connecting to the broader MCS narrative. 

• • • Finalize and begin implementation of the site-specific interpretation plan that communicates both Bethlehem’s individual contribution and the overall Outstanding Universal Value of the series.

• Operationalize Web Presence and Communication 

• • • Ensure Bethlehem’s content is integrated into the MCS web portal and operational for visitors. 
    • Develop consistent communication materials using the transnational brand while maintaining local identity. 
    • Coordinate with other component parts on events schedule sharing.

• Build Stakeholder Engagement and Education Partnerships 

• Identify and establish partnerships with local educational institutions and tourism authorities. 

• Analyze current educational programming and define priorities for school engagement and community outreach aligned with IMP education objectives.

• Coordinate Conservation and Documentation 

• • Work with monument protection authorities and the Moravian Church to document current conservation status of all key buildings and spaces. 
  • Participate in transnational exchange on conservation practices and contribute to development of shared conservation guidance for MCS.

Associate Provost for Local and Global Engagement and Senior International Officer (2024-2026)

• Leadership in developing and implementing Bucknell’s internationalization strategic plan; 
• Oversight of Office of Global and Off-Campus Studies; 
• Leadership of Prison Education Program;
• Oversight of the Center for Engaged Leadership, Learning and Research (formerly, Office of Civic Engagement); 
• Administration of student and faculty awards; 
• other duties as assigned by the Provost; 
• supervision of divisional areas and participation on committees as a Provost designee

Special Advisor to the Provost, Bucknell University (2023)

• support of the Provost on academic initiatives, developing strategic projects that advance the University’s mission 
• Develop and refine mission, vision and values statement for the Provost’s Office
• provide analysis and recommendations regarding best practices to the Provost, with special emphasis on the structure and public-facing communication of initiatives coming from the Provost’s Office
• liaise with key stakeholders, partners, potential partners and other relevant organizations and agencies for ongoing projects
• Member of Provost’s Council (with Associate Provosts and Deans)
• Initiate and lead Bucknell team of faculty and staff in AAC&U Institute of Integrative and Engaged Learning, July 18-21, 2023

Faculty Director, Bucknell University, Academic Civic Engagement (2021-2024) 

• Develop, lead and support high-impact community-engaged teaching, learning and scholarship 
• Guide the finalization and approval process for the Community Engaged Leadership minor
• Propose and co-lead Teaching and Learning Center  Learning Community on anti-racist community-engaged pedagogy

• addition of DEI Learning Goals to CEL/CBL designations (with input from current and past instructors)

• Develop the Engaged Departments initiative (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Mathematics, Psychology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Initiate and launch the Campus Community Collaborative Research Grant Program

• Three grantees (CEE and Buffalo Creek Watershed Alliance and TIME/ Milton Municipal Museum/Environmental Studies/History/Place Studies

• Curate Community Engaged Learning and Research Poster session in Bertrand Library, May 2023
• Build out a robust and sustainable Prison Education Program with local carceral institutions
  • Constitute Prison Education Working Group, secure funding from Mellon Grant, Bucknell Humanities Center
  • Develop a strategic plan for Prison Education at Bucknell
  • Create and hire two student positions as Prison Education Outreach Assistants
  • Organize visits to and liaise with Superintendents of SCI Coal Township and SCI Muncy with faculty intending to teach Inside/Out courses
  • Secure funding mechanism for granting of academic credit for incarcerated students in Inside/out courses
  • Lead initiative to investigate possibilities of Bucknell becoming a PEP for Federal facilities at Allenwood and Lewisburg 
  • Lead Community Engaged Prison Garden Project (2022-25) with SCI Coal Township and Shamokin Garden Club

American Council on Education, Fellow (2021-2022), Office of the President, Berea  College, KY 

○ develop data-driven assessment of Labor Program’s learning goals at Berea College; publication date November 2022 

○ consultant to “Working to Learn” working group, studying national programs promoting access to higher ed. Publication “Working to Learn,” ACE, Washington DC, November, 2022.

○ analysis of politically polarized campus discourse locally and nationally resulted in a Campus Climate survey. 

Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants 

• 2022-2023 Mellon Academic Year Research Fellowship, $7,500 (student/faculty/staff collaborative research on Moravian Lives)

• 2018-20 Mellon Academic Year Research Fellowship, $11, 500 (student/faculty/staff  collaborative research on Moravian Lives) 

• 2018 $20,000 Geisinger Foundation for Ready Set Fit development (with Prof. Stu Thompson
• 2017-2020 Presidential Professorship, German and Humanities, Bucknell University
• 2017 Visiting Scholar, Center for Moravian Studies, Moravian Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, PA
• 2016 Degenstein Foundation $12,000 for summer interns (with Prof. Stu Thompson)
• 2015 Degenstein Foundation $12,000 for summer interns (with Prof. Joe Tranquillo)
• 2014 US Professor of the Year (CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) (Institutional Nomination)
• 2013 Christian Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
• 2012 The Conservation Fund (with Alf Siewers), $25,000 for Susquehanna River research (student interns and faculty stipends)
• 2011-12 John Ben Snow Foundation, (with Alf Siewers), $15,000 for Summer writers institute
• 2009-11 National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, “Cultures at the Confluence,” $100, 228
• 2008 John Ben Snow Foundation, (with Alf Siewers), $16,000 Summer Writers Institute
• 2008 Degenstein Foundation, (with Alf Siewers) $12,000 for summer interns
• 2002-5 National Endowment for the Humanities, Collaborative Research Grant, $55,000
• 2002 Life Member in residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
• 2002 Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Research in Theological Studies, School of Divinity, Cambridge University

• 2002-3 Sabbatical funded at 75% salary, Bucknell University (returned) 

• 2001 Scholarly Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 2000 Curriculum Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 1998 Curriculum Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 1997 Scholarly Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 1996 Life Member in Residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
• 1995 Summer Grant, Instructional Technology Initiative, Bucknell University
• 1994-5 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

○ (Sabbatical funded at 75% salary, Bucknell University) 

