Academic Experience
Deans & Department Chairs
The deans and department chairs work closely with the Provost's Office on a wide range of issues, from administration of faculty matters and student academic affairs, to resource allocations including budgeting and space.
Cockrell School of Engineering
Roger T. Bonnecaze, Dean
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Clinton Dawson, Chair
Biomedical Engineering
Tyrone Porter, Chair
Center for Additive Manufacturing and Design Innovation
David Leigh, Director
Center for Aeromechanics Research
Philip Varghese, Director
Center for Electromechanics
Michael Lewis, Director
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
Vincent Torres, Interim Director
Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analyses
Arvind Ravikumar, Co-Director
Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analyses
Erin Tulos, Interim Co-Director
Center for Space Research
Lori Magruder, Director
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment
Hugh Daigle, Director
Center for Transportation Research
Amit Bhasin, Director
Center for Water and the Environment
Lynn Katz, Director
Construction Industry Institute
Michael Pappas, Director
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Diana Marculescu, Chair
J. Mike Walker Mechanical Engineering
Don Siegel, Chair
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
David Allen, Interim Chair
Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Robert Gilbert, Chair
Microelectronics Research Center
Xiuling Li, Director
Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies
S Sreenivasan, Director
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
William Charlton, Director
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Matthew Balhoff, Chair
Texas Materials Institute
Jamie Warner, Director
Wireless Networking and Communications Group
Todd Humphreys, Director
College of Education
Charles Martinez, Dean
Curriculum and Instruction
Melissa Wetzel, Chair
Educational Leadership and Policy
Sarah Woulfin, Chair
Educational Psychology
Tiffany Whittaker, Chair
Kinesiology and Health Education
Janice Todd, Chair
Meadows Center and Vaughn Gross Center
Sharon Vaughn, Director
Special Education
Nathan Clemens, Chair
Texas Center for Equity Promotion
Deborah Salvo, Director
College of Fine Arts
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Dean
Art and Art History
Susan Rather, Chair
Arts and Entertainment Technologies
Michael Baker, Chair
Design
Karol Murlak, Chair
Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music
Susan Thomas, Director
School of Design and Creative Technologies
Doreen Lorenzo, Assistant Dean
Theatre and Dance
Peter Carpenter, Chair
College of Liberal Arts
David Sosa, Interim Dean
African and African Diaspora Studies
Cherise Smith, Chair
Air Force and Space Force Science
Amanda Pelkowski, Chair
American Studies
Lauren Gutterman, Chair
Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life
Mark Strama, Director
Anthropology
Kamran Ali, Chair
Asian Studies
Donald Davis, Chair
Center for Asian American Studies
Eric Tang, Director
Center for European Studies
Michael Mosser, Director
Center for Health Communication
Michael Mackert, Director
Center for Mexican American Studies
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Director
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Thomas Thompson, Director
Center for Perpetual Systems
Mary Hayhoe, Director
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Mary Neuburger, Director
Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Simone Browne, Director
Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies
Rhonda Evans, Interim Director
Classics
Sean Gurd, Chair
Comparative Literature Program
Hannah Wojciehowski, Director
Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
John Hartigan, Director
Economics
Thomas Wiseman, Chair
English
John Gonzalez, Chair
French and Italian
Paola Bonifazio, Chair
Geography and the Environment
Jennifer Miller, Chair
Germanic Studies
Marc Pierce, Chair
Government
Amy Liu, Chair
History
Mark Lawrence, Chair
Human Dimensions of Organizations
Mary Rose, Director
Humanities Program and Latino Research Institute
Steven Hoelscher, Director
Humanities Institute
Tanya E. Clement, Director
Latino Research Initiative
Nancy Rodriguez, Director
Linguistics
John Beavers, Chair
Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
Karma Chavez, Chair
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Jennifer Wilks, Director
Middle Eastern Studies
Bruce Wells, Chair
Military Science (Army)
LTC Maria Rinaldi, Chair
Naval Science
Grahame Dicks, Chair
Philosophy
Cory Juhl, Chair
