Andrea Talentino
Andrea Kathryn Talentino is an American political scientist and academic administrator serving as the ninth president of Augustana College since 2022.
Early life and education
Talentino was born on January 5, 1968, in Binghamton, New York. She completed a B.A. in political science at Yale College. She earned an MA in 1994 and a PhD in 1998 in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation was titled, Intervention After the Cold War: The Motivations and Goals of Contemporary Multilateral Intervention and she was advised by Richard Rosecrance.Academic career
Talentino completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in the spring of 1999.From 1999 to 2005, Talentino was an assistant professor in the department of political science at Tulane University. She joined Drew University in 2008 as the chair of the political science department. She became the associate dean for curriculum and faculty development in 2011. From 2012 to 2017, Talentino was dean of the college of liberal arts at Norwich University, during which time she completed a M.B.A. with a concentration in organizational leadership. She joined Nazareth University in 2017 as its vice president for academic affairs. She was promoted to provost in 2020.