Alice Lesnick

A faculty member in the Department of Education Studies at Bryn Mawr College since 1997, Alice also serves as Co-Director of Lagim Tehi Tuma (LTT), an action research consortium founded in 2013 and based at Bryn Mawr and in Dalun, Ghana. 

Alice's courses center community-based learning, inquiry-based research, and the relationships among language, culture, and schooling.  Having chaired the Education Studies Department over many years, she also advises majors. Her current research amplifies the wisdom of cross-disciplinary care work using an innovative research methodology of dialogue through deep listening and co-writing in a book forthcoming from Lever Press. 

A 2021 recipient of the McPherson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service to the Community and a trained mediator and restorative practitioner, Alice leads the Workplace Advisors program for conflict resolution and currently serves as Parliamentarian. Alice also serves as a Senior Faculty Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, where she leads professional development for educators in using writing to foster critical thinking and build communities of learning.

As Associate Dean for Global Engagement (a role she inaugurated in 2016 and concluded in 2024), Alice guided a network of committees coordinating the institution’s global engagement, overseeing institutional partnerships, creating global learning capacities, and convening the College’s travel safety council.

Alice holds a B.A. in English from Yale College, an M.A. in Liberal Education from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and a Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.