Rebecca Sherrill More, Ph.D.

Director, Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History, Brown University
Adjunct Professor, History, Division of Liberal Arts: HPSS, Rhode Island School of Design

Phone: (401) 863-1141
Sheridan_Director@Brown.edu

Dr. More holds an A.B. in History from the University of Virginia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Brown University. Her research focuses on the social, economic and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern England, including gender studies. Dr. More’s involvement in professional development programs for faculty and concern for teaching to variations in learning dates from 1977. She has been associated with the Sheridan Center, Brown’s professional development center for faculty and graduate students, since 1987 and directed the Center’s operations since 1992. Under her direction the Sheridan Center has developed a comprehensive series of programs, services and publications to provide professional development support to the faculty and graduate students of Brown University. Over the years, these activities have expanded to include faculty and graduate students from the Rhode Island School of Design. These various activities represent a collegial exchange about pedagogy in higher education firmly rooted in the needs of the University’s teaching community. Her career has included work as Tour Director for the Providence Preservation Society, and owner/instructor of the Benefit Street Cookery School from 1972-1986. Her publications include editing the Sheridan Center's Teaching Exchange (1992-),The Rewards of Virtue (1998), Out to Lunch co-authored with Reva A. Stern (1985), the introduction to the 1989 edition of Horace Walpole’s essay On Modern Gardening (1780), numerous conference papers, book reviews, and local history projects. Dr. More has served on the boards of Providence Preservation Society, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (Brown University), the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the New England Faculty Development Consortium, the Concord Academy Alumni, and on Garden Club of America local and national committees (Scholarship and Civic Projects). She currently serves on as trustee of the Weeks Medical Center (Lancaster NH),on the President's Council of Plymouth State University (NH), and on the National Council of Strawbery Banke Museum (Portsmouth, NH).