She/Her/Hers
Associate Director
Carly is the Associate Director for the Gender, Leadership, and Empowerment Center at Lehigh University. She received her PhD in Linguistics from The Ohio State University, and prior to Lehigh, she was part of the Language and Social Justice Initiative of the Language Engagement Project at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her area of expertise is language and gender, with a special research interest in how notions of gender (and specifically masculinity) are constructed, perceived, and performed in Albanian society.
At the GLE, Carly oversees the Equity Rep program and works with students from across campus on programming, workshops, and events.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking and baking, watching dark Scandinavian detective series, gardening, and spending time with her family.