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HANNAH KLIGER, Ph.D.
123 North Highland Avenue
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
(610) 308-0380 (tel)
(610) 667-4254 (fax)
Office: Penn State University
The Abington College
1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001
215- 881-7598 (tel)/215-881-7333 (fax)
[email protected] (e-mail)
EDUCATION
M.S.S., Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research PA
Ph.D. in Communications, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.A. in Communications, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.A. cum laude in Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
2009
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LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
The Pennsylvania State University, The Abington College
2002-present
Senior Adviser to the Chancellor (2006-present)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2002-2005)
Professor of Communication and Jewish Studies
The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs is the chief academic officer and, in the absence of the Dean and CEO,
serves as the chief executive officer of the college. The Associate Dean is responsible for leadership and
oversight of overall academic planning and fiscal management.
 brought vigorous and creative executive leadership skills and policy direction to promote excellence
and innovation in academic programming and student learning
 supervised and supported program assessments and curricular improvements that identified new
academic collaborations and enhanced the environment for teaching and research
 attracted, mentored, and retained high quality faculty and staff through sustained commitment to
scholarly advancement, professional development, pedagogical innovation, and outreach efforts
 improved cultural and intellectual diversity through intercultural communication and ESL
programming, growth of international studies, and recruitment of under-represented minorities
 led strategic and budget planning process for academic affairs, and recommended allocation of
resources that aligned goals with fiscal realities
 raised institution’s external profile by garnering data, documenting academic and administrative
objectives, and disseminating the college’s accomplishments at regional and national conferences
 served as liaison with diverse constituencies, including alumni and community stakeholders, to
articulate the mission of the college and provide advocacy for fiscal and programmatic strategies
 utilized capacity for external affairs to persuade a wide range of audiences of the significance of the
mission of the institution and to attract funding support from public and private sources
 created a working environment grounded in civility and high ethical standards to guide judgments and
actions in personnel evaluations, curricular reform, budgetary decisions, and the community’s future
 acted as chief executive officer in the absence of the dean, and functioned effectively and
collaboratively in college and university-wide committees guiding resource allocation and planning
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication
2000-2002
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Senior Research Investigator
 systematized school policies and coordinated dissemination in new website, student and faculty
handbook, and printed catalogue
 provided leadership in creating position descriptions for new staff roles that resulted in hiring key
personnel in academic information technology and student services
 enhanced quality of student life by overseeing internship placements and career planning, and
coordinating convocation, new student orientation, alumni events, and commencement
 initiated professional development workshops on promising practices in teaching, the use of
technology, assessment techniques, grantsmanship, and scholarly writing
 improved admission process by directing online record-keeping to refine recruitment and monitoring of
prospective applicants
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developed updated archives of student files to enable access and retrieval of records for more efficient
enrollment management and evaluation procedures
collected and analyzed benchmark data on students and graduates for self-study document for
President’s office and outside review team
liaison to Provost’s Committee on Library Strategic Planning, Office of Student Disabilities Services,
University Council Committee on Bookstores, and other campus committees on recruitment,
admissions, and student affairs
appointed to teach course offerings in communication of trauma, communication and narratives, and
communication and identity
MCP Hahnemann University
1997-2000
Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, School of Public Health (1999-2000)
 worked effectively as member of senior leadership team to articulate academic vision and
strategic planning within budgetary allowances
 managed academic affairs, including faculty appointments and evaluations, to promote integrity
of programming in academic and co-curricular areas
 implemented revised curriculum model to successfully meet the need for larger classes leading
to increased enrollment and retention of a diversified student population
 trained and mentored faculty in newly designed full-time and part-time evening programs
to expand educational methodologies and approaches
 carried out administrative review of service-learning modules and exploration of distance-learning
to address community-based mission of the program
 designed materials to represent the school at national meetings and on committees in preparation
for review by accrediting boards
 appointed with faculty rank to teach and serve as course director, thesis advisor and curriculum
supervisor
Director, Special Projects, Office of the Provost (1997-1999)
 assisted and advised faculty regarding applications for interdisciplinary grants and contracts
funded by national agencies that successfully brought new projects and revenue to campus
 conducted faculty development seminars on grantsmanship and collaborative writing to increase
research synergies across undergraduate and graduate departments
Executive Director, National Academy for Women’s Health Medical Education (NAWHME), Institute for
Women’s Health, (1997-1999)
 planned strategic initiatives, chaired national conferences, and spearheaded new research
