Joe Urgo is Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina Asheville.
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 also earned a grant for the university from the Mississippi Humanities Council for a Creative Writing Program at Marshall County Corrections Facility.
He coordinated Hamilton’s campus-wide strategic planning process and created the position of associate dean for diversity initiatives.
[1] Urgo's research interests focus on the works of 20th-century American novelists and writers William Faulkner and Willa Cather.