American academic
Lisa Vollendorf is an American scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century women’s cultural history in Iberia and Latin America, and college administrator. She is currently the president of Empire State University.
Academic career.
She received BA in English and Spanish from Colorado State University in 1990, an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. 
She was department chair, senate chair, and professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach (2005–12). She began her teaching career at Miami University of Ohio (1995–97) and earned tenure at Wayne State University in Detroit (1997-2005). 
Vollendorf was Dean ofd Humanities and the Arts at San José State University (2012-2017), where she led efforts in collaboration with the city of San José to bring the Hammer Theatre to life. From 2017-2020, she was Provost and Executive Vice President of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.
She was Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Northern Colorado, and Special Advisor for Academic Planning and Operational Continuity for the California State University system (2020–21). 
In 2022, she became the sixth President of Empire State University, part of the State University of New York (SUNY). 
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