About Naomi
Naomi Yavneh
Klos is the Director of the University Honors Program at Loyola University New
Orleans and Vice President of the National Collegiate Honors Council
(NCHC). An alumna of Hunter Elementary
and Hunter High Schools in New York City, she completed her undergraduate
degree in Comparative Literature cum laude at Princeton University, where she
was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and subsequently completed master’s and doctoral
degrees in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was a professor of interdisciplinary humanities at the University of South
Florida for 12 years, and was appointed USF’s first university-wide director of
undergraduate research and associate dean of the Honors College. In that
capacity, she was responsible for widely expanding the number of federally- and
internally-funded opportunities for collaborative research and scholarship
across the disciplines, including serving as Primary Investigator for six years
on a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(REU) Program, focused on the Social Aspects of Hurricanes with Vulnerable
Populations. This REU brought together faculty and administrators from the
Colleges of Medicine, Public Health, Behavioral Health and Arts & Sciences
with high ability undergraduates from around the country. A leader in developing models for
undergraduate collaborative scholarship in the Humanities, she was the founding
chair of the Council of Undergraduate Research’s Arts & Humanities Division.
In 2011, Yavneh
Klos became the first full-time director of the University Honors Program at
Loyola University, New Orleans, where she has increased recruitment and yield
by 70% and transformed the Honors curriculum to facilitate its completion by
students regardless of discipline, as well as to conform more closely to the
university’s social justice mission. She is chair of the Honors Consortium of
the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) and Vice President
of NCHC, an international organization representing almost 900 Honors colleges
and programs, encompassing approximately 25,000 faculty members and 250,000
students. In 2017, as President-Elect, she will be responsible for the NCHC
international honors conference in Atlanta.
The conference theme, “Just Honors,” will explore justice both as an
academic focus and also the role Honors can serve in addressing issues of
access, equity and technology in education.
In addition to presentations and publications
on honors education and undergraduate research, Yavneh Klos has published
extensively on gender and spirituality in Italian Renaissance culture,
including three award-winning essay collections on gender in the early modern
world. She is a former president and
current executive board member of the Society for the Study of Early Modern
Women, and is currently working on two projects:
- A handbook on Ignatian values in Honors education (“Not Just for Jesuits”)
- A study of Dorothy Hancock, Sarah Livingston Jay, Lady Christina Stewart (the daughter of Scottish nobility) and the hospitality of the Forgotten First Ladies under the Continental Congress and Articles of Confederation United States Republics.
DEGREES: Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; M.A. in
Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; A.B. in Comparative
Literature, Princeton University
The
American Hospitality: 1776-1976
The Forgotten First Ladies Exhibit
Naomi and Stanley Yavneh Klos
America’s Four United Republics
Venue 15696 | 2000 Louisiana Ave
The Forgotten First Ladies Exhibit
Naomi and Stanley Yavneh Klos
America’s Four United Republics
Venue 15696 | 2000 Louisiana Ave
New Orleans, LA | 70115
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