Alice Lesnick

Alice Lesnick teaches in the Department of Education Studies at Bryn Mawr College and serves as Associate Co-Director of Lagim Tehi Tuma (LTT), a summer action research consortium based at Bryn Mawr and in Dalun, Ghana.

As a faculty member, Alice currently teaches courses on community-based learning and the literacies of learning) and has chaired the Education Department over many years. Her current research amplifies the wisdom of care work using an innovative research methodology of dialogue through deep listening and co-writing in a book forthcoming from Lever Press. Recent peer-reviewed articles written with collaborators on other facets of her research on dialogic learning are found in the Journal of Interactive Pedagogy and Technology and the International Journal of Students as Partners.

A 2021 recipient of the McPherson Award for Excellence in Teaching and Service to the Community and a trained mediator, restorative practitioner, and facilitator, Alice leads the Workplace Advisors program for conflict resolution and serves as a founding member of CARLA – the coalition for anti-racist literacy.

As Associate Dean for Global Engagement (a role she inaugurated in 2016 and concluded in 2024), Alice guided a network of committees overseeing the institution’s global engagement, including 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.