Natalie McCarter
Associate Director, Graduate Recruitment
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Office of Graduate Studies
Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
801 22nd St. NW, Phillips Hall 107
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-6210
Fax: 202-994-6213
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Due to COVID-19 staff of the Office of Graduate Studies is working remotely. Should you wish to contact anyone please reach out to them via email.
Chad Heap
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Rebecca Morris
Executive Assistant
202-994-8397
Melissa Busskohl
Director, Graduate Studies & Student Services
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De'Von Henderson
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Natalie McCarter
Associate Director, Graduate Recruitment
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Katie Acosta
Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment
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Kate Kumar
Assistant Director, Graduate Recruitment
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Phillips Hall, Suite 215 | [email protected]
Katherine Conaty
Associate Director, Graduate Admissions & Fellowships
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Toni Colaninno
Assistant Director, Graduate Admissions
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Adrienne Douglass
Senior Admissions Coordinator
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Liz Kepferle
Senior Admissions Coordinator
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Camille Green
Senior Admissions Coordinator
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Kate Song
Senior Admissions Coordinator
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Marie Okamoto
Senior Awards Coordinator
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Charita Hammett
Advanced Graduate Admissions Evaluator
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Anna Marie Siegel
Associate Director, Graduate Student Services
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Nicole Davidson
Manager, Doctoral Student Services
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Kimberly Moorehead
Senior Student Services Coordinator
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Rebecca Burns
Senior Student Services Coordinator
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Alvin Cannon
Senior Student Services Coordinator
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Linda Wilkerson
Student Services Assistant
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Academy of Classical Acting
Director: Matt Wilson
American Studies
Director: Elaine Peña
Director: Jamie Cohen-Cole (PhD)
Anatomical & Translation Sciences
Director: Robert Hawley
Director: Nicole De Vaul
Anthropology
Director: Sarah Wagner (PhD program)
Director: Richard Grinker (MA program)
Director: Steve Lubkemann (MA program
Applied Economics
Director: Joann Weiner
Applied Mathematics
Director: Edward Robinson (Master's)
Director: Joel Lewis (Certificate)
Art History
Director: Lilien Robinson
Art Therapy/Art Therapy Practice
Director: Heidi Bardot
Bioinformatics & Molecular Biochemistry
Director: Jack Vanderhoek
Biological Sciences
Director: Scott Powell
Biomedical Sciences
Director: Alison Hall
Cancer Biology: Norman Lee, Yanfen Hu
Genomics & Bioinformatics: Ljubica Caldovic, Keith Crandall, Raja Mazumder, Eric Vilain
Microbiology and Immunology: Alberto Bosque, David Leitenberg
Neuroscience: Matthew Colonnese, Jason Triplett
Pharmacology & Physiology: Vince Chiappinelli, Colin Young, Nikki Posnack
Biostatistics
Director: Hua Liang (PhD program)
Director: Angelo Elmi (MS program)
Budget & Public Finance
Director: Joseph Cordes
Chemistry
Director: Martin Zysmilich
Admissions Director: Cynthia Dowd
Chinese Language and Literature
Director: Phyllis Zhang
Communication Management
Director: Jean Miller
Contexts of Environmental Policy
Director: Peter Linquiti
Crime Scene Investigation
Director: Victor Weedn
Criminology
Director: Fran Buntman
Data Science
Director: Ryan Engstrom
Decorative Arts and Design History
Director: Erin Kuykendall (MA)
Documentary Filmmaking
Director: Nina Seavey
Economics
Director: Pamela Labadie (PhD Pre-Candidacy Advising)
Director: Nicholas Vonortas (PhD Candidacy)
Director: Roberto Samaneigo (PhD Pre-Candidacy Admissions and Funding)
English
Director: Robert McRuer (PhD program)
Director: Robert McRuer (MA program)
Environmental and Green Chemistry
Program Director: Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal
Program Director: Jakub Kostal
Admissions Director: Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal
Environmental Resource Policy
Director: Nancy Augustine
Exhibition Design
Director: Andrea Dietz
Financial Mathematics
Director: Joel Lewis
Fine Arts
Director: Maria del Carmen Montoya
Forensic Investigation
Director: Victor Weedn
Forensic Psychology
Director: Richard Cooter
Forensic Sciences
Director: Walter Rowe (Forensic Chemistry)
Director: Daniele Podini (Forensic Molecular Biology)
Director: Moses Schanfield (Forensic Molecular Biology)
Geography
Director: Marie Price
GIS Certificate
Director: Brendan Hurley
History
Director: Muriel Atkin (MA program)
Director: David Silverman (PhD program)
Director: Shira Robinson (Admissions Committee Chair)
Human Paleobiology
Director: Shannon McFarlin (PhD program)
Director: Brenda Bradley (MS program)
Interaction Design
Director: Kevin Patton
Interior Architecture
Director: Catherine Anderson
Islamic Studies
Director: Mohammad Faghfoory
Jewish Cultural Arts Certificate Program
Director: Jenna Weissman Joselit
Leadership Education and Development
Director: Clay Warren
Legal Institutions & Theory
Director: Brandon Bartels
LGBT Health Policy and Practice
Director: Stephen Forssell
Mathematics
Director: Hao Wu (MA, MS, and PhD programs)
Director: Joel Lewis (Certificate program)
Media & Strategic Communication
Director: Catie Bailard
Museum Collections Management & care
Director: Mary Coughlin
Museum Studies
Director: Laura Schiavo
Graduate Advisors: Susan Anderson, Laura Schiavo, Max van Balgooy
New Media Photojournalism
Director: Susan Sterner
Non-Profit Management
Director: Michael Worth
Organizational Sciences
Director: Nils Olsen
Philosophy
Director: Eric Saidel
Philosophy & Social Policy
Director: Eric Saidel
Physics
Director: Bill Briscoe
Admissions Coordinator: Oleg Kargaltsev
Graduate Studies Advisor: Weiqun Peng
Political Science
Director: Ingrid Creppell
Production Design
Director: Carl Gudenius
Professional Psychology
Director: Loring Ingraham
Psychology PhD
Director: Tonya Dodge (Applied Social program)
Director: Mimi Le (Clinical program)
Admissions: George Howe (Clinical program)
Director: Stephen Mitroff (Cognitive Neuroscience program)
Director: Lynn Offerman (I/O program)
Public Policy and Public Administration
Director: Anil Nathan(MPA program)
Director: Anil Nathan (MPP program)
Director: Burt Barnow (PhD program)
Social Practice
Director: Maria del Carmen Montoya
Sociology
Director: Fran Buntman
Speech-Language Pathology
Director: Adrienne Hancock
Admissions Chair: Michael Bamdad (New Applicant/Student Contact)
Statistics
Director: Feifang Hu (PhD program)
Director: Reza Modarres (MS program)
Adviser: Xiaoke Zhang (MS program)
Adviser: Qing Pan (MS program)
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Director: Kavita Daiya
Women's, Gender & Sexuality - Public Policy
Director: Cynthia Deitch
Phillips Hall
801 22nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202-994-6210