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Hugh Crumley PhD SFHEA

Academic Development | Early-Career Academic Formation
Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate Teaching Development
Duke University Graduate School

I work in academic practice and graduate academic development, focusing on how early-career scholars learn to teach and how universities support that formation. At Duke University I founded and lead the Certificate in College Teaching, and I direct the Preparing Future Faculty program, which connects doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars with mentors across diverse institutional contexts.

I engage in scholarship on peer observation, graduate teaching certificates, and the professional formation of early-career academics through publications, conference presentations, and collaborative research in academic development communities in the United States and the United Kingdom. I hold Senior Fellowship (SFHEA) with Advance HE.

My work examines how teaching is recognized and supported as scholarly practice within research-intensive universities and how institutions build durable structures for the academic development of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.