Peter Cahn

VP of Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer

During my career in higher education, I have taught undergraduate and graduate students in both flagship public institutions and small private colleges. The common thread has been my background as a cultural anthropologist, seeking to make visible the forces that structure how people live in community. As an active fieldworker, I applied an ethnographic approach to studying the dynamics of contemporary spirituality in Latin America. Now, as an academic administrator, I take a social scientist’s eye to improving the practices of higher education.  

Peter S. Cahn CV

What I love about Emmanuel:
Emmanuel embodies the hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to “educate for and act on behalf of justice, peace, and care for all creation.” Learning here involves the whole person and how we connect to each other for the benefit of the common good.  

 

PhD University of California, Berkeley
MPhil University of Cambridge
AB Harvard University

  • Cahn, P. S. (2020). How interprofessional collaborative practice can help dismantle systemic racism. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(4), 431–434. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2020.1790224
  • Cahn, P. S. (2022). Defusing land mines: Keywords about race in nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education, 61(7), 408–412. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20220613-06
  • Cahn, P.S. (2023). Answering the call: Experiences of implementing antiracist interventions in health care. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 34(4), 1210–1220.
  • Cahn, P.S. (2023). Accounting for agency in structural competency. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 29(3), 1059–1066. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-023-10299-8
  • Cahn, P.S., Watkins Liu, C., & Hobbs, M. (2024). Using narrative to integrate anti-oppression into interprofessional collaborative practice competencies. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 38(3), 583–586. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2024.2303498
  • Cahn, P.S. (2025). Health equity implications of a feminized health care workforce. Journal of Health Equity, 2(1), 2487063. https://doi.org/10.1080/29944694.2025.2487063
  • International Education Administrators Seminar in India, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
  • Frank and Sarah Olson Visiting Professor in Simulation Education, NYSIM, New York, NY        
  • Susan Vogt Leadership Fellow, The Boston Consortium for Higher Education, Boston, MA
  • Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA