Academic Deans
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Timothy P. McNamara , Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science, is professor of psychology. He is an expert in human memory, cognition, and decision making, with a particular focus on spatial processing, has authored numerous books and journal articles, and runs the Spatial Memory and Navigation Lab at Vanderbilt. |
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Bonnie Dow , Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, is Distinguished Professor of the Communication of Science and Technology and professor of communication studies. She is the author or editor of four books on gender, communication, and mass media. Areas of responsibility:
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John A. McLean , Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Research, is Stevenson Chair in Chemistry. He is an analytical chemist known for the development and construction of advanced mass spectrometry instrumentation for molecular analysis. Areas of responsibility:
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Allison Schachter , Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, is Winkelried Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and English. She is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century modern Jewish literature and culture and has authored two books and translated one. Areas of responsibility:
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Angela Sutton , Assistant Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Initiatives, is research assistant professor of Communication of Science and Technology. She is a social and digital historian of the Atlantic World interested in the tools and methods that preserve and widen access to the sources that help refine popular understandings of American slavery and its modern consequences. She is the director of the Builders and Defenders database. Areas of responsibility:
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Office of Undergraduate Education Deans
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Elizabeth Meadows , Director of Undergraduate Education and Assistant Dean, is principal senior lecturer of English. Originally a scholar of Victorian literature and culture, Elizabeth teaches courses ranging from surveys of 19th-century novels, to seminars about how the places we live shape the people we become, to classes examining the literary history and cultural function of genres like detective novels and dystopian fiction. Areas of responsibility:
elizabeth.s.meadows@vanderbilt.edu
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Pavneet Aulakh , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of English. He studies the literature of early modern England; the history and philosophy of science, particularly as it pertains to interconnections between the imaginative and proto-scientific literature of the seventeenth century; the history of the book; aesthetics and poetics; early modern and contemporary philosophy; and medieval literature. Areas of responsibility:
pavneet.s.aulakh@vanderbilt.edu
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Alissa Hare , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of chemistry. She has taught courses in organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, drug development, and biochemistry research. She was the 2020 recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Awards for Excellence in Classroom Teaching from Vanderbilt University and the 2022 recipient of the Ernest A. Jones Advising Award in the Natural Sciences from the College of Arts and Science. Areas of responsibility:
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Mario Rewers , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of American studies. He is a historian of modern American history, with a specialization in the history of higher education. His work focuses on the history of the disciplines, and particularly of the humanities, in the twentieth century. Areas of responsibility:
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