• 1992-4 National Endowment for the Humanities, Translations Division, $50,000 grant
• 1992 W. Mellon Stipend in Literary Theory, Bucknell University
• 1991 Scholarly Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 1989 Scholarly Development Grant, Bucknell University
• 1983-86 Princeton University, Graduate Fellowship
• 1984 Princeton University, Summer Research Grant
• 1983 British Council Scholarship at Humboldt University, East Berlin (deferred)
• 1982 University of London Bithell Prize for Modern German Literature
• 1982 Department of Education and Science Scholarship for postgraduate study
• 1980 British Council Scholarship, Humboldt University, East Berlin
• 1979 British Council Scholarship, Politechnicheskii Institut, St. Petersburg, Russia

Publications 

Books 

• Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence: The Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy 1745-55, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. 
• Speaking to Body and Soul: Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers 1785-6, Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. 
• Editor, Masculinities, Senses, Spirit, in Aperçus, Bucknell University Press, 2011.
• Editor Translation and Culture, Bucknell Review (47:1) Bucknell University  Press, 2004. 
• Moravian Women’s Memoirs: Their Related Lives 1750-1820. Syracuse University Press, 1997 
• Editor, Anthropology and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on Humanity, Bucknell University Press, 1995. 

Digital Humanities (DH) Collaborative Research Projects 

• “Moravian Lives” moravian.bucknell.edu

○ Collaborative DH project with Centre for Digital Humanities and the Department of Literature and History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 

• “Ready Set Fit” Fitness app development with Stu Thompson, Dept. of Computer  Science and Engineering, Bucknell University, readysetfitapp.org
• “The Shamokin Diaries 1745-55” http://shamokindiary.blogs.bucknell.edu/
• “Stories of the Susquehanna Valley: One Region, Many Stories, Digital Engagement”  susquehannastories.org 

DH Workshops and Invited Lectures 

• 2023 Ramapo College, New Jersey
• 2020 Copenhagen University, Department of Theology

• 2019 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa, A.W. Mellon Visiting Digital Fellow 
• 2019 DHSI Digital Pedagogy, University of Victoria, BC (co-instructor) 
• 2019 DHSI@MLA Chicago, IL 
• 2019 TDHI Duke University, NC 
• 2016 DHSI Digital Pedagogy, University of Victoria, BC (co-instructor) 
• 2016 Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga 
• 2015 Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa 
• 2014 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa 

Articles/Chapters 

• • “German Moravians, Native Americans and methods of sustainable gardening and agriculture in the eighteenth century.” Environmentalism, Sustainability, and Climate Change as Educational Challenges: Lessons from the Past and Present in America and Germany,” editor, Jürgen Overhoff, Bad Heilbronn: Klinkhardt Verlag, 2024.  

• “Experiencing Moravian Heritage, Sustaining Moravian Lives: Digital Interventions in Cultural History.” Die Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Theologie – Geschichte – Wirkung,  eds. Wolfgang Breul and Peter Vogt, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023: 699-712.

• “Digital Afterlives: Moravian Memoirs and the Age of Technology.” Journal of Moravian History, 22, no. 2, 2022.
• (with Michael McGuire) “Analyzing Moravian Feelings Using Computational Methods to Ask Questions about Norms and Sentiments in 18th-Century Moravian Lebensläufe” Journal of Moravian History, 22, no. 2, 2022.
• “Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: Updating the 18th Century” in Religion,  Modernity, and Cultural Heritage: The Legacy and Sustainability of Moravian  Christiansfeld, edited by Tine Reeh, Tine Damsholt, Christina Petterson and Marie  Riegels Melchior, Palgrave Publishing House, 2022. 

• “Visualizing Religious Networks, Movements and Communities: Building Moravian  Lives” Christianity and Digital Humanities, De Gruyter, 2020. 
• “Ofodobendo Wooma” in Dictionary of African American Biography, edited Henry  Louis Gates, Jr, Oxford University Press, 2020 
• “Magdalene Beulah Brockden” in Dictionary of African American Biography, edited  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2020 
• Digital Humanities” Pietismus Handbuch, ed. Wolfgang  Breul, Mohr Siebeck Verlag. 2021
• “Anna Nitschmann” Pietismus Handbuch, ed. Wolfgang Breul, Mohr Siebeck Verlag. 2021
• “Visualization,” in Digital Humanities for Literary Studies: Theories, Methods, and  Practices, ed. James O’ Sullivan, Texas A & M University Press, 2020, pp. 29-42. 
• ”Women, Migration and Moravian Mission: Negotiating Pennsylvania’s Colonial  Landscapes” in Babel of the Atlantic: Language and Cultural Politics in Colonial  Pennsylvania, ed. Bethany Wiggin, Penn State UP, 2019 
• “Bodies in Heathen Places: Regulating Marriage without a State” Katherine Faull and  Christina Petterson, Journal of Religious History. Volume 43, Issue2 Special Issue: What God Has Joined Together: Histories of Religion and Marriage June 2019, pp. 180-194 
• “Speaking about Marriage: Notes from the Married Choir conferences 7-17 January  1744,” trans. and ed. Christina Petterson and Katherine M. Faull, Journal of Moravian  History, Volume 17, Number 1, 2017, 58-103; 
• “Writing a Moravian Memoir: The Intersection of History and Autobiography” in Life  Writing and Lebenslauf: Pillars of an Invisible Church, eds. Christer Ahlberger and Per  van Wachtenfeld, Artos Publishers, 2017, pp. 9-34.
• “Das Herrnhutische Archivwesen im 21. Jahrhundert und die Herausforderung der  Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften”. Unitas Fratrum: Beiheft zum 250. Jubiläum des  Unitätsarchivs 2014, (2017) 
• “Doing DH in the Classroom: Transforming the Humanities Curriculum through Digital  Engagement” (with Diane Jakacki) Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training and  Research. Richard J. Lane, Raymond Siemens, and Constance Crompton, eds. Abington,  UK: Routledge. 2016. 
• “Reifying the Maker as Humanist” (with Diane Jakacki and John Hunter). Making  Humanities Matter, in Debates in Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers, Minneapolis,  MN: U. of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming. 
• Faull, Katherine (with Diane Jakacki). “Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context:  Promoting Long Term Student-Faculty Collaboration.” Digital Scholarship in the  Humanities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093
• Schleiermacher and Transcendentalist Truth-Telling: Ethics, Gender and Speech in 19th  century New England” in Schleiermacher’s Influence On American Thought And  Religious Life (1835-1920), eds. Terrence Tice and Jeffrey Wilcox, (Eugene, OR: Wipf  and Stock), 2014. 
• “Performing Translation: The [Dangerous] Mobilities of Cultural Identity” in Early  Modern Texts and Performance: Studies in Honor of Susan L. Fischer, ed. Barbara  Mujica (Bucknell University Press, 2013), pp. 17-28. Print. 
• “The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: Smooth Rocks in a River  Archipelago” in Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics. Ed.  Alfred K. Siewers. Aperçus series. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press (2014).  Print 
• “Masculinity in the 18th Century Moravian Mission Field: Contact and Negotiation”  Journal of Moravian History 13:1, Print 
• Faull, Katherine. “Charting the Colonial Backcountry: Joseph Shippen’s Map of the  Susquehanna River” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 136,  No. 4 (October 2012): 461-465. Print. 
• Faull, Katherine. “Instructions for Body and Soul: Eighteenth-Century Moravian Care of  the Self”, The Hinge: International Theological Dialog for the Moravian Church 18:2  (Spring 2012): 3-28; responses 29-38. Print. 

