To facilitate academic advising, every student is placed in an "Association." Your Association Dean's primary responsibility is to advise you on academic matters and refer you to the various agencies and offices the University has established to assist you. Do not hesitate to call on your Dean.

Each of the Association Deans schedules office hours in Monroe Hall, and the College staff will be happy to arrange an appointment for you. Below, you can learn more about your Association Dean.

 The Associate Dean for Academic Programs is Dean Maurie McInnis.

List of Association Deans

For most students, your Dean is determined by your first-year housing assignment but Echols Scholars, Student Athletes and Transfer Students have a dean based on affiliation rather than housing (see below). The College deans and staff are located in Monroe Hall.

Maurie McInnis

Professor, American Art and Material Culture
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs

434-243-8651
mcinnis@virginia.edu
305 Fayerweather Hall

B.A., University of Virginia
M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

As the Associate Dean for the College, I oversee all operations of the undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences, which means that I have a different role from the Association Deans. Rather than having an association of students with whom I work directly, I instead oversee academic advising, academic programs, the curriculum, and the work of the association deans. I often joke that I am in charge of 10,500 students, but, of course, you are each in charge of yourselves. I hope you are each working closely with your faculty advisors and your Association Dean to discuss your academic plans. I encourage you to take courses that intrigue you or challenge yourself with a new subject.

I, too, was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. I arrived fully committed to going to medical school and along the way fell in love with Art History, majored in that and eventually got my Ph.D. I am thrilled to be back here as a faculty member. I was actively involved in a number of activities when I was here including First Year Players, the University Guide Service, and Madison House. Perhaps it was as a University Guide that I became interested in the history of American art and architecture. My research focuses on the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South. I have published a number of books including:In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860(1999) andThe Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston(2005) and in 2011 I have two new books coming out:Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America(with Louis Nelson) andSlaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade. I regularly teach a number of lecture courses: American Art and Arts and Cultures of the Slave South, as well as a number of seminars on a variety of topics including the architecture and history of U.Va.

Beverly Adams

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Psychology

434-924-3353
bca5y@virginia.edu
269 C Monroe Hall

B.A., Spelman College
M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

The focus of my graduate work was the psychological examination of syntactic ambiguity at the sentence level. My post-doctoral research (becoming expert in eye-tracking equipment in sentence processing) was continued at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA). I also studied language processing at THE NIAS: The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Wassanaar and Leiden, Holland, The Netherlands). I have been a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia and Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

My current research interests include continuing basic science research in the psychology of language (syntactic ambiguity), examining factors that contribute to the decline of physical and mental health in strong black women, and exploring how ubiquitous electronic computing has changed face-to-face communication. I am a member of the Virginia Psychological Association (VPA), serving two terms as secretary of the statewide executive board, and also an executive board member of the Virginia Social Sciences Association (VSSA).

Mark Hadley

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Religious Studies

434-924-3350
mah2ar@virginia.edu
204 Monroe Hall

B.A., Reed College
M.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D., Brown University

As an Association Dean I have enjoyed working with College students to meet their academic advising needs. U.Va. students come from a wonderfully diverse set of backgrounds, but all are bright, inquisitive, and responsible. My main advice to students is to do what you love and success will follow. Liberal arts education is not training for a particular career path, but is an education for life. The skills that you will learn here to reason critically, think creatively, communicate clearly, research deeply, and work collaboratively will serve you in whatever endeavors you will pursue.

As a professor of Religious Studies, both here and elsewhere for fifteen years, I love to teach, and I have taught a range of courses in modern religious thought, social ethics, and comparative philosophy of religion. My current teaching and research interests have two foci, the American legacy of philosophy and religious thought and the African-American tradition of social criticism. The former focus is addressed in my course, RELC 3222: Protestants and Pragmatists, which explores the contrasts and connections among American thinkers including Edwards, Jefferson, Emerson, James, Niebuhr, Baldwin, and King. The latter focus is addressed in AAS/RELG 3200: Martin, Malcolm, and America, which examines the legacy of social protest from the early abolitionists to the Civil Rights Movement. I also enjoy teaching a similarly themed University Seminar or USEM for first year students, Religion, Race, and Nation. My most recent writing has explored the religious dimensions of American pragmatic philosophy.

I have been happily married for nearly twenty years to my wife, Leslie McPherson, a clinical social worker. We have two children, a son in high school and a daughter in middle school. I enjoy running, exploring the outdoors, listening to jazz, and traveling.

Karlin Luedtke

Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Studies in Women and Gender

434-924-3350
kl5k@virginia.edu
263 Monroe Hall

B.A., Mount Holyoke College
M.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

As an Association Dean I advise and provide assistance to students as they progress through their academic careers. I also serve as the Director of Student Academic Support and the Transition Program and coordinate academic support programs and services for students in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Since 1996 I have been affiliated with the Studies in Women and Gender Program (SWAG) and teach several of the required courses for the major and minor includingIntroduction to Gender StudiesandFeminist Theory. Currently I am the Director of Undergraduate Programs and advise all students with a major and minor in SWAG. My research interests include feminist theory and popular culture.

