2025 FAS Dean of Social Science Search Advisory Committee (ad hoc)

Purpose

The FAS Dean of Social Science Science Search Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of FAS dean of social science. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates and a sense of their strengths.

Role and Responsibilities of FAS Dean of Science

FAS Dean of the Division of Social Science Description of Responsibilities, September 2025

  • The FAS Dean of Social Science oversees the day-to-day well-being and mid- and long-term planning of the departments and programs in the social science division of the FAS and (in conjunction with the FAS Dean of Humanities where appropriate) of certain cross-divisional programs. They oversee faculty hiring plans, hiring processes, offers, recruitments, and retentions, as well as faculty promotion, tenure, and retirement for these FAS academic units. They chair the social science advisory committee, and with the dean of the FAS, lead the social science tenure appointments and promotions committee.
  • The FAS Dean of Social Science sits on the major FAS committees, including FAS Steering (which oversees all matters of FAS policy) and the Faculty Resource Committee (which oversees the allocation of all FAS faculty searches). Together with the FAS deans of humanities and science, they meet regularly with the Dean of the FAS to coordinate FAS-wide goals, strategies, policies, and practices.  

Committee Membership

Dan Spielman, Committee Chair | Sterling Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Statistics and Data Science, and of Mathematics

Costas Arkolakis | Professor of Economics

Veneeta Dayal | Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics; Chair, Department of Linguistics

Jennifer Gandhi | Howard Wang ’95 Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science; Deputy Dean, Jackson School of Global Affairs

Philip Gorski | Frederic and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology

Nick Turk-Browne | Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and in the Child Study Center; Director, Wu Tsai Institute

Claudia Valeggia | Professor of Anthropology

Bob Burger | Staff, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

 

Administrative support for the committee: Alex Nedelcu, Senior Administrative Assistant, FAS Dean's Office