2025-2026 Senate-Elects

Officers

Senate-Elects

The new 2025-2028 Senate will begin their term on July 1, 2025.

Printable Listing of Senator-Elects

Departmental Senate-Elects

Department	Senators	Alternates
Art & Design Education	Kelly Oh (Full-Time Faculty)
Associate Degree Programs	Deborah Caponera (Full-Time Faculty)	Jared Osborn (Part-Time Faculty)
Construction/Facilities Management
Continuing & Professional Studies	Rhonda Schaller (Staff Who Teach)	Shahar Yannay (Part-Time Faculty)
Creative Arts Therapy	Glenn Smulyan (Staff Who Teach)
Creative Enterprise Leadership
Digital Arts	Yulia Ruditskaya (Part-Time Faculty)
Fashion Design	Gina Gregorio (Part-Time Faculty)
Film & Video
Fine Arts	Jill Brandwein (Part-Time Faculty)
Foundation Art & Design	Todd Ayoung (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design
Graduate Center for Planning	Juan Camilo Osorio (Full-time Faculty)
Graduate Communications/Package Design	Jean Brennan (Part-Time Faculty)	Diego Kolsky (Part-Time Faculty)
History of Art & Design	Peter De Staebler (Full-time Faculty)	Karolina Koczynska (Full-Time Faculty)
Humanities & Media Studies	Tess Brown-Lavoie (Part-Time Faculty) Sarah Jane Stoner (Part-Time Faculty)
Industrial Design	Esther Beke (Part-Time Faculty)
Interior Design
Library	Missy Brown (Full-Time Faculty)
Mathematics & Science	Philip Ording (Full-Time Faculty)
Photography	Stephanie Powell (Part-Time Faculty)
School of Information	Christopher Collette (Part-Time Faculty)
Social Science & Cultural Studies	Caitlin Cahill (Full-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Architecture	Eric Moed (Part-Time Faculty) Lex Braes (Part-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Communications Design	Sebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty)
Writing	Laura Elrick (Full-Time Faculty)

At-Large Senate-Elects

	Senators	Alternates
Chairs Category	Courtney Knapp (Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment) Amy Ballmer (Library)
Full-Time Faculty	Rachel Levistky (Writing) Alex Austin (Library) Heather Lewis (School of Art) Swati Piparsania (Industrial Design) Kumry Toktamis (Social Sciences and Cultural Studies)
Part-Time Faculty	Amit Kalra (Grad Communications Design) Andrea Merkx (Part-Time Faculty) Zach Slanger (Social Science and Cultural Studies) Molly Roberts (Foundation, Industrial Design) Martha Molfetas (GCPE, SES Program)
Staff Who Teach	Carolyn Shafer (Grad Center for Planning, School of Architecture)
Senate Co-Presidents	Heather Lewis (School of Art) Zach Slanger (Social Science and Cultural Studies)

 

Non-Voting Members

Bylaw II.B.ii provides for non-voting members who serve one-year terms.

Parliamentarian	Matthew Garklavs
Office of the President	Nicole Haas
Office of the Provost	Russ Abell
Committee chairs who are not voting members of the Senate	Martin Dege, IAC Chair Liz Knauer, DTA Chair Karolina Koczynska, ASA Chair Irene Lopatovska, FDF Chair Jeffrey Hogrefe, Indigenous Knowledge Chair Mark Rosin, Senate Research Liaison
Staff Council	Sam Harvey
SGA	Sophia Mendez

Committees

For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages:

• Executive Committee
• Steering Committee

• Academic Policy Committee (APC)
• Institute Curriculum Committee (ICC)
• Institute Assessment Committee

• Faculty Development Fund (FDF) Committee
• Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Committee
• Research Recognition Award (RRA) Committee
• Academic Service Award (ASA) Committee

• Board Positions (Faculty Trustees & Committees)
• Institute Committees