Michelle Schmidt
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Provost’s Office
Dr. Michelle Schmidt is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Gettysburg College. Prior to her appointment to the Office of the Provost in August 2023, she served as Professor of Psychology and Faculty Ombudsperson at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Michelle holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. Over the past 23 years at Moravian, she has demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Michelle has taught courses in psychology, general education, and leadership at all levels of the curriculum. Her record of scholarship includes a full-length scholarly book, more than 20 peer-reviewed empirical and pedagogical papers, 13 book reviews, and more than 50 professional conference presentations.
Michelle’s administrative service positions include: Faculty Advisor to the Provost, the Director of Academic Leadership Programs and Co-Director of the Leadership Center, Chair of the Psychology Department, Chair of Tenure and Promotion Committee, and inaugural Faculty Ombudsperson. Michelle has also chaired faculty and administrative search committees, rewrote Moravian’s Faculty Handbook, collaborated with Moravian’s Teaching and Learning Center, and created a mentoring program for early career faculty.
Outside of Moravian, Michelle has been committed to serving the local community through membership on nonprofit boards for the past 20 years. Most recently, she served as the Chair of the Board for Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to surround youth with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Jeanne Hamming
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
Provost’s Office
Dr. Jeanne Hamming is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Gettysburg College. Prior to her appointment to the Office of the Provost in August 2023, she served as Professor of English and Associate Dean at Centenary College of Louisiana.
Jeanne has taught courses and published research related to contemporary American fiction, film, and popular culture as well as teaching and research related to digital rhetoric, new media cultures, and environmental literature. In addition to her co-authored book, which looks at corporate ephemera and literary responses to the invention of America’s Interstate Highway system, Jeanne has published articles and reviews in journals such as Digital Humanities Quarterly, Extrapolation, Genders, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Scientific American.
Jeanne has been invited to speak on topics related to digital scholarly production, sustainability and pedagogy, the cultural politics of climate change, and the future of feminism. Jeanne’s teaching includes courses in first-year writing and research, American Literature surveys, seminars in the American novel, queer literature and film, science fiction, digital rhetoric, literature of the environment, and literary theory. She has also taught intercultural engagement courses, including immersive study experiences in France, Germany, Northern Ireland, and at the U.S. national chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimp Haven.
Jeanne’s administrative experiences include serving as department chair, coordinating first-year advising and first-year seminars, strategic planning, mentoring new faculty, program assessment, guiding recent student success efforts, and launching Centenary College’s Learning Commons and Center for Teaching and Learning.