ROKASLAB - Key Persons
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- Director of College Facilities
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- Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Writer - in - Residenc
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- Assistant Dean
- Assistant Dean / Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
- Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Science / Principal Senior Lecturer and Chair of Faculty Senate
- Chairman of the Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate
Alissa Hare , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of chemistry. She has taught courses in organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, drug development, and biochemistry research. She was the 2020 recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Awards for Excellence in Classroom Teaching from Vanderbilt University and the 2022 recipient of the Ernest A. Jones Advising Award in the Natural Sciences from the College of Arts and Science.
Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2015 as a Senior Lecturer, Dr. Hare has taught courses in Organic Chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Drug Development, and Biochemistry research. Dr. Hare was the 2020 recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls Awards for Excellence in Classroom Teaching from Vanderbilt University and the 2022 recipient of the Ernest A. Jones Advising Award in the Natural Sciences from the College of Arts and Science.
Dr. Hare is currently Chair of the Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate for the 2024-2025 term. She is former co-Director of the Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Program (BCB).
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Allison Schachter , Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, is Winkelried Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and English. She is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century modern Jewish literature and culture and has authored two books and translated one.
Allison Schachter, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Winkelried Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies and English
404N Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-1172
allison.schachter@vanderbilt.edu
Please direct all scheduling requests for Senior Associate Dean Schachter to Zoe Canales.
Daniel Coradazzi, Program and Projects Manager
123 Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-2851
daniel.w.coradazzi@vanderbilt.edu
Office of Undergraduate Education
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-2844
arts-sci-records@vanderbilt.edu
Elizabeth Meadows, Assistant Dean and Director of Undergraduate Education
Principal Senior Lecturer of English
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-2172
elizabeth.s.meadows@vanderbilt.edu
Pavneet Aulakh, Assistant Dean
Senior Lecturer of English
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-3186
pavneet.s.aulakh@vanderbilt.edu
Alissa Hare, Assistant Dean
Senior Lecturer of Chemistry
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 875-9136
alissa.a.hare@vanderbilt.edu Office of Undergraduate Education
Mario Rewers, Assistant Dean
Senior Lecturer of American Studies
350 Buttrick Hall
mario.rewers@vanderbilt.edu
Lydia Abell, Administrative Manager
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-5387
lydia.k.abell@vanderbilt.edu
Racquel Goff, Academic Services Coordinator
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-7937
racquel.goff@vanderbilt.edu
Gwen Ildefonso, Academic and Educational Support Program Coordinator
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-2844
gwen.ildefonso@vanderbilt.edu
Amelia Bast, Administrative Specialist
350 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-5495
amelia.bast@vanderbilt.edu
A&S College Core Office
Paul Stob, Director of A&S College Core
Professor of Communication Studies
139 Buttrick Hall
(615) 322-2988
paul.stob@vanderbilt.edu
Elizabeth Catania, Associate Director of A&S College Core
Associate Professor of the Practice of Neuroscience
122 Buttrick Hall
(615) 343-3136
elizabeth.catania@vanderbilt.edu
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- Assistant Director of Finance
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- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Administrative Specialist
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- Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Writer - in - Residenc
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- Chief Operations Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Assistant Dean for Graduate Education & Academic Initiatives / Research Assistant Professor of Communication of Science and Technology
- Assistant Dean of Graduate Education
Angela Sutton , Assistant Dean of Graduate Education and Academic Initiatives, is research assistant professor of Communication of Science and Technology. She is a social and digital historian of the Atlantic World interested in the tools and methods that preserve and widen access to the sources that help refine popular understandings of American slavery and its modern consequences. She is the director of the Builders and Defenders database.
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- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences / Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Informatics
- Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences
Undergraduates excited about our work, especially those with computational experience, are encouraged to apply for a position in our lab. We expect a minimum commitment of 12 hours per week during academic terms (for course credit) and full-time during summers (for pay). We also expect our undergrad researchers to apply to the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program (for their summer stipends) and to perform research over multiple semesters. Interested candidates should email Antonis with a brief statement that explicitly states why they want to join our lab, CV and the contact details of two course instructors / evaluators.
Students interested in graduate work in our lab are encouraged to apply either to the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program (IGP) or to the Biological Sciences Program (BSP). Students in the IGP rotate through 4 different labs in the first year, thus gaining a diversity of research experiences and evaluating the goodness-of-fit of several different labs across the university. Students in the BSP rotate through 2 or 3 labs in the department but typically commit to joining a particular lab upon acceptance to the program. If interested, please email Antonis with a cover letter that explicitly states why you want to join our lab, statement of research interests, CV and the contact details of three evaluators.
Postdoctoral candidates with relevant experience in evolutionary biology, computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics, fungal biology, and related fields interested in joining our lab should email Antonis with a cover letter that explicitly states why they want to join our lab, statement of research interests, pdf reprints of published papers, CV and the contact details of three evaluators. A track record of high-quality publications, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm for basic research, and a collaborative approach to science is expected.