publication efforts to ensure continued productivity and visibility of the agency
 facilitated entrepreneurial relationships external to the University to raise funds from individuals,
corporations, and foundations for the development of new projects
 responsible for budget planning, fiscal management, and communicating the goals of the
organization to outside constituencies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1985-1998
Faculty member, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1991
Leadership roles in campus-wide and interdepartmental initiatives include:
Undergraduate:
Graduate:
Provost's Think Tank
Office of Research Grants Reviewer
Faculty Senate Committee on
Graduate Studies Committee
Undergraduate Education
Executive Committee
General Education Council
Personnel Committee
College Teaching Awards
Chair, Graduate Admissions
Consultant
1985-present
Consultant on curricular planning, evaluation, and lifelong learning
Invited speaker at community forums, public awareness programs, national meetings
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Penn State Abington, Professor, Communication and Jewish Studies, 2002-present
Communication and Trauma, Interpersonal Communication, Modern Judaism
MCP Hahnemann University, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, 1997-2000
Health and Human Rights; Leadership and Change; Behavioral Assessment
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Communication, 1991-98; Assistant Professor, Department of
Communication, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, 1985-91
Introduction to Communication; Communication and Socialization; Community, Communication, and
Identity; The Jewish Experience in America; World Jewry Since 1945
Visiting Faculty:
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, 1997, 2000, 2001
Wesleyan University, Department of Religion, 1990, 1992, 1995
Columbia University, Department of Germanic Languages, 1991-1992
Smith College, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 1986
Teaching excellence:
Ratings consistently range from very good to excellent :
“This was the best course I have taken at Penn. I feel privileged to have had such a wonderful and
passionate professor...It was the first course ever at Penn that I read everything, which says a lot
because there was an immense amount of reading. I feel I have gotten so much out of this class.”
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS ADMINISTRATION (SELECTED)
Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work, Pat Burland Award, 2009
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellow 2009-2010
Pennsylvania State University, Institute for the Arts and Humanities Grant, 2008
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Academic Fellow, 2004-2006
HERS Mid-America Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, 2000
University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997
Transcending Trauma Project, Research Fellowship, 1994-1995
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1990-1991
National Endowment for the Humanities Interpretive Research Grant, Co-investigator, 1989-1990
Radcliffe Research Support Program, Schlesinger Library, 1988
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1988
Initiatives for Development in Educational Application Software Grant, University of Massachusetts, 1987-1988
Distinguished Teaching Award Nominee, University of Massachusetts, 1987
Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellowship, 1986-1987
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Senior Research Associate, Transcending Trauma Project, Council of Relationships
Research consultant to Yale University Videotestimony Study of Chronically Hospitalized
Holocaust Survivors in Psychiatric Institutions in Israel
Program consultant to CAEL, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, and
HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Books
Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York: The WPA Yiddish Writers' Group Study,
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992
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Articles and Chapters
“Holocaust Narratives and Their Impact: Personal Identification and Communal Roles” [with B. HollanderGoldfein and E. Passow] in S. Bronner, ed. Jewish Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity, and Representations, ,
Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008, pp. 151-174.
“Texts of Trauma, Texts of Identity: The Narrative Legacy of Holocaust Survivor Stories ” [with B. HollanderGoldfein], Doubletake/Points of Entry, Spring/Summer 2007, pp. 40-44.
"Communication and Ethnic Identity in Jewish Immigrant Communities: The Role of the Voluntary
Association", in G. Gumpert and S. Drucker, eds. The Huddled Masses: Communication and Immigration,
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1998, pp. 221-239.
“Writers Must Eat: The New York City Yiddish Writers Group of the Works Progress Administration”, in
Dov-Ber Kerler, ed. Politics of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Literature, and Society, Walnut Creek: Alta Mira
Press, 1998, pp. 107-121.
"Yiddish in New York: Communicating a Culture of Place", [with R. Peltz] in O. Garcia and J. Fishman, eds.
The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City. New York: Mouton De Gruyter, 1997, pp. 93-116.
"That Will Make You a Good Member: The Rewards of Reading the Constitutions of Jewish Immigrant
Associations", in D. Elazar, J. Sarna and R. Monson, eds. A Double Bond: The Constitutional Documents of
American Jewry. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1992, pp. 75-92.
“Who Needs Yiddish Today: A Report from the Campuses”, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring
1991, pp. 133-137
"The Secular Yiddish School in the United States in Sociohistorical Perspective: Language School or Culture
School?" [with R. Peltz], Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1990, pp.
1-19.
"Approaching Diversity, Common Ground, And Even Higher", The Teaching Professor, Vol. 4, No. 4, April
1990, pp. 7-8.
"In Support of Their Society: The Organizational Dynamics of Immigrant Life in the United States and Israel",
in K. Olitzky, ed. We are Leaving Mother Russia: Chapters in the Russian-Jewish Experience. Cincinnati:
American Jewish Archives Press, 1990, pp. 33-53.
