2021-2022 FAS Department and Program Chairs (September 13, 2021)

This message lists the FAS department and program chairs for 2021-2022 and provides links to additional information about these colleagues.

[Summary: This message lists the FAS department and program chairs for 2021-2022 and provides links to additional information about these colleagues.]

To: FAS Faculty; FAS Lead Administrators, Operations Managers, and Chair’s Assistants

Cc: FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, GSAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office, OFAS, President’s Office, Provost’s Office, OPAC, University Cabinet

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to share with you the list of the 2021-22 chairs of our Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments and programs (see below). You can learn more about these colleagues here. A downloadable contact table of FAS chairs and chair’s assistants can be found here.

I am grateful to our chairs for their service to their units and to Yale,  and it is a privilege to work with such an outstanding group of colleagues. Please join me in thanking them for their leadership, their service, and all that they do on behalf of the FAS.

With gratitude,

Tamar

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science


FAS Department and Program Chairs, 2021-2022

UnitChair
African American StudiesJacqueline Goldsby
American StudiesMichael Denning
AnthropologyDouglas Rogers
Applied MathematicsAnna Gilbert
Applied PhysicsVidvuds Ozolins
AstronomySarbani Basu
Biomedical EngineeringMark Saltzman (Acting Chair, Fall 2021)
Chemical and Environmental EngineeringJaehong Kim
ChemistryKurt Zilm
ClassicsKirk Freudenburg
Cognitive ScienceBrian Scholl
Comparative LiteratureMartin Hägglund
Computer ScienceZhong Shao
Earth and Planetary SciencesMaureen Long
East Asian Languages and LiteraturesAaron Gerow
Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyThomas Near
EconomicsTony Smith
Electrical EngineeringLeandros Tassiulas
EnglishJessica Brantley
Ethics, Politics, and EconomicsFrances Rosenbluth
Ethnicity, Race, and MigrationAna Ramos-Zayas
Film and Media StudiesJohn Peters
FrenchPierre Saint-Amand
Germanic Languages and LiteraturesKirk Wetters
HistoryJoanne Meyerowitz (Acting Chair, 2021-2022)
History of ArtMilette Gaifman
History of Science and MedicineDeborah Coen
HumanitiesFrancesco Casetti
Italian StudiesJane Tylus
Judaic StudiesMaurice Samuels
LinguisticsRaffaella Zanuttini
MathematicsWilhelm Schlag
Mechanical Engineering and Materials ScienceUdo Schwarz
Medieval StudiesEmily Thornbury
Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryEnrique M. De La Cruz
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyVivian Irish
Music DepartmentIan Quinn
Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsShawkat Toorawa
PhilosophyKenneth Winkler (Acting Chair, 2021-2022)
PhysicsKarsten Heeger
Political ScienceGregory Huber
PsychologyJutta Joorman
Religious StudiesFrank Griffel
Renaissance StudiesAyesha Ramachandran
Slavic Languages and LiteraturesEdyta Bojanowska
SociologyPhilip Gorski
Spanish and PortugueseJesús Velasco
Statistics and Data ScienceJoseph Chang
Theater and Performance StudiesGundula Kreuzer (Acting Chair, Fall 2021)
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesRoderick Ferguson