Dean's Office Directory
Dean
Philip Williams
He/Him/His
Bldg. 47, Room 31
805-756-2706
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Philip Williams began his role as dean of Cal Poly’s College of Liberal Arts in August 2019. Previously, he served as director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He was also Co-Partnership Director for the Colombia-U.S. Human Rights Law School Program and co-directed the Program for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change (PIRSC). Williams holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Latin American Studies and Doctor of Philosophy in politics from the University of Oxford in 1986.
He is co-author of "Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (The New Press, 2011), "Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy" (University of Pittsburgh 1997),The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (Macmillan 1989), and co-editor of "A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations" (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and of Christianity, Globalization, and Social Change in the Americas (Rutgers University 2001).
Williams earned a number of prestigious fellowships and grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of Education, United States Institute of Peace, and United States Department of State.
Associate Dean for Student Success
Kate Murphy
She/Her/Hers
Bldg. 47, Room 31
805-756-2359
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Associate Dean for Operations
Josh Machamer
He/Him/His
Bldg. 47, Room 31
805-756-2359
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Associate Dean for Diversity and Curriculum
Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti
She/Her/Hers
Bldg. 47, Room 31
805-756-2359
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Director of Research Engagement
Jane L. Lehr
She/Her/Hers
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