Directory of Chairs & Program Directors
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Santa Arias
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Director, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Tamara Baker
Interim Director, Gerontology Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Mary Banwart
Director, Institute for Leadership Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Michael Baskett
Chair, Department of Film & Media Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Nathaniel Brunsell
Chair, Department of Geography, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Greg Burg
Director, Undergraduate Biology Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Interim Director, Hall Center for the Humanities, Professor, English Department, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Steven B. Case
Director, Center for STEM Learning, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

David Cateforis
Chair, Department of Art History, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

So-Min Cheong
Director, Center for East Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Vitaly Chernetsky
Director, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Jay P. Childers
Chairperson, Communication Studies, Associate Professor, Interim Director of Graduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Maggie Childs
Chair , Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Kathryn Conrad
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Stephen Dickey
Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Florence DiGennaro Reed
Applied Behavioral Science, Department of Applied Behavioral Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Dale Dorsey
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Susan Egan
Chair, Molecular Biosciences, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Hume Feldman
Chair, Department of Physics & Astronomy, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

David Fowle
Director, Environmental Studies Program, Dean's Professor, Geology, Environmental Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Marc Greenberg
Director, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Donald Haider-Markel
Chair, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Christopher Haufler
Chair, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Bruce Hayes
Chair, Department of French & Italian, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Michelle Heffner Hayes
Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Weizhang Huang
Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Caroline Jewers
Acting Director, School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Paul Johnson
Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Mary Anne Jordan
Chair, Department of Visual Art, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Brian Laird
Chair, Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Clarence Lang
Chair, Department of African & African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Eve Levin
Chair, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Elizabeth MacGonagle
Director, Kansas African Studies Center, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Joane P. Nagel
University Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Shannon O'Lear
Director, Center for Global & International Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Rosemary O'Leary
Director, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor

Jonathan Perkins
Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center (EGARC), College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Mabel Rice
Director, Child Language Doctoral Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Jennifer A. Roberts
Chair, Department of Geology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

David R. Roediger
Foundation Distinguished Professor and Chairperson, American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Joan Sereno
Chair, Department of Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Milena Stanislavova
Interim Chair and Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

William Staples
Chair, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Ric Steele
Director, Clincial Child Psychology Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Holly Storkel
Chair, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Nicholas L. Syrett
Chair and Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Ilya Vakser
Director, Center for Bioinformatics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Lorie Vanchena
Academic Director, European Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Margot Versteeg
Interim Director of the Humanities Program, Associate Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Michael Vitevitch
Interim Chair, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Nina Vyatkina
Chair, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Tara Welch
Chair, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Peter Welsh
Interim Director, Indigenous Studies, Director, Museum Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Stacey Swearingen White
Program Director, Professor, Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

C. Bryan Young
Director, University Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

John Younger
Academic Director, Jewish Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Michael Zogry
Chairperson and Associate Professor, Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences