Theresa Tensuan
Theresa Tensuan
she/her/hers
Associate Dean of the College, Dean for Diversity and Community Engagement, Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs
Stokes 118 A-1
(610) 896-1420
Assigned Students: 
A-B ('21, '22, '23); A-F ('24)
Make an Appointment
ttensuan [at] haverford.edu
Assistant:
Roxanne Madden

Education

B.A., Haverford College
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Biography

As an Associate Dean of the College, the Dean for Diversity and Community Engagement, and the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) at Haverford College, I work in collaboration with members of the Haverford community to foster the interrelations between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), academic excellence, and community engagement.

In my capacity as Dean for Diversity and Community Engagement, I support the work of the Marilou Allen Office of Service and Community Collaboration, International Students Support Office , the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Gender Resources and Sexual Education (GRASE) Center. I contribute to the work of the Educational Policy Committee and the Community Engagement and Social Responsibility working group, and co-direct the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program.

As an Associate Dean of the College, I collaborate with other members of the Dean's Office in supporting Haverford students in their processes of discernment over the course of their intellectual development at the college, and in the context of our collective commitment to a community based on trust, concern, and respect.

In the Office of Multicultural Affairs, we support individuals and organizations working to foster cultural and intellectual diversity at Haverford College through initiatives that expand and extend our collective understanding of the challenges and opportunities of creating a truly diverse community.

As a teacher and scholar, I focus on the interrelation between aesthetic formulations of subjectivity and practices of social transformation in the arenas of autobiography, visual culture studies, and critical discourses concerning gender and race. I forge my work in conversation with disability rights activists and art historians as well as with literary theorists and visual artists.