Sophia Wisniewska (M.A., Ph.D., Russian) has been appointed to the board of trustees of Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. Wisniewska received her Ph.D. in 1992, completing a dissertation, Narrative Structure in the Work of Tatjana Tolstaja, under the direction of Professor Dan E. Davidson.
After completing her PhD, Wisniewski held teaching positions at Penn State, Temple University and Bryn Mawr College. She served as chancellor of Penn State Brandywine from 2005 to 2013, when she became regional chancellor of the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.