Committees

Purpose

The 320 York Street Humanities Grant Selection Committee convenes each spring to choose among applicants for the collaborative project grants supported by the 320 York Humanities endowment. The committee is chaired by the Dean of Humanities. It includes the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center (ex officio), a representative from the Yale College Dean’s Office, and a body of ladder faculty, instructional faculty, and graduate student representatives from across the humanities.

Committee Membership

Amy Hungerford (committee chair) | Dean of Humanities; Bird White Housum Professor of English and Professor of American Studies

Jennifer Allen | Assistant Professor of History

Paola Bertucci | Associate Professor of History and of History of Medicine; Assistant Curator, Peabody Museum

Molly Brunson | Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of History of Art

Matthew Jacobson | William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and Professor of African American Studies and of History

Edward Kamens | Sumitomo Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

George Levesque | Associate Dean of Yale College, Dean of Academic Programs, Lecturer in History

Kathryn Lofton | Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, and of History

Tavia Nyong’o | Professor of American Studies and Theater Studies, and of African American Studies

Ayesha Ramachandran | Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Kishwar Rizvi | Associate Professor of the History of Art

Karin Roffman | Senior Lecturer in Humanities and in English; Associate Research Scholar in American Studies

Pierre Saint-Amand | Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French

Theresa Schenker | Senior Lector in German, Language Program Director of German

Alicia Schmidt Camacho | Professor of American Studies; Associate Head of Ezra Stiles College

Zoltan Szabo | Professor of Philosophy and of Linguistics

Gary Tomlinson (ex officio) | John Hay Whitney Professor in the Music Department and Professor of Humanities; Director of the Whitney Humanities Center

Shawkat Toorawa | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Andrew Vielkind | Graduate Student representative for 320 York project, History of Art and Film and Media Studies

Anna Zayaruznaya | Assistant Professor in the Music Department

Tongjia (Alex) Zhang | Graduate Student representative for 320 York project, Classics and Philosophy

Purpose

FAS Dean of Science Search Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of FAS dean of science, whether current full professors in the FAS or those who will be joining the FAS as full professors as the result of recent searches. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates and a sense of their strengths and challenges.

Position Description

FAS Dean of Science Position Description, 30 January 2017

Committee Membership

Paul Turner | Committee Chair; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Professor of Microbiology; Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Charles Ahn | William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Applied Physics; Professor of Mechanical  Engineering & Materials Science; Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Applied Physics

Gary Brudvig | Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Director of the Energy Sciences Institute; Chair of the Department of Chemistry

Debra Fischer | Professor of Astronomy and of Geology & Geophysics

Vivian Irish | Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Joanne Meyerowitz | Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies

Purpose

FAS Dean School of Engineering & Applied Science Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of the Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, whether current full professors in the FAS or those who will be joining the FAS as full professors as the result of recent searches. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates, and a sense of their strengths and challenges.

Position Description

FAS Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science Position Description, 1 June 2017

Committee Membership

Second-round advisory committee

Holly Rushmeier, Professor of Computer Science (committee chair)

Menachem Elimelech, Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering

Udo Schwarz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Hong Tang, Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics

Vincent Wilczynski, Deputy Dean of SEAS and James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (committee staff)

First-round advisory committee

Holly Rushmeier, Professor of Computer Science (committee chair)

Andre Levchenko, John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Marshall Long, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Jordan Peccia, Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Mariana Raykova, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Leandros Tassiulus, John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering

Madhu Venkadesan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Ed Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research and Professor of Public Health (outside member)

Vincent Wilczynski, Deputy Dean of SEAS and James S. Tyler Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design (committee staff)

Purpose

FAS Dean of Humanities Search Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of FAS dean of humanities, whether current full professors in the FAS or those who will be joining the FAS as full professors as the result of recent searches. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates, and a sense of their strengths and challenges, by the end of the fall semester 2019.

Position Description

Dean of Humanities Description of Responsibilities, 21 August 2019

Committee Membership

Paul North | Committee Chair; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Cécile Fromont | Associate Professor of History of Art

Langdon Hammer | Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English

Tina Lu | Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures; Head of Pauli Murray College

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History; Chair of the Department of History

Ian Shapiro | Sterling Professor of Political Science

John Mangan | Staff; Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Dean of Faculty Affairs

Purpose

FAS Dean of Social 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, whether current full professors in the FAS or those who will be joining the FAS as full professors as the result of recent searches. The committee’s charge is to provide the Dean with a list of promising candidates, and a sense of their strengths and challenges.

