Dean's Office

Lynne Pepall, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Kim Ellwood, Administrative Assistant to the Dean

Contact Info

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University
Ballou Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617.627.3106
Fax: 617.627.3016
Email: kim.ellwood@.tufts.edu

About the Dean

Dean Lynne Pepall earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics at the University of Toronto. After earning her bachelor's, she was selected as a Commonwealth Scholar to attend the University of Cambridge in England, where she earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1983. Before coming to Tufts in 1987, Pepall was a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and an assistant professor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was promoted to full professor at Tufts in 2003.

Pepall was awarded a Jean Monet Fellowship at the European University in 1987 and received funding as a German Marshall Fellow in 1994-95. Her research in industrial organization explores issues in business strategy and the implications these have for market outcomes, social welfare and public policy. Her work has appeared in many journals, including the Economic Journal, Journal of Business, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the Journal of Industrial Economics. She is also a co-author with two Tufts economics colleagues, Daniel Richards and George Norman, of a leading textbook, Industrial Organization: Contemporary Theory and Practice.

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Sinaia Nathanson, Associate Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Kim Ellwood, Administrative Assistant

Contact Info

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Tufts University
Ballou Hall
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617.627.3106
Email: kim.ellwood@.tufts.edu

About the Associate Dean

Dean Nathanson is responsible for creating and implementing the development programs that support our graduate students. Nathanson directs the Graduate Resources and Development Center (GRAD), which focuses on the professional and social development of graduate students, and the Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT), a GSAS program that trains doctoral students as classroom teachers and researchers.

A social psychologist specializing in conflict resolution, organizational behavior and leadership, Dean Nathanson teaches introduction to psychology and social psychology courses, as well as courses on negotiation and mediation. She helped design the GSAS Preparing Future Faculty workshop, as well as orientation programs for teaching assistants. In addition, she has developed mentoring workshops for faculty, and programs in conflict management for graduate students.

Beyond Tufts, Dean Nathanson has consulted for numerous organizations in the United States and abroad. She designs and conducts workshops on preventing the escalation of faculty/student conflicts in academic settings, and leads seminars for medical centers on negotiating intra- and interdepartmental disputes.

Nathanson earned her M.Ed. in educational psychology at Harvard University and her Ph.D in social psychology at Tufts University.