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The Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the College. They oversee both the academic core and the support structure of the College. In cooperation with faculty members and other administrators, the dean seeks to advance Arts and Letters while integrating the various aspects of Notre Dame’s triadic identity as a residential liberal arts college, a dynamic research university, and a Catholic institution of international standing.

The dean oversees the University’s programs in the Division of the Arts, the Division of the Humanities, and the Division of the Social Sciences; appoints and oversees associate deans and the chairpersons of 19 departments as well as selected directors and support staff; and supports and evaluates the teaching and research of faculty members.

Office location

100 O’Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Dean's Executive Committee

  1. Angela McCarthy; Smiling woman with long brown hair, wearing a black blazer and a dark patterned top.

    Angela Farizo McCarthy

    Assistant Dean for Academic & Faculty Affairs

    Angela McCarthy; Smiling woman with long brown hair, wearing a black blazer and a dark patterned top.

    Angela Farizo McCarthy

    Assistant Dean for Academic & Faculty Affairs

    amccar22@nd.edu

    Angela McCarthy is an Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science specializing in Political Behavior and Public Opinion. Her work has been published in Political Research Quarterly, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Geographical Review, the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, and Social Science Quarterly. Currently, McCarthy is working on two co-authored manuscripts entitled "Religiosity and the Pocketbook Over Time: A Long View on How Religion and Income Structure Partisan and Ideological Orientations" and "Continuity and Change in the Determinants and Effects of Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage, 2004-2020." McCarthy's research focuses on contemporary social-value and economic concerns among individuals.

    McCarthy has dedicated much of her time to undergraduate teaching. Her teaching interests include Ethics, Morality Policy, Religion and Politics, Contemporary Issues in Public Opinion, and Research Methods. She believes teaching is an interactive enterprise where students must engage with course materials, contribute to class discussion, and reflect on critical thinking exercises. McCarthy's primary objective is to provide students with the tools and resources to articulate their unique and well-informed opinions. McCarthy also serves as an advisor and mentor to undergraduate students, helping students with course selection and academic and professional career planning. Her approach to advising is to provide students with available opportunities and aid them in discerning their path.

    Before coming to Notre Dame, McCarthy was the Experiential Learning Coordinator and Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. While there, she was awarded the Teacher of the Year for the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, McCarthy earned the Distinguished Dissertation Award at Louisiana State University for her dissertation entitled, "The Religious Impact: Understanding the Influences of Religiosity on Attitudes Toward Policy Issues."
  2. Headshot of a woman with chin-length brown hair, wearing tortoise-shell glasses and a gray jacket, against a dark background.

    Kate Marshall

    Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Initiatives
    Director of the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good

    Headshot of a woman with chin-length brown hair, wearing tortoise-shell glasses and a gray jacket, against a dark background.

    Kate Marshall

    Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Initiatives
    Director of the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good

    kmarsha2@nd.edu
    P: +1 574-631-1737

    Leadership of Research Strategy

    • Build, sustain, and promote research excellence in all three of the College’s divisions (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences).
    • Develop policies and procedures that support the College’s strategic plan with particular emphasis on advancing research excellence.
    • Serve as Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.
    • Be a campus-wide advocate for scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
    • Serve as a liaison between the College and Notre Dame Research.
    • Initiate, develop, and lead cross-college and campus-wide research initiatives.
    • Work with Notre Dame International, Notre Dame Research, and College faculty to cultivate and enhance research and scholarship at the University’s Global Gateways (Beijing, Dublin, Jerusalem, London, and Rome).
    • Work with the Director of Communications and Marketing to promote the research reputation of the College within the public and academic sectors.

    Leadership of Strategic Initiatives in Arts & Letters

    • Work with the Dean, associate deans, department chairpersons, and faculty to identify, implement, and track initiatives with significant potential to further the College’s strategic vision and societal impact.
    • Work with the Dean and Director of Academic Advancement to define the fundraising objectives of the College.
    • Coordinate internal strategic planning processes.
    • Support an entrepreneurial culture among the faculty toward scholarship and teaching.
    • Lead college-wide strategic initiatives as assigned by the Dean.

