Faculty
The College of Arts and Sciences has a highly diverse and accomplished faculty. The list below includes full-time assistant, associate and full professors, as well as associate and assistant teaching professors. Our Part Time Faculty brings a wide-range of professional experience and expertise to the classroom, giving students the benefit of their workplace insights.
If you you are looking for someone not listed here, please check the SU Directory, the College of Arts and Sciences instructional staff list, the faculty member's or instructor's departmental website, and then fill out our Contact form and select "web". This will generate a ticket in our ASWeb Orange Tracker queue to add them to this list.
Visit the Maxwell faculty website for information on faculty in the following areas: Department of Anthropology; Department of Economics; Department of Geography; Department of History; International Relations Program; Department of Political Science; and the Department of Sociology and Public Affairs.
African American Studies
Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani | Assistant Professor | claghani@syr.edu |
Joan Bryant | Associate Professor and Department Chair | jobryant@syr.edu |
Horace G Campbell | Professor | hgcampbe@syr.edu |
Linda Carty | Associate Professor | lcarty@syr.edu |
Kishi Animashaun Ducre | Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | kanimash@syr.edu |
Janis A. Mayes | Associate Professor | jamayes@syr.edu |
Herbert G. Ruffin II | Associate Professor | hruffin@syr.edu |
S. N. Sangmpam | Professor | snsangm@syr.edu |
Danielle Taana Smith | Professor, African American Studies | dsmith33@syr.edu |
James Gordon Williams | Assistant Professor | jgwillia@syr.edu |
Art and Music Histories
Theo Cateforis | Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Fine Arts and Music History & Cultures | tpcatefo@syr.edu |
Sally J. Cornelison | Professor and Director, Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art | sjcornel@syr.edu |
Amanda Eubanks Winkler | Professor and Department Chair | awinkler@syr.edu |
Wayne Franits | Distinguished Professor | wefranit@syr.edu |
Sarah Fuchs | Assistant Professor | sefuchss@syr.edu |
Sydney Hutchinson | Associate Professor | sjhutchi@syr.edu |
Samuel Johnson | Carole & Alvin I. Schragis Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor | sjohns32@syr.edu |
Matilde Mateo | Research Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art History and History of Architecture | mmmateo@syr.edu |
Glenn Peers | Professor | gapeers@syr.edu |
Romita Ray (Kapoor) | Associate Professor | rray@syr.edu |
Sascha Scott | Associate Professor and Director of Art History Graduate Studies | sscott04@syr.edu |
Biology
Chemistry
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Jamie Desjardins | Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs | jldesjar@syr.edu |
Karen A. Doherty | Professor and Department Chair | kadohert@syr.edu |
Colleen E. Gargan | Gebbie Speech-Language Clinic Director / Associate Teaching Professor | cegargan@syr.edu |
Richard T. Kelly | Visiting Assistant Professor | No email available. |
Kristen Kennedy | Assistant Teaching Professor | klkenn01@syr.edu |
Tammy Kordas | Assistant Teaching Professor | tmzubrow@syr.edu |
Anita L Lightburn | Assistant Teaching Professor | alightbu@syr.edu |
Meghan Lister | Assistant Teaching Professor | mwlister@syr.edu |
Soren Y. Lowell | Professor | slowell@syr.edu |
Sue Ellen Maxfield | Assistant Teaching Professor | semaxfie@syr.edu |
Stephanie McMillen | Assistant Professor | smcmille@syr.edu |
Joseph T Pellegrino | Associate Teaching Professor | jtpelleg@syr.edu |
Jonathan L. Preston | Associate Professor | jopresto@syr.edu |
Beth A. Prieve | Professor | baprieve@syr.edu |
Ellyn Riley | Associate Professor | earil100@syr.edu |
Victoria Tumanova | Assistant Professor | vtumanov@syr.edu |
Kathy R. Vander Werff | Associate Professor | kvander@syr.edu |
Laura Vincent | Assistant Teaching Professor | lvincent@syr.edu |
Ramani Voleti | Assistant Teaching Professor | rvvoleti@syr.edu |
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Suzanne Baldwin | Thonis Family Professor: Thermochronology & Tectonics | sbaldwin@syr.edu |