Position Description

FAS Dean of Social Science Position Description, February 2021

Committee Membership 2021

Steven Berry | David Swensen Professor of Economics, Committee Chair

Ana De La O | Associate Professor of Political Science  

Emily Erikson | Associate Professor of Sociology  

Anjelica Gonzalez | Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Faculty Director of Tsai CITY (outside member)

Erik Harms | Associate Professor of Anthropology  

Jutta Joormann | Professor of Psychology  

Raffaella Zanuttini | Professor of Linguistics and Department Chair, Linguistics  

Harrison Zhou | Henry Ford II Professor of Statistics and Data Science, and Department Chair, Statistics and Data Science  

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

Purpose

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

Role and Responsibilities of FAS Dean of Science

FAS Dean of the Division of Science Description of Responsibilities, March 2022

• The FAS Dean of Science oversees the day-to-day well-being and mid- and long-term planning of the departments in the FAS Division of Science: Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics, as well as Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. The FAS Dean of Science will coordinate efforts between and among these departments. For each of these units, they oversee faculty hiring plans, hiring processes, offers, recruitments, retentions, and use of the Science Development Funds, as well as faculty lifecycle issues including promotion, tenure, and retirement. They lead, with the Dean of the FAS (and, as relevant, the Dean of the Medical School and the Dean of SEAS), the relevant tenure appointments and promotions committees (TACBS and PSETAC).
• The FAS Dean of Science sits on the major FAS committees, including FAS Steering (which oversees matters of FAS policy) and the Faculty Resource Committee (which oversees the allocation of FAS faculty searches). Together with the FAS Deans of Humanities, Social Science, and Diversity and Faculty Development, they meet regularly with the Dean of the FAS to coordinate FAS-wide goals, strategies, policies, and practices.

Committee Membership

Scott Miller | Committee Chair; Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry, FAS

Ruth Blake | Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, FAS

Ron Breaker | Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, FAS

Deborah Coen | Professor of History; Chair of the History of Science & Medicine Program, FAS

Erika Edwards | Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, FAS

Meg Urry | Israel Munson Professor of Physics, FAS

Lisa Turner | Staff; Senior Administrative Assistant, Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Purpose

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

Position Description and Responsibilities

FAS Dean of the Division of Humanities Description of Responsibilities, September 2023

The FAS Dean of Humanities oversees the day-to-day well-being and mid- and long-term planning of the 20+ departments and programs in the humanities division of the FAS. They oversee faculty hiring plans, hiring processes, offers, recruitments, and retentions, as well as faculty lifecycle issues including promotion, tenure, and retirement for these FAS departments. They chair the humanities advisory committee (HAC), and with the Dean of the FAS, lead the humanities tenure appointments and promotions committee (HTAC).

The FAS Dean of Humanities sits on the major FAS committees, including FAS Steering (which oversees matters of FAS policy) and the Faculty Resource Committee (which oversees allocation of FAS faculty searches). Together with the FAS Deans of Social Science and Science, they meet regularly with the Dean of the FAS to coordinate FAS-wide goals, strategies, policies, and practices.

Committee Membership

Joanne Meyerowitz, Committee Chair; Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and American Studies

Morgane Cadieu, Associate Professor of French

Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History

Jonathan Kramnick, Maynard Mack Professor of English

Marsha Marcum, Lead Building Services Coordinator, Humanities Quadrangle (staff advisory member)

Priyamvada Natarajan, Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics; Chair of the Department of Astronomy (outside member)

Kathryn Slanski, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Michael Veal, Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music and Professor of African American Studies

Carolyn Kyrtopoulos, Staff: Senior Administrative Assistant, Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

John Mangan, Staff: Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Purpose

The purpose of the Academic Review Committee (ARC) was to carry forward the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Resources and Budgeting for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (also known as the “Nordhaus Committee”). The committee was charged by then-Provost Peter Salovey with reviewing “the allocation of faculty positions across divisions and departments” and with recommending any necessary changes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). This charge excluded the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and the West Campus. The Provost also asked the ARC to follow up on recommendations of the Nordhaus Committee concerning the accounting and management of faculty positions.

