Dr. Michael Galchinsky is the Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Affairs at Colorado State University, responsible for developing and reviewing undergraduate programs, general education, academic appeals, and undergraduate policies. Dr. Galchinsky collaborates with colleagues on innovative undergraduate credentials, student success, high-impact practices, academic advising and outreach, Honors, Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC, student learning assessment, and accreditation.

Dr. Galchinsky earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. in English from Northwestern University. He was an assistant professor at Millsaps College before spending 26 years at Georgia State University, working with colleagues there to improve student success. From 2022-25, he served as Georgia State’s inaugural Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and its representative to the University System of Georgia’s General Education Council.

In his scholarship, Dr. Galchinsky has investigated human rights and Jewish studies. His books include The Modes of Human Rights Literature: Towards a Culture without Borders (Palgrave, 2016), Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), and The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Wayne State UP, 1994). Since 2009, he has been a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.

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