As Executive Director of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC), Eric Hartman strengthens opportunities for student learning and skill development while aligning both with public benefits for community organizations and democratic systems. This is only possible with wonderful teams of people at the CPGC, at off-campus partner organizations, and among CPGC student and faculty collaborators.
Eric brings more than a decade in leadership roles on campus and with the nonprofit organization Amizade, interspersed with tenure-track, full-time, and part-time faculty service across diverse institutions. As part of his applied scholarship and ongoing efforts to improve practices, he has offered more than 100 articles, keynotes, and consultancies deepening quality and expanding breadth of civic, community, and global engagement.
Dr. Hartman's book is Community-based global learning: The theory and practice of ethical engagement at home and abroad (Routledge, 2018). It is one among several academic pieces he has written to enhance understanding of experiential, civic, and global learning, including their interaction with community-driven development, outputs, and outcomes. Contributions include interrogating foundational democratic commitments in The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (2013), minting Fair Trade Learning as an ethical approach to international volunteering in Tourism and Hospitality Research (2014), exploring universal rights, community engagement, and leadership development in The Journal of Leadership Studies (2017), linking cultural wealth, rights advocacy, and quantitative analysis in Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (2020), and arguing that global thinking is essential for civic education in The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (2024).
Hartman has engaged broader audiences on topics of human dignity, ethical community engagement, and commitments to democracy, with opinion pieces in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2005, 2009), The Stanford Social Innovation Review (2016), Generocity (2019), The Pennsylvania Capital-Star (2021), and The Philadelphia Inquirer (2024). Feature articles in popular fora have also been a constant, including in the trade journals Transitions Abroad (2006, 2007) and International Educator (2011, 2015), as well as numerous articles in the travel site Matador Network and the social impact media outlet Generocity.
Eric earned his PhD in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, while simultaneously deepening that learning through cross-cultural development practice and education in Bolivia, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Tanzania, and throughout the United States. He co-founded both The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and the global engagement survey (GES).