Current Roster

Officers

Chris Alen Sula

President

Audrey L. Schultz

Financial Officer

Monica Maceli

Information Officer

Eva Diaz

Outreach Officer (acting)

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.

Printable roster

Departmental Senators

Department	Senators	Alternates
Art & Design Education	Theodora Skipitares (Part-Time Faculty)
Associate Degree Programs	Deborah Caponera (Part-Time Faculty)	Stewart (Charles) Parker (Part-Time Faculty)
Construction/Facilities Management	Audrey Schultz (Full-Time Faculty)
Continuing & Professional Studies	Rhonda Schaller (Staff Who Teach)
Creative Arts Therapy	Ted Ehrhardt (Part-Time Faculty)
Design/Arts & Cultural Management	Chris Shrum (Full-Time Faculty)	Richard Green (Full-Time Faculty)
Digital Arts	Genevieve Leonard (Part-Time Faculty)	Everett Kane (Full-Time Faculty)
Fashion Design	Gabby (Gabriela) Galvan (Part-Time Faculty)
Film & Video	Jim Finn (Full-Time Faculty)
Fine Arts	Joseph Fyfe (Part-Time Faculty) Jenny Lee (Part-Time Faculty)	Ross Knight (Part-Time Faculty)
Foundation Art & Design	Sean Sullivan (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design	Dylan Baker-Rice (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Center for Planning	Courtney Knapp (Full-Time Faculty)	John Shapiro (Full-Time Faculty)
Graduate Communications/Package Design	Alex Liebergesell (Full-Time Faculty)
History of Art & Design	Mary Edwards (Part-Time Faculty)	Worth Bracken (Part-Time Faculty)
Humanities & Media Studies	Karin Shankar (Full-Time Faculty)	Shayla Lawz (Part-Time Faculty)
Industrial Design	Ignacio Urbina Polo (Full-Time Faculty)
Interior Design	Olivia Knott (Part-Time Faculty) Alex Schweder (Part-Time Faculty)
Library	Maggie Portis (Full-Time Faculty)	Missy Brown (Full-Time Faculty)
Mathematics & Science	Charles Rubenstein (Full-Time Faculty)
Photography	Sara Greenberger Rafferty (Full-Time Faculty)
School of Information	Monica Maceli (Full-Time Faculty)	Debbie Rabina (Full-Time Faculty)
Social Science & Cultural Studies	Sameetah Agha (Full-Time Faculty) Kumru Toktamis (Full-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Architecture	Robert Brackett III (Part-Time Faculty) Federica Vannucchi (Part-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Communications Design	Sebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty) Anthony Williams (Part-Time Faculty)
Writing	Pareesa Pourian (Part-Time Faculty)

At-Large Senators

	Senators	Alternates
Full-Time Faculty	Nida Abdullah (Undergraduate Communications Design, School of Design) Uzma Z. Rizvi [on leave] (Social Science & Cultural Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences) Jonathan Scelsa (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture) Sarah van Ouwerkerk (Photography, School of Art) Jason Vigneri-Beane (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture)	Meredith TenHoor (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture) Zhivka Valiavicharska (Social Science & Cultural Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Part-Time Faculty	Robert Cervellione (Graduate Architecture & Urban Design, School of Architecture) Kathryn Filla (Industrial Design, School of Design) Gonzalo Lopez Garrido (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture) Heather Horton (History of Art and Design, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences) Jonathan Peck (Foundation Art)	Tessa Maffucci (Fashion Design, School of Design)
Chairs Category	David Burney (Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, School of Architecture) David Erdman (Graduate Architecture & Urban Design, School of Architecture) Mary McBride (Design Management, School of Art) Helio Takai (Math & Science, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences) [absent while serving as interim dean] Arlene Keizer (Humanities & Media Studies, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences) [replacing Helio Takai] Susan G. Young (Associate Degree Programs, School of Art)	Eve Baron (Graduate Center for Planning, School of Architecture) Amy Ballmer (Library) Farzam Yazdanseta (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture)
Staff Who Teach	Carolyn Shafer (Grad Center for Planning, School of Architecture)
Senate President	Chris Alen Sula (Full-Time Faculty, School of Information)

Non-Voting Members

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

Office of the President	Jim Kempster, Vice-President for Communications and Marketing
Office of the Provost	Russ Abell, Director of Libraries
Student Government	Ava Mallory Scott, Chair of Campus Life
Committee chairs who are not voting members of the Senate	Damon Chaky, ICC Chair Caleb Crawford, RRA Chair
Staff Council	Chris Ruggieri, Assistant Director of Residential Life; President of Staff Council

Committees

For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages: