M. Cristina Alcalde

Vice President for Transformational and Inclusive Excellence, Miami University
M. Cristina Alcalde is Vice President for Transformational and Inclusive Excellence at Miami University. She also holds an appointment as professor of global and intercultural studies. In her VP role, she provides strategic vision and leadership for a holistic, coordinated approach to inclusive excellence for faculty, staff, and students.

Before joining Miami, she served as associate dean of inclusion and internationalization in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Marie Rich Endowed Professor in gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky, where she also designed and directed the Online Graduate Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion. As a scholar-practitioner, she has published widely and speaks nationally and internationally on inclusion, race and racialization, gender violence, migration, exclusion, belonging, and leadership.

In addition to dozens of journal articles and chapters, her books include Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education (2022); #MeToo and Beyond: Perspectives on a Global Movement (2022); Familia, exclusión y racismo de la peruanidad: la tía Eliana (2022); Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home (2018); Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought (2015); La mujer en la violencia (2014); and The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru (2010). Recent shorter pieces on women in leadership positions, re-envisioning leadership in higher ed, and women of color and burnout have appeared in Inside Higher Ed and Ms. Magazine. She is co-editor of the Navigating Careers in Higher Ed Book Series, Editorial Board Member of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Editorial Board Member of Insight into Diversity. In 2024, she was named as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Ohio by Women We Admire.

Education
Ph.D., Indiana University