http://issuu.com/moravianseminary/docs/hinge_18.2 

• Faull, Katherine. “From Friedenshütten to Wyoming: Johannes Ettwein’s Map of the Upper Susquehanna (1768) and an Account of His Journey.” Journal of Moravian  History. (2011): 82-96. Print. 
• Faull, Katherine. “The Married Choir Instructions (1785).” Journal of Moravian History.  (2011): 69-110. Print. 
• Faull, Katherine M. “Temporal Men and the Eternal Bridegroom: Moravian Masculinity  in the 18th Century” in Masculinities, Senses, Spirit, Katherine Faull, in Aperçus (2010)  Bucknell University Press 
• Faull, Katherine M. “You Are the Savior’s Widow:” Religion/sexuality and Bereavement  in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Church.” Journal of Moravian History. (2010): 89- 115. Print.
• Faull, Katherine M. “Speaking and Truth-Telling: Parrhesia in the 18th century  Moravian Church” in Self Community World, eds. Heikki Lempa and Paul Peucker (Lehigh University Press, 2010): pp. 204-230. Print. 
• Faull, Katherine. “Mapping a Mission: the Origins of Golkowsky’s 1768 Map of  Friedenshütten, Pennsylvania.” Journal of Moravian History. (2009): 107-116. Print.
• Faull, Katherine. “Girl Talk: the Role of the “speakings” in the Pastoral Care of the Older  Girls’ Choir.” Journal of Moravian History. 6 (2009): 77-99. Print 
• Goebel, Rolf J, Jane V. Curran, Christophe Fricker, and Katherine Faull. “The Role of  Translation in German Studies, Responses.” The German Quarterly. 81.4 (2008): 489.  Print. 
• “Das ‘Sprechen’ von Kindern: Herrnhutische Seelsorge an den grossen Mädchen im 18.  Jahrhundert” Unitas Fratrum 57/58 (2006): 183-196. 
• “Christ’s other Self: Gender, Religion, and the Body in the 18th Century Moravian  Church” Covenant Quarterly (2004): 28-39. 
• “The Life of Johann Georg Jungmann (1720-1808): Faith and Providence in the  Eighteenth Century Atlantic World” in The Distinctiveness of Moravian Culture: Essays  and Documents in Moravian History in Honor of Vernon H. Nelson on his Seventieth  Birthday, Craig D. Atwood and Peter Vogt (Nazareth, Pa.: Moravian Historical Society,  2003), pp. 173-202. 
• Essays on “Novalis,” “Georg Büchner” and “Christa Wolf” in Encyclopedia of Literary  Translation, ed. Olive Classe (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000) 
• Faull, Katherine M. “Relating Sisters’ Lives: Moravian Women’s Writings from 18th  Century America.” Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society. 31 (2000): 11-27.  Print. 
• “Self-Encounters: Two Eighteenth-Century African Memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem”  in Crosscurrents: African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World, eds. C.  Aisha Blackshire-Belay, Leroy Hopkins, and David MacBride (New York: Camden  House, 1998), 29-52; reprinted in Michael J. Drexler and Ed White, Beyond Douglass:  New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature, Aperçus: Histories Texts  Cultures. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008 (selected as a Choice Outstanding  Book for 2009) 
• Immanuel Kant, “Physical Geography”, trans. Katherine Faull, in Race and the  Enlightenment: A Reader, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 58- 64 
• “Faith and Imagination: Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf’s Anti-Enlightenment  Philosophy of Self” in Anthropology and the German Enlightenment: Perspectives on  Humanity, ed. Katherine M. Faull, Bucknell Review, 38:2 (1995): 23-56 
• “Beyond Confrontation? The Early Schleiermacher and Feminist Moral Theory” New  Atheneum/ Neues Athenaeum 4 (1994): 41-65 
• “Captured by Indians: Mariane’s Story” Humanities (Jan./Feb. 1994): 21-4 ● “Schleiermacher – A Feminist? Or How to Read Gender-Inflected Theology,” in  Schleiermacher and Feminism: Sources, Evaluations, and Responses, Iain G. Nicol  (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), pp. 13-32 
• “The American Lebenslauf: Women’s Autobiography from eighteenth-century Moravian  Bethlehem, Pa” Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies 27 (1992): 23-48

Works In Progress 

• “[Re]making our Place: Stories of Revitalization, Hope and Partnership in Central  Pennsylvania, editors Shaunna Barnhart and Katherine Faull, collection of co-authored essays on cooperative community-based projects in the Central Susquehanna region. 
• “Workers and Leaders: The Lives of Anna Nitschmann, Eva Spangenberg, Martha  Spangenberg, and Erdmuthe von Zinzendorf” Monograph on women leaders in the  Moravian Church of the 18th Century 
• Moravian Working Lives: A Collection of Memoirs from Fulneck, Yorkshire 1745-1820 

Peer-reviewed conference papers 

• Co-organizer, “Halle and Moravian Pietism: Conflicts, Strategies, Practices. Interdisciplinary and International Conference, 27–29  November 2023, Francke Foundations, Halle, Germany
• “Comparing emotional communities: Moravians, Methodists and Halle Pietists” at  “Halle and Moravian Pietism: Conflicts, Strategies, Practices, Interdisciplinary and International Conference, 27–29  November 2023, Francke Foundations, Halle Germany
• Panel organizer: “Transforming the Pietist Tradition: Disciplinary Innovation through Linked Digital Engagement” DH 2023, July, 2023, Graz, Austria
• “Linking Pietists and Moravians: Building and Sharing Knowledge Networks” DH 2023, Graz, Austria
• “Tracing Moravian Manufacture, Material Objects and Religious Mission: Transatlantic Textile Journeys”  Internationaler Pietismus-Kongress, Halle 2022, September 2022.

