TO:                 Members of the Faculty Senate
FROM:           Eric A. Feldman, Chair
SUBJECT:       Senate Nominating Committee 2025

1. In accordance with the requirements of the Faculty Senate Rules, notice is given to the Senate Membership of the Senate Executive Committee’s nine-member slate of nominees for the 2025 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee’s function is to nominate candidates for appointments to all committees and positions for which the Faculty Senate has responsibility in appointing. The Nominating Committee consists of nine members: the chair, chair-elect, and past chair, three incumbent members of the Senate Executive Committee, and three members of the Faculty Senate selected by the constituency representatives of the Senate Executive Committee. The nominees, all of whom have agreed to serve, are:

• Iwan Barankay (Associate Professor of Management and Business Economics & Public Policy in the Wharton School; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Daniel Beiting (Associate Professor of Pathobiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Kathleen Brown (David Boies Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences; Faculty Senate Chair-Elect)
• Eric Feldman (Heimbold Chair in International Law and Professor of Law in the Penn Carey Law School; Faculty Senate Chair)
• Vivian Gadsden (William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education in the Graduate School of Education; Faculty Senate Past Chair)
• Raina Merchant (Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine)
• Claire Mitchell (Professor of Basic and Translational Sciences in the School of Dental Medicine; Senate Executive Committee Member)
• Sophia Rosenfeld (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences)
• Jolyon Thomas (Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences)

2. Pursuant to the rules, additional nominations may be submitted by petition containing at least 25 signed names and the signed approval of the candidate. All such petitions must be received by Tuesday, March 11, 2025. If no additional nominations are received, the slate nominated by the Executive Committee will be declared elected. If additional nominations are received, an email ballot will be distributed to the Faculty Senate membership. Please forward any nominations-by-petition via email to the Faculty Senate office, senate@pobox.upenn.edu. Questions may be directed to Mr. Walsh by email to the address above or by telephone at (215) 898-6943.