Cristina Alcalde, Ph.D.

Vice President for Transformational and Inclusive Excellence

Miami University

Cristina Alcalde currently serves as Vice President for Transformational and Inclusive Excellence at Miami University. She also holds an appointment as professor of global and intercultural studies. In her VP role, she provides strategic vision and leadership for a holistic, coordinated approach to inclusive excellence for faculty, staff, and students. Before joining Miami in 2021, she held a series of administrative roles, including associate dean of inclusion and internationalization in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Marie Rich Endowed Professor in gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky. As a scholar-practitioner, she has published widely and speaks nationally and internationally on leadership, inclusion, race and racialization, gender violence, migration, and exclusion. In addition to dozens of journal articles and chapters, her books include Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education(2022); #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement (2022); 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); and The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru (2010). 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 is also co-editor of the Navigating Careers in Higher Ed Book Series, and Editorial Board Member of Insight into Diversity. 

She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Indiana University, and an B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Louisville.