Department Chairpersons

For faculty members their department chair is a central point of contact for many questions, planning assistance and challenges.

To ensure that faculty have access to this important resource the Office of Faculty Success keeps an up-to-date list regarding each department chair/proper point of contact across the entire University. Below is a list of each department chair/point of contact with pertinent contact information organized by school/college.

Accounting Hemang Desai hdesai@smu.edu 214-768-3185
Finance Jim Linck jlinck@smu.edu 214-768-3933
Information Technology & Operations Management Amit Basu abasu@smu.edu 214-768-8257
Marketing Ed Fox (ad interim)  efox@smu.edu 214-768-3943
Management & Organizations Marcus Butts mbutts@smu.edu 214-768-3181
Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Business Economics Gordon Walker gwalker@cox.smu.edu 214-768-2191

Anthropology Mike Adler madler@smu.edu 214-768-1864
Biological Sciences Rick Jones rjones@smu.edu 214-768-3810
Chemistry Mike Lattman mlattman@smu.edu 214-768-2467
Earth Sciences Heather DeShon hdeshon@smu.edu 214-768-2916
Economics Dan Millimet millimet@smu.edu 214-768-3269
English Christopher Gonzalez  ctgonzalez@smu.edu
 214-768-6137
History Melissa Dowling mdowling@smu.edu 214-768-2976
Mathematics Peter Moore pmoore@smu.edu 214-768-3212
Philosophy Eric Barnes ebarnes@smu.edu 214-768-2128
Physics David Son (ad interim) dson@smu.edu 214-768-7832
Political Science Joseph Kobylka jkobylka@smu.edu 214-768-2525
Psychology Austin Baldwin baldwin@smu.edu 214-768-1027
Religious Studies Jill DeTemple detemple@smu.edu 214-768-2102
Sociology Anne Lincoln lincoln@smu.edu 214-768-1632
Statistical Science Dan Heitjan dheitjan@smu.edu 214-768-3012
World Languages & Literatures Elizabeth Russ eruss@smu.edu 214-768-2224
Division Chair, Writer/English Stephanie Amsel samsel@smu.edu 214-768-3832

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
 Thomas Mayo
 churt@smu.edu
 214-768-3767
Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs  Martin Camp  mlcamp@smu.edu  214-768-2839 
Associate Dean for Research  Jessica Dixon Weaver  jdweaver@smu.edu
 214-768-2641

Director of Academics Elizabeth Stringer estringer@smu.edu 214-768-5134

Civil & Environmental Engineering Kathleen Smits ksmits@smu.edu 214-768-6154
Computer Science & Engineering Jia Zhang (ad interim) jiazhang@smu.edu 214-768-3052
Electrical & Computer Engineering Mahesh Krishnamurthy  mkrishnamurthy@smu.edu
 214-768-7045 
Operations Research & Engineering Management  Sila Cetinkaya sila@smu.edu 214-768-1117
Mechanical Engineering Amin Salehi-Khojin asalehikhojin@smu.edu  214-768-7068 

Division of Advertising Joe Phua jphua@smu.edu 214-768-6133
Division of Art & Design Brian Molanphy bmolanphy@smu.edu 214-768-1455
Division of Art History Adam Herring aherring@smu.edu 214-768-3823
Division of Arts Management & Arts Entrepreneurship Sandy Duhe (ad interim)  sduhe@smu.edu 214-768-1933
Division of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs  Gordon Law glaw@smu.edu 214-768-3090
Division of Dance Christopher Dolder cdolder@smu.edu 214-768-1672
Division of Film & Media Studies

Mark Kerins

 mkerins@smu.edu 214-768-2642
Division of Journalism Melissa Chessher mchessher@smu.edu 214-768-6149
Division of Music Tom Keck tkeck@smu.edu 214-768-1937
Division of Theatre Blake Hackler jhackler@smu.edu 214-768-4618

Senior Assistant Dean  Alan Itkin  aitkin@smu.edu  aitkin@smu.edu

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Abraham Smith abrahams@smu.edu 214-768-1888
Chief of Staff  Andy Keck  akeck@smu.edu  214-768-3473 

Applied Physiology & Sport Management Willis Jones (ad interim) wajones@smu.edu 214-768-6561
Counseling Greta Davis gretad@smu.edu 214-768-5671
Education Policy & Leadership Aki Kamata akamata@smu.edu 214-768-7708
Teaching and Learning Lin Lin Lipsmeyer llipsmeyer@smu.edu 214-768-6123
Graduate Liberal Studies & Dispute Resolution Kate Montgomery (ad interim)  kmontgom@smu.edu 214-768-7589

University Foundations  Caitlin Anderson  caitlina@smu.edu 214-768-2956