Committee Report

FAS Academic Review Committee Report (April, 2014)

Committee Membership 2012-14

Steven Berry | James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics; director of the division of Social Science

Julia Adams | Professor and former chair of Sociology; deputy provost for the Social Sciences and Faculty Development; director of the division of Social Science

Michael Donoghue | Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jack Dovidio | Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology

Jonathan Ellman | Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Pharmacology; director of the division of Physical Sciences and Engineering

Donald Engelman | Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; director of the division of Biological Sciences

Tamar Gendler | Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science; former chair of Philosophy; Deputy Provost for the Humanities and initiatives

Jonathan Holloway | Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies and Chair of African American Studies

Lawrence Manley | William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English; director of the division of the Humanities

Mary Miller | Dean of Yale College; Sterling Professor of History of Art

Tom Pollard | Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ramamurti Shankar | John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Ian Shapiro | Sterling Professor of Political Science; Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

J Lloyd Suttle* (non-voting member) | Deputy Provost for Academic Resources

Jing Tsu | Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Purpose

The Advisory Committee for Diversity and Faculty Development includes faculty members from the humanities, social sciences and sciences. These members work together to ensure a systemic commitment to diversity and a focus on faculty development in the FAS. Chaired by the Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in the FAS, the Committee works to create an equitable intellectual and institutional environment for successful recruitment, retention, and promotion of all faculty.

Committee Report

Advisory Committee for Diversity and Faculty Development Report (March 10, 2017)

Committee Membership 

2017-18

Kathryn (Katie) Lofton | Committee Chair (fall only); Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of Divinity, of History, of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Larry Gladney (spring only) | Committee Chair; Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development; Professor of Physics

Héctor Arce | Associate Professor of Astronomy

Alicia Schmidt Camacho | Professor of American Studies and of Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies

Enrique M. De La Cruz | Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Jacqueline Goldsby | Chair, African American Studies; Professor of English, of American Studies and of African American Studies

Inderpal Grewal | Chair, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, of Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies, of American Studies, of Anthropology and of South Asian Studies

Briallen Hopper | Faculty Fellow, University Church at Yale; Lecturer of English

D. S. Fahmeed Hyder | Professor of Biomedical Engineering, of Radiology and of Biomedical Imaging

Reina Maruyama | Associate Professor of Physics

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History

Mary O’Brien | Director of Clinical Training and Clinic Director, Department of Psychology

Jonathan Parr | Lecturer of Chemistry

David M. Post | Chair, University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Steven Wilkinson | Chair, Political Science; Nilekani Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Jennifer Richeson | Special Advisor to the Committee; Phillip R. Allen Professor of Psychology

2016-17

Kathryn (Katie) Lofton | Committee Chair; Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of Divinity, of History, of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Héctor Arce | Associate Professor of Astronomy

Alicia Schmidt Camacho | Professor of American Studies and of Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies

Enrique M. De La Cruz | Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Jacqueline Goldsby | Chair, African American Studies; Professor of English, of American Studies and of African American Studies

Inderpal Grewal | Chair, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, of Ethnicity, Race and Migration Studies, of American Studies, of Anthropology and of South Asian Studies

Briallen Hopper | Faculty Fellow, University Church at Yale; Lecturer of English

D. S. Fahmeed Hyder | Professor of Biomedical Engineering, of Radiology and of Biomedical Imaging

Reina Maruyama | Associate Professor of Physics

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History

Mary O’Brien | Director of Clinical Training and Clinic Director, Department of Psychology

Jonathan Parr | Lecturer of Chemistry

David M. Post | Chair, University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Steven Wilkinson | Chair, Political Science; Nilekani Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Jennifer Richeson | Special Advisor to the Committee; Phillip R. Allen Professor of Psychology

Purpose

The Center for Language Study (CLS) Advisory Committee advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the future of the CLS, both in the near-term and beyond.

Committee Membership

Angela Lee-Smith | Senior Lector II of Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Kathryn Lofton | Dean of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies; Professor of History and Divinity

John Mangan | Committee Co-chair; Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Theresa Schenker | Senior Lector II of German, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Co-chair, Language Study Committee

Pamela Schirmeister | Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Undergraduate Education, Yale College; Deputy Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Kevin van Bladel | Committee Co-chair; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Steven Wilkinson | Vice Provost for Global Strategy; Director, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Nilekani Professor of Political Science

Suzanne Young | Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Professional Development, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; former Director, Graduate and Postdoctoral Teaching Development, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning; former Associate Director, Center for Language Study

Jason Zentz | Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Purpose

The FAS Communications Advisory Committee will provide guidance to facilitate communication between the FAS Dean’s Office and the broader FAS and university community. The committee will aid in developing strategy to enhance the visibility of the FAS at Yale and beyond and will provide feedback on best practices for FAS communications. The committee will meet monthly during the Spring 2022 and Fall 2022 semesters, beginning in April 2022, and will develop a set of recommendations for the FAS Dean’s Office. Recommendations may address:

• Best practices for community-wide communications from the FAS Dean’s Office;
• Priorities and goals for telling the stories of the FAS;
• Improving access to information on the FAS website;
• Resources that would enhance departmental, divisional, or FAS-wide communications capabilities;
• Other related topics that the committee deems relevant.

