Chapter Leadership

UConn-AAUP 2025-2026

Executive Committee

President
Valerie Duffy
Allied Health Sciences
valerie.duffy@uconn.edu

Executive Vice President
Andrew Bush
Earth Science
andrew.bush@uconn.edu

Vice President For Membership Development & Organizing

Secretary/Treasurer
Oskar Harmon

Economics Department
oskar.harmon@uconn.edu

Regional Campus Representative
Claudia Kraemer

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
claudia.kraemer@uconn.edu

Representative Assembly Co-Chairs

Michele Back
Educational Curriculum and Instruction
michele.back@uconn.edu

James Knighton
Natural Resources and Environment
james.knighton@uconn.edu

Members at Large

Mary Beth Allen
Literature, Cultures and Languages
mary.allen@uconn.edu

KarenAnn Caldwell
Chemistry
karenann.caldwell@uconn.edu

Andrea Celli
Literature, Cultures and Languages
andrea.celli@uconn.edu

Joseph Crivello
Physiology and Neurobiology
joseph.crivello@uconn.edu

Nicole Gallagher
Speech, Language and Hearing
nicole.gallagher@uconn.edu

Deneen Hatmaker
Public Policy
deneen.hatmaker@uconn.edu

Faquir Jain
Electrical and Computer Engineering
faquir.jain@uconn.edu

Kristine Nowak
Communication
kristine.nowak@uconn.edu

Martina Rosenberg
CETL
martina.rosenberg@uconn.edu

Chris Vials
English
chris.vials@uconn.edu