Joe Urgo is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina Asheville. A former Senior Fellow with the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Urgo served as president of St. Mary's College of Maryland from 2010-2013. Urgo served as Dean of Faculty at Hamilton College (2006-2010) and Chair of the Department of English at The University of Mississippi (2000-2006). He rose through the faculty ranks at Bryant University (1989-2000) and held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt University (1986-1989). Urgo has a PhD from Brown University in American Civilization, an M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University, and a B.A. from Haverford College.