CAMPUS NOTICE

 

OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR

December 5, 2016


ALL AT UC SAN DIEGO

SUBJECT:    Appointment of Interim Dean of the Graduate Division

Steven Cassedy, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division and Distinguished Professor of Literature, will serve as Interim Dean of the Graduate Division, effective January 1, 2017, following the conclusion this month of Dr. Kim Barrett's decade of distinguished service as Graduate Division Dean. Professor Cassedy will serve while the search for Dean Barrett's successor continues.

In addition to his current leadership role in the Division, Professor Cassedy continues his career as a teacher and renowned scholar of Russian literature, other Western European literatures, intellectual history of the West, and Russian-Jewish and American-Jewish cultural history. His most recent book, "Connected - How Trains, Genes, Pineapples, Piano Keys, and a Few Disasters Transformed Americans at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (published by Stanford University Press, 2014), has received acclaim from both lay and scholarly readers, and has been reviewed in the Boston Globe and San Diego Union-Tribune, among others. The volume received a Gold Medal in the IPPY (Independent Publisher) Book Awards.

Please join us in thanking Professor Cassedy for his leadership and commitment to the Graduate Division and the campus.



Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor

Peter F. Cowhey
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor