Dr. Tania Boster has been named the Director of the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) in the Office of the Dean of the College.  Her appointment is effective August 22.

Tania comes to us from Oberlin College, where she worked for the past decade and served most recently as the Executive Director of Oberlin's Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching & Research and inaugural Director of Experiential Learning in the College of Arts and Sciences. Tania brings to Princeton deep and varied experiences with community-engaged teaching and learning, along with a demonstrated commitment to working collaboratively to co-create knowledge with campus and community partners in locations ranging from Lorain County, Ohio to Hong Kong. She taught courses in Oberlin’s History Department and in the First Year Seminar Program focused on community history methods including participatory research, oral history, and digital humanities. 

Throughout her time at Oberlin, Tania worked closely with faculty to develop programs and curricula that create transformative experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate students. As the Director of Bonner Center Curricular Initiatives, she successfully helped steward the implementation of a community-based learning course designation, representing courses and research integrated throughout the liberal arts and music conservatory curricula, and recognition of public scholarship in institutional guidelines on tenure and promotion at Oberlin.

Prior to her work at Oberlin, Boster coordinated strategic projects and initiatives at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Pittsburgh.

Contact Tania at [email protected].