ELIZA JANE REILLY
She/Her
Eliza Jane Reilly is the Executive Director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. She has over two decades of experience in programs to advance civically relevant curriculum and academic leadership. Her past positions include Executive Director of the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) and Director of Programs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). From 2003-2013 Eliza focused on linking the college curriculum to civic issues through the directorship of the Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin & Marshall College, where she also had a faculty appointment in American Studies. In 2008 Eliza was appointed Director of the Phillips Museum at Franklin & Marshall. With a .5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she developed exhibition and faculty development programs that engaged faculty and students from the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences and made the campus museum a laboratory for innovative curriculum. Eliza holds a MA in the History of Art and a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. She has been a founder and Senior Scholar at the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement’s since 2001, becoming Executive Director in 2015. From 2015 to 2020 she held an appointment as a Research Professor in the Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook University. In 2018 Eliza was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Division Q) for her contributions to science education and civic engagement.