JMC Dean Search

January 1, 2021

JMC Dean Search Overview

Michigan State University is currently in the middle of a search for the position of Dean of James Madison College (JMC), an undergraduate liberal arts college of public affairs. Madison College, founded in 1967, is one of three residential colleges in the university committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching and close interactions between students and faculty. The college has its own tenure-system faculty of accomplished scholars, and its own curriculum, while also benefiting from the resources, opportunities, substantive breadth, and curricula of a major research university. The college’s faculty are trained in American studies, anthropology, economics, English literature, history, humanities, philosophy, political science, science and technology studies, and sociology. The college offers four interdisciplinary majors, Comparative Cultures and Politics, International Relations, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Social Relations and Policy, and participates in multiple cross-unit degree programs offered within the university.

JMC's search consultants are Korn Ferry. Contact Korn Ferry at jmcdean@kornferry.com.

Search Committee Chair

Robert Brathwaite
Associate Professor, James Madison College

Search Committee Members

Gene Burns
Professor, James Madison College

Tobin Craig
Associate Professor, James Madison College

Olufunmbi Elemo
Assistant Professor, James Madison College

Steve Esquith
Dean, Residential College in Arts & Humanities

Michelle Green
JMC Alumnus & Attorney, G&G Law Team

Amina Seydoumoumouni
International Relations Senior, James Madison College

Lindsay Snyder
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Affairs