Executive Council Membership

Thus, its membership is not intended to represent specific departments or programs individually, but rather to provide a variety of perspectives. Collectively, the members of the Executive Council will bring to the body the views and experiences of students at all levels, as well as diverse faculty from departments and programs of varying sizes and academic missions. Both the membership outlined below and the dean’s appointment prerogative are meant to facilitate this goal.

For more information about the Executive Council, please read Article V of the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences constitution.

Contact:
Bryan McCann
Vice Dean of Faculty
108 White-Gravenor

Meetings

The Council meets on Mondays, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. on the following dates:

• Aug 31
• Oct 5
• Nov 2
• Dec 7
• Jan 25
• Feb 22
• March 22
• Apr 19

Meeting minutes are linked on the meeting date above

2026-27 Academic Year Representation

Executive Council Chair

David M. Edelstein, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

Officers

Chair: David M. Edelstein, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Vice Chair: TBD
Secretary: TBD

Steering Committee

Chair: David M. Edelstein, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Vice Chair: TBD
Secretary: TBD
NTL Rep.: TBD
Student Rep.: TBD

Office of the Dean Representatives

Bryan McCann, Vice Dean for Faculty
Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean of Undergraduate Education

Faculty Representatives

Dean’s Appointments

Gábor Ágoston, Professor, Department of History
Ruth Kramer, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Carla Shedd, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Arts and Humanities

Departments: Art and Art History; Black Studies; English; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Theology and Religious Studies.

Julia Lamm, Professor, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Thomas Williams, Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Department of Philosophy

Human and Social Sciences

Departments: Anthropology; Economics; Government; History; Linguistics; Psychology; Sociology.

Desh Girod, Associate Professor, Department of Government
Roger Lagunoff, Professor, Department of Economics

Languages

Departments: Arabic and Islamic Studies; Classics; East Asian Languages and Cultures; French and Francophone Studies; German; Italian; Slavic Languages; Spanish and Portuguese. Programs: Persian Program, Turkish Program

Joe Cunningham, Associate Professor, Department of German
Alfonso Morales-Front, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Natural and Quantitative Sciences

Departments: Biology; Chemistry; Computer Science; Mathematics and Statistics; Physics.

Daniel Blair, Professor, Department of Physics
Mahendran Velauthapillai, Professor & McBride Family Endowed Chair, Department of Computer Science

Programs

Non-Departmental Programs: American Studies; Catholic Studies; Cognitive Sciences; Disability Studies; Education; Inquiry & Justice; Environmental Studies; Film & Media Studies; Global and Comparative Literature; Global Medieval Studies; Journalism; Justice and Peace; Medical Humanities; Technology, Ethics, and Society; Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

Ann Oldenburg, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Journalism
Sky Sitney, Associate Professor of the Practice, Film and Media Studies Program

Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Faculty

Dylan Audette, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biology
Sabrina Wesley Nero, Teaching Professor, Education, Inquiry, and Justice (EDIJ) Program

Faculty Senate Representative

Amanda Lu, Faculty Director for Academic Programs in Policy Practice and Assistant Teaching Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy

College Academic Council Student Representatives

Lucy Lu, C’27
Amina Mitre, C’29

Graduate Student Representatives

Joseph Wang – Ph.D., Pharmacology & Physiology
Michael Brown – M.A., IT Management

If you have any information relevant to the Executive Council that you would like to be discussed further, please share it via this Google form. 

This may include comments, questions, concerns, or feedback on topics previously discussed in ExCo or new topics. The form is managed by the Dean’s Office and your response will be shared with the relevant representative(s).