Administrative Directory

Key contact points within Arts & Sciences

William​ Acree​

  • Vice Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Innovation
  • Co-Director, Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate)

Ridgley 313

Marlon M. Bailey

  • Professor of African and African American Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Affiliate in the Performing Arts Department and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity
  • Associate Chair Co-Director of Graduate Studies

McMillan Hall 231

Joe Barcroft

  • Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish

Ridgley 405

Pamela Barmash​​

  • Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew
  • Professor of Religious Studies (by courtesy) Director of Undergraduate Studies for Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies​ Study Abroad Advisor for Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

​Busch Hall 223

Ian Bogost

  • Professor and Director of Film & Media Studies and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering

Siegle 401

Cindy Brantmeier

  • Professor of Applied Linguistics, Global Studies (primary appointment)
  • Education (by courtesy) Psychological and Brain Sciences (by courtesy) Romance Languages and Literatures (by courtesy) Director and Adviser of Applied Linguistics Faculty Fellow of International Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Faculty Scholar, Institute for Public Health

McMillan 248

​J. Andrew Brown

  • Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs
  • Professor of Spanish Professor of Comparative Literature (by courtesy) Biodiversity Fellow, Living Earth Collaborative

Ridgley 408 South Brookings 205

​Colin Burnett

  • Director of Film & Media Studies, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
  • Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

​Seigle 415

Carol Camp Yeakey

  • Professor of Education, Urban Studies, International and Area Studies, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies
  • Founding Director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies

Seigle Hall 142

​Lingchei Letty Chen

  • ​Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures
  • Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature Affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature

​Busch Hall 225

Erika Conti

  • Senior Lecturer in Italian
  • School of Continuing and Professional Studies Coordinator for RLL

Ridgley 417A

​Tili Boon Cuillé

  • Professor of French and Comparative Literature
  • Director of Graduate Studies in French Core faculty in the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Affiliate faculty in Performing Arts and Film and Media Studies

Ridgley 411

​Todd Decker

  • Professor of Musicology, American Culture Studies, and Film and Media Studies Performing Arts Department (Affiliate) (On leave Fall '24)

Tietjens Hall 204 / Blewett Hall 102

​Matt Erlin

  • Chair Comparative Literature and Thought
  • Professor of German and Comparative Literature Director, Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature

Ridgley 423

​David A. Fike

  • Department Chair
  • Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Director of the Environmental Studies Program Director of the International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability

​Rudolph 244

​Andrea Friedman​

  • Professor of History and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies MA MA/JD Programs Director Professor Emeritus of the Department of History

​Seth Graebner

  • Associate Professor of French and of Global Studies​
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in Global Studies Coordinator of European Studies and Global Cultural Studies concentrations Director of Undergraduate Studies in French

Ridgley 404

​Ignacio Infante

  • Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
  • Professor of Comparative Literature and Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures - Spanish Co-Director, Center for the Literary Arts

Ridgley 120

Anna Jacobsen

  • Director of Anthropology’s Medicine and Society Program
  • Senior Lecturer in Sociocultural Anthropology

McMillan Hall S101

​Peter Kastor

  • Professor of History and American Culture Studies
  • Professor of Law (by courtesy) Associate Vice Dean of Research Director of Undergraduate Studies in History

Busch Hall 118

Stephanie Kirk

  • Director of the Center for the Humanities
  • Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ridgley 409

Diane Wei ​ Lewis

  • Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
  • Performing Arts Department (Affiliate), East Asian Languages and Cultures (Affiliate)

​Seigle 416

Joe Loewenstein

  • Professor of English​
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature Director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

Duncker 204 and Umrath 235

Frank Lovett

  • Associate Chair of Political Science
  • Professor of Political Science Professor of Philosophy, by courtesy Director of Legal Studies

Seigle 282

Zhao​ Ma

  • ​Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture
  • Head of the Chinese Section

Busch Hall 229​

​Rebecca Messbarger

  • ​Professor of Italian
  • Affiliate Professor of History, Art History, Global Studies, Performing Arts, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian Co-Founder and First Director of Medical Humanities

Ridgley 410

Jamie Newhard

  • Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature
  • Head of the Japanese Section Japanese Study Abroad Advisor

January Hall 205

​Gary Patti

  • Dean's Fellow for Advancement and Entrepreneurship
  • Senior Director, Center for Metabolomics and Isotope Tracing Director, Clinical Research Core in Medicine Director, Faculty Affairs in Chemistry Professor of Chemistry and of Genetics and Medicine (School of Medicine)

​McMillen 208A

Michelle Purdy

  • Associate Professor of Education
  • Affiliated Faculty, African & African-American Studies, Urban Studies, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Equity, and History

Seigle 140

Rebecca Wanzo

  • Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • African and African-American Studies, Courtesy Affiliation American Culture Studies, Courtesy Affiliation English, Courtesy Affiliation Film and Media Studies, Courtesy Affiliation

McMillan Hall 215