    Financial Management

    • With the Dean and Senior Director of Finance and Administration, establish and manage the College’s financial commitments to research and scholarship.
    • Provide overall financial management and stewardship of endowments devoted to supporting research, scholarship, and creative work.
    • With divisional associate deans and department chairpersons, develop and approve research start-up packages for newly hired faculty members.
    • Administer Faculty Research and Professional Development (R&PD) accounts.
    • Evaluate and administer requests for cost-sharing on externally funded research projects.

    Faculty Research Support

    • Oversee the evaluation and provision of internal grants for faculty research, conference travel, publication subventions, and other research expenses.
    • Provide information, advice, and assistance in finding and obtaining external grant and fellowship funds from public and private agencies.
    • Help departments, programs, centers, and individual faculty members develop grant proposals consistent with each unit’s strategic plan.
    • Coordinate and develop research space.
    • Review and approve of all grant submissions on behalf of the College.
    • Monitor and advise on research compliance issues.
    • Develop support agreements for editors of scholarly journals

    Student Research Support

    • Develop policies and funding initiatives to support student research, including graduate student professional development.
    • Oversee evaluation and funding of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) grants.
    • Oversee evaluation and funding of Graduate Research Opportunity Program (GROP) grants and Graduate Student Research Awards.

    Committee Assignments

    • Arts and Letters College Council
    • Arts and Letters Deans and Chairpersons
    • Arts and Letters Executive Committee
    • Arts and Letters Space Committee
    • Science and Engineering Research Council
    • Center for Social Sciences Research Faculty Steering Committee (NDR)
    • Center for Research Computing Advisory Committee (NDR)
    • Faculty Research Support and Limited Submissions Review Committees (NDR)
    • Laboratory Safety Advisory Committee (Risk Management)

    Direct Reports

    • Administrative Coordinator
    • Associate Directors, ISLA
    • Assistant Directors, ISLA
    • Assistant Director, Academic Conferences

    Liaison Relationships

    • Notre Dame Research
    • Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Business
    • Keough School of Global Affairs
    • The Graduate School
    • Center for Research Computing
    • Center for Social Sciences Research
  3. Andrea Post, a blonde-haired woman smiles warmly in front of a blurred, light yellow building with columns and arched windows. She wears a dark blazer and patterned blouse.

    Andrea Post

    Executive Director of Finance & Administration

    Andrea Post, a blonde-haired woman smiles warmly in front of a blurred, light yellow building with columns and arched windows. She wears a dark blazer and patterned blouse.

    Andrea Post

    Executive Director of Finance & Administration

    ajohns10@nd.edu
    P: +1 574-631-7340

    Andrea joined the Office of Budget and Financial Planning in 2005. In her current role, she focuses on budgeting and financial analysis, and planning activities at the University. Her responsibilities include quarterly year-to-date analysis, financial aid, fall and spring budget campus support, and other financial analyses. She has also been a member of the Finance Division Communications & Events Committee, where she is a leader in developing and distributing the Finance Division Newsletter.

    Before joining the UB&FP, Andrea was a commercial banking credit underwriter for JP Morgan Chase. She developed analytical and credit analysis skills, established and maintained client relationships, and gained a deep understanding of commercial lending and capital-raising activities.
  4. Michael Pries

    Michael Pries

    Associate Dean for the Social Sciences

    Michael Pries

    Michael Pries

    Associate Dean for the Social Sciences

    mpries@nd.edu
    P: +1 574-631-1584

    Faculty Recruitment, Appointments, and Departmental Coordination

    • Interview all junior candidates in the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology) and Africana Studies.
    • Review departmental letters of offer in the Division of Social Sciences.
    • Administer appointment process and materials in Social Science departments for the following:
      - Endowed chairs (including the organization of endowed chair committees)
      - Preliminary screening of promotion packets in the Social Sciences
      - Junior faculty
      - Visitor and adjunct faculty
      - Approve budget allocations for non-regular faculty appointments and salaries
    • Administer faculty leaves within the Division of Social Sciences.
    • Administer salary appeals within the Division of Social Sciences.
    • Review and coordinate non-Regular teaching within the Division of Social Sciences, including postdoctoral and visiting scholar appointments.
    • Develop and administer retirement agreements within the Division of Social Sciences.
    • Prepare mid-term reviews of chairpersons within the Division of Social Sciences.
    • In consultation with the Dean, review recruitment of women, minority, and mission faculty candidates.
    • Participate in departmental and program reviews in the Division of Social Sciences.
    • Prepare for the Dean a list of external reviewers of departments in the Social Sciences.
    • Administer department reviews (in conjunction with the Dean and the Office of Strategic Planning) within the Division of Social Sciences.

