Department Head Listing

College of Agriculture

Department Name E-mail
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Nathan Mosier mosiern@purdue.edu
Agricultural Economics Nicole Widmar (I) nwidmar@purdue.edu 
Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication Rama Radhakrishna rbradhak@purdue.edu
Agronomy Laura Bowling (New) 8/19/2024 bowling@purdue.edu 
Animal Sciences Paul Ebner (I) pebner@purdue.edu
Biochemistry Joe Ogas  ogas@purdue.edu
Botany & Plant Pathology Tesfaye Mengiste mengiste@purdue.edu
Entomology Cate Hill hillca@purdue.edu
Food Science Senay Simsek ssimsek@purdue.edu
Forestry & Natural Resources Zhao Ma (I) zhaoma@purdue.edu 
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Linda Prokopy lprokopy@purdue.edu

Daniels School of Business

Department Name E-mail
Economics Brian Roberson brobers@purdue.edu 
Management Lin Nan lnan@purdue.edu

College of Education

Department Name E-mail
Curriculum and Instruction Selcen Guzey (New) 7/1/2024 sguzey@purdue.edu 
Educational Studies Christine Rienstra-Kiracofe (New) 7/1/2024  ckiracofe@purdue.edu 

College of Engineering

Department Name E-mail
Aeronautics and Astronautics William Crossley crossley@purdue.edu
Biomedical Engineering Kevin Otto (New) 7/1/2024 kotto@purdue.edu 
Chemical Engineering Sangtae Kim kim55@purdue.edu
Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering  Govindaraju Rao govind@purdue.edu 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Milind Kulkarni (New) 2/19/2024 milind@purdue.edu
Engineering Education Edward Berger (I) bergere@purdue.edu
Environmental and Ecological Engineering John Sutherland jwsuther@purdue.edu
Industrial Engineering Young-Jun Son yjson@purdue.edu
Materials Engineering David Bahr dfbahr@purdue.edu
Mechanical Engineering Eckhard Groll groll@purdue.edu
Nuclear Engineering Seungjin Kim seungjin@purdue.edu

College of Health and Human Sciences

Department Name E-mail
Health and Kinesiology Timothy Gavin gavin1@purdue.edu
Health Sciences Jason Cannon (I) cannonjr@purdue.edu
Hospital and Tourism Management Ceridwyn King ceridwynking@purdue.edu
Human Development and Family Studies Valerie Knopik vknopik@purdue.edu
Nursing

Nancy Edwards (New) 8/1/2024

edwardsn@purdue.edu
Nutrition Science Laura Murray-Kolb lmurrayk@purdue.edu
Psychological Sciences Kim Kinzig (I) kkinzig@purdue.edu
Public Health Randy Hubach (New) 1/1/2024 rhubach@purdue.edu
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Jennifer Simpson (I) 5/1/2024 jsible@purdue.edu

College of Liberal Arts

Department Name E-mail
Anthropology Melissa Remis remism@purdue.edu
Bands and Orchestra Jay Gephart jsgephart@purdue.edu
Brian Lamb School of Communication Marifran Mattson mmattson@purdue.edu
English Al Lopez (New) 7/1/2024 alopez@purdue.edu
History Frederick Davis frdavis@purdue.edu
Interdisciplinary Studies Elena Coda (I) 7/1/2024 ecoda@purdue.edu
Languages and Cultures Jen William jmwilliam@purdue.edu
Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art and Performance  Arne Flaten aflaten@purdue.edu
Philosophy Chris Yeomans cyeomans@purdue.edu
Political Science Cherie Maestas cmaestas@purdue.edu
Sociology Linda Renzulli  lrenzull@purdue.edu 

Libraries and School of Information Studies 

Department Name E-mail
School of Information Studies Jane Yatcilla janeyat@purdue.edu

College of Pharmacy

Department Name E-mail
Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics Eric Munson munsone@purdue.edu
Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Zhong-Yin Zhang  zhang-zy@purdue.edu
Pharmacy Practice Amy Sheehan (I) 9/1/2024 hecka@purdue.edu

Polytechnic Institute

Department Name E-mail
Aviation and Transportation Technology Brian Dillman  dillman@purdue.edu
Computer and Information Technology Eric Dietz (I) 7/1/2024 jedietz@purdue.edu 
Computer Graphics Technology Nicoletta Adamo (I) nadamovi@purdue.edu
Construction Management Technology Marcus Rogers (I) 7/1/2024 rogersmk@purdue.edu 
Engineering Technology Kenneth Burbank kburbank@purdue.edu
Technology, Leadership and Innovation Todd Kelley (I) trkelley@purdue.edu
Division of Military Sciences and Technology Mathias Sutton suttonmj@purdue.edu
Air Force ROTC Joe McKenna (Colonel) mckenn28@purdue.edu
Army ROTC Kevin White (Lieutenant Colonel)
kcwhite@purdue.edu
Navy ROTC Christopher M. Nelson (Captain ) nelson06@purdue.edu

College of Science

Department Name E-mail
Biological Sciences Peristera Paschou (I) 1/1/2024 ppaschou@purdue.edu
Chemistry Jianguo Mei (New) 7/1/2024 jgmei@purdue.edu 
Computer Science Petros Drineas (New) 7/1/2024 pdrineas@purdue.edu 
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences  Marcy Towns (I) 7/1//2024 mtowns@purdue.edu 
Mathematics Irena Swanson  iswanso@purdue.edu
Physics and Astronomy Gabor Csathy  
gcsathy@purdue.edu
Statistics Xiao Wang (New) 4/16/2024 wangxiao@purdue.edu

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department Name E-mail
Veterinary Administration Kathy Salisbury salisbus@purdue.edu
Basic Medical Sciences Susan Mendrysa (I) (2/1/2024)
mendrysa@purdue.edu  
Comparative Pathobiology Sanjeev Narayanan sanjeev@purdue.edu
Veterinary Clinical Sciences J. Catharine Scott-Moncrieff scottmon@purdue.edu

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