Tara Liss-Mariño, Ph.D.

 

She currently serves as Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Student Services at Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences, overseeing the undergraduate advising and recruitment teams, leading the College's academic transformation initiative and acting as a strategic partner to the Dean. Prior to joining Drexel, she spent nearly a decade at the University of Michigan in a number of roles, including directing college-wide communication and engagement strategies for more than 17,000 undergraduates in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

 

Liss-Mariño earned her PhD in Communication from Penn's Annenberg School, where her doctoral research drew on qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore the intersection of new technologies, neoliberal creative work, and gendered labor. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature and a BFA in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis.