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
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Jamie Warner, Director
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
Delia Milliron, Chair
Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Robert Gilbert, Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Diana Marculescu, Chair
J. Mike Walker Mechanical Engineering
Don Siegel, Chair
Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
William Charlton, Director
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Matthew Balhoff, Chair
College of Education
Charles Martinez, Dean
Curriculum and Instruction
Melissa Wetzel, Chair
Educational Leadership and Policy
Pedro Reyes, Chair
Educational Psychology
Tiffany Whittaker, Chair
Kinesiology and Health Education
Janice Todd, Interim Chair
Special Education
Mark F. O’Reilly, Chair
College of Fine Arts
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Dean
Art and Art History
Penelope Davies, Acting 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
Ann Huff Stevens, Dean
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Jennifer Wilks, Director
African and African Diaspora Studies
Cherise smith, Chair
Air Force Science
Lt Col Matthew L. Hood, Chair
American Studies
Randolph Lewis, Chair
Anthropology
Kamran Ali, Chair
Center for Asian American Studies
Eric Tang, Director
Asian Studies
Donald Davis, Chair
Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies
Rhonda Evans, Interim Director
Classics
Sean Gurd, Chair
Program in Comparative Literature
Hannah Wojciehowski, Director
Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies
John Hartigan, Director
Economics
Thomas Wiseman, Chair
English
John Gonzalez, Chair
Center for European Studies
Douglas G. Biow, Director
French and Italian
Paolo Bonifazio, Chair
Geography and the Environment
Jennifer Miller, Chair
Germanic Studies
Marc Pierce, Chair
Government
Daniel Brinks, Chair
History
Martha Newman, Interim Chair
Human Dimensions of Organizations
Mary Rose, Director
Humanities Institute
Samantha Pinto, Director
Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Jonathan Kaplan, Director
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Adela Pineda, Director
Linguistics
John Beavers, Chair
Center for Mexican American Studies
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Director
Mexican American and Latina/o Studies
Karma Chavez, Chair
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Karen Grumberg, Director
Middle Eastern Studies
Na’Ama Pat-el, Chair
Military Science (Army)
LTC Timothy Jones, Chair
Naval Science
Grahame Dicks, Chair
Philosophy
David Sosa, Chair
Plan II Honors Program
Alexandra Wettlaufer, Director
The Population Research Center
Elizabeth Gershoff, Director
Psychology
David Schnyer, Chair
Religious Studies
A Azfar Moin, Chair
Rhetoric and Writing
D D Davis, Chair
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Mary Neuburger, Director
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Mary Neuburger, Chair
Sociology
Shannon Cavanagh, Chair
South Asia Institute
Sharmila Rudrappa, Director
Spanish and Portuguese
Jorge Perez, Chair
UTeach-Liberal Arts
Carlos E. Bowles, Director
Center for Women’s and Gender Studies
Jackie Cuevas, Interim Director
Lisa Moore, Chair
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
Thomas L. Pangle, Co-Director
Lorraine S. Pangle, Co-Director
College of Natural Sciences
David Vanden Bout, Dean
Astronomy
Volker Bromm, Chair
Biology Instruction Office
Janice Fischer, Director
Chemistry
Jennifer Brodbelt, Chair
Computer Science
Donald Fussell, Chair
Human Development and Family Sciences
Stephen Russell, Chair
School of Human Ecology
Stephen Russell, Director
Integrative Biology
David Cannatella, Chair
Marine Science
Edward Buskey, Chair
Mathematics
Thomas Chen, Chair
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
Statistics and Data Sciences
Catherine Calder, Chair
Division of Textiles and Apparel
TBD, Chair
UTeach-Natural Sciences
Michael P. Marder, Director
College of Pharmacy
Samuel Poloyac, Dean
Dell Medical School
Claudia Lucchinetti, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean
Medical Education
Elizabeth Nelson, Interim Chair
Diagnostic Medicine
Gurjeet Shokar, Interim Chair
Neurosurgery
Nicholas Barbaro, Chair
Medicine
Michael Pignone, Chair
Neurology
David Paydarfar, Chair
Neurosurgery
John Kuo, 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
Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program
Fred Beach, Director
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Daniel Stockli , Chair
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
Robert A. Prentice, Chair
Finance
Clemens Sialm, Chair
Information, Risk and Operations Management
Anitesh Barua, Chair
Management
Caroline Bartel, Chair
Marketing
Andrew Gershoff, Chair
Moody College of Communication
Anita Vangelisti, Interim Dean
School of Advertising and Public Relations
Natalie Tindall, Chair
Communication Studies
Craig Scott, Chair
School of Journalism and Media
David Ryfe, Director
Radio-Television-Film
Cynthia Mccreery,Interim 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
Bobby Chesney, Dean
School of Nursing
Eun-Ok Im, Dean
Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Allan Cole, Dean
Undergraduate College
Richard J. Reddick, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College