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150 S. College Street
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717-240-5000
Department Directory
Academic Affairs
Telephone: 717-240-5214
JEFFREY A. DODGE, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Email: jad6742@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5247
PAMELA R. KNOWLTON, Registrar
Email: prk5@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5212
MELISSA WALTERS, Administrative Support Assistant
Email: mbw5955@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5244
LOUISE HALLIDAY, Externship Program Coordinator
Email: lvh5648@psu.edu
Academic & Student Services
Telephone: 717-240-5209
GISELLE SANTIBAÑEZ-BANIA, Assistant Dean for Academic and Student Services
Email: gps5491@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5015 • Schedule a Meeting
TITICHIA M. JACKSON, Director of Academic Success and Bar Passage and Assistant Professor of Law
Email: tmj5510@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5264 • Schedule a Meeting
KALENE FAIRCLOTH, Assistant Director of Student Services
Email: kmr21@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5104
MELISSA WALTERS, Administrative Support Assistant
Email: mbw5955@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5244
Admissions & Financial Aid
Email: dickinsonlaw@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5207
BEKAH SAIDMAN-KRAUSS, Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid
Email: ras1075@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3533
REBECCA M. SCHREIBER, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
Email: rms822@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5297
KRISTIN L. THOMAS, Admissions Officer
Email: klt269@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5228
Alumni Relations
Email: DickinsonLawAlum@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5206
Antiracist Development Institute
TAWANDA STALLWORTH, Antiracist Development Institute Program Manager
Email: ths5226@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5289
SERENA HERMITT, Antiracist Development Institute Education Program Coordinator
Email: sfh5859@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5128
Business Services
Telephone: 717-240-5000
KARLISMA R. SOUDERS, Director of Business Services
Email: krs8@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5220
Career Services
Email: lawcareers@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5201
LAURA H. WILLIAMS, Associate Dean for Administration
Email: lhw10@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5218
THOMAS S. LEE, Director of Career Services
Email: thomas.lee@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3528
ROSALIND LISTER, Assistant Director of Career Services
Email: rbl5457@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5236
CAROL HALL, Administrative Support Assistant
Email: clm117@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5105
Communications
Email: marketing@dickinsonlaw.psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5005
DEVAN DRABIK-FREY, Director of Marketing and Communications
Email: dfd5456@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5293
ELLEN HANNA, Marketing and Communications Specialist and Assistant Director, Enrollment Marketing
Email: egh5272@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3539
TONI M. FITZGERALD, Senior Copywriter
Email: tmf5868@psu.edu
JUSTIN M. KULP, Senior Creative Specialist
Email: jmk40@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5211
SHERRY L. WHITLOCK, Multimedia Specialist
Email: syw5@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5251
Dean’s Office
Telephone: 717-240-5208
DANIELLE M. CONWAY, Dean
Email: dzc5647@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5208
BENITA F. SMITH, Executive Assistant
Email: bfs5502@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5268
Development
Telephone: 717-240-5206
JOSH TREGO, Director of Development
Email: jst143@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3504
BRETT CONWAY, Assistant Director of Development
Email: bcc5399@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3599
Emeriti Faculty
ROBERT M. ACKERMAN, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: bxa9@psu.edu
JAMES R. FOX, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: jqf7@psu.edu
CECILY A.H. GIARDINA, Associate Law Librarian, Emerita
Email: chg3@psu.edu
PETER G. GLENN, Dean, Emeritus
Email: pgg1@psu.edu
CHRISTINE H. KELLETT, Professor of Law, Emerita
Email: chk3@psu.edu
LESLIE M. MACRAE, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: lmm21@psu.edu
CAMILLE C. MARION, Professor of Law, Emerita
Email: ccm7@psu.edu
MICHAEL A. MOGILL, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: mam27@psu.edu
GAIL A. PARTIN, Law Librarian, Emerita and Associate Dean, Emerita
Email: gap6@psu.edu
THOMAS M. PLACE, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: tmp5@psu.edu
MARK W. PODVIA, Associate Law Librarian, Emeritus and Archivist, Emeritus
Email: mwp3@psu.edu
MARY KAYE POLACHECK, Writing Specialist, Emerita
Email: mkp3@psu.edu
ROBERT E. RAINS, Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email: rer10@psu.edu
JANE RIGLER, Professor of Law, Emerita
Email: jxr47@psu.edu
JUDY L. SWARTHOUT, Associate Law Librarian, Emerita
Email: jsx2@psu.edu
LAUREL S. TERRY, Professor of Law, Emerita and H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law, Emerita
