Membership
Parliamentarian
Ronald Vero
Officers
Senate Chair
Zina Lawrence
Director of Graduate Student Services
Business Building 201K
(518) 956-8378
zlawrence@albany.edu
Senate Vice Chair
Sean Rafferty
Associate Professor, Anthropology
(518) 442-4713
srafferty@albany.edu
Immediate Past Chair
James Mower
Associate Professor, Geography & Planning
College of Arts & Sciences Building, Room 218
(518) 442-4779
jmower@albany.edu
https://www.albany.edu/gp/mower.php
Senate Secretary
Christian Poehlmann
Senior Assistant Librarian
Subject Librarian for Business & Economics
University Libraries, LI 227
(518) 442-3582
cpoehlmann@albany.edu
https://library.albany.edu/
Senate Support
Office of the Provost
Ex Officio Senators
Jeanette Altarriba, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Sammy Axley, SUNY Senator
Ajay Raghavendra, Lead Senator, Graduate Student Association
TBA, SA President, Student Association
Michael Christakis, Vice President for Student Success
James Dias, Vice President for Research
Todd D. Foreman, Vice President for Finance and Administration
Diane Hamilton, ITS SUNY Senator
Karl Rethemeyer, Dean, Rockefeller College
Havidán Rodriguez, President
Latonia Spencer, Student Financial Services, SUNY Senator
Carol Kim, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Kevin Williams, Vice Provost & Dean for Graduate Education
Elected Senators
At-Large
Billie Franchini (2019)
Patricia Keyes (2019)
Ekow King (2020)
David Lewis (2020)
Annett Richie (2019)
Greg Wiedeman (2020)
Virginia Yonkers (2019)
Mary Ellen Mallia (2020)
Maritza Martinez (2019)
Lindsay Van Berkom (2020)
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
cpoehlmann@albany.edu
