Director, Faculty Advancement in Teaching Excellence
Sara joined QILT in September 2024 and is the director for faculty advancement in teaching excellence and a member of the Quinnipiac University History Department. She holds a PhD in history from Rutgers University and was a full-time faculty member at St. Francis College for 13 years. There, she also served as the director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence after leading general education, honors, and women’s and gender studies.
Blending a faculty perspective with academic administrative experience, Sara brings a vision for teaching excellence that centers student success by building out supports and collaborative networks for faculty.
Her background includes work on curricular planning, equity in course and program design, inclusive pedagogies, and eliminating logistical barriers that produce inequitable outcomes for students. She is passionate about the ways small, everyday strategies to improve classroom outcomes can contribute to large scale transformative experiences for students and faculty alike across the institution and higher ed.
She is the author of James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement (University Press of Kentucky: 2015). She has also presented and published on teaching and learning, including “Taking a Thematic Approach with the History of Fun” in Designing Introductory History Courses for Student Success (American Historical Association: 2024).