College of Arts & Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

Executive Council Membership

As the primary academic policy-making body of the College, the Executive Council provides broad vision and leadership.

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:
Elena Silva
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:

Meeting Minutes:

September Minutes
October Minutes

2024-25 Academic Year Representation

Executive Council Chair

Andrew Sobanet, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

Officers

Chair: Andrew Sobanet, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Vice Chair: Ali Arab, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Secretary: Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Steering Committee

Chair: Andrew Sobanet, Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Vice Chair: Ali Arab, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Secretary: Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
NTL Rep.: Sky Sitney, Associate Professor of the Practice, Film and Media Studies Program
Student Rep.: Lucy Lu, C’27

Office of the Dean Representatives

Elena Silva, Vice Dean for Faculty
Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean of Undergraduate Education
Jennifer Munger, Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration/Chief Financial Officer

Faculty Representatives

Dean’s Appointments

Karah Knope, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Jonathan Ray, Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Yulia Chentsova Dutton, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Arts and Humanities

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

Sherry Linkon, Professor, Department of English
Benjamin Harbert, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Performing Arts

Human and Social Sciences

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

Desh Girod, Associate Professor, Department of Government
Becky Hsu, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology

Languages and Linguistics

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

Anna De Fina, Professor, Department of Italian
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
Ali Arab, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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.

Heath Pearson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Sky Sitney, Associate Professor of the Practice, Film and Media Studies Program

Full-Time Non-Tenure Line Faculty

Libbie Rifkin, Teaching Professor, College, Department of English and Associate Director of the Disability Studies Program
Dylan Audette, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Biology

Faculty Senate Representative

Stephen Weymouth, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business

College Academic Council Student Representatives

Lucy Lu, C’27
Stephen Trainer, C’26

Graduate Student Representatives

TBD

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).