Membership
Parliamentarian
Ronald Vero
Officers
Senate Chair
Sean Rafferty
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(518) 442-4713
[email protected]
Senate Vice Chair
Timothy Sergay
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
(614) 599-3061
[email protected]
Immediate Past Chair
Zina Lawrence
Director of Graduate Student Services
Business Building 201K
(518) 956-8378
[email protected]
Senate Secretary
Christian Poehlmann
Associate Librarian, University Libraries
University Libraries, LI 227
(518) 442-3582
[email protected]
Senate Support
Office of the Provost
Ex Officio Senators
Jeanette Altarriba, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Sammy Axley, University Faculty Senate, SUNY - voting
Jordan McAdam, Lead Senator, Graduate Student Association - voting
Andrew Scott, Rule and Administration Chair, Student Association - voting
Michael Christakis, Vice President for Student Success
James Dias, Vice President for Research
Todd D. Foreman, Vice President for Finance and Administration
Diane Hamilton, University Faculty Senate, SUNY - voting
Karl Rethemeyer, Dean, Rockefeller College
Havidán Rodriguez, President
Kabel Stanwicks, University Faculty Senate, SUNY - voting
Carol Kim, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Kevin Williams, Vice Provost & Dean for Graduate Education
Elected Senators
At-Large
Abby Adams - Open At-Large Senator (2022)
Zakhar Berkovich - Open At-Large Senator (2022)
Billie Franchini - Open At-Large Senator (2021)
James Hargett - Open At-Large Senator (2021)
Mary Ellen Mallia - Professional Faculty At-Large Senator (2022)
Lindsay Van Berkom - Professional Faculty At-Large Senator (2022)
Donald Keenan - Professional Faculty At-Large Senator (2022)
College of Arts and Sciences
Africana Studies: Leonard Slade (2020)
Anthropology: Robert Rosenswig (2019)
Art and Art History: Rachel Dressler (2020)
Atmospheric & Environmental Science: Liming Zhou (2019)
Biological Sciences: Hua Shi (2020)
Chemistry: Gerd-Uwe Flechsig (2020)
Communications: Masahiro Yamamoto (2019)
East Asian Studies: Andrew Byron (2020)
English: Helene Scheck (2019)
Economics: Jerry Marschke (2019)
Geography & Planning: Ray Bromley (2019)
History: Alec Dawson (2020)
Languages, Literatures and Cultures: Timothy Sergay
Latin American Caribbean & US Latino Studies: Gabriel Hetland
Mathematics & Statistics: Marius Beceanu (2020)
Music &Theater:
Philosophy: Marcus Adams (2019)
Physics: Jesse Ernst (2019)
Psychology: Hazel Prelow (2019)
Sociology: Tse-Chuan Yang (2019)
Women’s Studies: Deborah LaFond (2019)
School of Business
Shobha Chengular-Smith (2019)
Beth DuFault (2019)
School of Criminal Justice
Greg Pogarsky
School of Education
Bruce Saddler (2019)
Carol Rodgers (FA18)
College of Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security
Lenore Horowitz (2019)
Gary Ackerman (2020)
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Computer Science: Paliath Narendran (2019)
Computer Science: Jeong-Hyon Hwang (2020)
Libraries
Jodi Boyle (2019)
Rebecca Nous (2020)
Jan Waterhouse (2020)
School of Public Health
Sridar Chittur (2019)
Igor Kuznetsov (2019)
Michael Bloom (2020)
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
Public Admin and Policy: Mitch Abolafia (2019)
Gang Chen (2019)
Political Science: Tim Weaver (2019)
School of Social Welfare
Keith Chan (2019)
Lynn Warner (2019)
Carmen Morano (2019)
Graduate Students
Erin Dagle
Wyatt Erchak
Sydney Faught
Ajay Raghavendra
Undergraduate Students
Dillon Asmus
Morgan Eldridge
Logan Losito
Nadia Naoum
Kamoni Reese
Sam Salazar
Anderson Solano
Approved for 1-Year Term as Senators to Chair a Council
Jim Hargett
Karen Kiorpes
Questions regarding membership should be directed to:
Christian Poehlmann, Chair
Governance Council’s Committee on Liaison and Elections
[email protected]
