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.
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.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (on administrative leave, January 1 - June 30, 2023); Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science.
(203) 432-6087
Faculty Leadership
Humanities
Kathryn Lofton
FAS Dean of Humanities; Acting Dean of the FAS (January 1 - June 30, 2023); Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, of History, and of Divinity
(203) 432-0828
Social Science
Kenneth Scheve
FAS Dean of Social Science; Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Science; Diversity and Faculty Development
Larry Gladney
FAS Dean of Science; Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the FAS; Professor of Physics
(203) 432-6814
Additional Faculty with Part-Time Leadership Responsibilites
Academic Affairs
Margaret Clark
Dean of Academic Affairs, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Head of Trumbull College
Peter Schiffer
Director for Strategic Projects, Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics
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
Faculty Affairs
Business Operations and Development
Administrative Professionals