Shawn Lyons

Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Middle Eastern Studies

434-924-3353
stl8m@virginia.edu
206 Monroe Hall

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A., University of Washington
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

While serving as an Association Dean, I also teach in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures. My courses are on the history of Central Asia. Before arriving in Charlottesville, I was an assistant dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I also earned my Ph.D. in Central Asian studies. I previously received my master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Washington--Seattle. I continue to be interested in early 20th-century Uzbek literature. In recent years, I’ve tried to write poetry and fiction.

Richard R. McGuire

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Media Studies

434-924-3353
rrm6m@virginia.edu
201 D Monroe Hall

B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

As an Association Dean, I spend much of my day talking with students about their academic and post-graduation plans, academic strategies, study abroad, balancing extracurricular activities and other topics that may contribute to the richness of their University experience. I, like all of the Deans am always available to discuss problems, and we are fortunate to have the opportunity to engage students about a broad range of ideas; to provide them with good listeners and to stimulate their intellectual curiosity.

Prior to coming to the University I was a tenured member of the faculty of the State University of New York College at Brockport, where I taught courses in the Department of Philosophy and also served as Director of Interdisciplinary Humanities for the Alternate College. I held National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Philosophy at Boston University. I have taught courses here at the University of Virginia in the Political and Social Thought Program, Rhetoric and Communications and the Department of Sociology. In recent years I have taught a course on Media Ethics and another on Issues and Controversies in Media in the Department of Media Studies. I am particularly interested in the role of media in participatory democracies, and my approach is decidedly interdisciplinary. When I am away from the University my interests range widely from reading and photography to extensive travel in Southeast Asia.

Rachel Most

Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Anthropology

434-924-8873
rm5f@virginia.edu
266 Monroe Hall

B.A., Temple University
M.A., Arizona State University
Ph.D., Arizona State University

I currently serve as the Association Dean for all student athletes in the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to my role as an Association Dean, I also teach archaeology classes in the Department of Anthropology. I regularly teachUnearthing the Past(ANTH 2890) during January Term andQuantitative Methods in Archaeology I(ANTH 4870/7870). I have also taught a USEM on the collapse of prehistoric and historic societies. My primary research interests are concerned with the study of change over time in prehistoric economic and settlement systems. I am particularly interested in the impact of the adoption of agricultural strategies by foraging societies, the role of hunting in emergent complex societies, and the so-called "collapse" of prehistoric societies. My field research has been primarily in the American Southwest (where I worked in the Mogollon Rim area (Pinedale/Snowflake) and southern desert areas of Arizona) and also in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

In whatever spare time I have I enjoy spending time with my kids and friends, swimming (I swam competitively for Temple University), walking/hiking, yoga and travelling back to the American Southwest.

Frank Papovich

Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of English

434-924-3353
jp@virginia.edu
201 B Monroe Hall

B.A., Fort Lewis College
M.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

I have had the pleasure to work with transfer students in the College for over twenty years. I advocate for various transfer concerns within the University and coordinate issues regarding both domestic and study-abroad transfer credit. As the Association Dean for transfers, I monitor students’ satisfactory academic progress toward the degree and am available to confer about issues that impede that progress. In addition, I collaborate with the office manager in supervising College staff in Monroe Hall.

When not occupied with the business of the College in Monroe Hall, I enjoy teaching American literature in the English department, specializing in Literature of the American West.

Sandra Seidel

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Biology

434-924-3353
ss5yr@virginia.edu,
269 B Monroe Hall

B.S., William and Mary
M.E., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Students visit an academic dean to discuss course selection, choices of majors and minors, study abroad, internship and undergraduate research opportunities, graduate and professional school interests, and to seek academic advice on just about anything on their minds. I am also interested in the extracurricular activities and avocations of students as well. I serve as a resource to the students on Arts and Science Council (ASC) and really enjoy meeting incoming first years when they visit for Summer Orientation.

In the fall semester I teach BIOL 1210:Human Biology and Disease, a course designed for non-science majors which discusses practical applications related to human anatomy, physiology and disease. The College Advising Seminar, COLA:What Makes Us Tick, discusses cardiovascular physiology and topics related to academic advising. I’ve also taught a USEM (Science with no Borders)which discusses the interdisciplinary connections between big ideas in science.

I enjoy walking to my office from my home in good weather, petting my two cats Duke and Kitty, and listening to live music in many Charlottesville venues. I participate in a Women’s Book Club which reads a text associated with a film, prepares a dinner based on the theme(s) of the text and then watches the DVD together. My office abounds with plants and books; please do not hesitate to visit so that we may get to know one another during your years at UVa.

Gordon M. Stewart

Professor and Associate Dean
Department of German

434-924-8873
gms7y@virginia.edu
208 Monroe Hall

B.A., Union College
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

As an Association Dean I talk with students about their academic ambitions and assist them with important decisions as they make their way through the College or into one of the professional schools. Topics such as course and major selection, study abroad, desirability of adding a second major or minor, time management, and finding the proper balance of academic and non-academic pursuits at the University come up frequently with students. We also talk frequently about the latest books we’ve been reading, trips and projects undertaken, and plans for the upcoming summer and graduate school/employment.

