Jeffrey Kallberg Named Deputy Dean of Penn Arts & Sciences

As announced earlier in September, after 11-1/2 years, Steven J. Fluharty, Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, will step down and return to the faculty effective December 31. A search for his successor is underway.

In recent months, the Office of the Dean has completed three important leadership transitions, including the appointments of Corinn Harrell as Vice Dean for Finance and Administration, Ellen Furxhi as Chief of Staff, and Peter Struck as Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College.

To further strengthen the leadership team and maintain the School’s momentum in a period of transition, Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and Associate Dean of Arts and Letters, is taking on the role of Deputy Dean of the School, effective October 1 and continuing through December 31.

In this new role, Kallberg will provide additional management of the daily operations of the Dean’s office, particularly faculty affairs, and will represent Fluharty in an official capacity when necessary. His involvement will allow Fluharty to focus on key initiatives that will require his attention during the next three months. In addition, Kallberg will assist the entire Dean’s office and the School in preparing for the arrival of a new Dean. During this period, he will also continue to oversee the humanities.

Kallberg has served as Associate Dean of Arts and Letters since 2010. A leading specialist in the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies, he is considered one of the preeminent authorities on Chopin and is a former vice president of the American Musicological Society. As Associate Dean, Kallberg led efforts to create the School’s standing faculty academic leave policy, and helped shape the School’s parental leave policies.

Prior to becoming Associate Dean, he served as chair of the Department of Music and was a member of the School’s Personnel and Planning and Priorities committees. “With his depth of experience in the Office of the Dean and his invaluable institutional knowledge,” Fluharty says, “Jeff is ideally suited to serve as Deputy Dean.”