Committee Report and FAS Dean's Office Response

Report and Recommendations of the FAS Communications Advisory Committee

Response to Communications Advisory Report from the FAS Dean's Office

Committee Membership

Alexandra Apolloni (co-chair) | Project Specialist for Communications and Faculty Development, FAS Dean’s Office

Arielle Baskin-Sommers (co-chair) | Associate Professor, Psychology

Micah Cormier | Director of Special Media Projects, FAS Dean’s Office

Julienne Hadley | Director of Strategic Communications, Internal Communications

Nilay Hazari | John Randolph Huffman Professor, Chemistry

Paul Kockelman | Professor, Anthropology

Catherine Nicholson | Professor, English

Renee Reed | Senior Administrative Assistant, Judaic Studies

Rebecca Toseland | Senior Lecturer, Economics; Director of Research Support, Tobin Center

Ezgi Yalcin | Lector, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Purpose

The Creative Arts Advisory Committee advises the Teaching Resource Advisory Committee (TRAC) on longer-term and resource intensive non-ladder FAS appointments in arts practice, and advises the Humanities Tenure Appointments and Promotions Committee on cases where arts practice is a significant component of a ladder faculty appointment or promotion.

Its members also meet with leadership from FAS departments where teaching and research in the arts is housed and with the leadership from the professional schools as appropriate to discuss strategy and standards for developing Yale’s riches in the creative arts.

Committee Membership 

2020-21

Marc Robinson | Committee Chair; Program Chair, Theater and Performance Studies; Professor of Theater Studies, of English and of American Studies; Professor in the Practice, School of Drama

Dudley Andrew | R. Seldon Rose Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Film Studies

Emily P. Bakemeier | Vice Provost

Richard Deming | Senior Lecturer in English

Lisa Kereszi | Senior Critic in Art

Kate Krier | Assistant Dean for the Arts; Special Adviser, Schwarzman Center; Director of Production

Kathryn Lofton | Acting Dean of Humanities; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, and of History

John R. Mangan | Dean of Faculty Affairs, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Bimal Mendis | Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Architecture

Pam Schirmeister | Deputy Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School; Dean of Undergraduate Education and Senior Associate Dean, Yale College

Taryn Wolf | Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Art

2019-20

Marc Robinson | Committee Chair; Program Chair, Theater and Performance Studies; Professor of Theater Studies, of English and of American Studies; Professor in the Practice, School of Drama

Dudley Andrew | R. Seldon Rose Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Film Studies

Emily P. Bakemeier | Vice Provost

Richard Deming | Senior Lecturer in English

Lisa Kereszi | Senior Critic in Art

Kate Krier | Assistant Dean for the Arts; Special Adviser, Schwarzman Center; Director of Production

Kathryn Lofton | Acting Dean of Humanities; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, and of History

John R. Mangan | Dean of Faculty Affairs, Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Bimal Mendis | Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Architecture

Pam Schirmeister | Deputy Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School; Dean of Undergradate Education and Senior Associate Dean, Yale College

Taryn Wolf | Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Art

2018-19

Tavia Nyong’o | Committee Chair; Profesor of Theater Studies and of American Studies

Emily P. Bakemeier | Deputy Provost

Francesco Casetti | Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Film Studies

Richard Deming | Director of Creative Writing; Senior Lecturer in English

Amy Hungerford | Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

Lisa Kereszi | Critic in Art

Diana Kleiner | Dunham Professor in the History of Art and Professor of Classics

Kate Krier | Assistant Dean for the Arts

John R. Mangan | Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Bimal Mendis | Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Architecture

Pam Schirmeister | Sr. Associate Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School; Dean of Undergraduate Education and Senior Associate Dean, Yale College

Taryn Wolf | Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Art

2017-18

Daniel Harrison | Committee Chair; Chair, Theater Studies; Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory

