Kathleen Waters Sander, Ph.D., Vice President of Fundraising

Kathleen Sander is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Maryland University College and in 2003 was awarded the university’s Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. She is a 2005 Fulbright Scholar to Russia, where she taught American history at St. Petersburg State University.  Dr. Sander has worked in institutional advancement, nonprofit administration, and communications for 25 years. Her skills in strategic, long-term planning and in successfully building advancement and management programs were demonstrated while serving as Director of Development at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the University System of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Sander earned a B.S. in English and Journalism from the Ohio Sate University. Her M.A. and Ph.D. studies at the University of Maryland College Park concentrated on 18th and 19th century American cultural and social history, including the history of American philanthropy, reform, and women's economic issues and entrepreneurship. She is the author of The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900 (University of Illinois Press, 1998) and Mary Elizabeth Garrett:  Society and Philanthropy in Gilded Age Baltimore to be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008.  She also is the author of numerous journal and newspaper articles on 19th century history.

Dr. Sander often speaks to local and national organizations on 18th and 19th history, philanthropy, and contemporary fund raising issues. She is a Commissioner for the Office on Women in Alexandria, Virginia and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion Endowment Fund in Baltimore.

 

 

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