Acting Executive Dean
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Janet Broughton, Dean, Arts & Humanities Division
Janet Broughton earned her B.A. degree from UC Davis and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. After teaching for three years at Harvard University, she joined Berkeley's philosophy department in 1979.Her teaching and scholarship focus on the philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Broughton is the author of Descartes's Method of Doubt and is currently working on the philosophy of David Hume.
Deans
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Janet Broughton, Dean, Arts & Humanities Division
Janet Broughton earned her B.A. degree from UC Davis and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. After teaching for three years at Harvard University, she joined Berkeley's philosophy department in 1979.Her teaching and scholarship focus on the philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Broughton is the author of Descartes's Method of Doubt and is currently working on the philosophy of David Hume.
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Carla Hesse, Dean, Social Sciences Division
Professor of History Carla Hesse is a prize-winning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at Berkeley. Her focus has been modern European history, including its social and cultural aspects, with a specialty in modern European women’s history. She holds the Peder Sather Chair in the Department of History, and in 2007 won the prestigious Aby Warburg Prize.Previously, Hesse taught at Rutgers University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and her B.A. from UC Santa Cruz.
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John McKee, Dean, College Relations
John McKee was appointed to this position in January 2006. Prior to that, he headed the Western regional external relations office of the Harvard Business School, based in San Francisco, from 2000 to 2006. During that time he also undertook a series of international assignments for HBS, in Europe, South America, and India, in support of Harvard's research offices in those regions.
From 1993 to 2000 John served as director of development at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He has also held positions at the American University of Paris and Columbia University.
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Mark Schlissel, Dean, Biological Sciences Division
A professor of immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology, Mark Schlissel was named dean of the Biological Sciences Division in July of 2008. His specialties are immunology and pathogenesis — the mechanisms through which disease is caused. He's the current recipient of a National Institutes of Health merit award.After earning his B.A. at Princeton University (1979) and his M.D. and Ph.D. in physiological chemistry at Johns Hopkins (1986), Schlissel did his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and taught there until moving to Berkeley as a professor of biochemistry and immunology in 1999.
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Deborah Nolan, Acting Dean, Division of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
A professor of statistics, Deborah Nolan has previously served as associate dean of the division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She joined the Department of Statistics in 1986 and focused her research on empirical processes and cross-validation and model selection. Nolan has a special interest in undergraduate education and has developed and operated programs to encourage talented undergraduate women to pursue advanced degrees in mathematical sciences.She received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1977 and her Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University in 1986.
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Tyler Stovall, Dean, Undergraduate Division
Tyler Stovall is a respected history professor who specializes in modern France, race, labor, and class issues. He has previously served as associate dean in L&S's Division of Social Sciences and as chair of the history department and provost of Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz.Stovall earned his B.A. in history at Harvard in 1976, and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1984) in modern European/French history at the University of Wisconsin.
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Chuck Stoup, Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
Chuck Stoup joined the staff of the Letters and Science Deans office in 2002. Prior to this appointment, he served as Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University from 1986 to 2002 and as a faculty member there from 1979 to 1986. Chuck earned a B.A. degree from CSU Northridge and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
