July 22, 2024
Professor Carmine Perrotti ’11 selected for Campus Compact leadership program
By Martha Young
Carmine Perrotti, Ph.D. ’11, assistant professor of public and community service studies, has been selected to participate in a nationwide leadership and professional development program that supports faculty and staff in strengthening their community-engaged scholarship.
Perrotti is one of 12 scholars who will be part of the 2024-2025 Campus Compact’s Engaged Scholars Initiative. Participants were chosen from Campus Compact member institutions throughout the country because of their commitment to equity in civic and community engagement work.
“I am incredibly excited and honored to have been selected,” Perrotti said. “Campus Compact is an important association and leader in the field of community engagement in U.S. higher education. This vibrant learning community will provide me the opportunity to further grow and develop as a community-engaged scholar, as well as make collective change on campus and within the field by collaborating with a national cohort of peers.”
During the academic year, Perrotti will participate in meetings, retreats, and collaborative scholarly work to strengthen his critical community-engaged scholarship.
Perrotti is eager to collaborate with fellow scholars on his current research study, “Moving from Partnership to Relationship: Neighborly Approaches to Higher Education Community Engagement,” which draws upon his past scholarship and the interdisciplinary field of community engagement in U.S. higher education.
“Utilizing case study as a research approach, I plan to examine community engagement at PC and within the college’s surrounding neighborhoods to critically consider the phenomenon of ‘neighborly engagement’ from the experiences of local community members,” Perrotti said.
He explained that his research challenges institutions to see themselves as neighbors and questions the aims of community engagement, the procedures enacted by institutions, and the locus of campus-community partnerships.
Perrotti’s research study is supported by an award from the Committee on Aid to Faculty Research and the Interdisciplinary Research Award program of the School of Arts and Sciences.
Perrotti joined the PC faculty in August 2023. Prior to his appointment, he was assistant director of community-engaged scholarship at the Swearer Center for Public Service and an adjunct assistant professor of education at Brown University. He earned a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a master’s degree in public policy from American University. He studied public and community service studies and political science as a PC undergraduate.