“Ethnic Voluntary Associations in Israel", Jewish Journal of Sociology. Vol. 31, No. 2, December 1989, pp. 10919.
“The Continuity of Community Landsmanshaftn in New York and Tel Aviv”, in U.O. Schmelz and S. Della
Pergola, eds. Papers in Jewish Demography 1985. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989,
pp. 405-15
"In a Common Cause, In This New Found Country: Fellowship and Farein in Philadelphia", in G. Stern, ed.
Traditions in Transition: Jewish Culture in Philadelphia 1840-1940. Philadelphia: Balch Institute for Ethnic
Studies Press, 1989, pp. 28-45.
"A Home Away from Home: Participation in Jewish Immigrant Associations", in W. Zenner, ed. Persistence and
Flexibility: Anthropological Studies on the American Jewish Experience. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1988, pp. 143-64.
"Traditions of Grass-Roots Organization and Leadership: The Continuity of Landsmanshaftn in New York",
American Jewish History, Vol. 76, No. 1, September 1986, pp. 25-39.
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“Mass Communication and Ethnic Identity in Immigrant Communities: The Case of Landsmanshaftn”, The Role
of Information in the Realization of the Human Rights of Migrant Workers: Progress Report on the Joint Study,
Tampere: University of Tampere, 1986, pp. 64-65.
Reviews (selected)
American Anthropologist, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of American History, Journal of
Communication, Contemporary Jewry
Encyclopedia Entries
Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare, Encyclopedia of Jewish-American History and Culture, International
Encyclopedia of Communications
Selected Papers and Presentations (past 5 years)
“Lessons and Legacies in Holocaust Survivor Families: Innovations in the Investigation of Intergenerational
Responses”, Max Weinreich Center, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, September 2009
“New Methods for the Study of Holocaust Narratives: Multiple Perspectives and Protocols”, Fifteenth World
Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, August, 2009
“Women as Victims, Women as Survivors: Learning About the Mechanism and Meaning of Survival”, Sixth
Annual International Women’s Conference: Women at War Zones, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March
2009
“The Promise of Progress for Adult Learners in the Academy and Beyond: The Power of Positive Process and
Planning” [with R. Peltz], CAEL 2008 International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008
Guest presenter, “Qualitative Methods for the Study of Communication and Trauma”, Drexel University
Graduate Seminar on The Ethnography of Communication, July 2008
Organizer of session, “The Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Lessons from Holocaust Survivor Families”, and
presenter, “Memory and Meaning in Pivotal Survivor Narratives”, International Society for the Study of Trauma
and Stress, Baltimore, MD, November 2007
“New Findings on the Intergenerational Effects of Trauma”, International Society for the Study of Trauma and
Dissociation”, Philadelphia, PA, November 2007
“Teaching with Technology and Teamwork: Collaborating to Advance Diversity in the Classroom and Beyond”,
5th International Conference on Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Nowy Sacz, Poland,
July 2007
Organizer of session, “Communicating to Transcend Trauma, Transmit Resolve, and Transform Theory”, and
presenter, “Analyzing Trauma Narratives Across Generations: Locating Resilience and Human Flourishing”,
Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA April 2006
“Texts of Trauma and Identity: The Legacy of Holocaust Survivor Narratives in America”, World Congress of
Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2005
"Leadership Lessons Learned: Insights and Perspectives”, HERS Mid-America Summer Institute for Women in
Higher Education Administration, Bryn Mawr, PA, July 2005
“Working Together Toward an Effective Vision Through Strategic Change”, Annual Academic Chairpersons
Conference, Orlando, FL, February 2005
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“Texts of Trauma, Texts of Identity: The Narrative Legacy of Holocaust Survivor Stories in America”, Modern
Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004
“New Premise, New Promise: The Power of Partnerships to Promote Learning” [with G. Calore and R. McCaig],
American Association of Colleges and Universities Network for Academic Renewal Conference on Educating
Intentional Learners: New Connections for Academic and Student Affairs”, Philadelphia, PA, November 2004
"Leadership: Taking the Next Step”, HERS Mid-America Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education
Administration, Bryn Mawr, PA, July 2004
“Holocaust Survivor Families and the Legacy of Hope”, Issues and Ideas in Jewish Studies Colloquium Series,
University of Delaware, Newark, DE, February 2004
“Clarity and Competence: Challenges in Confronting Change”, American Conference of Academic Deans,
Washington, DC, January 2004
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION
HERS Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration
ACE Northeastern Regional Leadership Forum for Women Administrators
CASE Summer Institute in Educational Fund Raising
Center for Appreciative Inquiry, Facilitator Training
ACE Office of Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Colleges and Universities, American Psychoanalytic Association, International
Communication Association, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Stress, National Communication
Association, World Union of Jewish Studies
July 2009
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