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President George W. Bush may have the opportunity to appoint several justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in the next few years. What are the…

 

Maya Smith, the College's inaugural associate dean for equity, justice and inclusion (EJI), supports programs, policies, and practices that promote EJI across the departments and centers in the College’s four divisions. She articulates the College’s EJI vision and action plan, fosters communication among various Arts & Sciences units, and provides guidance on how to adapt University EJI goals to best serve each unit. Smith connects people engaging in creative approaches to equity work with others across campus to break down silos and help build a community of practice around EJI.

Activities related to this work include updating and maintaining the College’s EJI website, constructing a repository of EJI materials, administering co-sponsorship funds for EJI-related programming, analyzing departmental EJI work, publishing a quarterly EJI newsletter, conducting annual EJI climate surveys, spearheading college-level EJI programming, convening with other EJI leads on campus, attending local and national conferences that focus on EJI, and brainstorming with individuals and departments about how to best do EJI work in specific contexts.

An associate professor of French, Smith comes to her EJI role as a sociolinguist whose scholarship broadly focuses on the intersection of racial and linguistic identity formations among marginalized groups in the Francophone African diaspora. Through a critical examination of language and multilingual practices in qualitative, ethnographic data, her book, “Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations and Diasporic Imaginaries” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), shows how language is key in understanding the formation of national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities among Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York. Dr. Smith's book won the Modern Language Association's 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione French and Francophone Studies Prize.

Smith is the recipient of several grants, including the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, the UW Research Royalty Fund Fellowship, the Simpson Center Society of Scholars, and the Camargo Foundation Fellowship. She completed the MA/BA program at New York University and the Institute of French Studies and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Romance Languages and Linguistics.

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Xiaosong Li serves as the associate dean for research in the University of Washington’s College of Arts and Sciences. Li, the Larry R. Dalton Endowed Chair in Chemistry, most recently served as associate vice provost for research cyberinfrastructure in the UW Office of Research. In his role, Li is responsible for the strategy, operations, and implementation of the College’s research program, as well as supporting and elevating the research enterprise across the College’s four divisions, with a focus on faculty research support and grantsmanship.

Internationally recognized for his work in time-dependent quantum theory and relativistic electronic structure methods, Li has a passion for collaborative research and a depth of experience in research administration. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Wayne State University in 2003, and after serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, he joined the University of Washington in 2005. In addition to his faculty position in the Department of Chemistry, he is a lab fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and serves as executive director of the National Science Foundation MRSEC Molecular Engineering Materials Center.

Li’s research has been published in 300 peer-reviewed publications, and he has developed several computational software packages. His impressive awards and honors include a Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the American Chemical Society Jack Simons Award in Theoretical Physical Chemistry, and the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. He has been named a Fellow of the American Physics Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry and is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

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As assistant dean for personnel for the College of Arts and Sciences, Peter Denis is a key problem solver in all manner of personnel, faculty, contractual, and policy issues that are part of the life of the College. His substantial legal training and long experience as a lawyer informs his work. He sits on all of the collective bargaining committees as the primary College liaison with Labor Relations and is engaged in all grievance issues regarding staff and faculty.

Prior to his current  role, Denis was the UW’s assistant vice president for labor relations, a position he held for almost ten years. In both of these roles, Denis has been tasked with representing the interests of the institution and ensuring that best human resource management practices and unstinting integrity be applied to the dealings with the people who work for or who are associated with the University of Washington.

Denis has acted as the chief spokesperson for the UW and the College in matters relating to collective bargaining, dispute resolution, and contract interpretation. He values the mission of the UW and the College and seeks to ensure that the actions undertaken in the day-to-day management of our people reflect and further those missions.

Prior to joining the UW in 2008, Denis was vice president of human resources for Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton. His first job in the US was with Group Health Cooperative (now Kaiser Permanente), where he was the labor relations administrator charged with negotiating collective bargaining agreements and directing all labor relation matters for that venerable cooperative. A native of Montreal, Denis is a graduate of the University of Montreal Law School and is a member of the Bar of Quebec. He furthered his legal education at the University of Ottawa and in 2012 received an LL.M (summa cum laude) on the strength of his thesis proposing an e-commerce legal infrastructure for Viet Nam. He lives on Bainbridge Island and is an active member of the local theater community, having been a founder of one long-running theater group and the president of another.

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