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Peter W. Bardaglio, Senior Fellow

Peter Bardaglio is the co-author of Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change (2009) and coordinator of the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative, a multisector effort in the Ithaca, NY area to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. In addition, he serves as board vice chair of the New Roots Charter High School, an innovative secondary school that integrates sustainability and social justice across the curriculum, and on the executive committee of the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming.

Dr. Bardaglio was the provost and vice president of academic affairs from 2002 to 2007 at Ithaca College, where he helped to launch the college’s nationally recognized sustainability initiative. Interim vice president and academic dean at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD from 2000 to 2002, he was a member of the Goucher history department for 19 years and received several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Faculty Award in 1994 and Outstanding Educator of the Year from the Maryland Association of Higher Education in 1998. He served as the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor from 1995 to 2000.

A Jessie Ball duPont Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1999-2000, Dr. Bardaglio has also taught at the University of Maryland at College Park and University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Historical Association, and was awarded the 1996 James Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book published on the history of U.S. race relations for Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the 19th-Century South. His numerous articles, book chapters, conference papers, and invited lectures cover a wide range of topics, including sustainability on campus, social entrepreneurship, race and gender in the 19th-century American South, family public policy, and new approaches to liberal education.