The SCSDC is made up of faculty, staff, student, museum, and alumni representatives. Please feel free to contact your representative if you have concerns, questions, or suggestions regarding the work of the SCSDC. 

Faculty: Christina Warinner (Committee Chair), Ajantha Subramanian (Department Chair), Nicholas Harkness, Richard Meadow, Michael Puett

Staff: Amy Arsenault, Cris Paul

Graduate Students: Dalyn Grindle

Undergraduate Students: Anne Lheem, Ashley Cooper, Maddie Heilbrun, Idabelle Paterson

Museum: Diana Loren, Laura Costello

Alumni: Carrie Brezine (2011), Bridget Alex (2016), Adia Benton (2009), Anand Vaidya (2014), Veronika Kusumaryati (2018), Ekin Kurtic (2020), Lindsey Marty Alexander (2019), Jason Bryan Silverstein (2016), Manduhai Buyandelger (2004), Sa'ed Atshan (2013), Bridget Corbett Hanna (2014)

Subcommittee Members

Subcommittee 1

Ajantha Subramanian, Carrie Brezine, Lilia Kilburn 

Subcommittee 2 & 3

Christina Warinner, Laura Costello, Amy Arsenault, Gilmore Tamny, Amy Clark, Andrew Bair, Idabelle Paterson, Ekin Kurtic, Susan Gilman, Richard Meadow, Sadia Demby

Subcommittee 4

Michael Puett, Maddie Heilbrun, Keye Tersmette, Sa’ed Atshan, Michelle Groth, Carrie Brezine, Kathryn Vandever

Subcommittee 5

Christina Warinner, Lainie Schultz, Monique Rivera, Matt Liebmann, Kristen Pearson, Kaya Williams, Marty Alexander, Anand Vaidya

Subcommittee 6

Nick Harkness, Matt Liebmann, Zoe Eddy, Emily Rose, Ashley Cooper, Anne Lheem, Ligia Alfonzo

Subcommittee 7

Richard Meadow, Amy Arsenault, Cristina Paul, Dalyn Grindle, Yookyeong Im

Subcommittee 8

Michael Puett, Aurora Allshouse, Ellen Burstein, Bridget Alex, Diana Loren

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Subcommittees:

1. Evaluation of Current Institutional Resources and Gaps (Chair: Nick Harkness). This subcommittee is focused on identifying and explaining a full range of resources for questions, complaints, support, and training related to university policies on personal and professional conduct, to identify gaps in support and propose department-level solutions, and to address problems with transparency, communication, and information. 

2. Diversity in Student Concentrators, Graduate Admissions, and Faculty Recruitment and Promotion (Chair: Richard Meadow). This subcommittee is focused on reviewing the historical data on diversity across all department constituencies (including graduate admissions, as well as faculty searches and appointments), and to make recommendations for improvement, with explicit expectations and benchmarks.

3. Community Building and Inclusion (Chair: Christina Warinner). This subcommittee is focused on evaluating the full range of intellectual and social activities within the department, the budgets that support these activities, and the building spaces used for these activities, and to make recommendations for how to achieve better inclusiveness and cohesion. 

4. Professional Trajectories (Chair: Michael Puett). This subcommittee will conduct a review of alumni and student experiences to identify past and present barriers to professional success, create alumni mentorship networks, and better understand alumni trajectories.

5. Advising and Mentoring (Chair: Christina Warinner). This subcommittee will conduct a review of the current advising experience, develop comparative cases from other institutions, and make recommendations for the improvement, centralization, and evaluation of the advising and mentoring structures and practices. 

6. Curriculum (Chair: Nick Harkness). This subcommittee will conduct a full evaluation of the undergraduate and graduate curricula, evaluate the curricular commitment to diversity and inclusion, and, for graduate students in both programs, provide recommendations for important milestones in the graduate curriculum (e.g., required courses, general exams, prospectus).

7. Accountability and Monitoring (Chair: Richard Meadow). This subcommittee is focused on understanding and improving departmental procedures for recording and maintaining information, making committee appointments, and lines of responsibility, with the aim ensuring a continued, department-wide commitment to the initiatives and solutions proposed by the Standing Committee.

8. Engagement (Chair: Michael Puett). This subcommittee is focused on identifying areas for members of the departmental community to become more widely engaged in activities beyond the department—at the university, within the regional community, and with the public more broadly.

External Consulting and Support

During our year-long self-study, we will be assisted Edith Onderick-Harvey, managing partner of NextBridge Consulting. Ms. Onderick-Harvey specializes in facilitating institutional change, and she will advise the SCSDC and provide support for confidential climate surveys that we will conduct at the department level over the coming academic year. You may contact Ms. Onderick-Harvey at any time regarding questions or concerns relating to the SCSDC.