Emily P. Bakemeier | Deputy Provost

Francesco Casetti | Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Film Studies

Richard Deming | Director of Creative Writing; Senior Lecturer in English

Anoka Faruqee | Professor, School of Art

Amy Hungerford | Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

Lisa Kereszi | Critic in Art

Diana Kleiner | Dunham Professor in the History of Art and Professor of Classics

Kate Krier | Assistant Dean for the Arts

John R. Mangan | Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Bimal Mendis | Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Architecture

2016-17

Daniel Harrison | Committee Chair; Chair, Theater Studies; Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory

Emily P. Bakemeier | Deputy Provost; Dean of Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Susan Cahan | Associate Dean for the Arts, Yale College

Richard Deming | Director of Creative Writing; Senior Lecturer in English

Ronald Gregg | Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and in American Studies

Amy Hungerford | Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

John R. Mangan | Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Marc Robinson | Professor of Theater Studies, of English and of American Studies; Professor (Adjunct) of Drama

2015-16

Daniel Harrison | Committee Chair; Chair, Theater Studies; Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory

Emily P. Bakemeier | Deputy Provost; Dean of Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Susan Cahan | Associate Dean for the Arts, Yale College

Richard Deming | Director of Creative Writing; Senior Lecturer in English

Ronald Gregg | Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and in American Studies

Amy Hungerford | Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

John R. Mangan | Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Marc Robinson | Professor of Theater Studies, of English and of American Studies; Professor (Adjunct) of Drama

Purpose

The formation of this committee follows the recommendation of the Committee for the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESOF), whose 2016-2018 report urged that the FAS “form a committee to redesign the Faculty Activity Report to facilitate accurate and thorough documentation of service of all kinds: not only on university committees, but also within departments and beyond Yale.”

The charge of the Faculty Activity Committee for 2018-19 is three-fold:

• Examining current systems within the FAS (e.g., the FAR and electronic tracking of information) for collecting information about faculty activities in research, teaching, and service;
• Learning about best practices in peer or other relevant institutions concerning the assessment of faculty activities;
• Recommending ways to improve the quality of information relating to accomplishments of faculty within the FAS at Yale, which could include revisions to the current FAR or additional ways to collect these data.

The charge of the 2020 Faculty Activity Committee (FAC) is to identify and propose ways that we might make committee and other forms of University service more manageable, equitable, and recognized. 

Committee Report

Faculty Activity Committee Report (2019)

Committee Membership

2020

Mary-Louise Timmermans | Committee Chair, Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Peter Aronow | Associate Professor of Political Science and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, and of Public Health (Biostatistics)

Jack Dovidio | Senior Advisor to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology, Professor in the ISPS and of Epidemiology

Larry Gladney | Phyllis Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Physics and of Astronomy

Joe Fischel | Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Daniel Harrison | Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory

Maria-Lourdes Sabé-Colom | Senior Lector I, Spanish and Portuguese

John Mangan | Senior Associate Dean; Dean of Faculty Affairs, FAS

2018-19

Marla Geha | Committee Chair, Professor of Astronomy and of Physics

Rene Almeling | Associate Professor with Tenure of Sociology, of American Studies, of Health Policy and Management (School of Public Health), of History of Medicine (School of Medicine), and in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Jack Dovidio | Dean of Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Carl I. Hovland Professor of Psychology and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Social and Behavioral Sciences (School of Public Health)

Larry Gladney | Phyllis Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Physics and of Astronomy

Daniel Harrison | Chair of Theater Studies; Allen Forte Professor in the Music Department

Quang Phu Van | Senior Lector II of South Asia Studies (MacMillan Center)

Purpose

Following the formal vote of the FAS faculty to endorse FASTAP ’16 in September 2016, the FASTAP Implementation Committee was charged with advising the FAS Dean on initial procedures for carrying out the new policies. In formulating its recommendations, the committee consulted widely with department chairs, members of the FAS Senate, TAC members both past and present, and colleagues across the FAS.

The Committee was chaired by the Divisional Dean of the Social Sciences, Alan Gerber, and included the faculty members serving in the FAS Dean’s Office, and three other members of the faculty appointed by the FAS Dean from nominations received from the FAS Senate.

