Jane Gatewood, PhD

Jane Gatewood is the vice provost for global engagement at the University of Rochester (New York). She earned a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a PhD from the University of Georgia. Her administrative experience includes developing complex bi- and multi-lateral international partnerships for research, educational mobility, and economic development, and she has spent the last 15 years working at the intersection of business, higher education, and government and diplomatic relations.

She has been a Fulbright awardee (India) and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the School of Advanced Study (University of London). She was a visiting research editor for the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd Edition, Oxford University Press). Her academic training and expertise are in modern literary history, lexicography, and corpus linguistics. She regularly consults and speaks on the importance of partnerships to international higher education. Gatewood served as the 2019 chair of NAFSA's International Education Leadership (IEL) Knowledge Community (KC).