HOUSTON | RICE UNIVERSITY | APRIL 20-22, 2023
2023 AAU Deans of Arts & Sciences Meeting
Founded in 1900, the Association of American Universities is composed of America’s leading research universities. AAU’s 65 research universities transform lives through education, research, and innovation. Our member universities earn the majority of competitively awarded federal funding for research that improves public health, seeks to address national challenges, and contributes significantly to our economic strength, while educating and training tomorrow’s visionary leaders and innovators.
2023 AAU Meeting Sponsors
Kathleen Canning
Dean, School of Humanities
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History
Dean Kathleen Canning earned her PhD in history at Johns Hopkins and master’s degree at the Karl-Ruprechts-Universitat Heidelberg. She is a scholar of German and European history of democracy and citizenship, gender and family, state, labor and social movements in the late 19th and 20th centuries. She has held research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Stanford University Humanities Center, the University of Freiburg’s Advanced Study Center and the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities.
Rachel Kimbro
Dean, School of Social Sciences
Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology
Rachel Tolbert Kimbro (Ph.D., 2005, Princeton University) is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Rice University and Professor of Sociology. Dr. Kimbro earned her M.A. in Sociology at Princeton and her B.A. in Sociology and Policy Studies at Rice. Following her doctoral work at Princeton, Dr. Kimbro was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she received interdisciplinary training in population health.
Thomas C. Killian
Dean, Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Thomas Killian is Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. He received his undergraduate degree in physics in 1991 from Harvard University and then attended Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship, where he received an MPhil in physical chemistry in 1993. Killian earned his PhD in atomic physics in 1999 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for studies of ultracold atomic gases.