Faculty Advisors
Representing every department in the College, our inaugural Faculty Advisory Council provides guidance to Open Academy programs. These faculty members also help plan and frequently participate in core programming, while also serving as important Open Academy ambassadors to the faculty at large.
Faculty Advisory Council Members
Established March 2022
David Bjerk
Russell S. Bock Professor of Public Economics and
Taxation/Department Chair
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
Stacey Doan
Professor of Psychological Science and Director of the Berger Institute
Psychological Sciences
Bassam Frangieh
Professor of Arabic
Modern Languages and Literatures
Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Biology and Founding Chair
Kravis DEPartment OF INTEGRATED SCIENCES
Mukasa Mubirumusoke
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies
Jessamyn Schaller
Associate Professor of Economics
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
George Thomas
Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center for Individual Freedom
Government
Sarah Cannon
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Mathematical Sciences
Michael Fortner
Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow
Government
Lily Geismer
Professor of History
History
Seth Lobis
Associate Professor of Literature
Literature
Diana Selig
Kingsley Croul Associate Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow
History
Alex Rajczi
Professor of Philosophy, Deborah and Kenneth Novack Professor of Ethics and Leadership, and George R. Roberts Fellow
Philosophy
Jamel Velji
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
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