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Senators

Meet all of Dalhousie's Senators, who are responsible for pursuing the academic mission of the university.

Senators for 2022 – 2023 academic year

For information on Senate composition, visit the Membership page.

Officers of Senate

Faculty Representatives

Faculty of Agriculture

  • Rebecca Meagher, Humanities House
  • Tasha Richard, Department of Business & Social Sciences
  • Haibo Niu, Water Resources Engineering

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • David Black, Political Science
  • Michael Fournier, Philosophy, Religion and Culture
  • Lindsay DuBois, Sociology and Social Anthropology 
  • Leah Sarson, Political Science
  • Ruben Zaiotti, Political Science
  • Vincent Simedoh, French

Faculty of Architecture and Planning

  • Christine Macy , School of Architecture 

Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development

  • Melanie Farrimond, Open Learning and Career Development 

Faculty of Computer Science

  • Rita Orji, Computer Science
  • Raghav Sampangi, Computer Science
  • Michael Goudreault , Computer Science

Faculty of Dentistry

  • Sachin Seth, Dental Clinical Sciences

Faculty of Engineering

  • Ya-Jun Pan, Mechanical Engineering
  • Azadeh Kermanshahi-pour, Process Engineering and Applied Science
  • Hany El Naggar, Civil and Resource Engineering
  • Craig Lake, Civil and Resource Engineering
  • Farzaneh Naghibi, Engineering Math
  • Scott Bishop, Industrial Engineering

Faculty of Health

  • Niki Kiepek, Occupational Therapy
  • Catrina Brown, School of Social Work
  • Sara Kirk, School of Health and Human Performance
  • Rebecca Affoo, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • David Westwood, School of Health and Human Performance
  • David Jakeman, College of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
  • Nadine Ezzeddine, School of Nursing
  • Emily Black, College of Pharmacy

Schulich School of Law

  • Olabisi Akinkugbe, Law
  • Sheila Wildeman, Law

Libraries

  • Shelley McKibbon, Kellogg Library

Faculty of Management

  • M. Ali Ulku, Rowe School of Business
  • Linda Macdonald, Rowe School of Business
  • Carolan McLarney, Rowe School of Business
  • Markus Sharaput, School of Public Administration
  • Simon Berge, Leadership and Organization

Faculty of Medicine

  • Turgay Akay, Medical Neuroscience
  • Gabriela Ilie, Community Health & Epidemiology
  • Kirill Rosen, Biochemisty and Molecular Biology  
  • Abraham Rudnick, Psychiatry
  • Yassine El Hiani, Physiology and Biophysics
  • Nikhilesh Patil, Radiation Oncology
  • Valerie Chappe, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Gabrielle Horne, Medicine
  • OmiSoore Dryden, Community Health and Epidemiology

 

Faculty of Science

  • Debra Grantham, Biology
  • Tara Perrot, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Karl Dilcher, Mathematics & Statistics
  • Alan Doucette, Chemistry
  • Markus Keinast, Oceanography
  • Sophia Stone, Biology
  • Rachel Chang, Physics & Atmospheric Science
  • Vittorio Maselli, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Saurabh Chitnis, Chemistry
  • Paola Marignani, BioChemistry and molecular Biology
  • Yulia Kotlyarova, Economics

Non-faculty representatives

  • Mariam Knakriah, Dalhousie Student Union (DSU) President
  • Omotayo Bankole, Dalhousie Student Union VP Academic & External
  • Calantha D’Souza, DSU
  • Joyce Li, DSU
  • Eni Oguntonna, DSU
  • Pratik Wani, DSU
  • Rudransh Goyal, DSU
  • Sydney Forbes, DSU
  • VACANT, DSU
  • VACANT, DSU
  • VACANT, DSU

  • Kim Brooks , President and Vice-Chancellor
  • Frank Harvey, Provost and Vice-President, Academic
  • Alice Aiken, Vice-President, Research
  • Rick Ezekiel, Vice-Provost, Student Affairs
  • Lesile Philmore, Associate Vice-President, Academic
  • Michael Vandenburg, Dean of Libraries
  • Gefu Wang-Pruski, Acting Dean and Principal, Faculty of Agriculture
  • Graham Gagnon, Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Planning
  • Jennifer Andrews, Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dean, Faculty of Computer Science
  • John Newhook, Dean, Faculty of Engineering
  • Ben Davis, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry
  • Brenda Merritt, Dean, Faculty of Health
  • Dianne Tyers, Dean, College of Continuing Education
  • Marty Leonard, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies
  • Sara Harding, Dean, Schulich School of Law
  • Mike Smit, Acting Dean, Faculty of Management
  • David Anderson, Dean, Faculty of Medicine
  • Charles Macdonald , Dean, Faculty of Science
  • Theresa Rajack-Talley, Vice Provost, Equity & Inclusion

  • William Lahey, President, University of King’s College

  • Dominic Silvio, University Libraries

  • Patti Doyle-Bedwell, Open Learning and Career Development

  • Gregory Adolphe-Nazaire, Management
  • Emmanuel K. Yiridoe, Agriculture