Senators

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 Nkiru Nzegwu 2026
Art and Design Colin Lyons 2027
Art History Tom McDonough * 2026
Asian And Asian American Studies

Ramaesh Bhagirat

Sungdai Cho *

2026

2026

Cinema

Sofia Theodore-Pierce

2026

Comparative Literature Tarek Shamma 2026
English, General Literature and Rhetoric

John Havard

Joseph Keith

Mihir Parekh

Jennifer Stoever

2026

2026

2027

2026

German and Russian Studies

Sidney Dement

2027

Judaic Studies Douglas Jones 2027
Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

John Starks * 

2027

Music

Gregory Evans

2026

Philosophy

Mateo Duque

Robert Guay

2026

2027

Romance Languages & Literature Robyn Cope

2026

Theatre

Laura Fine Hawkes **

2026

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

Michael Armstrong

Anthony Fiumera

Heather Fiumera

2027

2026

2027

Chemistry

Ming An

Rebecca Kissling

Julien Panetier ***

2026

2026

2026

Department of Earth Sciences Adriane Lam

2026

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Laura Anderson

Anton Schick *

Xingye Qiao

2026

2026

2027

Physics

Michael Lawler

Manuel Smeu*

2026

2027

Psychology

Meaghan Altman

Christina Balderrama- Durbin

Marvin Diaz

Cyma Van Petten

2026

2026

2026

2026

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences- Social Sciences
Anthropology

Jeffrey Lum

Sabina Perrino

2026

2026

Economics

Barry Jones *

Andreas Pape

2026

2026

Geography Adam Mathews* 2027
History

Nathanael Andrade *

Elizabeth Casteen

Meg Leja

2026

2027

2027

Political Science

Mikhail Filippov

Olga Shvetsova 

2026

2026

Sociology

Gladys Jimenez-Munoz

2026

Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Nursing

Nursing

Physical Therapy

Speech Language Pathology

Rosemary Collier

Jodi Sutherland*

Michael Buck

Reethee Antony

2027

2026

2026

2027

Libraries
 

Elise Ferer*

Sasha Frizzell

Matthew Harrick

Erin Rushton * 

2027

2027

2027

2026

College of Community and Public Affairs
Teaching Learning and Educational Leadership


Elizabeth Anderson

Bogum Yoon


2027

2027

Higher Education & Student Affairs John Zilvinskis 2027
Human Development Denise Yull 2027
Public Administration & Policy Komla Dzigbede 2027

Social Work

Melissa Hardesty *

2026

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
 

Emily Leppien*

Erin Pauling

Gail Rattinger

2027

2027

2026

School of Management
 

Tiffany Keller Hansbrough

Kimberly Jaussi

Saligrama Agnihothri

Debi Mishra *

2026

2026

2027

2026

Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
Biomedical Engineering Ahyeon Koh 2026
School of Computing

Jeremy Blackburn 

Kenneth Chiu

Weiying Dai

2026

2026

2026

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tara Dhakal *

Vladimir Nikulin *

2026

2026

Mechanical Engineering

Paul Chiarot

Timothy Singler

2026

2026

Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Peter Borgesen

Shuxia (Susan) Lu

Mark Poliks

2026

2026

2027

Ex-officio & Non-voting members:

President Harvey G. Stenger, ex-officio
Provost Donald E. Hall, ex-officio
Luca Cassidy- Non-voting Undergraduate Student liaison
Mackenzie Cooper- Non-voting BU Council Student liaison
Andre Mathis- Non-voting Professional Staff Senate liaison
Anjani Praneet Meruvu- Non-voting Graduate Student liaison
James Rea, Non-voting University Faculty Senator (Professional) (Manar Sabry, alternate)