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 University of Michigan-Dearborn Campus By-Laws (2022). Members of Faculty Senate Council are elected by and from Faculty Senate voting members. See: Information for Senators & Information for Alternates

 

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)