Mark A. Roberts, Ph.D., serves as the 21st President of Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. Roberts has over 28 years teaching and administrating experience in higher education. In cooperation with a variety of valued colleagues, he has educated thousands of students and raised millions of dollars to help fund the important work of private higher education. As a scholar, he focuses on Appalachian culture and American poetry. Roberts is also a published poet, book reviewer, essayist, and literary editor. In the span of his career, Roberts has served as a fellow at the John S. Knight Institute at Cornell University, National Humanities Center, Salzburg Seminars, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Council of Independent Colleges’Institutional Mission and Vocation for aspiring presidents. Roberts has also given lectures on the value of and the challenges to American private higher education. An active citizen, he routinely advocates for a commitment to one’s specific region while encouraging local work that has constructive global impact, a philosophical concept referred to as “rooted cosmopolitanism.” He and his wife, Kelley, have four adult children and one granddaughter, Nara. Kelley and Mark live on a twenty-acre farm in Waleska, Georgia, which the family refers to as “Roberts’ Refuge.”