• “Experiencing Moravian Heritage: Sustaining Moravian Lives.” The Moravian Movement as a Factor of Religious and Cultural Innovation in the 18th Century. Conference at Herrnhut, Germany, November 20, 2021 (remote)

• “Wenn du in das land kommst, so denke nicht an gros Reichthum zu gewinnen… “:  Versuch einer transatlantischen digitalen Hermeneutik der Herrnhuter Lebensläufe des  18. Jahrhunderts“ Mobilität und Konnektivität: Quellen, Methoden und hermeneutische  Deutungskämpfe im Spannungsfeld von analoger Quellenkritik und digitaler Forschung,  Deutscher Historikertag, München, October 2021, (remote) 

• Faull, Katherine and Carrie Pirmann. “Moravian Lives: Digital Cultural Heritage and  Reading Religious Memoirs” Moravian Heritage Network Meeting, University of  Gothenburg, Sweden, June 10, 2020 (remote presentation) 
• Pirmann, Carrie, Brian King, Bhagawat Acharya, and Katherine Faull. “Training  Algorithms to Read Complex Collections: Handwriting Classification for Improved HTR  Models.” DH 2020 Ottawa, CA, July 2020 (remote presentation) 
• Faull, Katherine, Diane Jakacki and Justin Schaumberger, “Encoding Working Lives:  Linking Labor, Office, and Religion in 18th-century Manuscript Collections” DH 2020  Ottawa, CA, July 2020 (remote presentation) 
• Pirmann, Carrie, Brian King, Bhagawat Acharya, and Katherine Faull, “Collaborating on  Machine Reading: Training Algorithms to Read Complex Collections” Bucknell Digital  Scholarship Conference, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, October 2019 
• Faull, Katherine and Diane Jakacki. “Moravian Lives: Tracing Movements and Networks  in the 18th-century Atlantic World.” German Historical Institute, Washington DC,  October 2019 
• “Doing DH in an ML Context: Promoting Cross-Cultural Critical Thinking in the Liberal  Arts” Special Session, MLA, Chicago, Il, January 2019 
• “Analyzing Moravian Feelings: Using Computational Methods to Ask Questions about  Norms and Sentiments in Moravian Lebensläufe”(with Michael McGuire ‘07)  International Pietism Congress, Halle, Germany, August 2018 
• “Resolving the Polynymy of Place: or, how to create a gazetteer of colonized landscapes”  with Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University, DH 2018 Mexico City June 27-30, 2018 
• “Speaking to Body and Soul: Moravian Pastoral Care in the 18th Century” Kulturelle  Wirkungen der Reformation, Leucorea Wittenberg Germany, August 7-11, 2017 
• “Digital Lives: Reading Moravian Memoirs in the Age of the Internet” DH 2017  Montreal, Canada, August 9, 2017 (presented remotely via Skype) 
• “Reading Moravian Lives: Overcoming Challenges in Transcribing and Digitizing  Archival Memoirs” (with Trausti Dagsson and Michael McGuire ‘07), Digital  Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Gothenburg, March 2017
• “Encounters with the Digital: Teaching Moravian Materials in the Age of Computers” 5th  Bethlehem Conference on Moravian History and Music, Moravian College, Bethlehem,  PA, Oct 27-29 2016. 
• “Access, Ownership, Protection: The Ethics of Digital Scholarship” Panel organizer and  presenter, DH 2016, Krakow, Poland, July 2016 
• “Reaching Across the Divide: Building Curricular Bridges to Meet Undergraduate DH (Learning) Goals” (with Diane Jakacki) Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy:  International DH Training Network, Krakow, Poland 
• “Bodies in Heathen Places: Regulating Marriage without a State” (with Christina  Pettersen) Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100-1800. Australian  Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800,  30 June-July 2, 2016, Freie Universität, Berlin 
• “Teaching, Learning, Doing DH in a Comparative Context: Promoting Critical Thinking  in the Liberal Arts” ACLA, Harvard University, March 28-20 2016 
• “The Ethics of Data Curation: The Quandary of Access vs. Protection” Panel presentation  with Dot Porter and James O’Sullivan and Diane Jakacki, Keystone Digital Humanities  Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 22-24, 2015 
• “Using Juxta in Translation Studies: or, Paleography and the digital versioning machine”  Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, University of Pennsylvania, July 22-24, 2015 
• “Pedagogical Hermeneutics and Teaching DH in a Liberal Arts Context” (with Diane  Jakacki), DH2015, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 2015 
• “Building Bridges to — Where? The Phenomenology of Undergraduate DH.” (with  Diane Jakacki). Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and  International Training. Sydney, Australia, 2015 Conference. 
• “The Pedagogical Hermeneutics of Humanities 100: or, How to Teach DH in a Liberal  Arts Context (with Archival Materials)” with Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University,  Congress 2015, May 30-June 5, Ottawa, Canada 
• “Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Context: Promoting long term student-faculty  (and community) collaboration in the Susquehanna Valley,” (with Diane Jakacki), DH  2014 Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2014 
• “Das Herrnhutische Archivwesen im 21. Jahrhundert. Die Herausforderung der Digitalen  Geisteswissenschaften.” ‘So müssen wir denn ein Archiv der Wahrheit haben” 250 Jahre  Unitätsarchiv, Herrnhut, Germany, June 2014 
• “Intercultural communication and ethnic identity: Pietism and the public/private”  American Comparative Literature Association, NYU, April 2014 
• “Married to the Job (and Jesus): Artisans and Moravians in the Pennsylvania  Backcountry” Pennsylvania Historical Association meeting, Gettysburg, PA, October 18,  2013 
• “Intercultural communication and ethnic identity: Pietism and the public/private” 4th  International Pietism Congress, University of Halle, Germany, August 28-30, 2013 
• “Women, Migration and Mission,” Envisioning the “Old World”: Heinrich Melchior  

