Academic Leadership Team

Joel Samuels

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost (A)

Joel Hassman Samuels, a celebrated scholar, researcher, and an expert on the rule of law, is the University of Miami’s executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, overseeing the academic programs, policies, and faculty affairs of the institution. Samuels, who has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, was...

Karen J Beckett

Assoc. Provost, Academic Support Services and University Registrar

(305) 284-5749

Alberto Caban-Martinez

Interim Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship

(305) 243-7565
Dr. Alberto Caban-Martinez is a board-certified physician-scientist, Professor (tenured) of Public Health Sciences, Deputy Director of the MD-MPH Program, and Associate Provost for Regulatory Affairs, Assessment and Research Integrity at the University of Miami. He has over 10 years of domestic and international research expertise in...

Nate Crozier

Vice President, Enrollment Management and Undergraduate Admissions



Andrea Nicole Garringer

Assoc. VP, Academic Affairs Operations

(305) 284-6013

Patty Murphy

Assoc. Provost, University Accreditation
SACSCOC Accreditation Liaison

(804) 295-2599
Patty is the University’s accreditation liaison to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and regularly serves as a SACSCOC peer evaluator. Prior to coming to the U in 2016, she was the Director of Institutional Effectiveness at the University of Richmond and the Assistant Vice President for...

Steven A. Safren

Professor
Director of Scholarship in the Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, & Humanities

(305) 284-2818
I am the Director of the UM Center for HIV and Research in Mental Health (NIMH-funded AIDS Research Center) which is a university-wide research center that provides services to investigators and community members in Miami and regionally at affiliated Florida institutions, and I am the director of the Health Promotion and Care (HPAC)...

JoNel Newman

Professor of Law
Interim Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Associate Dean for Experiential Learning

(305) 284-4125
JoNel Newman received her B.A. with honors, summa cum laude from the University of Missouri where she was awarded the William E. Kemp Prize in Literature.  She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking for Judge R. Lanier Anderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...


Nicole Leeper Piquero

Interim Dean, Graduate School

(305) 284-6172
Nicole Leeper Piquero received her Ph.D. (2001) as well as her M.A. (1998) and B.A. (1996) in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland. She joined the University of Miami in 2020 as a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. She served as chair of the department from 2022-2024. Dr. Piquero’s...

Maria Galli Stampino

Dean of Undergraduate Affairs

(305) 284-2006
Dr. Maria Galli Stampino holds a Laurea degree in modern foreign languages from the Catholic University of Milan, an MA in American Studies from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Stanford University.She joined UM in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate with tenure in 2003 and to...

Nick Tsinoremas

Professor
Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Health Informatics
Director, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

(305) 284-4902
Nicholas F. Tsinoremas, PhD | Dr. Tsinoremas is the Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data and Founding Director of the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing which was established to catalyze data-intensive research in fields ranging from medicine to earth sciences, urban planning, digital humanities, and business....

Maryann Tatum Tobin

Chief of Staff to the Provost

(305) 284-3356
Dr. Maryann Tobin serves as Chief of Staff for the Office of the Provost at the University of Miami, where she acts as strategic counsel, advances institutional priorities, fosters collaboration across academic units, and oversees the daily operations of the Provost’s Office. She brings extensive experience in higher education...

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