    Program Supervision

    • Gender Studies
    • Computing and Digital Technologies
    • Arts and Letters Post-Doctoral Fellowships

    Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences

    • Supervise graduate programs in the Division of Social Sciences, including the Ph.D. in Peace Studies.
    • Review annual metrics for graduate studies in the Social Sciences.
    • Coordinate, as needed, external surveys of Arts and Letters graduate studies and faculty research.
    • Administer graduate student space allocations.

    Direct Reports

    • Sr. Administrative Coordinator
    • Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA)
    • Director, Computing and Digital Technologies Program (CDT)
    • Directors of interdisciplinary centers and programs (excluding undergraduate interdisciplinary minors) within the College (e.g., for appointments and budgets), including:
      - Center for Children and Families (CCF)
      - Center for Social Research (CSR) (joint report with Office of Research)
      - Center for the Study of Religion and Society
      - Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change
      - Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
      - Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy
    • Journal editors (general supervision of all journals and journal support agreements)

    Committee Assignments

    • Arts and Letters College Council
    • Arts and Letters Deans and Chairpersons
    • Arts and Letters Executive Committee
    • Arts and Letters Faculty Search Request Review Committee
    • Arts and Letters Leave Committee
    • Arts and Letters Space Committee
    • College Laboratory Safety Committee (chair)
    • Center for Research Computing Advisory Committee
    • Limited Submissions Review Committee, Office of Research
    • Pre-screening Committee for Non-Obligatory Promotions
    • Strategic Research Committee, Office of Research
    • Graduate School Leadership Committee, Graduate School
    • Social Sciences Building Planning Committee (co-chair)
    • Academic and Faculty Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees (Social Science representative)

    Liaison Relationships

    • Graduate School
    • Office of Research
    • Center for Research Computing (CRC)
    • University Libraries
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    Alison Rice

    Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
    Dr. William M. Scholl Professor of French & Francophone Studies

    Smiling blonde woman in black glasses wearing a red patterned turtleneck.

    Alison Rice

    Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
    Dr. William M. Scholl Professor of French & Francophone Studies

    arice1@nd.edu

    Professor Rice specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Francophone literature. Her first book, Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb (Lexington Books 2006), closely examines the work of Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. Her second book, Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria (University of Virginia Press, 2012), focuses on autobiographical writings by seven prominent Francophone women writers from Algeria. She is the editor of a recent volume titled Transpositions: Migration, Translation, Music (Liverpool University Press, 2021) that explores a wide range of innovations in Francophone film, literature, theater, and art. Her third book, Worldwide Women Writers in Paris: Francophone Metronomes (Oxford University Press, 2021), constitutes an in-depth examination of the present proliferation of women writers of French from around the world.

    Prior to becoming Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Alison Rice was Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at Notre Dame. She is a Concurrent Faculty member in Gender Studies and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at Notre Dame.
  6. Kenneth Scheve

    Kenneth Scheve

    I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean

    Kenneth Scheve

    Kenneth Scheve

    I.A. O'Shaughnessy Dean

    kscheve@nd.edu
  7. Michael Schreffler

    Michael Schreffler

    Associate Dean for the Arts; Professor, Department of Art, Art History, & Design

    Michael Schreffler

    Michael Schreffler

    Associate Dean for the Arts; Professor, Department of Art, Art History, & Design

    mschreff@nd.edu

    Faculty Recruitment, Appointments, and Departmental Coordination

    • Interview all junior candidates in the Division of the Arts (Art, Art History, and Design; Film, Television, and Theater; Sacred Music; and Music).
    • Author or review departmental letters of offer.
    • In consultation with the Dean, review recruitment of women, minority, and mission faculty candidates.
    • Administer appointment process and materials in departments for the following:
      - Endowed chairs (including the organization of endowed chair committees)
      - Preliminary screening of promotion packets
      - Junior faculty
      - Visitor and adjunct faculty
      - Approve budget allocations for non-regular faculty appointments and salaries
    • Administer faculty leaves.
    • Administer salary appeals.
    • Review and coordinate non-regular teaching, including postdoctoral and visiting scholar appointments.
    • Develop and administer retirement agreements.
    • Participate in departmental and program reviews.
    • Prepare mid-term reviews of chairpersons.
    • Administer department reviews (in conjunction with the Dean).
    • Prepare a list of external reviewers of arts departments for the dean.
    • Develop greater and more effective collaboration among programs, centers, and University arts facilities on issues and events related to the development of the arts at Notre Dame.
    • Integrate the arts into the life of the College of Arts & Letters.
    • Develop and implement strategies and programs for the recruitment of student majors.
    • Administer appointment process and promotions for Teaching, Professor of the Practice, Advising, and Clinical (TPAC) faculty.
    • Serve as point of contact to all Arts & Letters departments for Teaching, Professor of the Practice, Advising, and Clinical (TPAC) faculty hires and renewals.

