Senate Membership
Senate Membership 2024-2025
Membership in Faculty Congress, Faculty Senate, and Faculty Senate Council is defined in articles III.3, IV.2, and V.2 of the (2022). Members of Faculty Senate Council are elected by and from Faculty Senate voting members. See: &
VOTING MEMBERS: FACULTY SENATE COUNCIL (2 ex officio, 4 elected)
Faculty Senate Chair Bruce R Maxim (ex-officio Chair to 08/31/2025)
Faculty Senate Vice-Chair Sheila R Smith (ex-officio Vice-chair to 08/31/2025)
CASL Representative Christos Constantinides (to 08/31/2025), alternate Claudia K Walters (elected)
CECS Representative Georges Ayoub (to 08/31/2025), alternate Paul Watta (elected)
CEHHS Representative Mesut Duran (to 08/31/2025), alternate Seong Hong (elected)
COB Representative Barbara Klein (to 08/31/2025), alternate Jun He (elected)
VOTING MEMBERS: FACULTY SENATE (22 ELECTED)
Faculty Senate Chair: BRUCE R MAXIM, CECS (Chair to 08/31/2025, member to 08/31/2025), alternate GEORGES AYOUB (per Bylaws, chair only votes to break a tie; alternate votes to represent the college)
Faculty Senate Vice Chair: SHEILA R SMITH, CASL at-large (Vice-chair to 08/31/2025, member to 08/31/2025), alternate Pamela Pennock
CHRIS ALTERI, CASL-NSCI (TO 08/31/2026), alternate Daniel Lawson
GEORGES AYOUB, CECS (Acting for Maxim TO 08/31/2025), alternate Ya Sha Yi
MAYA BARAK, CASL-at large (to 08/31/2027), alternate John Abramyan
ERIK BOND, CASL-LCA & Executive Committee liaison (to 08/31/2025), alternate Nicholas Iannarino
ANDA BOTOSENEANU, CEHHS & Executive Committee Liaison (to 08/31/2027), alternate Natalie Sampson, EC alternate Seong Hong
ARLO CLARK-FOOS, CASL-BSCI (to 08/31/2027), alternate Pamela McAuslan, EC alternate Maya Barak
CHRISTOS CONSTANTINIDES, CASL-at large (to 09/31/2026), alternate Rusi Sun
FRANCINE DOLINS*, CASL-at large (to 08/31/2025), alternate Jamie Wraight (*Dolins sabbatical F2024)
MESUT DURAN, CEHHS (to 08/31/2027), alternate Kirsten Dara Hill
FRED FENG, CECS (to 8/31/2025), alternate Areen Alsaid
JUN HE, CEHHS (to 08/31/2027), alternate Elif Izberk-Bilgin
SEONG HONG, CEHHS (to 08/31/2026), alternate Natalie Sampson
YULIA HRISTOVA, CASL-M/S (to 08/31/2027), alternate Angela Krebs
TIM KISKA, CASL-at-large (to 08/31/2025), alternate Caitlyn Finlayson
BARBARA KLEIN, COB (to 08/31/2026), alternate Yi Maggie Guo
ZHIXIN JASON LIU, COB & Executive Committee Liaison (to 08/31/2025), alternate Yan Alice Xie
HAFIZ MALIK, CECS & Executive Committee Liaison (to 08/31/2026), alternate Eric Ratts
RAYA SAMET, LIB (to 08/31/2026), alternate Anne Dempsey
CLAUDIA K WALTERS, CASL-SSCI (to 08/31/2027), alternate TBD
SHENGQUAN WANG, CECS (to 08/31/2025), alternate Alireza Mohammadi
PAUL WATTA, CECS (to 08/31/2026), alternate Sang-Hwan Kim
NON-VOTING MEMBERS (2 Elected, 7 ex officio)
Domenico Grasso, Chancellor (ex officio)
Gabriella Scarlatta, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (ex officio), alternates Maureen Linker/Joan Remski
Marcus Harris, Lecturer-at-large representative (to 08/31/2026), alternate Michael Molesky (elected)
Jill Darling, Lecturer-at-large representative (to 08/31/2025), alternate Raji Janakiraman (elected)
Yi-Su Chen, Senate Assembly member (ex officio, to 04/30/2027), alternate Khalid Kattan
Wessam Elmeligi, Senate Assembly member (ex officio; to 04/30/2026), alternate Warren Anderson
Pamela Pennock, Senate Assembly member (ex officio; to 04/30/2026), alternate TBD
Harmony Reppond, Senate Assembly member (ex officio; to 04/30/2025, alternate Hung-Chung Su
INVITED GUESTS (7)
Joan Remski, Associate Provost (ex officio)
Maureen Linker, Associate Provost (ex officio)
Patrick Beauchesne, Faculty Ombuds (ex officio; to 08/31/2026)
Barbara Matthei, Faculty Retirees representative /ARFS (to 08/31/2025)
Carmel Price, Provost Fellow (ex officio; to 08/31/2025)
Rupinder Singh, Student Government President (ex officio, to 05/01/2025), alternate Zahra Patni
Faculty Senate Secretary, Karen F Dimanche Davis (ex officio)