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 Interim Associate Dean for Academic Programs is Dean Gordon M. Stewart.

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.

Association	Dean	Association	Dean
Balz	Shawn Lyons	International Residential College	Sandra Seidel
Balz-Dobie	Kirt von Daacke	Johnson	Richard McGuire
Bonnycastle	Gordon M. Stewart	Kent	Richard McGuire
Brown College	Christine Zunz	Kellogg	Shawn Lyons
Casteen Scholars	Karlin Luedtke	Lefevre	Christine Zunz
Cauthen	Beverly Adams	Lile	Beverly Adams
Courtenay	Sandra Seidel	Malone	Karlin Luedtke
Dabney	Mark Hadley	Maupin	Shawn Lyons
Dillard	Kirt von Daacke	Metcalf	Christine Zunz
Dobie	Richard McGuire	Page	Richard McGuire
Dunglison	Sandra Seidel	Student Athletes	Rachel Most
Dunnington	Beverly Adams	Transfer Students	Frank Papovich
Echols Scholars	Lynn Davis	Tuttle	Beverly Adams
Echols	Mark Hadley	Visiting International Students	Sandra Seidel
Emmet	Richard McGuire	Watson	Shawn Lyons
Fitzhugh	Sandra Seidel	Watson-Webb	Kirt von Daacke
Gooch	Shawn Lyons	Webb	Shawn Lyons
Hancock	Gordon M. Stewart	Weedon	Christine Zunz
Hereford College	Karlin Luedtke	Woody	Beverly Adams
Humphreys	Mark Hadley

Beverly Adams

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Psychology

434-924-4956
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).

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Lynn Davis

Interim Assistant Dean
Department of Biology

434-924-3350
lad3u@virginia.edu
264 Monroe Hall

I am so pleased to be back at the University of Virginia for the 2012-2013 academic year working with students in the Echols Scholars Program.  Before I retired 10 years ago to my “second career” as a winery owner, I taught in the Department of Biology and was the Dean for Echols students. Some things here have changed and many have not, including the chance to work with a bright and diverse group of students.  I am looking forward to many discussions about courses, majors, future plans, the Echols Scholars Program, and of course viticulture and enology.

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Mark Hadley

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Religious Studies

434-924-8873
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.

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Karlin Luedtke

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

434-924-3353
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.

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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.

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Richard R. McGuire

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Media Studies

434-924-3350
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.

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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 (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.

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Frank Papovich

Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of English

434-924-3350
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.

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Sandra Seidel

Associate Professor and Assistant Dean
Department of Biology

434-924-3350
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.

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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.

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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.

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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.