Lisa Krissoff Boehm Appointed Provost of Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan

Lisa Krissoff Boehm has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan. She will begin her new role in January 2025.

For the past seven years, Dr. Boehm has served as dean of the College of Graduate Studies at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. She also holds a faculty appointment as a professor of history and American studies. Before her current position, she was the founding dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Manhattanville College in Harrison, New York. Earlier in her career, she spent over a decade on the faculty at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, holding positions such as interim dean of humanities and social sciences, chair of the department of urban studies, and director of the Commonwealth Honors Program.

As a scholar, Dr. Boehm has focused her work on American urban history. She is the author of several books including America’s Urban History (Routledge, 2023) and Making a Way Out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration (University Press of Mississippi, 2010).

Dr. Boehm is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she majored in English with concentrations in writing and history. She holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American history from Indiana University Bloomington.