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Chairs and Directors

Chairs and Directors

The following is a listing of all department chairs and school directors at Ohio State. The list is updated after every meeting of the Board of Trustees. Changes made in the interim may not be immediately reflected.

Please refer to the Council of Deans listing for leadership information for University Libraries and the Colleges of Dentistry, Law (Michael E. Moritz), Nursing, Optometry, Pharmacy, Public Affairs (John Glenn), Public Health and Social Work.

College of Arts and Sciences

Dean

David Horn

Division of Arts and Humanities

Dean

Dana Renga

African American and African Studies

Chair

Cynthia Young

Art

Interim Chair

Andrew Shelton

Arts Administration, Education, and Policy

Chair

Joni Acuff

Classics

Chair

Mark Fullerton

Comparative Studies

Chair

Hugh Urban

Dance

Chair

Charles Anderson

Design

Chair

Fabienne Münch

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Chair

Mark Bender

English

Chair

Elizabeth Hewitt

French and Italian

Chair

Sarah-Grace Heller

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Chair

Carmen Taleghani- Nikazm

History

Chair

Scott Levi

History of Art

Chair

Karl Whittington

Linguistics

Chair

William Schuler

Music, School of

Director

Michael Ibrahim

Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures

Interim Chair

Naomi Brenner

Philosophy

Interim Chair

Justin D'Arms

Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

Chair

Angela Brintlinger

Spanish and Portuguese

Chair

John Grinstead

Theatre, Film and Media Arts

Chair

E.J. Westlake

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Chair

Mythleli Sreenivas

Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Dean

Susan Olesik

Astronomy

Chair

Todd Thompson

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Chair

Claudia Turro

Earth Sciences, School of

Interim Director

Ian Howat

Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Interim Chair

Harald Vaessin

Mathematics

Interim Chair

Dongbin Xiu

Microbiology

Chair

Kurt Fredrick

Molecular Genetics

Chair

Susan Cole

Physics

Chair

Ralf Bundschuh

Statistics

Chair

Elly Kaizar

Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Dean

Ryan King

Anthropology

Chair

Scott McGraw

Communication, School of

Director

R. Kelly Garrett

Economics

Chair

Huanxing Yang

Geography

Chair

Mathew Coleman

Political Science

Interim Chair

Marcus Kurtz

Psychology

Chair

Duane Wegener

Sociology

Interim Chair

Cynthia Colen

Speech and Hearing Science

Chair

Eric Bielefeld

Fisher College of Business

Interim Dean

Trevor Brown

Accounting and Management Information Systems

Chair

Anil Arya

Finance

Chair

Bernadette M. Minton

Management and Human Resources

Chair

Tim Judge

Marketing and Logistics

Chair

Walter Zinn

Operations and Business Analytics

Chair

James Hill

College of Education and Human Ecology

Dean

Donald Pope-Davis

Educational Studies

Interim Chair

Bryan Warnick

Human Sciences

Chair

Erik Porfeli

Teaching and Learning

Chair

Antoinette Miranda

College of Engineering

Dean

Ayanna Howard

Architecture, Knowlton School of

Interim Director

Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Biomedical Engineering

Acting Chair

Derek Hansford

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Chair

Umit Ozkan

Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering

Chair

Allison MacKay

Computer Science and Engineering

Chair

Anish Arora

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chair

Balasubramaniam Shanker

Engineering Education

Chair

Adam Carberry

Food, Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering

Chair

Scott Shearer

Integrated Systems Engineering

Chair

Farhang Pourboghrat

Materials Science and Engineering

Chair

Michael Mills

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Chair

Robert Siston

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Dean

Cathann Kress

Agricultural Communication, Education and Leadership

Chair

Shannon Washburn

Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics

Chair

Amy Ando

Agricultural Technical Institute

Director

Kristina Boone

Animal Sciences

Interim Chair

Pasha Lyvers-Peffer

Entomology

Chair

Jamie Strange

Environment and Natural Resources, School of

Director

Tim Haab

Ohio State University Extension

Interim Chair

David Civittolo

Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Chair

Scott Shearer

Food Science and Technology

Chair

Martha Belury

Horticulture and Crop Science

Chair

Douglas Karcher

Plant Pathology

Interim Chair

Pierce Paul

College of Medicine

Dean

Carol R. Bradford, MD, MS, FACS

Anesthesiology

Chair

Richard D. Urman

Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology

Chair

Mark Parthun

Biomedical Education and Anatomy

Chair

Daniel Clinchot

Biomedical Informatics

Chair

Lang Li

Cancer Biology and Genetics

Chair

Amanda Toland

Dermatology

Chair

Mark Bechtel, MD

Emergency Medicine

Chair

Jeffrey Caterino

Family and Community Medicine

Chair

Aaron Clark, DO

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of

Interim Chair and Associate Dean

James Oñate

Internal Medicine

Chair

Rama Mallampalli

Microbial Infection and Immunity

Chair

Gene Oltz

Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics

Chair

Matthew Ringel, MD

Neurological Surgery

Chair

Russell Lonser

Neurology

Chair

Benjamin Segal

Neuroscience

Chair

Phillip Popovich

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Chair

Mark B. Landon

Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Chair

Sayoko E. Moroi

Orthopedics

Chair

Andrew Glassman

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Chair

James Rocco, MD

Pathology

Chair

Anil Parwani

Pediatrics

Chair

Catherine Krawczeski, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Chair

Whitney Luke, MD

Physiology and Cell Biology

Chair

Isabelle Deschenes

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Chair

Amy Moore

Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Chair

Luan Phan

Radiation Oncology

Chair

Arnab Chakravarti

Radiology

Chair

Pari Pandharipande, MD

Surgery

Chair

Timothy Pawlik

Urology

Chair

Cheryl Lee

College of Veterinary Medicine

Dean

Rustin Moore

Veterinary Biosciences

Chair

Prosper Boyaka

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Chair

Angela Marolf

Veterinary Preventive Medicine

Interim Chair

Greg Habing