Over the years I have taught the full range of undergraduate courses in the Department of German, concentrating in recent years on the GETR courses which are intended for students whose German is not up to reading in the original. I have also taught USEM courses, most recently one in the fall, 2010 semester on the literature of the Mediterranean. With 18 students I have just completed another January Term in Berlin where we explored German history and culture of the past century and experienced the richness and diversity of life in the German capital. One topic that has long interested me in this regard is the manner in which Germans continue to confront the difficulties and crimes of the Third Reich. On research leaves four times, I have taught twice at the University of Tübingen and twice at the Free University in Berlin.

In my free time I like to read, enjoy the outdoors, putter around the house, and keep up with two grown daughters and one very energetic three-year old grandson. I’m married to a former public school teacher, Grett Stewart, who now works seasonally in the Office of Admission as a reader. It was never my intention many years ago to become part of a UVa family, but with both daughters graduates (one from the College and the other from Law) and both my wife and I employed here, that’s the happy outcome of the decision to join the faculty at the University when I left graduate school in 1970.

Kirt von Daacke

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of History

434-924-8873
kv2h@virginia.edu
268 Monroe Hall

B.A., University of Virginia
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

My research centers upon social constructions of race, community social hierarchies, and identity in eighteenth and nineteenth century America. I am especially fascinated with studying the complex interplay of race and culture in the antebellum South. My first book,Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson’s Albemarle, 1780-1865, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press. I have also begun research for a second book-length project examining the history of a nineteenth century interracial island fishing community in coastal Maine. This scholarly passion grew out of my experience as an undergraduate history major here at the University of Virginia, where so many of my professors challenged and inspired me as a thinker and scholar both inside and outside the classroom. I am very excited to return to U.Va. as a faculty member and particularly to have the opportunity to guide current University students as they discover and pursue their own academic interests.

William Wilson

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Religious Studies

434-924-3350
wmw2v@virginia.edu
264 Monroe Hall

B.A., University of Virginia
M.Div., Harvard University
Ph.D., University of Virginia

For the past 23 years it has been my great privilege to serve the students of the College of Arts and Sciences as an association dean. Before returning to Charlottesville in 1988 to take on this position (I am an old hoo) I was in the Theology Department at Loyola College in Maryland. This was a wonderful post, but to have the opportunity to teach and conduct research here at Virginiaandwork closely with our undergraduate Arts and Sciences students to help them attain their academic hopes and dreams has been a true labor of love. “Association Dean at U.Va.” is the best title a professor can have.

Over these years I have had many other roles in the office alongside Association Dean. I have overseen fellowships and scholarships (Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and the like), I have been in charge of Interdisciplinary Majors, and I have monitored our programs in undergraduate research. But my greatest role came along six years ago when I became Dean (and now Director as well) of the Echols Scholars Program. I have found the privilege of serving Virginia undergraduates to be especially rewarding with these exceptional students.

I teach two or three classes a year in the Department of Religious Studies where I hold the rank of Associate Professor. My classes are in Religion and Literature and Philosophical Theology as is my research and publication. Several years ago I was a co-editor and contributor to a three volume collection of essays on every Canto of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Of all my publications I am especially pleased with this.

My bride of 33 years, Barbara Wilson, is Associate Professor of Dermatology in the Medical School. We have six children; three are U.Va. graduates and one is a second year Classics major. A family of this size does not leave much free time for any of us. We can generally be found reading, playing our own music, playing backyard sports, and jogging the back roads of Western Albemarle County.

Christine Zunz

Lecturer and Assistant Dean/Foreign Language Coordinator
Department of French

434-924-3350
cmz9m@virginia.edu
270 Monroe Hall

B.A., University of Michigan

I was born in Brittany (Rennes, France) and grew up in Liège (Belgium). After receiving a Commerce degree with a focus on foreign languages (Dutch, German, English), I moved to Paris and worked for the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), an international organization helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy.

I moved to the United States in August 1973. I was married and was a mother. I seized the opportunity to be in an outstanding university to fulfill a long time dream and to pursue my education at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), which I attended with a fellowship from the Center for the Continuing Education of Women. I received a BA with Distinction High Honors in Psychology in May 1976. Our second child was born on July 5th, 1976, one day after the bicentennial and two months after my graduation.

The entire family moved to Charlottesville in 1978. Since then, I have held several positions: editorial assistant (1979-1989) for theFrench XX Bibliography: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture Since 1885; lecturer in the French department (1987-present); director of the French House (1988-2008); and assistant dean in the College of Arts & Sciences (1990-present). In 2002, I was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French Government.

I have been enjoying every opportunity that has been given to me at the University of Virginia. My interests for foreign languages and psychology combined with the international journey that started years ago have helped me understand, help, and advise undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences. I enjoy teaching French grammar, reading Belgian mystery novelist Georges Simenon, and seeing students in my office every day.