Mühlenberg and the Imperial Projects in Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early  American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2012 

• Faull, Katherine and David Del Testa, Bucknell University, ‘Red River, Black River, the  Susquehanna River too: Student-Faculty Collaborations in the Spatial Humanities at Bucknell’ GIS and Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum, November 17,  2012, Bucknell University 
• Faull, Katherine and Alf Siewers, “Stories of the Susquehanna: Digital Humanities,  Spatial Thinking, and Telling the historia of the Environment.” NITLE Webinar October  9, 2012, 2:00pm – 3:00pm. (http://www.nitle.org/live/events/145-stories-of-the susquehanna-digital-humanities) 
• “Raum, Rasse, und Männlichkeit: gender im Nordamerikanischen Herrnhuter  Missionsfeld des 18. Jh.” Gender im Pietismus, Netzwerke und  

Geschlechterkonstruktionen, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung der  Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; in Verbindung mit den Franckeschen  Stiftungen zu Halle, October 2011 

• “Translating the Holocaust: the Ethics of Memoir” Holocaust writing and translation,  Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of  London, February 24, 2011. 
• “The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: The Environmental Subject  of Moravian Pietism” Moravian Conference on History and Music, Bethlehem, PA,  October 15, 2010. 
• “Why Translation?” on panel “The Disciplinary Challenges of Translation Studies”,  Modern Language Association Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009 
• “Truth-telling, ethnicity, and identity: Germans and Indians on the Susquehanna”,  German Studies Association Meeting, San Diego, CA October 4-7, 2007. 
• “’You are the Saviour’s Widow:’ Religion, Sexuality and Bereavement in the 18th  Century Moravian Church” The Widow, July 7-9, 2007, University of Swansea, Wales,  UK 
• “Europeans and the Susquehanna: A Vision of Nature” From the Branches to the  Confluence: The Upper Susquehanna River Basin and its Communities, September 23,  2006, Bucknell University 
• “Imagining and Learning: Utopian Visions in Early Moravian Communities” Self,  Community, World: Liberal Arts and Moravian Education, April 21-23, 2006, at  Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 
• “Male Wombs: The Mutable Gender of the Moravian Christ” American Historical  Association/ American Society for Church History, January 6-8, 2006, Philadelphia, PA 
• “Temporal Men and the Eternal Bridegroom: Moravian Masculinity in the 18th Century”  28 September-1 October 2005, German Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
• “Christ’s Other Self: Body, Gender and Religion in 18th Century Moravian Thought,”  American Society for Church History, 1-3 April 2004, Messiah College, Harrisburg, PA 
• “Die Jugend spricht: Die Rolle der Kommunikation in der Seelsorge der Brüdergemeine  im 18. Jahrhundert: Fachtagung: Ergebnisse Historischer Kindheitsforschung, Leucorea,  Wittenberg, Germany, 8-9 November, 2002 
• “Bekehrung und Begnadigung: die Seelsorge der „großen Mädgen“ in der  amerikanischen Herrnhuter Kirche im 18. Jahrhundert“ Internationaler Kongreß für  Pietismusforschung, Halle, Germany, August 28-Sept. 1, 2001 
• “Cultural Encounters of Moravian and Native American Women in the 18th Century”  “Deutsche und Indianer–Indianer und Deutsche: Cultural Encounters in Three  Centuries, Dartmouth College, May 13-16, 1999
• “‘Eine fruchtbare Rebe dem Weinstock seyn’: Die Frauenseelsorge der Chorarbeiterinnen  im 18. Jahrhundert” Schwestern unter Brüdern. Die Stellung der Frau in der  Brüdergemeine Unitäts-Archiv, Herrnhut, Germany, June 11-14, 1998 
• “Self-Encounters: German and African Autobiography in Colonial America”  Crosscurrents: African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World, an  International Symposium co-sponsored by the Max Kade Institute, The State University  of Pennsylvania and Center for African American and African Studies, October 1-2, 1994 
• “Living with the Eternal Bridegroom: Gender and Religion in Eighteenth-Century  Moravian Bethlehem” 18th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies, Penn State University, April 13-17, 1994 
• “Women’s Memoirs and the Communal Experience” 3rd International Communal  Studies Association meeting at New Harmony, Indiana, October 14-17, 1993 ● “Comparing World Views: Eighteenth-Century Rural Germans and Americans.” Paper presented to Sixteenth Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies,  the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 30-May 3, 1992. 
• “The Gender of Art or, What did Novalis see in Sophie?” Paper presented to American  Association of Teachers of German, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 23- 25, 1991. 
• “Schleiermacher and Feminist Ethics” Paper presented to International Schleiermacher  Symposium, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 1991. 
• “German Narratives, American Lives: Women’s Writing from Eighteenth-Century  Moravian Bethlehem” Paper presented to Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Society for  German-American Studies, Washington D.C., April 25-27, 1991. 
• Organizer of “Writing on the Wall: Feminist Perspectives on German Unification”,  Women in German-sponsored session, Modern Language Association meeting, San  Francisco, CA, December 1991. 
• Respondent to Robert Perkins, “Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Schlegel’s Lucinde” at  American Academy of Religion, Southeastern Division Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Ga,  March 15-17, 1991. 
• Respondent to panel on “Social Issues” at “Transformations in Eastern Europe,” an  interdisciplinary conference co-sponsored by the Central Susquehanna Consortium and  the Institute for European Studies, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, March  1-2, 1991. 
• Co-organizer of conference “Transformations in Eastern Europe,” co-sponsored by the  Central Susquehanna Consortium and the Institute for European Studies, Franklin and  Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, March 1-2, 1991 
• “Entering the Single Sisters’ House: Women in Moravian Bethlehem, PA” Paper  presented on Panel “Opening Closed Communities: Documenting Cultural Diversity in  Pennsylvania.” American Association of State and Local History, Annual Meeting,  Washington D.C., September 7-9, 1990. 