Email: lst3@psu.edu
Faculty
LAURA AX-FULTZ, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
Email: lja10@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3541
LARRY CATÁ BACKER, W. Richard and Mary Eshelman Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law and International Affairs
Email: lcb11@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-3640
GOPAL BALACHANDRAN, Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Appellate & Post-Conviction Services Clinic; and Director, Externships Program
Email: egzb39@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-5946
SUSAN BARDO, Director, Family Law Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Email: seb127@psu.edu
WILLIAM B. BARKER, Distinguished Professor of Law and Polisher Family Faculty Scholar
Email: wbb3@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5263
MANDEE B. BAUMER, Associate Professor of Legal Writing
Email: mbb19@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-4510
BRENDAN BERNICKER, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Email: bvb5364@psu.edu
STANLEY M. BRAND, Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government and On-site Director, Semester-in-Washington Program
Email: smb39@psu.edu
WILLIAM E. BUTLER, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law
Email: web15@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5227
NICOLE CHONG, Associate Dean and Professor of Legal Writing
Email: nrc10@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-4232
JAMISON E. COLBURN, Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Email: jec38@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8965
LANCE COLE, Professor of Law, Honorable W. Richard and Mary M. Eshelman Faculty Scholar, and Director, Center for Government Law and Public Policy Studies
Email: lxc24@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5215
KATRICE BRIDGES COPELAND, Professor of Law
Email: klb51@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-0406
JULIE TEDJESKE CRANE, Professor of Legal Research and Assistant Law Librarian
Email: jmt1@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5229
JONATHAN D’SILVA, Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Happy Valley LaunchBox
Email: jmd7899@psu.edu
YLLI DAUTAJ, Visiting Associate Professor
Email: yud89@psu.edu
ANGELA R. DEAN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Email: ard6303@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3514
JEFFREY A. DODGE, Assistant Professor of Law and Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar
Email: jad6742@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5247 • Schedule a Meeting
KEITH ELKIN, Associate Dean for Academic Success and Professor of Legal Skills
Email: kue2@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-9035
JILL C. ENGLE, Professor of Clinical Law
Email: jne2@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-5047
JEFFREY ERICKSON, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Sustainable Development Projects Clinic; and Professor of Legal Writing
Email: jme121@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-5046
TONYA M. EVANS, Professor of Law
Email: tme5309@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5000
MICHAEL FOREMAN, Director, Civil Rights Appellate Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law
Email: mlf25@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-3832
AMY C. GAUDION, Associate Professor of Law
Email: amy.gaudion@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5216
GARY S. GILDIN, Emeritus Dean; Professor of Law; Hon. G. Thomas and Anne G. Miller Chair in Advocacy; Director, Center for Public Interest Law and Advocacy
Email: gsg2@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5238
RONNIE R. GIPSON JR., Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Email: rrg5319@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3518
PATRICK J. GLEN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Email: pjg5641@psu.edu
DERMOT M. GROOME, Professor of Law and Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Email: dmg32@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3512
JENNY HAM, Reference and Information Services Librarian and Professor of Legal Research
Email: uh1421@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-0885
ABI HASSEN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Email: abihassen@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5138
CHRISTOPHER S. HAVASY, Assistant Professor of Law
Email: czh5904@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3509
JAMES W. HOUCK, Vice Admiral, JAG Corps, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs
Email: jwh32@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-4294
TITICHIA M. JACKSON, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Academic Success and Bar Passage
Email: Titichia.Jackson@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5264
LUCY JOHNSTON-WALSH, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Children’s Advocacy Clinic and Center on Children and the Law
Email: ljj12@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-243-2968
NICHOLAS KAHN-FOGEL, Professor of Law
Email: nak5441@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5147
EILEEN M. KANE, Professor of Law
Email: emk17@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-3166
JULIA Y. LEE, Professor of Law