Tripti Bhattacharya | Thonis Family Professor: Paleoclimate Dynamics. Assistant Professor. | trbhatta@syr.edu |
Elizabeth Carter | Assistant Professor: Computational Hydrology (joint appointment with CEE) | ekcarter@syr.edu |
Melissa Chipman | Assistant Professor: Arctic Paleoecology & Paleoclimate | mlchipma@syr.edu |
Daniel Curewitz | Associate Teaching Professor | dcurewit@syr.edu |
Paul Fitzgerald | Professor and Director of Graduate Studies: Thermochronology & Tectonics | pgfitzge@syr.edu |
Gregory Hoke | Associate Professor and Associate Chair: Earth Surface & Tectonics | gdhoke@syr.edu |
Linda Ivany | Professor: Evolutionary Paleoecology and Paleoclimate | lcivany@syr.edu |
Christopher Junium | Associate Professor: Geobiology, Astrobiology, Paleoclimate, Paleoceanography | ckjunium@syr.edu |
Jeffrey A Karson | Jessie Page Heroy Professor and Department Chair: Tectonics & Magmatism of Rifts and Transform Faults | jakarson@syr.edu |
Christa Kelleher | Assistant Professor: Comparative Hydrology, Urban Hydrology, & Hydrologic Modeling | ckellehe@syr.edu |
Zunli Lu | Associate Professor: Low-Temperature Geochemistry & Earth System Evolution | zunlilu@syr.edu |
Robert Moucha | Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies: Geodynamics | rmoucha@syr.edu |
Cathryn R. Newton | Professor; Dean Emerita, College of Arts and Sciences; Senior Advisor to Chancellor and Provost for Faculty Engagement : Marine Paleoecology; Modern and Ancient Extinctions | crnewton@syr.edu |
Scott D. Samson | Professor: Radiogenic Isotope & Geochronology | sdsamson@syr.edu |
Christopher A. Scholz | Professor: Paleolimnology and Rift Basin Evolution | cascholz@syr.edu |
Jay Thomas | Assistant Professor: Petrology and Experimental Geochemistry | jthom102@syr.edu |
Sam Tuttle | Assistant Professor: Hydroclimatology, Land Surface Hydrology, Remote Sensing, & Snow Hydrology | setuttle@syr.edu |
Tao Wen | Assistant Professor: Hydrogeochemistry, Environmental Data Science, & Noble Gas Geochemistry | twen08@syr.edu |
Bruce Wilkinson | Research Professor | eustasy@syr.edu |
English
Forensic Science
Jonathan Adelman | Research Assistant Professor | jdadelma@syr.edu |
Kathleen Corrado | FNSSI Executive Director | kcorrado@syr.edu |
James Crill | Professor of Practice | jcrillii@syr.edu |
Ulrich Englich | Research Assistant Professor | uenglich@syr.edu |
James Hewett | Associate Professor | jhewett@syr.edu |
Michael Marciano | Research Assistant Professor and Director for FNSSI Research | mamarcia@syr.edu |
Robert B. Silver | Professor | rbsilver@syr.edu |
James T. Spencer | Professor | jtspence@syr.edu |
Michael B. Sponsler | Professor and Director of Curricular Programs FNSSI | sponsler@syr.edu |
Humanities Faculty
Gregg Lambert | Dean's Professor, Humanities | glambert@syr.edu |
Scott Manning Stevens | Associate Professor | scsteven@syr.edu |
David Yaffe | Assistant Professor, Humanities | dyaffe@syr.edu |
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Mathematics
Philosophy
Luvell Anderson | Associate Professor | lander04@syr.edu |
Kenneth Baynes | Professor | krbaynes@syr.edu |
Frederick Beiser | Professor | fbeiser@syr.edu |
Ben Bradley | Allan and Anita Sutton Professor and Department Chair | wbradley@syr.edu |
Janice Dowell | Professor | jldowell@syr.edu |
Kevan Edwards | Associate Professor | kedwar02@syr.edu |
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson | Associate Professor | verlenbu@syr.edu |
Samuel Gorovitz | Professor | sgcas@syr.edu |
Mark Heller | Professor | heller@syr.edu |
Christopher Noble | Assistant Professor | cinoble@syr.edu |
Hille Paakkunainen | Associate Professor and Graduate Director | hpaakkun@syr.edu |
Kara Richardson | Associate Professor | kricha03@syr.edu |
Michael Rieppel | Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Director | morieppe@syr.edu |
Keshav Singh | Assistant Professor | kesingh@syr.edu |
David Sobel | Irwin and Marjorie Guttag Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy | dsobel@syr.edu |
Robert Van Gulick | Professor | rnvangul@syr.edu |
Physics
Psychology
Religion
Philip P. Arnold | Associate Professor and Department Chair | pparnold@syr.edu |
