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Department Heads Council Membership List

College of Architecture, Arts, and Design

Department

Name

Title

Art History Program, School of Visual Arts

Michelle Moseley-Christian

Program Chair

Foundation Program, School of Architecture + Design

Christopher Pritchett

Chair

Foundations, School of Visual Arts

Jennifer Hand

Coordinator

Graduate Architecture Program, School of Architecture + Design

Kay Edge

Chair

Graphic Design, School of Visual Arts

Patrick Finley

Program Co-Chair

Industrial Design Program, School of Architecture + Design

Martha Sullivan

Chair

Interior Design Program

Brad Whitney

Chair

Landscape Architecture Program

Terry Clements

Chair

School of Performing Arts, Music

Jason Crafton

Chair

School of Architecture + Design

Jim Bassett

Interim Director

School of Performing Arts

Jeff Loeffert (DHEC member)

Director

School of Performing Arts, Theatre and Cinema

John Ambrosone

Chair

School of Visual Arts

Ann-Marie Knoblauch (DHEC member)

Director

Studio Art, School of Visual Arts

Michael Borowski

Program Chair

Undergraduate Architecture Program, School of Architecture + Design

Margarita McGrath

Chair

VCD Program, School of Visual Arts

Jeff Joiner

Program Co-Chair

Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center

Susan Piedmont-Palladino

Director

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department

Name

Title

Agricultural and Applied Economics

Matthew Holt

Department Head

Agricultural Technology Program

Pavli Mykerezi

Director

Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education

Tracy Rutherford

Department Head

Animal and Poultry Sciences

David Gerrard

Department Head

Biochemistry

Pete Kennelly

Department Head

Biological Systems Engineering

Dwayne Edwards (DHEC co-chair)

Department Head

Dairy Science

David Gerrard

Interim Department Head

Entomology

Tim Kring

Department Head

Food Science and Technology

Renee Boyer

Department Head

Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise

Stella Volpe (DHEC member)

Department Head

School of Plant & Environmental Sciences

Mike Evans

Director

College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Department

Name

Title

Air Force ROTC

Greg Lowe

Chair

Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, & Cultural Thought

Brian Britt

Director

Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management

Lisa Tucker

Department Head

Army ROTC

Jamie Cogbill

Department Head

English

Kelly Pender

Interim Chair

Government and International Affairs

Ariel Ahram

Chair

History

Brett Shadle

Department Head

Human Development and Family Science

Pam Teaster (DHEC member)

Interim Department Head

Learning Sciences and Technologies

Katherine Cennamo

Chair

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Janell Watson

Chair

Naval Science Department

Doug Bradley

Department Chair

Philosophy

Kelly Trogdon

Department Head

Political Science

Tim Luke

Department Chair

Religion and Culture

Matthew Gabriele (DHEC member)

Chair

School of Communication

John Tedesco

Director

School of Education

Kristin Gehsmann

Director

School of Public and International Affairs

Tim Luke

Interim Director

School of Public and International Affairs

Yang Zhang

Associate Director

Science, Technology, and Society

Saul Halfon

Department Head

Sociology

Jennifer Johnson

Chair

Urban Affairs and Planning

Ralph Buehler

Chair

College of Natural Resources and Environment

Department

Name

Title

Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Joel Snodgrass

Department Head

Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Jay Sullivan

Department Head

Geography

Tom Crawford (DHEC member)

Chair

Sustainable Biomaterials

Ching Huang (DHEC member)

Department Head

College of Engineering

Department

Name

Title

Aerospace and Ocean Engineering

Ella Atkins

Department Head

Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics

Jennifer Wayne

Department Head

Building Construction

Georg Reichard

Program Chair

Chemical Engineering

Steve Wrenn (DHEC member)

Department Head

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mark Widdowson

Department Head

Computer Science

Cal  Ribbens

Department Head

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Luke Lester

Department Head

Engineering Education

Jenni Case (DHEC member)

Department Head

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Eileen Van Aken

Department Head

Materials Science and Engineering

Suneel Kodambaka

Department Head

Mechanical Engineering

Azim Eskandarian

Department Head

Mining and Minerals Engineering

Erik Westman

Interim Department Head

Myers-Lawson School of Construction

Brian Kleiner

Director

College of Science

Department

Name

Title

Academy of Integrated Science

Robert Weiss

Director

Biological Sciences

Robert Cohen

Department Head

Chemistry

Amanda Morris

Department Chair

Economics

Sudipta Sarangi

Department Head

Geosciences

Steve Holbrook

Department Head

Mathematics

Peter Haskell

Interim Department Chair

Physics

Mark Pitt

Department Chair

Psychology

Roseanne Foti (DHEC member)

Department Chair

School of Neuroscience

Michael Fox (DHEC member)

Director

Statistics

Eric Smith

Interim Department Head

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department

Name

Title

Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology

Margie Lee

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 (DHEC member)

Department Head

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

Vijay Singal (DHEC member)

Department Head

Hospitality and Tourism Management

Phil Xiang (DHEC member)

Department Head

Management

Devi Gnyawali

Department Head

Marketing

Rajesh Bagchi

Department Head

Real Estate

Kevin Boyle

Director

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Department

Name

Title

Basic Science Education

Paul Skolnik (DHEC member)

Chair

Emergency Medicine

John Burton

Chair

Family and Community Medicine

Michael Jeremiah

Chair

Internal Medicine

 Jon Sweet

Chair

Interprofessionalism

Sarah Parker (DHEC member)

Chair

OBGYN

Fidel Valea

Chair

Orthopedic Surgery

Joe Moskal

Chair

Pediatrics

Kim Dunsmore

Chair

Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

Robert Trestman

Chair

Radiology

Daniel Karolyi

Chair

Surgery

Michael Nussbaum

Chair