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- Marketing & Communications Manager
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- Senior Administrative Officer for Humanities
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Distinguished Professor of Communication of Science and Technology Professor of Communication Studies
- Distinguished Professor of the Communication of Science
- Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs / Professor of Communication Studies
- Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, College of Arts and Science
Bonnie J. Dow is Distinguished Professor of the Communication of Science and Technology and Professor of Communication Studies and Vice Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Arts & Science. She is the author of Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996). She is co-editor (with Julia T. Wood) of The Sage Handbook of Gender and Communication (2006) and a co-editor of The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th -19th Centuries (Aunt Lute Books, 2004).
Dow has received multiple awards for her scholarship. She is a recipient of the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the Golden Monograph Award, and the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, all from the National Communication Association. At Vanderbilt, she has received the Ernest A. Jones Faculty Advisor Award from the College of Arts and Science as well as the Mentoring Award presented by the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center.
Her current research and teaching interests are in science communication, and she is a member of the steering committee for the Communication of Science and Technology Program. She has received support for her science communication work from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Emeritus Faculty
- Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus
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- Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Assistant Director of Stewardship and Volunteer Engagement
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- Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus
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- Professor Emerita of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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- Associate Professor of Equity & Inclusion
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- Associate Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies / Principal Senior Lecturer of African American and Diaspora Studies / Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Chairman of Fine Arts
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences / Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Informatics
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences
- Professor of History
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- Research Assistant Professor
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- Program and Projects Manager
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- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies
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- Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Assistant Professor of Theatr
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- Associate Director
- Associate Professor
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- Assistant
- Director
- Principal Senior Lecturer / Assistant Dean and Director of Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Science
Elizabeth is the Assistant Dean and Director of Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Science. Originally a scholar of Victorian literature and culture, Elizabeth teaches courses ranging from surveys of 19th-century novels to seminars about how the places we live shape the people we become, to classes examining the literary history and cultural function of genres like detective novels and dystopian fiction.
Representative publications
Elizabeth has published in Dickens Studies Annual, The Oxford Companion to Victorian Literary Culture and has collaboratively guest edited a special issue of Victorian Review.
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- Senior Administrative Officer for Sponsored Research
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- Dean 's Faculty Fellow in Climate Studies
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- Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society
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- Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus
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- Distinguished Chair
- Professor
- Professor of English
- Professor of History
- Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
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- Associate Chair of African American and Diaspora Studies / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Director of Graduate Studies
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- Senior Administrative Officer for Capital Projects, Space Planning and Facilities
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- Academic and Educational Support Program Coordinator
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- Research Professor of Biological Sciences, Retired
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- Chief Communications Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
- COMMUNICATIONS
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- Distinguished Research Professor
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- Senior Administrative Officer for Natural Sciences
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- GRADUATE EDUCATION & RESEARCH
- Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
- Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education
John A. McLean , Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Research, is Stevenson Chair in Chemistry. He is an analytical chemist known for the development and construction of advanced mass spectrometry instrumentation for molecular analysis.
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- John Frederick Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Professor of Divinity
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- Director of Medicine, Health, and Society
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- Chief Business Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
- FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
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- Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences / Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Biological Sciences
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Administrative Manager
- Finance
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- Executive Coordinator for the Dean
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- Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences / Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Assistant Professor of the Department of Anthropology
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- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
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- Visual Communications Content Strategist
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- Assistant Dean
- Assistant Dean / Senior Lecturer of American Studies
Mario Rewers , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of American studies. He is a historian of modern American history, with a specialization in the history of higher education. His work focuses on the history of the disciplines, and particularly of the humanities, in the twentieth century.
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Communications Content Specialist
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- Mellon Assistant Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies
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- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences / Steven and Bunny
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- Director of Faculty Affairs
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- University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies
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- Senior Administrative Officer for Social Sciences
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- Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Assistant Dean
- Assistant Dean / Senior Lecturer of English
Pavneet Aulakh , Assistant Dean, is senior lecturer of English. He studies the literature of early modern England; the history and philosophy of science, particularly as it pertains to interconnections between the imaginative and proto-scientific literature of the seventeenth century; the history of the book; aesthetics and poetics; early modern and contemporary philosophy; and medieval literature.
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Associate Dean of Development
- DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS
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- Academic Services Coordinator
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- Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architectur
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- Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus
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- Assistant Dean of the Residential Colleges
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- Administrative Specialist
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- Professor of Biological Sciences
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- Chairman of African American and Diaspora Studies / Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Associate Professor of History
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science / Professor of Psychology
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- John Frederick Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies / Professor of Divinity
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- Professor of Biological Sciences, Emeritus
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- Dean of the Divinity School / Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies