Dear Student,
I am very pleased to announce that a new Associate Dean of Undergraduate Advising has joined Tufts and will be working with other deans, staff, and faculty to support our undergraduate students in Arts and Sciences. Caitlin Casey will serve as Advising Dean to Liberal Arts undergraduates with last names S to Z. She will begin advising this student cohort on Monday, February 28.
For the current "alpha dean" assignments for all undergraduate Liberal Arts BA/BS students, please see below. Your Advising Dean ensures that you are making progress toward graduation and can help you navigate academic policies or any setbacks that impact your academics. First-year and sophomore students can also book an appointment with the Senior Academic Advisors, Ericka Miranda and Allison Vander Broek, for additional advising support.
Dean Casey joins Tufts from Harvard where she supported and advised the students of Lowell House as the Allston Burr Resident Dean and Assistant Dean of Harvard College. In this role, she served as the chief academic officer of Lowell and helped students navigate their academic and personal paths toward graduation. Dean Casey also served on Harvard's disciplinary and academic integrity boards as well as numerous committees addressing student life and academic policies. She spearheaded projects on leaves of absence, sexual assault education in residential communities, and academic review. She also taught in the History and Literature department, most recently leading a seminar on the American superhero and advising senior theses on queering 1990s teen films, mid-century International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) organizing, and the NFL's dubious record on race relations.
Dean Casey was raised in Washington, DC, and London, and returned stateside to study History and Literature at Harvard. After graduating, she was a youth organizer for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) before leaving the campaign trail to do her doctoral work in Yale's history and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies departments. Her research focuses on the practical and ideological global connections that were fostered by young activists during the late 1960s and how those multilayered networks set the stage for later movements such as anti-apartheid activism and Occupy.
Dean Casey is looking forward to guiding students through the exciting, difficult, and certainly unpredictable years of college!
Effective February 28, undergraduate Arts and Sciences students will be assigned to their Advising Deans as follows:
