Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Vanderbilt University is committed to supporting and retaining outstanding faculty who have recently received tenure. The granting of tenure indicates the university’s long-term commitment to these individuals. In many ways, these scholars represent the future of our institution. They offer energy and innovation for new basic discoveries, path-breaking scholarship, and creative expression. As these faculty assume more senior status, it is important that Vanderbilt renew its commitment to them so as to ensure continued success in their careers that will lead to even greater national and international visibility. By investing in a select group of younger scholars from across the campus, we will not only advance their careers at a critical time, but we will also provide a forum for them to share their academic interests with others on campus that build and enrich our One Vanderbilt community.
Program
The Office of the Provost will award select tenured associate professors (or of the equivalent rank in the Law School) the title of Chancellor Faculty Fellow. The designation will include funding of $40K a year for two fiscal years. Other resources available to the Fellow will remain in place and be budgeted separately. The funds are designed to support the professional development of the awardee. Each college will provide its own guidelines on what is and is not appropriate uses of this funding. There is one prohibition: these funds cannot be used to supplement existing contracted salary. If a college allows faculty to use this money for course buyouts, there is a cap for the amount that can be charged. That cap will be negotiated each year between each dean and the provost’s office prior to the awarding of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. If promotion to full professor occurs during the fellowship, the award will continue for its approved period. However, if an endowed chair or professorship is awarded to the Fellow that contains funds for research, that chair will replace the support provided through Chancellor Faculty Fellows Program. Candidates may be re-nominated for a second award period on a competitive basis and with a new nomination package.
As part of this award, the Chancellor Faculty Fellows will have the opportunity to meet regularly to exchange ideas, consider career and leadership development strategies, and foster trans-institutional collaboration. Chancellor Faculty Fellows will be invited to attend various academic leadership events throughout the year.
Eligibility
All faculty promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) within the past five years (or have their tenure effective at the start of the upcoming academic year) in all the schools/colleges (or the equivalent rank in the Law School), who do not hold an endowed chair or professorship, and who devote the majority of their effort to excellence in fundamental research, scholarship, and/or creative work are eligible for nomination.
Preference will be given to faculty who have not had an infusion of research funding through being recently hired or having been recently retained.
Process
Only deans or dean’s designees can nominate candidates for consideration by the provost and chancellor. Candidates may not nominate themselves A faculty committee co-chaired by Tracey George, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Jennifer Pietenpol, Chief Scientific and Strategy Officer, VUMC, will review all nominations and make recommendations to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Final selection will be confirmed by the Chancellor.
Nominations must be submitted via InfoReady by Friday, March 1, 2024. Questions about the Chancellor Faculty Fellows program, including the nomination process, may be directed to Tracey George, (tracey.george@vanderbilt.edu), or Jennifer Pietenpol, (j.pietenpol@vumc.org).
Questions? Please contact the Office of Faculty Development at facultydevelopment@vanderbilt.edu .
