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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Dear Campus Community:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I am pleased to announce the appointment of
<a href="https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/06/11/university-maryland-scholar-ucrs-next-chass-dean">
Dr. Daryle Williams as UCR’s next dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences</a>. Dr. Williams, a prominent historian and current associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Arts and humanities at University of Maryland (UMD), will
assume his role with UCR on September 1. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Dr. Williams holds his master’s and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University, and earned a history degree and certificate in Latin American studies from Princeton University. A California native, he was
born in San Francisco and raised in San Diego County, and is looking forward to returning to home to Southern California.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Daryle will bring great experience, expertise, and energy to the role of CHASS Dean. He joins UCR after an impressive twenty-seven years at University of Maryland, serving on the faculty of the Department
of History since 1994. During his time at UMD, he served for eight years as an associate dean for faculty, had great success in securing large extramural grant awards, and conducted groundbreaking work on the historical slave trade and in the digital humanities.
I am really looking forward to working with him.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I want to express my gratitude to Dr. Juliet McMullin for her strong leadership and gracious service in her role as the Interim CHASS Dean over the past year. Juliet will continue in the interim position
through the end of August.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I would also like to thank the members of the search committee for their active engagement in helping to select our new CHASS Dean:
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<p>Deborah Deas, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences & Dean for the School of Medicine, Committee Chair<br>
Sheila Bergman, Executive Director, UCR ARTS<br>
Heidi Brevik-Zender, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature & Languages<br>
Susan Brown, Director of Academic Personnel, CHASS<br>
Rogério Budasz, Professor and Chair of Music<br>
Steven Helfand, Professor & Chair, Economics<br>
Jeff Girod, Director of Marketing and Communication, CHASS<br>
Jeanette Kohl, Associate Professor of Art History<br>
David Lloyd, Professor, and Chair of English<br>
Yunhee Min, Professor & Chair, Art<br>
Alyssa Marchan, ASUCR CHASS Senator & Undergraduate Student<br>
Jennifer Nájera, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies<br>
Cuauhtémoc Peranda, Graduate Student<br>
David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA<br>
Aaron Seitz, Professor of Psychology<br>
Rodolfo Torres, Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development<br>
Melissa Wilcox, Professor & Chair, Religious Studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please join me in thanking Dr. Juliet McMullin for her service and in extending a warm welcome to Incoming Dean Daryle Williams.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<br>
Liz<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Elizabeth Watkins, PhD (she/her/hers)<br>
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor<br>
UC Riverside<o:p></o:p></p>
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