Email: jyl10@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-2235
DARYL LIM, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation; Founding Director, Intellectual Property and Innovation Initiative; and co-hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State University
Email: dfl5478@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3537
JOHN E. LOPATKA, A. Robert Noll Distinguished Professor of Law
Email: jel28@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-7030
MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF, Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professor and Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic
Email: mdm5849@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3521
TIYANJANA MALUWA, H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and Professor of Law
Email: tum2@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8971
ANDREA J. MARTIN, Assistant Professor of Law
Email: amm7370@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5288
JUD MATHEWS, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; Affiliate Professor, School of International Affairs
Email: jcm41@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-4285
REBECCA A. MATTSON, Head of Faculty and Research Services and Professor of Legal Research
Email: ram6023@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-2239
ANDREA M. MATWYSHYN, Associate Dean for Innovation and Technology; Founding Faculty Director, Penn State PILOT Lab; Founding Faculty Director, Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity; Professor of Law and Engineering Policy; Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Program, College of the Liberal Arts
Email: andreamm@psu.edu
ADAM I. MUCHMORE, Professor of Law;Affiliate, Center for Health Care and Policy Research; Affiliate, Penn State Initiative on Law, Policy, and Engineering
Email: muchmore@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8972
BRENT E. NEWTON, Practitioner in Residence
Email: ben5098@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5143
KATHERINE C. PEARSON, Professor of Law and Arthur L. and Sandra S. Piccone Faculty Scholar
Email: kcp4@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5219
SAMANTHA J. PRINCE, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Analysis and Writing
Email: sjp15@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5286
JAMES M. PUCKETT, Professor of Law
Email: Professor of Law • Telephone: 814-867-2064
MAE C. QUINN, Professor of Law
Email: mcq2@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5006
MARIE T. REILLY, Professor of Law
Email: mtr12@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-7033
MEGAN A. RIESMEYER, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Law Clinic
Email: mam941@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-243-2968
VICTOR ROMERO, Interim Dean, Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs; Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty Scholar; and Professor of Law
Email: vcr1@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8989
STEPHEN F. ROSS, Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law; Executive Director, Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society
Email: sfr10@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8995
SHAAKIRRAH R. SANDERS, Associate Dean for Antiracism and Critical Pedagogy, Professor of Law, and Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Email: srs6178@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3557
BETHANY N. SCHOLS, Executive Director, Anuncia Donecia Songsong Manglona Lab for Gender and Economic Equity and Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Email: bqs5768@psu.edu
GEOFFREY R. SCOTT, Professor of Law; Director, Arts, Sports and Entertainment Law Clinic; and Affiliate Professor, College of Arts and Architecture
Email: grs6@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-6878
RICHARD G. SETTGAST, Director, Indigent Criminal Justice Trial Clinic; Director, LL.M. Legal Writing, Research, and Analysis; and Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Email: rgs920@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-2780
TOM SHARBAUGH, Professor of Practice and Director, Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic
Email: tjs53@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-4543
MARTIN SKLADANY, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law
Email: mus67@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3538
SABRINA SONDHI, Director, Law Library and Professor of Legal Research
Email: szs7112@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5294
EMILY SPOTTSWOOD, Visiting Professor of Law
Email: efs5685@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3530
THERESA K. TARVES, Associate Director of the Law Library and Professor of Legal Research and Director, Legal-Tech Virtual Lab
Email: tkb115@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-863-6861
SAMUEL C. THOMPSON JR., Arthur Weiss Distinguished Faculty Scholar; Professor of Law; and Director, Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions
Email: sct13@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-9029
MICHELE VOLLMER, Associate Dean, Clinics and Experiential Learning; Director, Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic; and Clinical Professor of Law
Email: mrv3@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-867-2805