Committee Report and FAS Dean's Office Response

FASTAP Implementation Committee Recommendations (June 23, 2017)

Response to FASTAP '16 Implementation Committee Recommendations (August 21, 2017)

Committee Membership

Alan Gerber | Committee Chair; Dean of the Social Sciences; Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of Economics and of Public Health (Health Policy)

Karen Anderson (committee staff) | Associate Provost for Academic Resources and Faculty Development

John (Jack) Dovidio | Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Carl I. Hovland Professor of Psychology and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Jacqueline Goldsby | Professor of English, of African American Studies and of American Studies

Amy Hungerford | Dean of the Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

Kathryn (Katie) Lofton | Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of Divinity, of History, of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Gregory McCarthy | Professor of Psychology

Scott Miller | Divisional Director, Sciences: Chair, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee; Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry

Thomas Near | Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

T. Kyle Vanderlick | Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Bethany Zemba (committee staff) | Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Purpose

The FASTAP Review Committee was appointed on January 22, 2015 by Provost Benjamin Polak. Chaired by FAS Dean Tamar Gendler, the committee included the FAS divisional directors and five other tenured members of the FAS faculty, along with the deans of the Divinity School and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, schools whose promotions and tenure policies follow those of FASTAP ’07.

In the fall of 2015, an FAS faculty subcommittee was formed, chaired by Professor Amy Hungerford. The FAS faculty subcommittee met throughout academic year 2015-16 to produce a report and to offer recommendations to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on a process and set of standards for ladder faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure.

Committee Report

FASTAP Review Committee Report (2016)

Committee Membership

Tamar Szabó Gendler | Committee Chair; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Karen Anderson (committee staff) | Associate Provost for Academic Resources and Faculty Development

Richard Bribiescas | Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; Professor of Anthropology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John (Jack) Dovidio | Dean of Academic Affairs of the FAS; Carl I. Hovland Professor of Psychology and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Alan Gerber | Dean of Social Sciences; Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, of Economics and of Public Health (Health Policy)

Amy Hungerford (Faculty Subcommittee Chair) | Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies

Naomi Lamoreaux | Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and Professor of History

Kathryn (Katie) Lofton | Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Chair, Religious Studies; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies and of History and Divinity

Scott Miller | Divisional Director, Sciences; Chair, Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Committee; Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry

T. Kyle Vanderlick | Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Purpose

The search committee for the Director of the Center for Language Study (CLS) advises the Dean and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on potential candidates for the role of director of the CLS.

Committee Membership

Angela Lee-Smith | Senior Lector II of Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

John Mangan | Senior Associate Dean & Dean of Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Theresa Schenker | Committee Chair; Senior Lector II of German and Language Program Director, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Co-chair, Language Study Committee

Pamela Schirmeister | Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Undergraduate Education, Yale College; Deputy Dean and Dean of Strategic Initiatives, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Candace Skorupa | Senior Lector I of French and Language Program Director, Department of French

Raffaella Zanuttini | Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics

Jason Zentz | Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Purpose

The mandate of the Teaching for the 21st Century Exploratory Committee is to think broadly about the goals and ideals of undergraduate education in the 21st century, given changes in the intellectual landscape and the size and demographics of Yale’s undergraduate student body.

Among the topics it will explore are: modes of pedagogy, technology within and beyond the classroom, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary teaching, the relation between graduate and undergraduate teaching, the role of ladder and non-ladder faculty, similarities and differences across academic divisions, and models and ideas from other institutions, including universities, colleges and K-12 institutions.

The committee will write a brief report identifying common themes, challenges and innovations that face the FAS, and will recommend a number of successor committees to explore and implement these ideas.

Committee Membership

2016-17 and 2018-19

John Rogers | Committee Chair, Professor of English

Seyla Benhabib (fall only) | Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy

Bhart-Anjan Bhullar | Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics

John Carlson (fall only) | Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Henry Cowles | Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and of History

Jennifer Frederick (committee staff) | Executive Director, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

Greta LaFleur | Assistant Professor of American Studies

Andrew Miranker (fall only) | Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Tavia (Tav) Nyong’o | Professor of Theater Studies and of American Studies

Jonathan Reuning-Scherer | Senior Lecturer in Forestry and Environmental Studies and in Statistics

W. Mark Saltzman | Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering

Laurie Santos | Professor of Psychology

Adriane Steinacker | Lecturer in Physics

Aleh Tsyvinski | Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

Claudia Valeggia | Professor of Anthropology

Petronella (Nelleke) Van Deusen-Scholl | Director, Yale Center for Language Study; Professor (Adjunct) of Linguistics