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In my role as Associate Provost, I work in Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, a position supported by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's Academic Leadership Fellowship and funded by the Mellon Foundation. I oversee faculty development and mentorship, chair the university's Mentoring Committee, coordinate programming for new faculty, and serve on the Inclusive Pedagogy Committee. 

Performance bio:

Originally from Naperville, Illinois, oboist Nora Anderson Lewis enjoys a varied performance career and has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series, with Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Boston Lyric Opera. She was a founding member of Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente and has performed in recital at St. Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London, and in live broadcasts on WFMT Chicago.

In 2025, Oxford University Press published Nora's Notes for Oboists: A Guide to the Repertoire, part of the Notes for Performers series, with support from the Â鶹ÊÓƵRF program and outstanding undergraduate students. With clarinetist Phillip O. Paglialonga and bassoonist Eric Van der Veer Varner, Nora was a founding member of the PEN Trio, a chamber ensemble that from 2010-2019 commissioned and premiered numerous new works and toured internationally. Summit Records released PEN Trio's album, Found Objects New Music for Reed Trio in 2019.

Nora has presented clinics, performances, and papers at national and international conferences and is a frequent guest artist at the Chicago Double Reed Festival and a regular performer and presenter at International Double Reed Society conferences. Honors include a Big-12 Faculty Fellowship, honorary membership in Sigma Alpha Iota as a National Arts Associate, and a Yale AlumniVentures Grant. She has served on the CMS National Advisory Board for performance, as editor for the Midwest Double Reed Society, and is consulting editor for The Instrumentalist magazine.

Prior to her appointment at Lawrence, she held faculty and administrative positions at Western Michigan University and Kansas State University, and an administrative role at New England Conservatory. Nora is a graduate of Lawrence's dual-degree program in oboe performance and philosophy and received a Master of Music degree from Yale University’s School of Music and a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.

At Lawrence, Nora has built an oboe studio of 8-10 students and worked with them in weekly lessons, studio classes, chamber music, and reed-making workshops. She has taught courses including Aesthetics of Music, Music in Fin-de-Siècle Paris and Vienna, music theory, and developed the course Sublime Frequencies: Punk Ethnography in Our Digital Age. She lives in Appleton, Wisconsin with her husband Keith, their two standard poodles, Cleo and Ziggy, and Siberian Forest Cat, Alexey. A few years ago, she walked 500 miles along the Camino de Santiago.