FAS Department and Program Chairs for AY 2025–26

This message lists the 2025–26 FAS department and program chairs and provides links to additional information about these colleagues. Lists of chairs of SEAS units, MacMillan Centers, and other programs are also included.

To: FAS Faculty; FAS Lead Administrators, Operations Managers, and Chair’s Assistants
Cc: FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, SEAS 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 chairs of Faculty of Arts and Sciences departments and programs for 2025–26. See below. You can learn more about these colleagues on the FAS website. A downloadable contact table of FAS chairs and assistants is also available. We have also listed the chairs of SEAS units, certain MacMillan Councils, and other programs that work closely with the FAS.

I am grateful to our FAS chairs for their service to their units and to Yale, and it is a privilege to work with such an outstanding group of colleagues. 

With thanks,

Steven

Steven Wilkinson
Dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yale University


FAS unit chairs for AY 2025–26:

FAS UnitChair
American StudiesLaura Barraclough
AnthropologyDouglas Rogers
AstronomyPriyamvada Natarajan
Black StudiesErica Edwards
ChemistryNilay Hazari
ClassicsNoel Lenski
Cognitive ScienceJoshua Knobe
Comparative LiteratureJing Tsu
Early Modern StudiesMarisa Bass
Earth and Planetary SciencesMaureen Long
East Asian Languages and LiteraturesTina Lu
Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyDavid Vasseur
EconomicsSamuel Kortum
EnglishCaleb Smith
Ethnicity, Race, and MigrationFatima El-Tayeb
Film and Media StudiesFatima Naqvi
French

Maurice Samuels

Pierre Saint-Amand (Acting Chair Spring 2026)

Germanic Languages and LiteraturesKirk Wetters
History

Regina Kunzel

Alan Mikhail (Acting Chair Spring 2026)

History of ArtMilette Gaifman
History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health

Bill Rankin

Paola Bertucci (Acting Chair Spring 2026)

Humanities

Pauline LeVen

Shawkat Toorawa (Acting Chair Fall 2025)

Marijeta Bozovic (Acting Chair Spring 2026)

Italian StudiesJane Tylus
Jewish StudiesEliyahu Stern
LinguisticsVeneeta Dayal
MathematicsWilhelm Schlag
Medieval StudiesEmily Thornbury
Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryRonald Breaker
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyScott Holley
Music

Gundula Kreuzer

Ian Quinn (Acting Chair Fall 2025)

Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsNadine Moeller
PhilosophyPaul Franks
PhysicsSarah Demers
Political ScienceGerard Padró i Miquel
PsychologyJutta Joormann
Religious StudiesTravis Zadeh
Slavic Languages and Literatures

Edyta Bojanowska

John MacKay (Acting Chair Fall 2025)

SociologyEmily Erikson
Spanish and PortugueseR Howard Bloch (Acting Chair AY 2025–26)
Statistics and Data ScienceYihong Wu
Theater, Dance, and Performance StudiesShane Vogel
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesRoderick Ferguson

SEAS unit chairs for AY 2025–26:

SEAS UnitChair
Applied & Computational MathematicsVladimir Rokhlin
Applied PhysicsSohrab Ismail-Beigi
Biomedical EngineeringJames Duncan
Chemical & Environmental EngineeringJohn Fortner
Computer ScienceHolly Rushmeier
Electrical & Computer EngineeringLeandros Tassiulas
Materials ScienceCharles Ahn
Mechanical EngineeringCorey O'Hern

MacMillan Council chairs for AY 2025–26:

MacMillan CouncilChair
Council on African StudiesCajetan Iheka
Council on East Asian Studies

Fabian Drixler

Eric Greene (Acting Chair Fall 2025)

Council on Latin American & Iberian StudiesKenneth David Jackson
Council on Middle East StudiesTravis Zadeh
Council on Southeast Asia StudiesErik Harms
European Studies CouncilJulia Adams
South Asian Studies CouncilRohit De

Other program chairs for AY 2025–26:

ProgramChair
Agrarian StudiesKalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan and Elisabeth Wood
Archaeological StudiesRichard Burger
Education StudiesMaria Piñango
Ethics, Politics and EconomicsAna de la O
Environmental StudiesCraig Brodersen and Paul Sabin

Please email fas.dean@yale.edu if you think a program has been omitted from this list.

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