    Program Supervision

    • Shakespeare at Notre Dame
    • Sacred Music (in conjunction with Theology)
    • Decade of the Arts
    • DIME (Domer on Media and Entertainment)

    Graduate Studies in the Arts

    • Supervise the development of graduate programs within the Division of the Arts, including the Masters of Fine Arts and graduate certification programs.
    • Consult and coordinate with the Department of Theology on development of the Sacred Music program.
    • Compile annual metrics for graduate studies in the Arts.

    Direct Reports

    Committee Assignments

    • University Committee on the Arts (ad hoc)
    • Arts & Letters College Council
    • Arts & Letters Deans and Chairpersons
    • Arts & Letters Executive Committee
    • Arts & Letters Faculty Search Request Review Committee
    • Arts & Letters Space Committee
    • Pre-screening Committee for Non-Obligatory Promotions

    Liaison Relationships

    • Office of Academic Mission Support
    • Office of Institutional Equity
    • Graduate School
    • DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)
    • Snite Research Center in the Visual Arts
    • Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
    • School of Architecture
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    Aimee Sharpe

    Senior Academic Advancement Director

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    Aimee Sharpe

    Senior Academic Advancement Director

    asharpe2@nd.edu

    Aimee Sharpe is the senior academic advancement director for the College of Arts & Letters. She previously served as the academic advancement director for the Mendoza College of Business for two years. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, she has more than 20 years of experience, starting her career with Ernst & Young and moving into sales and marketing in various industries.

     
    Her undergraduate degree in accounting is from James Madison University, and she later earned her MBA from the University of Delaware. Aimee and her husband, Sean, have three children — twin daughters and a son.
  9. Jeff Speaks, a man with short brown hair, black glasses, and a blue plaid shirt smiles broadly, showing teeth.

    Jeff Speaks

    Associate Dean for the Humanities & Faculty Development

    Jeff Speaks, a man with short brown hair, black glasses, and a blue plaid shirt smiles broadly, showing teeth.

    Jeff Speaks

    Associate Dean for the Humanities & Faculty Development

    jspeaks@nd.edu
    P: +1 574-631-7579
  10. Josh Weinhold

    Josh Weinhold

    Senior Director of Communications & Marketing

    Josh Weinhold

    Josh Weinhold

    Senior Director of Communications & Marketing

    jweinhol@nd.edu

    Josh Weinhold was appointed as director of communications and marketing for the College of Arts & Letters in 2023, after previously serving as the Office of Communications’ associate director and assistant director. He has more than 15 years of experience in higher education marketing, strategic communications, and political and legal journalism. Josh earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and humanities from Valparaiso University.

    Responsibilities

    As communications director, Josh is responsible for developing and executing the College’s strategic communications plan. He oversees all Arts and Letters communications and marketing projects, including news, print, and electronic publications and promotions, social media, video, special events, and more than 100 websites. Josh serves as a member of the College’s Executive Committee and an advisor to the dean, and he provides consulting, editorial, and creative services to faculty leaders across Arts & Letters. He also represents Arts & Letters across campus, coordinating on strategies and messaging that serve wider University goals and communications initiatives.

    Communications Team

    Matthew Bizoe, Web Content Strategist
    Jon Hendricks, Video Producer
    Heidi Henke, Visual Brand Manager
    Mary Kinney, Associate Director
    Kim Murray, Staff Assistant
    Adah McMillan, Editorial Content Specialist,

    Committee Assignments

    Arts & Letters Executive Committee
    Arts at Notre Dame
    Campus Communicators Cabinet
    College Council
    Deans and Chairpersons Committee