Associate Deans, Department Chairs, and Program Directors

Academic Year 2022-23

Fine Arts

  • Associate Dean – Alison Feldt
  • Chair, Department of Art and Art History – Peter Nelson
  • Vice-Chair, Department of Art and Art History – Nancy Thompson
  • Chair, Department of Dance – Heather Klopchin
  • Chair, Department of Music – Kathryn Ananda-Owens
  • Vice-Chair, Department of Music – David Carter
  • Director, Musical Theater – Tracey Engleman
  • Chair, Department of Theater – Bill Sonnega

Humanities

  • Associate Dean – Colin Wells
  • Chair, Department of Classics – Anne Groton
  • Chair, Department of English – Jon Naito
  • Chair, Department of German – Amanda Randall
  • Chair, Department of History – Anna Kuxhausen
  • Chair, Department of Norwegian – Amanda Randall
  • Section Head, Norwegian – Jenna Coughlin
  • Chair, Department of Philosophy – Danny Muñoz-Hutchinson
  • Chair, Department of Religion – Gregory Walter
  • Chair, Department of Romance Languages – Jonathan O’Conner
  • Section Head, French – Maria Vendetti
  • Director, Ancient & Medieval Studies – Anne Groton
  • Director, Enduring Questions – Mary Trull
  • Director, Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC) – Maria Vendetti

Interdisciplinary and General Studies

  • Associate Dean – Karil Kucera
  • Chair, Department of Asian Studies – Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak
  • Section Head, Chinese – Ying Zhou
  • Section Head, Japanese – Rika Ito
  • Chair, Department of Environmental Studies – Seth Binder
  • Chair, Department of Race, Ethnic, Gender and Sexuality Studies – Anthony Bateza
  • Chair, Department of Russian Language and Area Studies – Marc Robinson
  • Director, Africa and the African Diaspora – Joseph Mbele
  • Director, American Conversations – Kristina Medina-Vilariño
  • Director, Asian Conversations – Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak
  • Director, Environmental Conversation – Kiara Jorgenson
  • Director, Film and Media Studies – Björn Nordfjörd
  • Director, First Year Seminar – Heather Campbell
  • Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies – Hannah Ryan
  • Director, Integrative Studies – Karil Kucera
  • Director, Latin American Studies – Jonathan O’Conner
  • Director, Linguistic Studies – Jeremy Loebach
  • Director, Middle Eastern Studies – Jamie Schillinger
  • Director, Nordic Studies – Jenna Coughlin
  • Director, Public Affairs Conversation – Jason Marsh
  • Director, Race and Ethnic Studies – Anthony Bateza
  • Director, Race Matters Learning Community – Jon Naito
  • Director, Writing Program – Diane LeBlanc

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

  • Associate Dean – Tina Garrett
  • Chair, Department of Biology – Steve Freedberg
  • Chair, Department of Chemistry – Doug Beussman
  • Chair, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science – Paul Roback
  • Chair, Department of Physics – Jay Demas
  • Interim Chair, Department of Physics – Brian Borovsky 1/1/23-6/30/23
  • Chair, Department of Psychology – Gary Muir
  • Director, Biomolecular Science – Lisa Bowers
  • Director, Computer Science – Ryota Matsuura
  • Director, Engineering Studies – Alden Adolph
  • Director, Health Professions Committee – Kevin Crisp
  • Director, Mathematical Biology – Sara Clifton
  • Director, Mathematics – Matthew Wright
  • Co-Director, Neuroscience – Anne Walter
  • Co-Director, Neuroscience – Shelly Dickinson
  • Director, Science Conversation – Jeremy Loebach
  • Director, Statistics and Data Science – Katie Ziegler-Graham

Social Sciences

  • Associate Dean – Susan Smalling
  • Chair, Department of Economics – Ashley Hodgson
  • Chair, Department of Education – Elizabeth Leer
  • Chair, Department of Kinesiology – Cindy Book
  • Chair, Department of Nursing – Susan Huehn
  • Chair, Department of Political Science – Doug Casson
  • Chair, Department of Social Work and Family Studies – Melissa Mendez
  • Chair, Department of Sociology/Anthropology – David Schalliol
  • Director, Education – Social Studies – Courtney Humm
  • Director, Family Studies – Erica Kanewischer
  • Director, International Relations Concentration – Menevis Cilizoglu
  • Director, Management Studies – Sian Christie
  • Director, Public Health Studies – Andrea Conger
  • Director, Social Work – Melissa Mendez

TRIO

  • Director, McNair Scholars – Janis Johnson
  • Director, Student Support Services – Brian Greening

Updated September 9, 2022