Zachary J. Braiterman | Professor | zbraiter@syr.edu |
Mark Brockway | Faculty Fellow in Political Science and Religion | mdbrockw@syr.edu |
Virginia Burrus | The Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor | mvburrus@syr.edu |
Gareth Fisher | Associate Professor | gfisher@syr.edu |
Ken Frieden | B.G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic Studies and William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities | kfrieden@syr.edu |
Biko Mandela Gray | Assistant Professor | bmgray@syr.edu |
M. Gail Hamner | Professor | mghamner@syr.edu |
Jeanette S. Jouili | Associate Professor of Religion | jsjouili@syr.edu |
Tazim . R Kassam | Associate Professor | tkassam@syr.edu |
Brian E. Konkol | Dean of Hendricks Chapel and Professor of Practice | bkonkol@syr.edu |
R. Gustav Niebuhr | Associate Professor | rgniebuh@syr.edu |
William Robert | Associate Professor | wrobert@syr.edu |
Marcia Robinson | Assistant Professor | mrobin03@syr.edu |
Shira Schwartz | Assistant Professor, Phyllis Backer Professor of Jewish Studies | seschwar@syr.edu |
Joanne Punzo Waghorne | Professor | jpwaghor@syr.edu |
Ernest Wallwork | Professor, Religion | eewallwo@syr.edu |
James W. Watts | Professor | jwwatts@syr.edu |
Science Teaching
Julia Snyder | Research Assistant Professor | jjseymou@syr.edu |
John W. Tillotson | Associate Professor | jwtillot@syr.edu |
Women's and Gender Studies
Himika Bhattacharya | Associate Professor | hbhattac@syr.edu |
Pedro DiPietro (PJ) | Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies | pjdipiet@syr.edu |
Eunjung Kim | Associate Professor | ekim108@syr.edu |
Vivian M. May | Professor | vmmay@syr.edu |
Danika Medak-Saltzman | Assistant Professor | dfmedaks@syr.edu |
Chandra Talpade Mohanty | Distinguished Professor | ctmohant@syr.edu |
Dana M. Olwan | Assistant Professor | dmolwan@syr.edu |
Gwendolyn D. Pough | Professor and Department Chair | gdpough@syr.edu |
Robin L. Riley | Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies | rlriley@syr.edu |
Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
Lois Agnew | Associate Dean of Curriculum Innovation and Pedagogy | lpagnew@syr.edu |
Rusty Bartels | Assistant Teaching Professor | rrbartel@syr.edu |
Patrick W. Berry | Department Chair and Associate Professor | pwberry@syr.edu |
Mark Bousquet | Assistant Teaching Professor | mrbousqu@syr.edu |
Collin Gifford Brooke | Associate Professor and Interim Director of Graduate Studies | cbrooke@syr.edu |
Dan Brown | Assistant Teaching Professor | dgbrown@syr.edu |
Kevin Adonis Browne | Associate Professor | No email available. |
Emily Dressing | Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies | eadefran@syr.edu |
Aaron Duplantier | Assistant Teaching Professor | amduplan@syr.edu |
Chris Feikes | Assistant Teaching Professor | cjfeikes@syr.edu |
Genevieve García de Müeller | Assistant Professor | ggarciad@syr.edu |
Jonna Gilfus | Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies | jigilfus@syr.edu |
Lenny Grant | Assistant Professor | lfgrant@syr.edu |
Kate Hanzalik | Assistant Teaching Professor | khanzali@syr.edu |
Rebecca Moore Howard | Professor | rehoward@syr.edu |
Krista Kennedy | Associate Professor | krista01@syr.edu |
Avi Luce | Assistant Teaching Professor | avluce@syr.edu |
Robin McCrary | Assistant Teaching Professor | rmmccrar@syr.edu |
Rae Ann Meriwether | Assistant Teaching Professor | rameriwe@syr.edu |
Noreen Moore | Assistant Teaching Professor | nsmoore@syr.edu |
Amy Murphy | Assistant Teaching Professor | acmurphy@syr.edu |
Brice Nordquist | Associate Professor and Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement | banordqu@syr.edu |
Rajendra Panthee | Assistant Teaching Professor | rkpanthe@syr.edu |
S.D.C. Parker | Assistant Teaching Professor | sdparker@syr.edu |
Eileen E. Schell | Professor | eeschell@syr.edu |
Steve Schillinger | Assistant Teaching Professor | shschill@syr.edu |
Tony Scott | Associate Professor | adscot01@syr.edu |
Audrey Thompson | Assistant Teaching Professor | adthomps@syr.edu |
Steve Thorley | Assistant Teaching Professor | slthorle@syr.edu |
T.E. Winningham | Assistant Teaching Professor | tewinnin@syr.edu |
Joshua Wood | Assistant Teaching Professor | jwood06@syr.edu |