Peter W. Bardaglio, Senior Fellow

Prior to becoming a senior fellow at Second Nature, Peter Bardaglio served as the provost and vice president of academic affairs from 2002 to 2007 at Ithaca College, where he also held an appointment as professor of history. At present, he is co-authoring a book entitled Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change, which will be published by National Association of College and University Business Officers. He is also working with the city and town of Ithaca, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Tompkins Cortland Community College, Cayuga Medical Center, and the Park Foundation to develop a regional carbon reduction agreement and with the residents of EcoVillage at Ithaca to establish a center for sustainable education.

Dr. Bardaglio was professor of history and interim vice president and academic dean at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland from 2000 to 2002. As a member of the Goucher history department, beginning in 1983, he 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 race relations in the United States. His numerous publications, conference papers, and invited lectures cover a wide range of topics, including sustainability on campus, race and gender in the 19th-century American South, family public policy, new approaches to liberal education, and changing professional identity among faculty in the 21st century.

Dr. Bardaglio serves on the Senior Council of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the Sustainability Advice and Review Panel of the Society for College and University Planning, and the editorial board of Sustainability: Research and Practices. In addition, he is a member of the Cayuga Medical Center board of directors and the History Center in Tompkins County board of trustees in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Bardaglio received his Doctorate and Master’s degrees in History from Stanford University and his Bachelor's degree in History and English from Brown University.