Department & School Chairs

2023-2024

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Civil & Environmental Engineering	Sandeep Kumar	skumar@odu.edu
Electrical & Computer Engineering	Oscar Gonzalez	ogonzale@odu.edu
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering	Andres Sousa-Poza	asousapo@odu.edu
Engineering Technology	Vukica Jovanovic	v2jovano@odu.edu
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	Miltos Kotinis	mkotinis@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Art	John Roth	jroth@odu.edu
Communication & Theatre Arts	Tim Anderson	tjanders@odu.edu
English	Veronica Watson	vwatson@odu.edu
History	Ingo Heidbrink	iheidbri@odu.edu
F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music	Nancy Klein	nklein@odu.edu
Philosophy & Religious Studies	D.E. Wittkower	dwittkow@odu.edu
Political Science & Geography	Jonathan Leib	jleib@odu.edu
Sociology & Criminal Justice	Ruth Triplett	rtriplet@odu.edu
Women's Studies	Elizabeth Groeneveld	egroenev@odu.edu
World Languages & Cultures	Elizabeth Black	eblack@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Community & Environmental Health	James Blando	jblando@odu.edu
Communication Sciences & Disorders	Staci Raymer	sraymer@odu.edu
Dental Hygiene	Ann Bruhn	abruhn@odu.edu
Kinesiology & Health	Daniel Russell	dmrussel@odu.edu
Medical Diagnostic and Translational Sciences	Harold Riethman	hriethma@odu.edu
Rehabilitation Sciences	Steven Morrison	smorriso@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Biological Sciences	Holly Gaff	hgaff@odu.edu
Chemistry & Biochemistry	Craig Bayse	cbayse@odu.edu
Computer Science	Ravi Mukkamala	rmukkama@odu.edu
Mathematics & Statistics	Gordon Melrose	gmelrose@odu.edu
Ocean & Earth Sciences	Rodger Harvey	rharvey@odu.edu
Physics	Sebastian Kuhn	skuhn@odu.edu
Psychology	George Noell	gnoell@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Counseling & Human Services	Mark Rehfuss	mrehfuss@odu.edu
Educational Foundations & Leadership	Mickey Kosloski	mkoslosk@odu.edu
Human Movement Sciences	Xihe Zhu	x2zhu@odu.edu
STEM Education & Professional Studies	Shana Pribesh	spribesh@odu.edu
Teaching & Learning	Jamie Colwell	jcolwell@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
School of Cybersecurity	Daniel Takabi	dtakabi@odu.edu
School of Data Science	Frank Liu	fliu@odu.edu
School of Supply Chain, Logistics, & Maritime Operations	Mileta Tomovic	mtomovic@odu.edu

Department	Chair	Email
Advanced Practice Nursing	Janice Hawkins	jhawkins@odu.edu
Professional Nursing	Lynn Wiles	lwiles@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Economics	Robert McNab	rmcnab@odu.edu
Finance	Bruce Rubin	brubin@odu.edu
Information Technology/Decision Sciences	Weiyong Zhang	wyzhang@odu.edu
Management	Shaomin Li	sli@odu.edu
Marketing	Chuanyi Tang	ctang@odu.edu
School of Accountancy	Royce Burnett	rdburnet@odu.edu
School of Public Service	Sam Brown	s5brown@odu.edu

DEPARTMENT	CHAIR	EMAIL ADDRESS
Engagement	Jennifer Hoyt	jhoyt@odu.edu
Learning Commons and Branch Libraries	Victoria Heiduschke	vheidusc@odu.edu
Liaison Services	Dorothy Lockaby	dlockaby@odu.edu
Resource Description and Maintenance	Leanne Hillery	lhillery@odu.edu
Resource Fulfillment	Robert Tench	ftench@odu.edu
Scholarly Communication and Publishing	Karen Vaughan	kvaughan@odu.edu
Special Collections and University Archives	Jessica Ritchie	jhritchi@odu.edu
Systems Development	Holli Kubly	hkubly@odu.edu
Teaching and Learning Initiatives	Lucinda Wittkower	lrush@odu.edu

Last revised 6/16/2023

Changes, additions, or deletions should be sent to Maite Wilson