2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
- Manuel Ascano Jr., associate professor of biochemistry
- Justin Balko, associate professor of medicine
- Marcelo Disconzi, associate professor of mathematics
- Lisa Fazio, associate professor of psychology and human development
- Vivian Gama, associate professor of cell and developmental biology
- Reyna Gordon, associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery
- Aimi Hamraie, associate professor of medicine, health and society
- Lauren Jackson, associate professor of biological sciences
- Jonathan Lane, associate professor of psychology and human development
- Shihong Lin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
- Ethan Lippmann, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of the history of art
- Kimberly Welch, associate professor of history
Past Chancellor Faculty Fellows
2022 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
- Brandon Byrd, associate professor of history
- James Cassat, associate professor of pediatrics
- Kate Clouse, associate professor of nursing
- Ji Hye Jung, associate professor of percussion
- Jennifer Ledford, associate professor of special education
- Michelle Murray, associate professor of Spanish
- Karen Ng, associate professor of philosophy
- Jessica Oster, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences
- Sharece Thrower, associate professor of political science
- Colin Walsh, associate professor of biomedical informatics
- John T. Wilson, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Stephen Wilson, associate professor of hearing and speech sciences
- Marija Žanić, associate professor of cell and developmental biology
- Karl Zelik, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- Celso Castilho, associate professor of history
- Jessica Clarke, professor of law
- Larisa DeSantis, associate professor of biological sciences
- Stephen Patrick, associate professor of pediatrics
- Gavin Price, associate professor of psychology and human development
- Douglas Ruderfer, associate professor of medicine
- Douglas Shadle, associate professor of musicology
- Jared Speck, associate professor of mathematics
- Daniel Work, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
- Erin Barton, associate professor of special education
- Jennifer Below, associate professor of medicine
- Ivelin Georgiev, associate professor of pathology, microbiology, and immunology
- Kelly Goldsmith, associate professor of marketing
- Carrie Jones, associate professor of pharmacology
- Ken Lau, associate professor of cell and developmental biology
- Morgan Ricks, professor of law
- Lisa Thompson, associate professor of black homiletics and liturgics
- Ben Tran, associate professor of Asian studies and English
- Jennifer Trueblood, associate professor of psychology
- Terrah Foster Akard, associate professor of nursing
- Sun-Joo Cho, associate professor of psychology and human development
- Todd Edwards, associate professor of medicine
- Christin Essin, associate professor of theatre
- William Grissom, associate professor of biomedical engineering
- Lori Jordan, associate professor of pediatrics
- Ari Joskowicz, associate professor of Jewish studies and European studies
- Bennett Landman, associate professor of electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science
- David Michelson, associate professor of the history of Christianity
- Evelyn Patterson, associate professor of sociology
- Yesha Yadav, professor of law
- Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences
- Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering
- Craig Duvall, associate professor of biomedical engineering
- Jason Grissom, associate professor of public policy and education
- Anna Hemnes, associate professor of medicine
- Bingshan Li, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics
- Ebony McGee, associate professor of teaching and learning
- Vesna Pavlović, associate professor of art
- Allison Schachter, associate professor of Jewish studies
- Ganesh Sitaraman, professor of law
- Jason Valentine, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- Digna Velez Edwards, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology
- David Weaver, associate professor of pharmacology
Full Biographies
- Julia Phillips Cohen, associate professor of Jewish studies
- Carlos Grijalva, associate professor of health policy
- Terry Maroney, professor of law
- David Merryman, associate professor of biomedical engineering
- Jesse Peterson, associate professor of mathematics
- Renã A. S. Robinson, associate professor of chemistry
- Seth Smith, associate professor of radiology and radiological sciences
- Sonya Sterba, associate professor of psychology and human development
- Tiffiny Tung, associate professor of anthropology
- Geoffrey Woodman, associate professor of psychology
- Jamey Young, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
Full Biographies
- Wenbiao Chen, associate professor of molecular physiology and biophysics
- Derek Griffith, associate professor of medicine, health, and society
- Kelly Haws, associate professor of management
- Julián Hillyer, associate professor of biological sciences
- Irina Kaverina, associate professor of cell and developmental biology
- Christopher Loss, associate professor of public policy and higher education
- Bradley Malin, associate professor of biomedical informatics
- Catherine Molineux, associate professor of history
- Kevin Niswender, associate professor of medicine
- Çağlar Oskay, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
- Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art
- Robert Webster, associate professor of mechanical engineering
- Steve Wernke, associate professor of anthropology
- Christopher Williams, associate professor of medicine
Full Biographies
- Muktar Aliyu, associate professor of health policy
- Scott Guelcher, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
- Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, associate professor of physics and astronomy
- Peter Kolkay, associate professor of bassoon
- Borden Lacy, associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology
- Jens Meiler, associate professor of chemistry
- Bunmi Olatunji, associate professor of psychology
- Andrea Page-McCaw, associate professor of cell and developmental biology
- Kristopher Preacher, associate professor of quantitative methods
- Bernard Rousseau, associate professor of otolaryngology
- Sean Seymore, professor of law
- Daniel Sharfstein, professor of law
- Rachel Teukolsky, associate professor of English
- Sharon Weiss, associate professor of electrical engineering