With the opening of the 2021-22 academic year, Dean Ardis announced several leadership changes throughout the college, with a hearty thanks to chairs and directors completing their term of service and a warm welcome to those coming in.
Anu Aneja will serve as the director of the Women and Gender Studies Program.
Charles Chavis will serve as interim director of the African and African American Studies (AAAS) program this year, and LaNitra Berger’s appointment as senior director of fellowships in Mason’s Office of Undergraduate Education is being restructured to enable her service as associate director of AAAS.
Kelly Dunne will serve as interim director of the Human Development and Family Science Program while continuing to serve as executive director of the School of Integrative Studies.
Lisa Eckenwiler will serve as chair of the Department of Philosophy, starting January 2022. Rachel Jones will continue as chair of the Department of Philosophy through December to allow Lisa to complete a study leave that was postponed because of COVID-19.
Benjamin Gatling will continue as director of the Master’s in Interdisciplinary Studies Program.
Tamara Harvey will serve as chair of the Department of English.
Mohammad Salama will serve as chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.
John Turner will serve as chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
Continuing leadership: Daniel Houser, Anne Nicotera, and Keith Renshaw begin new terms of appointment in, respectively, the Departments of Economics, Communication, and Psychology.
Dean Ardis also thanked Rei Berroa, Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Abdulaziz Sachedina, and Daniel Temple, for their service as chairs or interim chairs of, respectively, the Departments of Modern and Classical Languages, English, Religious Studies, and Sociology and Anthropology, and Tamara Harvey for her service as interim director of the the Women and Gender Studies Program.
August 23, 2021
