Advocates are male faculty and staff who have a record of supporting women faculty and staff. Advocates lead facilitated conversations with other men to expose them to ways of better identifying and behaving as Allies in gender equity. These groups share evidence-based knowledge, skills and strategies to effect positive personal, departmental and institutional change.
Advocates are committed to increasing their understanding of gender bias and its impact on the academic careers of women. They work to develop facilitation materials for male* faculty and staff who are interested in becoming Allies. Once vetted, an Advocate is expected to offer facilitations regularly and follow up with informal meetings to discuss case studies.
Advocates also work with the Advocates & Allies Advisory Council (AAAC) composed of staff and faculty of all genders. The AAAC’s role is to advise Advocates, provide them feedback, and help them understand and remain in touch with the experience of women and underrepresented minorities in our academic climate.
*We welcome transgender and nonbinary people to participate as both Advocates and Allies.
TITLES: Chair; Professor
UNIT: Department of Emergency Medicine
TITLE: Associate Professor
UNIT: Department of Statistics
TITLE: Associate Professor of Practice
UNIT: Materials Science and Engineering
TITLE: Associate Professor
UNIT: Department of Physics
TITLES: Vice Dean; Interim Chair; Professor
UNITS: Academic Affairs and Academic Administration; College of Public Health
TITLE: Executive Director
UNIT: Wexner Medical Center Outreach
TITLE: Laboratory Supervisor
UNIT: College of Engineering - Engineering Education
TITLE: Associate Professor
UNIT: Department of Medicine/Family Medicine
TITLE: Senior Lecturer
UNIT: Engineering Education
TITLE: Associate Director of Learning Experience
UNIT: Office of Distance Education and eLearning
TITLE: Professor
UNIT: Department of Humanities, German L&L
TITLE: Senior Director- Facilities Management/University
UNIT: University Hospital - Facilities Administration
TITLES: Staff Seargeant; Director of Public Safety
UNIT: Office of Administration and Planning (Business Administration)- Newark
TITLE: Associate Professor
UNIT: Department of Classics
TITLE: Professor
UNIT: Department of Computer Science and Engineering
TITLE: Program Director
UNIT: Academic Affairs (Diversity and Inclusion)- Administration
TITLE: Associate to the Dean for Special Projects
UNIT: Fisher College of Business- College Administration
TITLE: Assistant Professor
UNIT: Department of Materials Science & Engineering- College og Engineering
TITLES: Dean; Advocate Coordinator
UNIT: College of Social Work
TITLE: Associate Vice President
UNIT: Office of Distance Education and eLearning
TITLE: Professor
UNIT: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
TITLE: Senior Academic Advisor
UNIT: Admissions and Financial Aid Counselor- Marion
TITLE: Associate Registrar
UNIT: OSAS - University Registrar-Academic Affairs
TITLE: Assistant Professor - Clinical
UNIT: Nationwide Children's (Medicine - Pediatrics)
TITLE: Professor
UNIT: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
TITLES: Senior Associate Dean; Director of Faculty and Staff Affairs
UNITS: CFAES; Agricultural Communication, Education and Leadership (ACEL)
TITLES: Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education; Associate Professor
UNIT: Department of Microbiology
TITLE: Leader Effectiveness Consultant
UNIT: Office of Human Resources
TITLE: Professor
UNIT: Department of Electric and Computer Engineering
TITLES: Director; Ohio Research Scholar; Professor
UNITS: Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis; Department of Materials Science Engineering
TITLES: Chief Diversity Officer; Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion; Associate Professor; Director
UNITS: Wexner Medical Center; Department of Family Medicine; MEDPATH Premedical Postbaccalaureate Program
TITLE: Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
UNIT: Nursing - College Administration
TITLE: Program Coordinator
UNIT: Administration and Planning
TITLE: Senior Associate Vice President for Research Administration
UNIT: Office of Research
TITLES: Director; Faculty Lead; Director; Professor
UNITS: OSU Infectious Diseases Institute; Infectious Diseases Discovery Theme; College Summer Research Program and Infectious Diseases Signature Program; Department of Veterinary Biosciences
TITLE: Senior Security Engineer
UNIT: OCIO - Governance and Risk Management
TITLES: Associate Dean of Graduate Studies; Louis Levy Professor for Cancer; Co-Director
UNITS: College of Medicine; Department of Biomedical Informatics; Comprehensive Cancer Center
TITLES: Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research; Professor
UNITS: Comprehensive Cancer Center; College of Medicine, Department of Surgery
TITLE: Director O. U. Ops. & Events
UNIT: Student Life - Ohio Union Academic Affairs
TITLE: Dean/Director
UNIT: Office of the Dean- Marion
TITLES: Executive Director; Director; John G. and Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
UNITS: Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital; Heart and Vascular Center; Department of Medicine
TITLES: Professor; Director and Professor of Rural Sociology
UNIT: School of Environment and Natural Resources, CFAES
TITLE: Chief Administrative Officer
UNIT: College of Engineering
TITLE: Director-Multicultural Center
UNIT: Student Life - Multicultural Center Academic Affairs
TITLE: Program Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
UNIT: CFAES
TITLE: Manager, Academic Advising, Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
UNIT: Department of Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
Advocates with an emeritus status have learned evidence-based knowledge, skills and strategies to effect positive personal, departmental and institutional change that supports equity for women faculty and staff and have completed their terms or are no longer at the university.
Rudolph Buchheit, Associate Dean, Administration & Planning Advocate Coordinator Academic Affairs and College of Engineering
Jose Cabral, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, cabral.1@osu.edu
Michael Ibba, Chair and Professor, Department of Microbiology
Judson Jeffries, Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, jeffries.70@osu.edu
Aaron Kempa, Program Assistant, Engineering Education
Graham Knight, Graduate Administrative Associate, Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Jeffrey LeJeune, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine
Trevon Logan, Professor, Department of Economics, logan.155@osu.edu
Tom Mauger, Chair and Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology
William Miller, Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor, College of Public Health, miller.8332@osu.edu
R. Scott Osborne, Vice President, Innovation and Economic Development
Randy Nelson, Chair and Professor, Department of Neuroscience
James Prysock, Director of the Office of Social Justice and Activism, Otterbein University - Student Affairs Division
Kevin Saghy, Senior Director of Social Media, Head of Audience Activation, University Advancement - Creative and Multimedia
Cesar Seguil, Administrator of Academic Affairs, College of Pharmacy
Vish Subramaniam, Chair and Professor, Advocate Co-coordinator, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Theodoros Teknos, Chair and Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology
David Wilkie, Professor Emeritus, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences
Henry Zerby, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, zerby.8@osu.edu
