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Current Graduate Program Directors

College of Education
Education - Nina Tissi-Gassoway

Riccio College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering - Joyita Dutta
Chemical Engineering - Ashish Kulkarni
Civil and Environmental Engineering - Eric Gonzales
Electrical and Computer Engineering - Wayne Burleson
Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management - Ana Muriel
Materials Science & Engineering - Ashwin Ramasubramaniam
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - Govind Srimathveeravalli

College of Humanities & Fine Arts
Afro-American Studies - James Smethurst
Architecture (M. Arch & M. Design) - Ann Marshall
History of Art and Architecture - Karen Kurczynski
History of Art and Architecture - Sonja Drimmer
Art (Studio Arts) - Susan Jahoda
Chinese - Elena Chiu
Classics - Brian Breed 
Comparative Literature - Kathryn Lachman
English (M.A. & PhD) - Mazen Naous
English (M.F.A.) -  Sabina Murray
French and Francophone Studies - Luke Bouvier
German Languages and Literature - Mariana Ivanova
Spanish and Portuguese Studies - Albert Lloret
History - Alice Nash
Italian Studies - Roberto Ludovico
Japanese - Amanda Seasman
Linguistics - Rajesh Bhatt
Music - Christopher White 
Philosophy - Alejandro Perez Carballo
Theater - Gilbert McCauley
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies - Laura Ciolkowski
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies - Svati Shah

College of Natural Sciences
Animal Biotechnology - Pablo Visconti
Astronomy - Min Yun
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Li-Jun Ma
Chemistry - Michael Barnes
College of Natural Science - Lara Roach
Environmental Conservation - Kristina Stinson
Food Science - Hang Xiao 
Geography (GIST) - Forrest Bowlick 
Geoscience & Geology - Isla Castañeda
Geosciences (Geography) - Qian Yu
Marine Science -  Andrew Danylchuk 
Mathematics and Statistics - Markos Katsoulakis
Mathematics and Statistics - Tom Braden
Microbiology - James Holden
Molecular and Cellular Biology - Meg Stratton
Neuroscience and Behavior -  Joseph Bergan
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology - Duncan Irschick
Physics - Lorenzo Sorbo
Plant Biology - Ana Caicedo
Plant and Soil Sciences - Masoud Hashemi
Polymer Science and Engineering - Gregory Grason
Polymer Science and Engineering - Reika Katsumata 
Psychological and Brain Sciences - Alexandra Jesse
Sustainability Science - Brittany Crow-Miller 

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Anthropology - Amanda Walker-Johnson
Communication - Gonen Dori-Hacohen
Data Analytics & Computational Social Sciences - Justin Gross
Economics - Michael Ash
Labor Studies - Clare Hammonds
Landscape Architecture (MLA & MLA/MRP) - Ethan Carr
Landscape Architecture (PhD) - Camille Barchers
Landscape Architecture (MRP/JD) - Ellen Pader 
Landscape Architecture/Regional Planning - Elisabeth Infield
Landscape Architecture/Regional Planning - Frank Sleegers
Landscape Architecture/Regional Planning (MRP) - Theodore Eisenman
Political Science - Adam Dahl 
Public Policy and Administration - Thaddeus Miller
Resource Economics - Rong Rong
Sociology - Moon-Kie Jung

Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Nursing (MS) - Mary Ellen Burke
Nursing (DNP) - Terrie Black
Nursing (PhD) - Rachel Walker

Isenberg School of Management
Hospitality & Tourism Management - Albert Assaf
Management (Accounting) - Joanne Bagdon
Management (MBA) (MSB&A) (PMBA) - Nikunj Kapadia
Management (on-campus MBA) - Lara Curtis
Management (Finance, M.Fin.) - Jeffrey Clark
Management (PhD) - George Milne
Marketing - Matthew Thomson
Sport Management - William Norton
Accounting - Jennifer Roy

Robert & Donna Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences
Computer Science (MS) - Hao Zhang 
Computer Science (PhD) - Philip Thomas

School of Public Health & Health Sciences 
Biostatistics & Epidemiology - Elizabeth Cook
Community Health Education, Public Health, Health Policy & Mgmt. - Jennifer Whitehill 
Communication Disorders - Jill Hoover  
Environmental Health Sciences -  Alexander Suvorov
Kinesiology - John Sirard
Nutrition - Heather Morin
Nutrition - Zhenhua Liu
Public Health Practice Online MPH - Katherine Reeves

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