Senators

2026-2027 Faculty Senators

*** Faculty Senate Chair
**   Faculty Senate Executive Committee Chair
*     Faculty Senate Executive Committee Member
Harpur College of Arts and Sciences- Fine Arts and Humanities
Department Name Term expires
Africana Studies Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame 2028
Art and Design Colin Lyons 2027
Art History Tom McDonough * 2028
Asian & Asian American Studies

Ramaesh Bhagirat

Thiam Huat Kam

2028

2028

Cinema

Magdalena Bermudez

2028

Comparative Literature Giovanna Montenegro 2028
English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Monika Mehta

Surya Parekh

Jennifer Stoever

2028

2028

2027

2028

German and Russian Studies

Carl Gelderloos

2027

Judaic Studies Douglas Jones 2027
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

John Starks * 

2027

Music

Hippocrates Cheng

Sarah Gerk *

2028

2028

Philosophy

Casey Doyle

Robert Guay

2028

2027

Romance Languages & Literature

Sandra Casanova

Brendan Hennessey

2028

2028

Theatre

David Bisaha

Laura Fine Hawkes **

2028

2026

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Biological Sciences

Michael Armstrong

Heather Fiumera

Kirsten Prior

2027

2027

2028

Chemistry

Steven Murphy

Julien Panetier ***

Minfei Su

2028

2027

2028

Department of Earth Sciences Sina Saneiyan

2028

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Marcin Mazur *

Pratik Misra

Pedro Ontaneda

Xingye Qiao

2028

2028

2028

2027

Physics

Pegor Aynajian

Manuel Smeu*

2028

2027

Psychology

Peter Gerhardstein

William Hayes

Kenneth Kurtz

Jennifer McGrath

2028

2028

2028

2028

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences- Social Sciences
Anthropology

Elizabeth DiGangi

Kathleen Sterling *

2028

2028

Economics

Hwan-Sik Choi

Andreas Pape

2028

2028

Geography Adam Mathews* 2027
History

Nathanael Andrade *

Elizabeth Casteen

Meg Leja

2028

2027

2027

Political Science

Seden Akcinaroglu

Jeffrey Yates

2028

2028

Sociology

Heidi Nicholls

2028

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Nursing

Speech Language Pathology

Rosemary Collier

Jodi Sutherland*

Timothea Vo

Reethee Antony

Sundeep Venkatesan

2027

2027

2028

2027

2028

Libraries
 

Elise Ferer*

Sasha Frizzell

Matthew Harrick

Erin Rushton * 

2027

2027

2027

2027

College of Community and Public Affairs
Higher Education & Student Affairs Melvin Whitehead 2027
Human Development Denise Yull 2027
Public Administration & Policy Komla Dzigbede 2027

Social Work

Monica Adams

Melissa Hardesty *

2028

2028

Teaching, Learning & Educational Leadership

Elizabeth Anderson

Bogum Yoon

2027

2027

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
 

Yetrib Hathout

Emily Leppien*

Erin Pauling

2028

2027

2027

School of Management
 

Subimal Chatterjee

Yang Guo

Debi Mishra *

Kristian Rydqvist

Sumantra Sarkar

2028

2027

2027

2028

2028

Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
Biomedical Engineering

Tracy Hookway

Ahyeon Koh

2028

2028

School of Computing

Eric Atkinson

Jayson Boubin

Aravind Prakash

Sujoy Sikdar

Kuang-Ching Wang

2028

2028

2028

2028

2028

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Indranil Bhattacharya

Scott Craver *

Ramesh Pokharel

2028

2028

2028

Mechanical Engineering

Paul Chiarot

Bahgat Sammakia

Scott Schiffries

2028

2028

2028

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Peter Borgesen

Mohammad Khasawneh

Mark Poliks

Luis Rocha

2028

2028

2027

2028

Additional members of the Faculty Senate:
President Anne D'Alleva, ex officio
Provost Donald E. Hall, ex officio
TBD- Undergraduate Student liaison, non-voting
Andre Mathis- Professional Staff Senate liaison, non-voting
TBD- Graduate Student & BU Council Student liaison, non-voting
Amanda Hutchinson, University Faculty Senator (Professional) (Manar Sabry, alternate), non-voting