FAS Dean’s Office
The FAS Dean’s Office oversees faculty searches, recruitment, hiring, mentoring, promotions, retentions, and compensation for all ladder, instructional, and research faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as departmental staffing, budgeting, strategic planning, and policies and practices throughout the FAS.
As depicted in our organizational chart, some positions in the FAS Dean’s Offce are held by ladder faculty, some by career administrators holding advanced degrees, and others by dedicated administrative staff. Our office has also been privileged to serve as a host for a series of Woodbridge Fellows.
A detailed breakdown of how roles and responsibilities are distributed within the FAS Dean’s Office may be found here.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science
(203) 432-6087
Faculty Leadership
Humanities
Kathryn Lofton
Acting Dean of Humanities; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, of History, and of Divinity; Chair, Religious Studies
(203) 432-0828
Social Science
Alan Gerber
Dean of Social Science; Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science; Professor of Economics, of Statistics and Data Science, of Health Policy and Management (Public Health), and in the ISPS
(203) 432-5232
Engineering & Applied Science
Mitchell Smooke
Acting Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science; Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of Applied Physics
(203) 432-4344
Diversity & Faculty Development
Larry Gladney
Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development; Professor of Physics
(203) 432-6814
Academic Affairs
Debra Fischer
Dean of Academic Affairs; Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy; Professor of Statistics and Data Science and of Geology and Geophysics
(203) 432-1613
Science
Ronald Breaker
Chair, Biological Science Advisory Committee; Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
(203) 432-9389
Science
Pieter van Dokkum
Chair, Physical Science and Engineering Advisory Committee; Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy; Professor of Physics
(203) 432-3019
Senior Advisor
Jack Dovidio
Senior Advisor to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology; Professor in the ISPS and of Epidemiology
(203) 432-4533
Faculty Affairs
Business Operations and Development
Administrative Professionals