Invited Talks

• “German Moravians, Native Americans and methods of sustainable gardening and agriculture in the eighteenth century.” Lecture in series at University of Münster Lecture Series: Environmentalism, Sustainability, and Climate Change as Educational Challenges, 4 November 2021.

• “Moravians in America: Herrnhut’s First Ambassadors” Guest Lecture for Exhibition,  “Zinzendorf in America” at Moravian Archives. Bethlehem, PA. Guest of Honor, David  Gill, Consul General, Federal Republic of Germany, October 20, 2020. (virtual) 

• “Telling the Multilayered Stories of the Susquehanna, University of Pennsylvania Program in Environmental Humanities” Working Wednesdays Lunch Talk, September 30, 2020 (virtual) 
• “‘In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, love’: Tracing Moravian patterns of identity through the 18th century Lebenslauf.” Closing Keynote, “Becoming American: MORAVIANS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS, 1772-1822, Wake Forest  University, September 27-30, 2020 (virtual) 
• “Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: Updating the Eighteenth Century. Keynote,  “Religion, Modernity, and Cultural Heritage” Copenhagen University, January 2020. ● “Writing a Moravian Memoir: The Intersection of History and Autobiography” Keynote  

Speaker, “Life-writing and Lebenslauf: Pillars of an invisible church” Gothenburg  University, Sweden, 11-12, May 2015 

• “Visualizing History: the (Hidden) Work of Moravian Women Missionaries in Colonial  Pennsylvania” Moravian Historical Society Annual Meeting, Bethlehem, PA October  2014. 
• “Moravians and Native Americans”, Jeanette Barres Zug Lecture, Historic Bethlehem  Rededication of Nain House, September 15, 2012. 
• “Conversations at the Confluence: Negotiators, Moravians, and Native Americans”  Danville Iron Heritage Festival, July 21, 2012. 
• “Instructions for Body and Soul: Moravian Pastoral Care in the 18th Century” 2011  Moses Lectures, Moravian Seminary, October 13, 2011. 
• “Instructions for 18th-Century Moravian Women” Lecture, Moravian Archives,  Bethlehem, July 12, 2011. 
• “The Influence of Moravian Traditions on Grider’s Major Subjects:” lecture as part of a  series of lectures the Arkell Museum, Canojaharie, NY in conjunction with the exhibition  “Drawn to the Same Place: Fritz Vogt and Rufus Grider 1885-90”, May 9, 2011. 
• “Eighteenth-Century Moravian Mapping and Twenty-First Century Technology” Lecture  at Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, October 27, 2009. 
• “Topographies of Contact” Lecture as part of Cultures at the Confluence Focus Year  (2008-9) Bucknell University, February 26, 2009. 
• “Friedenshütten: The Jewel of the Susquehanna” Annual Meeting of the Wyalusing  Community Corporation, May 10th. 2007 
• “Temporal Men and the Eternal Bridegroom: Moravian Masculinity in the Eighteenth  Century” Invited Speaker, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, History, German  Honors Society, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, October 18, 2005 
• “Entering the Single Sisters House: The Lives of 18th century Moravian Women”  Keynote Speaker, Wachovia Historical Society, Winston-Salem, NC, October 18, 2005 ● “Genius in Translation: Julia Kristeva’s Desire in Language and her Love of the Foreign”  Bucknell University, Humanities Institute, Sept. 13, 2005 
• “The Course of Autobiography: Teaching a Hermeneutics of Life Writing” Moravian  College, March 29, 2005 
• “Moravian Marriage” Invited Speaker, Friends Day, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA,  April 27, 2003
• “Christ’s Other Self: Gender, the Body and Religion in the 18th Century Moravian  Church” Seminar on Gender and Religion, School of Divinity, Cambridge University,  March 10, 2003 
• “Schleiermacher, Faith and Gender” Methods, Sources and Norms Seminar, School of  Divinity, Cambridge University, February 24, 2003 
• “Celebrating the Sisters: the Lives of Moravian Women in Eighteenth-Century  Bethlehem,” Keynote Speaker, Historic Bethlehem Inc, September 2000 
• “Personal Conversion and Individual Redemption: The Spiritual Care of Young Women  at Linden Hall, Lititz, Pennsylvania” Talk for the Annual Meeting of the Lutheran  Historical Society and Moravian Historical Society in Lititz, Pa, April 29, 2000 
• “Relating Sisters’ Lives: Moravian Women’s Writings from Eighteenth-Century  America” Moravian Historical Society, Vespers, October 7, 1999 
• “Zinzendorf and Pluralism” Moravian Theological Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa, April 27,  1995 
• “Identifying Stories: Race, Gender and the Autobiographical Act” Clare Hall, Cambridge  University, November 28, 1994 
• “Moravian Memoirs” Keynote Speaker, Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem,  PA, April 24, 1994 
• “Living History/Writing Her Story: Memoirs from 18th Century Moravian Bethlehem”  Bloomsburg University, March 7, 1994 
• “Conversations with my Friend: Lives of Faith in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania.”  Keynote address to Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, Winchester, VA, April 11, 1992. 

Teaching Interests 

Digital Humanities; Environmental Humanities; Autobiography; Native American Studies;  Literary and Cultural Theory; Translation Studies; Religion and Gender; Race and Gender  Studies; German Literature since 1750; German Intellectual History; Western Humanities 

Doctoral Theses supervised

McGuire, Michael. “Computational Sentiment Analysis of an 18th Century Corpus of Moravian English Memoirs.” Member, thesis committee, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, 2021

Undergraduate Theses supervised (selection) 

Beauvilliers, Lily M. “Cultural Others: French Feminist Thought and French Multiculturalism.”  Bucknell University, 2009. 

McMullen, A. Joseph. “Liminal Semiotics: The Boundaries of Signification in Medieval  Literature.” Bucknell University, 2009. 

Juan, Anna P. “‘Lips Can Never / Never with the Soul-In-Me Commune / to Flute My Feelings  through Some Native Tune’: The Inadequacies of English in Filipina Writing.” Bucknell  University, 2008. 

