Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Davita Silfen Glasberg has agreed to serve as interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences beginning February 1, 2017, when Dean Jeremy Teitelbaum will step down to become the university's interim Provost.

Professor Glasberg has served as an Associate Dean of the college since 2011.  During that time, her portfolio has included the social science division as well as undergraduate education.

Prior to that, she was head of the sociology department at UConn from 2004 to 2011.  Throughout her long period of administrative service to the college, she has continued her active research program.  

Notably,  her co-edited 2011 volume (with William T. Armaline and Bandana Purkayastha), Human Rights in our Own Back Yard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States, won the Hirabayashi Book Award for Best Book from the Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association in 2012.  

She has also continued to teach her Introduction to Sociology general education class.  

She joined UConn in 1988 as an assistant professor. Her research interests are political sociology and political economy; human rights; race, class and gender; and social inequality. 

Professor Glasberg earned her BA cum laude and a master's degree in sociology from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and master's and PhD degrees in sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

We have great confidence in her and know that she will bring strong academic values and excellent judgment to the leadership of the college.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Glasberg on this new position and in wishing her well.

Sincerely,

Susan Herbst
President

Mun Y. Choi
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs