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Schools, Departments and Programs

Brandeis University consists of four distinct schools that are dedicated to preparing students for the global, digital, and knowledge economy.

School of Arts, Humanities and Culture

Interim Academic Dean: Harleen Singh, Associate Professor of Literature, and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies

Name	Chair/Director	Academic Administrator
Center for German and European Studies	Sabine von Mering
Department of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies	Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Chair Caitlin Gillespie, Latin Program Director	Jodie Parmer
Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation Program	Toni Shapiro-Phim	Armine Avetisyan
East Asian Studies Program	Matthew Fraleigh	Gene Carbonell
Department of English	David Sherman	Lisa Pannella
European Cultural Studies Program	Stephen Dowden	Gene Carbonell
Film, Television, and Interactive Media Program	Paul Morrison	Armine Avetisyan
Department of Fine Arts	Peter Kalb and Joe Wardwell	Lisa Pannella
Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature	Stephen Dowden, Chair Xiwen Lu, Chinese Program Director Sabine von Mering, German Studies Program Director Hisae Fujiwara, Japanese Program Director Eun-Jo Lee, Korean Program Director Irina Dubinina, Russian Studies Program Director	Gene Carbonell
History of Ideas Program	David Katz	Julie Seeger
Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Program	Javier Urcid	Armine Avetisyan
Mandel Center for Humanities	Ulka Anjaria
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program	Darlene Brooks Hedstrom	Lisa Pannella
Department of Music	Michael Heller	Julie Seeger
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies	Carl El-Tobgui, Department Chair and Director of Arabic Program Sara Hascal, Hebrew Program Director Ellen Kellman, Yiddish Program Director	Jodie Parmer
Department of Romance Studies	Catherine Theobald, Department Chair Paola Servino, Italian Studies Director Hollie Harder, French and Francophone Studies Director Elena Gonzalez Ros, Hispanic Studies Director	Gene Carbonell
Department of Theater Arts	Cameron Anderson	Julie Seeger
University Writing Program	Katrin Fischer	Jodie Parmer
Women’s Studies Research Center
World Literatures Program	David Powelstock	Armine Avetisyan

School of Business and Economics

Interim Academic Dean: Linda Bui, Professor of Economics

Name	Chair/Director	Academic Administrator
Brandeis International Business School
Business Program	Dan Bergstresser	Karen Muise
Department of Economics	Elizabeth Brainerd	Leslie Yancich

School of Science, Engineering and Technology

Interim Academic Dean: Susan Birren, Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor of Neuroscience

Name	Chair/Director	Academic Administrator
Department of Biochemistry	Doug Theobald	Natasha Baker
Biological Physics Program	Ben Rogers	Wendy (Yiqing) Xin
Department of Biology	Bruce Goode	Erin Bailey
Department of Chemistry	Isaac Krauss	Courtney Maurer
Department of Computer Science	Nianwen Xue	Michael Golitsyn
Engineering Program	Seth Fraden and Avital Rodal
Environmental Studies Program	Colleen Hitchcock	Barbara Strauss
Linguistics and Computational Linguistics Program	James Pustejovsky	Noah Sullivan
Department of Mathematics	Jonathan Touboul	Martha Lagace
Neuroscience Program	Paul Miller	Erin Bailey
Department of Physics	Matthew Headrick	Wendy (Yiqing) Xin
Department of Psychology	Angela Gutchess	Phil Gnatowski
Quantitative Biology Program	Bruce Goode and Jane Kondev

School of Social Sciences and Social Policy

Interim Academic Dean: Sara Shostak, Professor of Sociology and Health: Science, Society & Policy

Name	Chair/Director	Academic Administrator
Department of African and African American Studies	Faith Smith	R. Mason
American Studies Program	Maura Farrelly	Leslie Yancich
Department of Anthropology	Janet McIntosh	Lauren Jordahl (Graduate) and Barbara Strauss (Undergraduate)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Program	V Varun Chaudhry	R. Mason
Education Program	Jonathan Krasner	Eileen Kell (Graduate) and Leslie Yancich (Undergraduate)
Health: Science, Society and Policy Program	Darren Zinner	Barbara Strauss
Heller School of Social Policy and Management
Department of History	Michael Willrich	Lauren Jordahl (Graduate) and Melissa McKenna (Undergraduate)
Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program	Liora Norwich	Marla Olsberg
International and Global Studies Program	Elanah Uretsky	Melissa McKenna
Journalism Program	Neil Swidey	Barbara Strauss
Legal Studies Program	Rosalind Kabrhel	Melissa McKenna
Department of Politics	Jill Greenlee	Lauren Jordahl (Graduate) and Melissa McKenna (Undergraduate)
Religious Studies Program	Kristen Lucken	Armine Avetisyan
Department of Sociology	Sarah Mayorga	Lauren Jordahl (Graduate) and R. Mason (Undergraduate)
South Asian Studies Program	Brian Horton	Gene Carbonell
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies	ChaeRan Freeze	Eileen Kell (Graduate) and R. Mason (Undergraduate)