Directory of Chairs & Program Directors
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Santa Arias
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
Thomas Beisecker
Chair, Department of Communication Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Dave Benson
Acting Chair, Department of Chemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
J. Christopher Brown
Director, Department of Environmental 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
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
Maggie Childs
Chair , Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Stephen Dickey
Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Alexander Diener
Acting Director, Center for Russian & Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Florence DiGennaro Reed
Applied Behavioral Science, Department of Applied Behavioral Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Arienne Dwyer
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in Humanities, 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
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Director, Indigenous Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Luis González
Chair, Department of Geology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Pamela Gordon
Interim Chair, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, 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
Jennifer Hamer
Chair, American Studies, 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 Dance, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Nicole Hodges Persley
Acting Chair, Department of Theatre, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
John Hoopes
Chair, Department of Anthropology, 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
Ted Juhl
Chair, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Daniel Katz
Chair, Department of Mathematics, 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
Anna Neill
Chair, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Shannon O'Lear
Director, Center for Global & International Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Jorge Pérez
Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Mabel Rice
Director, Child Language Doctoral Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Reginald Robinson
Director, School of Public Affairs & Administration, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Joan Sereno
Chair, Department of Linguistics, 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
Daniel Stevenson
Chair, Department of Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Holly Storkel
Chair, Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
John Symons
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 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
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
Director, Museum Studies Program, 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
Sandra Zimdars-Swartz
Director, Department of Humanities & Western Civilization, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