Rickard, James H. “The Capitalist Economy of Consumption: Rousseau, Radical  Environmentalism, and the Value of Utopian Discourse.” Bucknell University, 2008.

Knepp, Stacey J. “Translating Silence: English (Re)Constructions of Sappho’s Poetic  Fragments.” Bucknell University, 2007. 

Warren, Carlye. “Wounded with Love: Symbolism of the Heart in Late Medieval Devotional  Images of the St. Walburg Convent.” Bucknell University, 2006. 

Phillips, Christina. “Silent Sympathy: Reading and Moral Development in Children’s  Literature.” Bucknell University, 2006. 

Chase, Taylor. “More Than Just an A Study of the Grand Narrative in the Postmodern Era.”  Bucknell University, 2005. 

Rogan, Jeffrey. “The Question of German National Identity a Problem of Definition.” Bucknell  University, 2001.  

Teaching Experience 

Comparative Humanities Program 

• The Humanities Now! (Project-based introduction to Digital Humanities) 
• Data Visualization for DH (Intermediate course on data visualization for the  Humanities) 
• Introduction to Text Analysis (Introduction to digital textual analysis) ● Myth, Reason, Faith (Western Humanities–Homer to Medieval Period) ● Art, Nature, Knowledge (Western Humanities from Renaissance to 19th Century) ● Nihilism, Modernism, Uncertainty (Western Humanities from Nietzsche to Post Colonialism) 
• Studies in Autobiography (Advanced seminar for majors–cross-listed Women’s and  Gender Studies) 
• Seminar in Translation Studies (Advanced seminar for majors–cross-listed with  English) 
• History of Sexuality (Advanced seminar for majors–cross-listed Women’s and Gender  Studies and English) 
• Women, Gender, Enlightenment (Advanced seminar for majors–cross-listed Women’s  and Gender Studies) 
• Nature and the Enlightenment (Interdisciplinary seminar on European, Colonial  American and Native perspectives on nature in the region of the Susquehanna River) 

German Studies 

• Introductory First year German  
• Intermediate German  
• Advanced Composition and Conversation 
• Business German 
• Jenseits der Mauer: DDR Kultur und Literatur 1949-1999

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• Study of German Literary Forms: The Short Story 
• Comparative German Cultures 
• Drittes Reich und Exilliteratur  
• Art and the Psyche: German Literature of Modernism  
• Literature of the GDR  
• Concept of Genius in German Literature 1750-1945  
• Die Wende–DDR Herbst 1989  
• Gender and Autobiography in German Literature: 1750-1992  
• Enlightenment and Romantic German Literature 

General Education Courses 

• Freshman Seminar: “Living in Community: Experiments in Social Organization” ● Freshman Seminar: “Epics and Ethics” 
• Freshman Seminar: “How we do things with words”
• IP Course (with Alf Siewers): “Susquehanna Country”
• Capstone Experience: “Gender and Autobiography” 
• Capstone Experience: “Introduction to Translation Studies” 

Archival Experience 

• March 2018 Fulneck Moravian Archives, Fulneck, Yorkshire, UK 
• June 2005 Special Collections, University of Bristol Library 
• June 2005 Gemeindearchiv, Niesky, Germany 
• Dec. 1992 Archives of the British Province of the Moravian Church, London ● April 1990 Archiv der Brüder-Unität, Herrnhut, Germany 
• January 1990 Schleiermacher papers in archives of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin ● Dec. 1989 Manuscript room in British Library, London 
• July 1989- Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA 
• July 1984 National Literature Archives, Marbach, West Germany 

Editorial and Other Professional Experience 

• Panel Reviewer, NEH Collaborative Research Division, CARES Act (2020) 
• Panel Reviewer, NEH ODH (2018) 
• Panel Reviewer, NEH Collaborative Research Division, History and Literature (2013) 
• Editorial Board, Journal of Moravian History (2010-) 
• Managing Editor, Philosophia Africana (2008-2018) 
• Editorial Board, Bucknell University Press (1991-1999, 2006-9) 
• Editorial Board, Talking About Teaching (1987-1992) 
• Book Reviewer, German Quarterly, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,  Catholic Historical Review, Literature and Translation, Journal of the History of  Sexuality

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• Reader, Journal of the History of Sexuality 
• Reader, German Quarterly 
• Editorial Advisory Board, Philosophia Africana (1998-2008) 
• Outside evaluator, NEH Translations (Collaborative Research) division ● Reader, PMLA (1992- ) 
• Reader, Communal Societies (1995-) 
• Reader, Bucknell University Press (1989- ) 
• Technical Translator (German) for Mobil Corporation (1984) 
• Translator (German and Russian) for Yorkshire Television, UK (1983) ● Interpreter (French, German, Greek) in Olympia, Greece (1981) 
• Co-Producer and Presenter of Children’s Radio Show “Calico Pie,” 

○ BBC Radio Bristol (1971-1976) 

• Co-Presenter of Children’s TV Series “Why Don’t You….” 

○ BBC TV (1974) 

University service

 Co-chair, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics (2018-2021)

• Oversee 20 tenure track faculty lines; four visiting faculty; eight programs in languages and linguistics 
• Lead self-study process in preparation for decennial external review; 
• Rewrite  mission statement; rewrite review procedures; 
• Revitalize ASL instruction;  
• Review three faculty for tenure; 
• Overseeing $250,000 budget; 
• Approve conference  travel; 
• Hire VAPs; 
• Coordinating 12 foreign language teaching assistants;

Lead member, Bucknell University Retention Task Force (2019-20) 

• Analyze qualitative data on withdrawal data; 

• Co-write final report for  Provost’s Office; 
• make recommendations on implementation

• Member, College of Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning Group — “Belonging” (2019-20)
• Member, Working Group on Institutional Identity for new University Strategic Plan  (2018) 

○ Writing planning document with strategic vision for the new campaign 

• Member, Coal Region Field Station Advisory Board (2018-); 

• working with community  partners to create and implement strategic planning in anthracite coal region towns 

• Co-chair, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (2016-2018) 

○ Oversaw and led  assessment of the General Education curriculum (CCC); 

• approved  new majors and minors  

• Coordinator, Minor in Translation Studies (2014-) 
• Coordinator, Minor in Digital Humanities (2015-2020) 
• Director, Program in Comparative Humanities (2001-6); (2012-16) 

○ Establishing program; creating review guidelines for faculty; establishing major  and minor; advising students 

• Co-Chair, Middle States Accreditation Steering Committee, Bucknell University, 2011- 14 (accreditation awarded, 2014) 

○ Overseeing, coordinating and co-writing the university-wide self-study ○ Co-chairing working group on Integrity and Values 

• Senior Fellow, Languages and Cultures Residential College, 2008-2019 

○ Leading a living-learning community of 30-45 first year students annually; acting  as academic advisor to 300 students over the life of the college 

• Academic Co-Coordinator, Residential Colleges, Bucknell University, 2010-13 

○ Managing budget for seven first year living-learning communities; recruiting  faculty; coordinating with Provost and Dean of Students; strategic planning 

• Faculty Representative, Business Process Review Task Force, Bucknell University, 2010- 11 (team awarded Maxwell Award for excellence in Administration) 

○ Reviewing and restructuring complex institutional business processes; travel;  student employment; health care. 

• “Bucknell in London” Committee (2006-2010) 

○ Soliciting and evaluating proposals for semester programs in London 

• Elected Faculty Representative, University Committee on Planning and Budget (2008-09)

 ○ Overseeing and discussing fiscal priorities, faculty and staff pay raises, tuition  fees and room and board 

• Chair, Department of Foreign Language Programs (2005-2009) 

○ Initiated strategic planning in department; wrote proposal to Curriculum  Committee of College and Arts and Sciences for a Languages and Cultures  requirement; initiated and wrote a proposal to DoE for Title VI grant to  “Internationalize Pre-professional Programs at Bucknell”; conducted 8 reviews of  non-tenured faculty; conducted three reviews of tenured faculty; conducted one  promotion review; started Arabic language program; successfully initiated Arabic  Fulbright FLTA position; mediated personnel issues in language program;  oversaw budget; hired numerous tenure-track and temporary faculty. 

• Acting Director, Program in Women’s and Gender Studies (2004-5) 

○ Organized and led strategic planning workshop in May 2005; convened regular  meetings with Steering Committee to approve courses for the majors, organize  on-campus speakers 

• Advisory Board, Women’s and Gender Studies, Bucknell University, (2000-2006)

○ Participated in reviews of untenured faculty; revised major and minor  requirements; revised review procedures; consulted on programming and co sponsorship of speakers and campus events; represented WGS program at Parents  Weekend, Admissions Day, Orientation events; oversaw budget 

• Acting Chair, Classics Department (Fall 2003) 

○ Hired visiting assistant professor of Classics for Spring 2004; mentored two new  untenured faculty hires; planned curriculum; 

• Director, German Studies Program, Bucknell University, 1991-6, (1999-2001) 

○ Responsible for course schedule; advising of majors and minors; advising of  German club; Admissions Day, Orientation sessions, Parents weekend 

• Committee on Complementary Activities (semester replacement) (2001) 
• Committee on Faculty and Academic Personnel (1991-3): 

○ subcommittee on feasibility of phased retirement scheme (subsequently adopted);  annual calculation of salary and merit increments; 

• Campus Representative to Fulbright Commission (1990-3) 

○ Soliciting applications; reviewing and selecting candidates for on-campus  interviews; writing recommendations for next level 

• Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (1988-1991) 
• Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (1988-1991) 

Academic Leadership 

• Co-director, Humanities Institute, “Thinking, Seeing, Doing: The Role of Digital  Humanities in the Liberal Arts” Spring 2015 

○ Keynote Speakers, Alan Lui, UCSB and Johanna Drucker, UCLA 

• Organizer, NEH summer seminar, Bucknell University, “On Untranslatability and World  Literature” Summer 2014 
• Organizer, NEH summer seminar, Bucknell University, “Place Matters” Summer 2013 
• Organizer, Summer Susquehanna River Writers Workshop, funded through a grant from  the John Ben Snow Trust, Summer 2009 (with Alf Siewers) 
• Co-organizer with Alf Siewers, “Cultures at the Confluence Focus Year” 2008-9 (team  awarded Maxwell Prize for Excellence in Administration) 
• Founder and first Senior Fellow, Languages and Cultures Residential College, Fall 2008 
• Organizer, NEH summer seminar, Bucknell University, “Integrating Islam into the Core  Humanities Courses” Summer 2007 
• Co-Director, Humanities Institute, “Moving Meanings: Studies in Translation” 

○ Keynote Speaker, Julie Kristeva (Paris), 2005-6 

• Organizer, NEH summer seminar at Bucknell University, 

○ “Introduction to Translation Studies” Summer 2004 

• Director, Humanities Institute, “Translation and Culture” 

○ Keynote Speaker Lawrence Venuti, Temple University, Spring 2002 

• Director, Humanities Institute, “Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in the Humanities” 

○ Keynote speaker, Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University, 1993- 4:

• Co-founder of Humanities Institute, Bucknell University, 1992 

Community Leadership and Service 

• White House appointee to John Smith Historic Trail Advisory Board, National Parks Service,  Washington DC (2015-2018) 
• Member, Board of Directors, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA (2010-) 
• Member, Board of Directors, Northumberland County Historical Society, Sunbury Pa  (2010-2013) 
• Advisor, Susquehanna Greenway. Lewisburg, PA. (2008-) 
• Advisor, Eastern Delaware Nations, Wyalusing, PA, (2007-) 
• Advisor, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (2009-) 
• Advisor and historical consultant, Friends of John Smith Trail, Annapolis, Maryland,  (2008-) 
• Consultant, Chesapeake Conservancy (2009-) 
• Consultant, National Parks Service (2012-2018) 

Languages 

• English: native fluency 
• German: native fluency 
• Russian: excellent reading and good oral ability 
• French: very good speaking and reading ability 
• Latin: reading knowledge 
• Ancient Greek: reading knowledge 
• Modern Greek: Basic 
• Arabic: Basic 

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