Dr. Leah Peck

Bio

With a twenty-five-year career in higher education administration and over a decade of teaching experience, Dr. Leah Peck serves as the Director of Faculty Global Engagement at NC State. In this leadership position, she collaborates with NC State faculty as the point of contact for faculty global engagement activities across the campus, including working with faculty colleagues to develop international research arcs for individuals and NC State institutes and centers, identifying external funding opportunities, and serving as a consultant on campus and curriculum internationalization practices. Before coming to NC State, Peck held a faculty appointment at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, serving first as the Director of Research, then as the Director of International Partnerships and Programs. Peck oversaw the 2022 Title VI proposal development process for IU’s NRC, FLAS and LRC centers, which yielded over 16M in federal funding for area and critical language studies and funded the highest number of Title VI centers in the United States for the awards cycle. She teaches in NC State’s Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development PhD program. Her research area focuses on universities as actors in bi- and multilateral international development work, and university capacity development efforts and outcomes in fragile and emerging contexts.

Peck runs the NC State Global Engagement Institute (GEI), the University Global Partnership Network (UGPN) Research Collaboration Fund, supervises the Global Faculty Fellows as part of the larger Provost’s Faculty Fellows Program, manages the internal OGE awards portfolio for faculty funding opportunities. She also pairs faculty with similar research goals and agendas as strategic international collaborators for research and funding opportunities, consults with faculty on COIL courses and curriculum internationalization efforts, crafts landscape assessments for departments and institutes to identify research opportunities and collaborative international connections. She manages the Committee on International Programs (CIP) and sits on the International Operations Council (IOC). She frequently works with the Office of Research Development and the Office for Faculty Excellence for campus-wide faculty resources to enhance high impact practices.