February 25, 2025
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Shelome Gooden as a Provost Faculty Fellow, effective February 24, 2025.
In this role, over the next two years, she will contribute to strategic planning and initiatives aligned with the Plan for Pitt 2028, with a focus on amplifying research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) and advancing faculty and leadership development.
You may know that Shelome, as Pitt’s first-ever Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Related Fields, plays a critical role in fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and research synergies beyond laboratory and clinical settings. She also serves as ex-officio on the University Research Council, working to develop institutional-level funding to support research in these disciplines.
Shelome’s leadership roles at Pitt have spanned multiple capacities, including Chair of the Department of Linguistics in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences; Research of Impact Co-Chair for Plan for Pitt (2021) and University Faculty Mentorship Committee.
She is a 2022 research leader fellow of the APLU Council on Research. In 2023, she co-created the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Research Leaders Network (HASS-RLN), a new national effort to support and advance arts, humanities, social sciences, and humanities-adjacent research at comprehensive research universities.
Shelome holds a BA in Linguistics (first-class honors) from the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) and an MA and PhD in Linguistics from The Ohio State University. Her extensive scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed journal articles, edited volumes, special issues of leading linguistics journals, and invited chapters in prestigious handbooks. She is currently co-Editor of the flagship journal, Language.
Please join me in congratulating Shelome Gooden on this well-earned new role.
Regards,
Joe
Joseph J. McCarthy
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor
William Kepler Whiteford Professor
University of Pittsburgh