Susan Carvalho, Ph.D.
Susan Carvalho is associate provost and dean
of the Graduate School at the University of Alabama (UA), where she
leads an agenda focused on growth and globalization of graduate
education, including work with UA’s Capstone International to increase
international graduate enrollments.
Before joining UA, Dr. Carvalho served for
seven years as associate provost and senior international officer at the
University of Kentucky (UK). Her other leadership positions at UK
included interim dean of the Graduate School, associate dean in the
College of Arts & Sciences, chair of the General Education Reform
Steering Committee, interim department chair in Hispanic Studies and in
Political Science, and chair of the Domestic Partner Benefits Committee.
At the University of Kentucky, Dr. Carvalho
guided the expansion of the Office of International Affairs into a
full-fledged International Center, and served as a resource to the
president, provost, and campus leadership teams for the development of
global competitiveness. She has served on the executive committee of the
Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) and is a
past AIEA Neal Presidential Fellow and American Council on
Education Fellow.
Dr. Carvalho’s scholarly foundation is in the
field of Hispanic Studies; she has authored a monograph, a collection
of essays, and over 30 scholarly articles in the area of Latin American
and Latino/a cultural studies. She has been the principal investigator
on several grants focused on higher education development in
post-conflict regions, and has delivered multiple presentations on
internationalization and on women’s leadership in higher education.
Dr. Carvalho holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia.