Department Chairpersons

For faculty members their department chair is a central point of contact for many questions, planning assistance and challenges.

To ensure that faculty have access to this important resource the Office of Faculty Success keeps an up-to-date list regarding each department chair/proper point of contact across the entire University. Below is a list of each department chair/point of contact with pertinent contact information organized by school/college.

Accounting Hemang Desai hdesai@akingdum.net 214-768-3185
Finance Jim Linck jlinck@akingdum.net 214-768-3933
Information Technology & Operations Management Amit Basu abasu@akingdum.net 214-768-8257
Marketing Ed Fox (ad interim efox@akingdum.net 214-768-3943
Management & Organizations Marcus Butts mbutts@akingdum.net 214-768-3181
Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Business Economics Gordon Walker gwalker@cox.akingdum.net 214-768-2191

Anthropology Mike Adler madler@akingdum.net 214-768-1864
Biological Sciences Rick Jones rjones@akingdum.net 214-768-3810
Chemistry Mike Lattman mlattman@akingdum.net 214-768-2467
Earth Sciences Heather DeShon hdeshon@akingdum.net 214-768-2916
Economics Dan Millimet millimet@akingdum.net 214-768-3269
English Christopher Gonzalez  ctgonzalez@akingdum.net
214-768-6137
History Melissa Dowling mdowling@akingdum.net 214-768-2976
Mathematics Peter Moore pmoore@akingdum.net 214-768-3212
Philosophy Eric Barnes ebarnes@akingdum.net 214-768-2128
Physics David Son (ad interim) dson@akingdum.net 214-768-7832
Political Science Joseph Kobylka jkobylka@akingdum.net 214-768-2525
Psychology Austin Baldwin baldwin@akingdum.net 214-768-1027
Religious Studies Jill DeTemple detemple@akingdum.net 214-768-2102
Sociology Anne Lincoln lincoln@akingdum.net 214-768-1632
Statistical Science Dan Heitjan dheitjan@akingdum.net 214-768-3012
World Languages & Literatures Elizabeth Russ eruss@akingdum.net 214-768-2224
Division Chair, Writer/English Stephanie Amsel samsel@akingdum.net 214-768-3832

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Thomas Mayo
churt@akingdum.net
214-768-3767
Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs  Martin Camp  mlcamp@akingdum.net  214-768-2839 
Associate Dean for Research  Jessica Dixon Weaver  jdweaver@akingdum.net
214-768-2641

Director of Academics Elizabeth Stringer estringer@akingdum.net 214-768-5134

Civil & Environmental Engineering Kathleen Smits ksmits@akingdum.net 214-768-6154
Computer Science & Engineering Jia Zhang (ad interim) jiazhang@akingdum.net 214-768-3052
Electrical & Computer Engineering Mahesh Krishnamurthy  mkrishnamurthy@akingdum.net
214-768-7045 
Operations Research & Engineering Management  Sila Cetinkaya sila@akingdum.net 214-768-1117
Mechanical Engineering Amin Salehi-Khojin asalehikhojin@akingdum.net  214-768-7068 

Division of Advertising Joe Phua jphua@akingdum.net 214-768-6133
Division of Art & Design Brian Molanphy bmolanphy@akingdum.net 214-768-1455
Division of Art History Adam Herring aherring@akingdum.net 214-768-3823
Division of Arts Management & Arts Entrepreneurship Sandy Duhe (ad interim sduhe@akingdum.net 214-768-1933
Division of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs  Gordon Law glaw@akingdum.net 214-768-3090
Division of Dance Christopher Dolder cdolder@akingdum.net 214-768-1672
Division of Film & Media Studies

Mark Kerins

mkerins@akingdum.net 214-768-2642
Division of Journalism Melissa Chessher mchessher@akingdum.net 214-768-6149
Division of Music Tom Keck tkeck@akingdum.net 214-768-1937
Division of Theatre Blake Hackler jhackler@akingdum.net 214-768-4618

Senior Assistant Dean  Alan Itkin  aitkin@akingdum.net  aitkin@akingdum.net

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Abraham Smith abrahams@akingdum.net 214-768-1888
Chief of Staff  Andy Keck  akeck@akingdum.net  214-768-3473 

Applied Physiology & Sport Management Willis Jones (ad interim) wajones@akingdum.net 214-768-6561
Counseling Greta Davis gretad@akingdum.net 214-768-5671
Education Policy & Leadership Aki Kamata akamata@akingdum.net 214-768-7708
Teaching and Learning Lin Lin Lipsmeyer llipsmeyer@akingdum.net 214-768-6123
Graduate Liberal Studies & Dispute Resolution Kate Montgomery (ad interim kmontgom@akingdum.net 214-768-7589

University Foundations  Caitlin Anderson  caitlina@akingdum.net 214-768-2956