Plan II Honors Program
Janet Davis, Director
Population Research Center
Mark Hayward, Interim Director
Program in Comparative Literature
Hannah Wojciehowski, Director
Psychology
Lori Holt, Chair
Religious Studies
Tony Keddie, Chair
Rhetoric and Writing
Mark Longaker, Chair
Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Herve Picherit, Interim Director
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Mary Neuburger, Chair
Sociology
Shannon Cavanagh, Chair
South Asia Institute
Syed Akbar Hyder, Director
Spanish and Portuguese
Jorge Perez Perez, Chair
Teresa Lozanzo Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Adela Pineda, Director
Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
Fred Valdez, Director
Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas
Dana Stauffer, Co-Director
Thomas Pangle, Co-Director
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Lisa Moore, Chair
UTeach-Liberal Arts
Carlos E. Bowles, Director
College of Natural Sciences
David Vanden Bout, Dean
Allan J. Baird Center for Electrochemistry
Michael Rose, Director
Astronomy
Karl Gebhardt, Chair
Billie L. Turner Planet Resources Center
Robert Jansen, Director
Biology Instruction Office
Janice Fischer, Director
Center for Learning and Memory
Laura Colgin, Director
Charles A. Dana Center
Afi Wiggins, Director
Chemistry
Jennifer Brodbelt, Chair
Computer Science
Peter Stone, Chair
Division of Textiles and Apparel
Jennifer Wilson, Director
Human Development and Family Sciences
Gabriela Livas, Chair
Integrative Biology
David Cannatella, Chair
Institute for Fusion Studies
Diego Del Castillo Negrete, Director
John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
Shelley Payne, Director
Lady Bird Johnson Wilflower Center
Shalene Jha, Director of Research
Marine Science
Kenneth Dunton, Chair
Marine Science Institute
Sharon Herzka, Director
Mathematics
Francesco Maggi, Chair
McDonald Observatory
Taft Armandroff, Director
Molecular Biosciences
Jeffrey Gross, Chair
Neuroscience
Robert Messing, Chair
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Nace Golding, Director
Nutritional Sciences
Molly S. Bray, Chair
Physics
Pablo Laguna, Chair
School of Human Ecology
Jaimie Davis, Interim Director
Statistics and Data Sciences
James Scott, Chair
UTeach-Natural Sciences
Michael P. Marder, Director
Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
Robert Messing, Director
College of Pharmacy
Samuel Poloyac, Dean
Dell Medical School
Claudia Lucchinetti, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean
Division of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Charles Fraser, Chair
Diagnostic Medicine
Gurjeet Shokar, Interim Chair
Medical Education
James Korndorffer, Jr., Interim Chair
Medicine
Paul Mueller, Chair
Neurology
David Paydarfar, Chair
Neurosurgery
David Paydarfar, Chair
Oncology
William Matsui, Interim Director
Ophthalmology
Jane Edmond, Chair
Pediatrics
Z. Leah Harris, Chair
Population Health
Navkiran Shokar, Chair
Psychiatry
Charles Nemeroff, Chair
Surgery and Perioperative Care
Kevin Bozic, Chair
Women’s Health
George Macones, Chair
Graduate School
Sarah Ades, Dean and Senior Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Jackson School of Geosciences
Claudia Mora, Dean
Bureau of Economic Geology
Lorena Moscardelli, Director
Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program
Fred Beach, Director
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Daniel Stockli , Chair
Institute for Geophysics
Demian Saffer, Director
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
JR DeShazo, Dean
McCombs School of Business
Lillian Mills, Dean
Accounting
Steven Kachelmeier, Chair
Business, Government, and Society
Kishore Gawande, Chair
Center for Global Business
Diedre Mendez, Director
Finance
Clemens Sialm, Chair
Information, Risk and Operations Management
Anitesh Barua, Chair
Management
Caroline Bartel, Chair
Marketing
Raghunath Rao, Chair
Moody College of Communication
Anita Vangelisti, Interim Dean
School of Designate, Advertising and Public Relations
Matthew Eastin, Chair
Communication Studies
Craig Scott, Chair
School of Journalism and Media
David Ryfe, Director
Radio-Television-Film
Cynthia Mccreery, Chair
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Rajinder Koul, Chair
School of Architecture
Heather Woofter, Dean
School of Civic Leadership
Justin Dyer, Dean
School of Information
Soo Young Rieh, Interim Dean
School of Law
Robert Chesney, Dean
School of Nursing
Eun-Ok Im, Dean
Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Allan Cole, Dean
Undergraduate Education
Richard J. Reddick, Senior Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education