UMass Boston

Faculty Council Membership

Academic Year 2024-2025

Faculty Council Executive Committee

Amy Todd, Chair of the Faculty Council (2024 - )
Timothy Oleksiak, Associate Chair (2024-2026)
Niya Sa (2024-2026)
Jeffrey Stokes (2024-2026)
Gretchen Umholtz (2024-2026)

Faculty Council Members - College-Based Seats

College of Liberal Arts:

Nurul Aman
Department of Economics
2022 – 2025

Daniel Gascon
Department of Sociology
2024 - 2027

Shaman Hatley
Department of Asian Studies
2023 – 2026

Richard Hunter, III
Department of Psychology
2023 – 2026

Larry J. Kaye
Department of Philosophy
2023 – 2026

Harry Konstantinidis
Department of Economics
2022 - 2025

Nelson Lande
Department of Philosophy
2022 - 2025

Abdelkrim Mouhib
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
2023 – 2026

Timothy Oleksiak
Department of English
2022 – 2025

Amy Todd
Department of Anthropology
2022 - 2025

Gretchen Umholtz
Department of Classics
2024 – 2027

Anthony Van DerMeer
Department of Africana Studies
2023 – 2026

College of Science and Mathematics:

Peter Lert
Department of Mathematics
2024 - 2027

Niya Sa
Department of Chemistry
2022 - 2025

College of Education and Human Development:

Janna Kellinger
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
2022 - 2025

Lusa Lo
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
2022 – 2025

Wenfan Yan
Department of Leadership in Education
2023 – 2026

College of Nursing and Health Sciences:

Priscilla Gazarian
Department of Nursing
2022 - 2025

Ana Lindsay
Department of Urban Public Health
2024 - 2027

Jeffrey Edward Stokes
Department of Gerontology
2023 – 2026

College of Management:

Mohsin Habib
Department of Management
2022 – 2025

Robert Kim
Department of Accounting and Finance
2022 – 2025

Leon Zurawicki
Department of Marketing
2024 - 2027

Honors College

Todd Drogy
2022 - 2025

McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies:

Amit V. Patel
Department of Public Policy & Public Affairs
2023 - 2026

School for the Environment

Lorena Estrada-Martinez
Department of Urban Planning and Human Development
2024 - 2027

Faculty Council Members - At Large Seats

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Lynne Benson
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2022 - 2025

Paul Dyson
Department of English
2022 – 2025

Assistant Professors

Lisa Marie Heelan-Fancher
Department of Nursing
2023 – 2026

Tyler Hull
Department of Accounting and Finance
2023 – 2026

Associate Professors

Alex Mueller
Department of English
2022 – 2025

Jason Rodriquez
Department of Sociology
2022 – 2025

Full Professors

Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Department of Counseling and School Psychology
2022 – 2025

Marlene Kim
Department of Economics
2024 - 2027

Representatives to the Faculty Council:

*Parliamentarian - Gonzalo Bacigalupe

*Board of Trustees - Sana Haroon, Department of History, 2023 - 2025

**Faculty Staff Union -- Caroline Coscia

**Professional Staff Union Representative to FC -- Michael Mahan

**Classified Staff Union--TBD

**Graduate Student Assembly Representative to FC -- Delaney Bowen

**Undergraduate Student Government Representative to FC -- TBD

**Graduate Employee Organization Representative to FC--Chidimma Ozor Commer & Jonathan Vega-Martinez

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*Faculty Representative to the UMass Board of Trustees is a voting member of the UMass Boston Faculty Council.
**Non-voting member.

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