SHOBA SIVAPRASAD WADHIA, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic
Email: ssw11@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-3823
SARAH J. WILLIAMS, Associate Professor of Law
Email: sjw6018@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5295
HANNAH WISEMAN, Professor of Law; Professor and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; and Institutes of Energy and the Environment Co-funded Faculty
Email: hqw5351@psu.edu
SAMUEL WISEMAN, Professor of Law
Email: svw5786@psu.edu
MEGAN WRIGHT, Professor of Law, Medicine, Sociology, and Bioethics; Affiliate Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute, College of the Liberal Arts; and Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Program, College of the Liberal Arts
Email: msw331@psu.edu • Telephone: 814-865-8957
Faculty Support
Telephone: 717-240-5205
BRENDA K. GARLAND, Administrative Support Assistant
Email: bkg19@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5270
AMY SHIVELY, Administrative Support Coordinator
Email: aan106@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5234
Finance Office
Telephone: 717-240-5002
DORIS L. ORNER, Chief Financial Officer
Email: dlo3@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5284
JESSICA L. BURD, Assistant to the Financial Officer and Bursar
Email: jlb5055@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5101
Human Resources
DAVID BEARDSLEY, Regional Human Resources Strategic Partner
Email: dab6030@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-948-6004
Information Technology (IT)
Email: DickinsonLawIT@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5008
SETH M. McGEORGE, Director of Instructional and Information Technology
Email: smm346@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5008
RYAN C. COOK, IT Generalist, System and Web Administration
Email: rcc5218@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5008
THOMAS P. DENNIS, Multimedia Specialist
Email: tpd1@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5298
LINDA M. EVANS, Senior IT Training Specialist
Email: lme11@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5008
IAN H. ULSH, IT Consultant
Email: ihu1@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5008
International Programs & Graduate Education
Email: dickinsonlawLLM@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5207
JEFFREY A. DODGE, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and International and Graduate Education
Email: jad6742@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5247
ANTHONY OGDEN, Director of Graduate, International, and Online Programs
Email: aco3@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3532
AMY J. McMURDY, Part-time Educational Program Specialist
Email: ajm9647@psu.edu
Law Clinics
Telephone: 717-243-2968
LUCY JOHNSTON-WALSH, Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Children’s Advocacy Clinic
Email: ljj12@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-243-2968
MEDHA D. MAKHLOUF, Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic
Email: mdm5849@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3521
MEGAN A. RIESMEYER, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Community Law Clinic
Email: mam941@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-243-2968
TRISHA S. PROSSER, Administrative Support Coordinator
Email: tsp14@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5204
Law Library
Email: DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5267
LAURA AX-FULTZ, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
Email: lja10@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-241-3541
SABRINA SONDHI, Director, Law Library and Assistant Law Librarian; Professor of Legal Research
Email: szs7112@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5294
JULIE TEDJESKE CRANE, Professor of Legal Research and Assistant Law Librarian
Email: jmt1@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5229
MEGAN BRAUGHT, Access Services Manager
Email: mkb64@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5012
JONATHAN W. HINDMAN, Collections Services Manager
Email: jwh5116@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5225
DIANE L. SHELTON, Acquisitions and Budget Specialist
Email: dvs5930@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5258
Tech Services
Telephone: 717-240-5260
BISHNU BASTOLA, HVAC Maintenance Mechanic
Email: bjb6652@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5260
KEN R. BROUGH, Campus Technician A, Heating and Ventilating
Email: krb10@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5260
ELLEN O’CONNELL, Maintenance Worker, Utility
Email: ejo5164@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5260
SUSAN OTT, Housekeeper
Email: smo5647@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-226-0968
GARY L. VINCENT, Maintenance Worker, Utility
Email: gkv5066@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-240-5260
University Police & Public Safety
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Email: caw44@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-422-0936
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Email: mcb6331@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-422-0936
OFFICER DIRK HOUGH (7 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
Email: dth12@psu.edu • Telephone: 717-422-0936
PENN STATE POLICE DISPATCH
Telephone: 814-863-1111 (from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.)