Santa Clara University

Lucia Albino Gilbert

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Lucia Albino Gilbert is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Counseling Psychology. As Provost, she is the chief academic officer with responsibility for all educational programs and offerings of the University, as well as academic policies, faculty affairs and personnel matters, and student life issues. She provides leadership to the Deans, Vice Provosts, Chief Information Officer, and Director of Athletics and Recreation to ensure that the educational programs and offerings are consistent with the University's vision, mission, and values.

Prior to being appointed Provost at Santa Clara, Dr. Gilbert served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Professor of Educational Psychology, and Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Honors Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Gilbert has an extensive record of scholarship including four books, one edited book, and more than 70 articles in refereed journals. She also has made more than 50 invited presentations and presented more than 70 papers at professional meetings.

Dr. Gilbert has been honored with several national and university awards recognizing her teaching excellence, her scholarship, and her mentoring of students.

Dr. Gilbert’s research interests include women's and girls' development; work and family; broadening technological opportunities for middle school girls; and the influence of gender processes on negotiating sexuality in late adolescent dating relationships, on family-work participation in dual-career and dual-earner families and in counseling and psychotherapy. Her teaching interests include gender and education, research methods and design, psychology of women and gender, work and family, and gender issues in mental health.

Phone: (408) 554-4533

E-mail: LGilbert@scu.edu