Dr. Bryan McGraw

DEAN OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT CHAIR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICS

Dr. Bryan McGraw is a home renovator, an outdoors enthusiast, a barbecue pitmaster, a father of three, and the husband of a neurologist. Now, he’s also the Dean of Social Sciences, a new position at the College. As dean, one of McGraw’s major goals is to break down silos among the College’s departments and centers to create more opportunities for discussion. “The thing about the social sciences is that we all tend to focus on similar kinds of questions, explaining social and political phenomena of anything, from voting to public opinion to various kinds of inequalities and economic growth, but we tend to ask the questions from very different methods and perspectives,” he says. “I think that if I could do anything I would help facilitate conversations across those differences.”

Dr. Becky Eggimann '00

DEAN OF NATURAL SCIENCES, CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT CHAIR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

In her new role as Dean of Natural Sciences, Dr. Becky Eggimann ’00 aspires to create greater unity among the faculty in her division, while also strengthening their sense of common purpose as they strive to live out the Wheaton College mission distinctively as scientists. “I want to see us grow in our engagement with our fields through research and scholarship, to continually improve as teachers and mentors to our students, and to lead the church in our thinking about the relationship between science and Christian faith,” Dr. Eggimann says. “But all of this is really driven by just one goal: to enable faculty and staff to flourish in their callings, both as Christians and as scientists.”

Dr. David Lauber '89

DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY

As a student athlete, Dr. David Lauber ’89 set the Wheaton College record with a 98-yard touchdown catch during his second game as wide receiver for the Crusader football team. Now, Dr. Lauber is in the game as the new Dean of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton. “One of my goals is to help foster a common mission for the School of Biblical and Theological Studies while honoring and supporting the unique ways individual faculty members live out their academic vocations in service of the College, the wider academic world, and the mission of the church,” Dr. Lauber says. After studying philosophy and English literature at Wheaton, Dr. Lauber joined Wheaton’s faculty in 2000. His recent academic research focuses on the patience of Jesus.