Current Roster
Officers
Uzma Z. Rizvi
President
Maria Sieira
Financial Officer
Sebastian Kaupert
Information Officer
Jason Vigneri-Beane
Outreach Officer
Amy Ballmer
Parliamentarian
Senators
The Senate represents faculty, chairs and assistant chairs, and teaching staff at the Institute. Each constituent is represented by one departmental senator and one or more at-large senators for their category (full-time faculty, part-time faculty, chairs category, or staff who teach). Large departments have one additional departmental senator. In addition to voting senators, there are non-voting members of the Senate selected by the President, Provost’s Council, and student government.
Senators and alternates are elected every three years according to procedures described in Bylaws III.B.i and VI.A. Vacancies are filled according to procedures in Bylaw VI.B.i.
Senators are responsible for:
- soliciting the opinions of their constituents on matters affecting education and governance;
- informing their constituents of significant events, dates, and deadlines announced by the Senate, and of its actions;
- attending Senate meetings at which they have a vote or, if unable to attend, request that their alternate(s) attend; and
- serving routinely on Senate committees.
Departmental Senators
| Department | Senators | Alternates |
|---|---|---|
| Art & Design Education | Katherine Huala (Full-Time Faculty) | Tara Kopp (Staff who Teach) |
| Associate Degree Programs | Deborah Caponera (Full-Time Faculty) | Jared Osborn (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Construction/Facilities Management | Kent Hikida (Full-Time Faculty) | |
| Continuing & Professional Studies | Rhonda Schaller (Staff who Teach) | Joelle Danant (Staff who Teach) |
| Creative Arts Therapy | Ted Ehrhardt (Part-Time Faculty) | Jean Davis (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Creative Enterprise Leadership | Chris Shrum (Full-Time Faculty) | |
| Digital Arts | Michael Enright (Full-Time Faculty) | David Haines (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Fashion Design | Gabby (Gabriela) Galvan (Part-Time Faculty) | |
| Film & Video | Jim Finn (Full-Time Faculty) | |
| Fine Arts | Fay Ku (Part-Time Faculty) | Carlos Motta (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Foundation Art & Design | Todd Ayoung (Part-Time Faculty) Sean Sullivan (Part-Time Faculty) | Andrea Merkx (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Graduate Architecture & Urban Design | Olivia Vien (Part-Time Faculty) | Stephanie Bayard (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Graduate Center for Planning | David Burney (Part-Time Faculty) | Vicki Weiner (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Graduate Communications/Package Design | Joseph Burwell (Part-Time Faculty) | Anton Ginzburg (Part-Time Faculty) |
| History of Art & Design | William Bracken (Part-Time Faculty) | Mary Edwards (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Humanities & Media Studies | Dominica Giglio (Part-Time Faculty) | Saul Anton (Part-Time Faculty, on sabbatical) |
| Industrial Design | Matte Nyberg (Staff who Teach) | Amanda Huynh (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Interior Design | Caleb Crawford (Part-Time Faculty) Alexandra Goldberg (Part-Time Faculty) | Brendan Moran (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Library | Missy Brown (Full-Time Faculty) | Alex Austin (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Mathematics & Science | Charles Rubenstein (Full-Time Faculty) | Dan Wright (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Photography | Stephen Hilger (Full-Time Faculty) | Sara Greenberger Rafferty (Full-Time Faculty, on sabbatical) |
| School of Information | Nancy Smith (Full-Time Faculty) | Pamela Pavliscak (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Social Science & Cultural Studies | Kumru Toktamis (Full-Time Faculty) | Martin Dege (Full-Time Faculty) |
| Undergraduate Architecture | Tulay Atak (Part-Time Faculty) Jason Vigneri-Beane (Full-Time Faculty) | Lori Gibbs (Part-Time Faculty) Marlon Davis (Part-Time Faculty) |
| Undergraduate Communications Design | Sebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty) | |
| Writing | Alysia Slocum Laferriere (Part-Time Faculty) | Pareesa Pourian (Part-Time Faculty) |
At-Large Senators
| Senators | Alternates | |
|---|---|---|
| Full-Time Faculty | Erika Hinrichs (UG Architecture) Jonathan Scelsa (UG Architecture) Juan Jofre Lora (Foundation Art & Design) Heather Lewis (School of Art) Erica Morawski (SLAS, History of Art & Design) | Peter De Staebler (SLAS, History of Art and Design) |
| Part-Time Faculty | Scott Santoro (UG Communications Design) Maria Sieira (Graduate Architecture & Urban Design) Alvaro Uribe (Industrial Design) | |
| Chairs Category | David Foley (Interior Design) Yasi Ghanbari (Foundation) Evan Neely (History of Art & Design) Dina Weiss (Fine Arts) Farzam Yazdanseta (UG Architecture) | Tania Branquinho David Kim |
| Staff Who Teach | Carolyn Shafer (Grad Center for Planning, School of Architecture) | |
| Senate President | Uzma Z. Rizvi (Full-Time Faculty, Social Science & Cultural Studies) |
Non-Voting Members
Bylaw II.B.ii provides for non-voting members who serve one-year terms.
| Office of the President | Nicole Haas, Chief of Staff |
| Office of the Provost | Russ Abell, Director of Libraries |
| Committee chairs who are not voting members of the Senate | Amit Kalra, ICC Chair Nida Abdullah, APC Chair Irene Lopatovska, FDF Chair Jeffrey Hogrefe, RRA Chair Dean Sideaway, DTA Chair |
| Staff Council | Chris Ruggieri, President of Staff Council and Assistant Director of Residential Life |
| SGA | Lakshya K N |
Committees
For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages:
- Executive Committee
- Steering Committee
- Academic Policy Committee (APC)
- Institute Curriculum Committee (ICC)
- Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Committee
- Faculty Development Fund (FDF) Committee
- Research Recognition Award (RRA) Committee
- Academic Service Award (ASA) Committee
- Board Positions (Faculty Trustees & Committees)
- Institute Committees