Dr. Noah D. Drezner is an associate professor of higher education in the higher and postsecondary education program. Dr. Drezner holds his bachelor's of science from the University of Rochester, a graduate certificate in non-profit leadership from Roberts Wesleyan College, and his master's of science in education and doctor of philosophy degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to returning to graduate school, Dr. Drezner was an advancement officer at the University of Rochester, where he gained the practitioner experience that informs his research.  Most recently, he was an associate professor of higher education at the University of Maryland. While there he was instrumental in the establishment of the Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Maryland’s School of Public Policy, where he continues to hold an affiliate appointment as Senior Research Fellow. In 2011, Noah was named one of 13 university professors to the inaugural cohort of Honors College faculty.

His research interests include philanthropy and fundraising as it pertains to colleges and universities, including higher education's role in the cultivation of prosocial behaviors. Currently, Dr. Drezner is researching how a person’s social identities affect their giving to higher education and how colleges and universities can engage their alumni in more inclusive ways. He is the co-PI for the National Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Alumni, a multi-institutional mixed methods project, and recently completed a population-based survey experiment that evaluates how a person’s social identities affect their propensity to donate and at what level when exposed to different types of fundraising solicitations.