Colleagues,
 
I am delighted to announce the appointment of two new Associate Deans for UC Davis Graduate Studies, effective August 1, 2018. Professor Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor has been named our new Acting Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars and Professor Duncan Temple Lang will serve as Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.

Professor Hartigan-O’Connor earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. She joined the faculty of the History department at UC Davis in 2007 after serving on the faculty at San Jose State University. She is a specialist in early American and women’s history, publishing articles and a book on gender and economic life, as well as co-authoring a textbook and co-editing a Handbook of American women's and gender history. Her stature in her field is undeniable. She has been a board member of Women and Social Movements, an elected trustee of the Business History Conference, and is a founding and standing editor of Oxford Bibliographies Online (Atlantic History). She is a Lecturer with the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program and is PI on an American Historical Association Graduate Student Career Diversity Grant. At Davis, she has worked across disciplines on the board of directors of the Feminist Research Institute and the executive committee of the Institute for Social Sciences. As Director of Cross-Cultural Women's and gender History and as chair of the History Graduate Program, Professor Hartigan-O’Connor has developed the leadership skills essential for the role of Acting Associate Dean.

Professor Temple Lang earned a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics at UC Davis in 2004 after serving on the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories. His international reputation as a member of the core development team of the R system, a computing language and environment widely used worldwide by statisticians, is indisputable. He has authored or significantly contributed to more than 120 R packages released as part of the Omegahat project. He is the co-author of 2 books and is one of 4 co-editors of “The R series”, a book series. He currently serves as Director of the Data Science Initiative. Professor Temple Lang has extensive experience in Graduate Education, having served as Master Adviser in the Graduate Program in Statistics, member of the Graduate Council, member of the Graduate Educational Policy, member and vice chair of the Graduate Program Review Committee, and member, vice chair, and chair of the Graduate Program Review Closure Committee. These experiences have given him the opportunity to interact frequently with Graduate Studies staff and prepared him remarkably for the duties of the Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs.

Please join me in welcoming Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Duncan Temple Lang to the Graduate Studies team.

Jean-Pierre Delplanque
Interim Vice Provost, Graduate Education
Interim Dean, Graduate Studies