Faculty Affairs Welcomes New Associate Director for Faculty Initiatives, Jennifer Wallace

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wallace as the new Associate Director for Faculty Initiatives, overseeing policy and procedural matters governing PTK faculty and supporting faculty development initiatives across the university. She comes to the Office of Faculty Affairs from the Department of Government and Politics (GVPT), where she directed the Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) program and taught courses in economic development, environmental politics and international political economy. Dr Wallace has also been deeply involved in shared governance at the university, having served on the University Senate, BSOS College Council and as the first-ever Associate Chair for Professional Track Faculty in GVPT.

Prior to earning her doctorate at the University of Maryland, Dr. Wallace worked in Switzerland as a training course coordinator at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, part of Switzerland’s contribution to the Partnership for Peace, a program of practical bilateral cooperation between individual partner countries and NATO. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY; a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva; and MAs in political science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and the University of Maryland. She is also a mom to two spirited toddlers and mercifully tolerant 13-year-old puggle.