Department Heads Council Membership List

Department Heads Council Membership List (PDF)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department	Name	Title
Agricultural and Applied Economics	George Davis	Interim Department Head
Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education	Tracy Rutherford (DHEC member)	Department Head
Biochemistry	Stefan Roberts (DHEC member)	Department Head
Biological Systems Engineering	Dwayne Edwards	Department Head
Entomology	Tim Kring	Department Head
Food Science and Technology	Joe Eifert	Interim Department Head
Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise	Stella Volpe	Department Head
School of Animal Sciences	David Gerrard	Department Head
School of Plant & Environmental Sciences	Ben Tracy	Interim Director

College of Architecture, Arts, and Design

Department	Name	Title
Art History Program, School of Visual Arts	Michelle Moseley-Christian	Program Chair
Foundations, School of Visual Arts	Jennifer Hand	Coordinator
Graphic Design, School of Visual Arts	Meaghan Dee	Program Chair
Industrial Design Program, School of Architecture + Design	Martha Sullivan	Program Chair
Interior Design Program	Brad Whitney	Program Chair
Landscape Architecture Program	Terry Clements	Program Chair
School of Performing Arts, Music	Jason Crafton	Program Chair
School of Architecture	Jim Bassett	Director
School of Design	Matthew Powers (DHEC member)	Director
School of Performing Arts	Jeff Loeffert	Director
School of Visual Arts	Ann-Marie Knoblauch (DHEC member)	Director
Studio Art, School of Visual Arts	Michael Borowski	Program Chair
Theatre and Cinema	John Ambrosone	Program Chair
Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center	Susan Piedmont-Palladino	Director

Pamplin College of Business

Department	Name	Title
Accounting and Information Systems	Robert Davidson	Department Head
Business Information Technology	Quinton Nottingham	Department Head
Finance, Insurance, and Business Law	Raman Kumar	Interim Department Head
Hospitality and Tourism Management	Phil Xiang (DHEC member)	Department Head
Management	Devi Gnyawali (DHEC member)	Department Head
Marketing	Meng Zhu	Department Head
Real Estate	Dustin Read	Department Head

College of Engineering

Department	Name	Title
Aerospace and Ocean Engineering	Ella Atkins (DHEC member)	Department Head
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics	Stefan Duma	Interim Department Head
Building Construction	Georg Reichard	Department Head
Chemical Engineering	Steve Wrenn	Department Head
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Mark Widdowson (DHEC member)	Department Head
Computer Science	Christine Julien	Department Head
Electrical and Computer Engineering	Rose Hu	Department Head
Engineering Education	Ed Berger	Department Head
Industrial and Systems Engineering	Eileen Van Aken	Department Head
Materials Science and Engineering	Aaron Noble	Interim Department Head
Mechanical Engineering	Brian Lattimer	Department Head
Mining and Minerals Engineering	Aaron Noble	Department Head
Myers-Lawson School of Construction	Brian Kleiner	Director

College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Department	Name	Title
Air Force ROTC	John O’Dell	Commanding Officer
Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, & Cultural Thought	Brian Britt	Director
Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management	Lisa Tucker	Department Head
Army ROTC	Nate Surrey	Commanding Officer
Center for Public Administration and Policy	Sharon Mastracci	Program Director
English	Kelly Pender (DHEC member)	Department Chair
History	Jennifer Hart	Department Head
Human Development and Family Science	Paul Springer	Department Head
Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures	Jessica Folkart	Department Chair
Naval Science Department	Steven Antcliff	Commanding Officer
Philosophy	Kelly Trogdon	Department Head
Political Science	Laura Zanotti	Department Chair
Religion and Culture	Rachel Scott	Department Chair
School of Communication	John Tedesco	Director
School of Education	Dana Robertson	Director
School of Public and International Affairs	Joel Peters	Director
Science, Technology, and Society	Saul Halfon	Department Head
Sociology	Jennifer Johnson (DHEC vice-chair)	Department Chair
Urban Affairs and Planning	Todd Schenk	Program Chair

College of Natural Resources and Environment

Department	Name	Title
Fish and Wildlife Conservation	Joel Snodgrass	Department Head
Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation	Joe Knight (DHEC member)	Department Head
Geography	Tom Crawford (DHEC member)	Department Chair
Sustainable Biomaterials	Laszlo Horvath	Department Head

College of Science

Department	Name	Title
Academy of Integrated Science	Robert Weiss	Program Director
Biological Sciences	Daniela Cimini	Department Head
Chemistry	Amanda Morris (DHEC chair)	Department Chair
Economics	Sudipta Sarangi	Department Head
Geosciences	Jim Spotila	Department Head
Mathematics	Sarah Reznikoff	Department Chair
Physics	Mark Pitt	Department Chair
Psychology	Jamie Edgin (DHEC member)	Department Chair
School of Neuroscience	Michelle Olsen (DHEC member)	Director
Statistics	Bobby Gramacy	Department Head

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department	Name	Title
Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology	Ira Blader (DHEC member)	Department Head
Large Animal Clinical Sciences	Christopher Byron	Department Head
Population Health Sciences	Laura Hungerford (DHEC member)	Department Head
Small Animal Clinical Sciences	Natalia Guerrero	Department Head

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Department	Name	Title
Basic Science Education	Paul Skolnik (DHEC member)	Chair
Emergency Medicine	Paul Haskins	Interim Chair
Family and Community Medicine	Mark Greenawald	Interim Chair
Health Systems & Implementation Science	Sarah Parker (DHEC member)	Chair
Internal Medicine	Jon Sweet	Chair
Neurosurgery	John Jane	Chair
OBGYN	Tristi Metcalf	Chair
Orthopedic Surgery	Joe Moskal	Chair
Pediatrics	Andrew Herman	Chair
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine	Robert Trestman	Chair
Radiology	Daniel Karolyi	Chair
Surgery	Michael Nussbaum	Chair