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Hugh Crumley PhD SFHEA

Academic Practice | Professional Formation
Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate Teaching Development
Duke University Graduate School

I am an academic development leader focused on how early-career scholars learn to teach and how institutions support that formation in sustained, rigorous ways. At Duke University, I founded and lead the Certificate in College Teaching, the university’s largest program preparing PhD students to teach, and I lead the Preparing Future Faculty program, which connects doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars with mentors across diverse institutional contexts.

My work integrates program design, scholarly inquiry, and international engagement. I publish on peer observation, graduate teaching certificates, and early-career academic formation, and I collaborate with colleagues in the United States and the United Kingdom on comparative approaches to teaching development.  I am particularly interested in how teaching is recognized and supported as scholarly work within research-intensive universities.  Across my roles, I aim to strengthen the recognition of teaching as scholarly, reflective practice grounded in equity, evidence, and community.