Shannon Duvall named interim associate dean in Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences

An Elon University faculty member in the Department of Computer Science has been named interim associate dean of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics in Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Shannon Duvall in the Department of Computer Science begins her new role on Jan. 2, 2026. Duvall joins an administrative team led by Dean Hilton Kelly that includes Senior Associate Dean Caroline Ketcham and Associate Dean David Buck.

“Dr. Duvall’s institutional knowledge and proven leadership as the former director of Elon College Fellows will serve the College well,” Kelly said. “I am confident she will help us continue our work of fostering excellence in teaching, scholarship and engaged learning.”

Duvall joined Elon faculty in 2003 and has served in numerous leadership and service roles across the university. She currently serves on the Data Nexus advisory committee and previously served on the Quality Enhancement Plan committee for Data Competency.

Duvall helped design Elon’s game design minor, a multidisciplinary program that teaches students to study, design and implement computer games, which launched during the 2019-20 academic year. In addition to her service on Elon’s AI Advisory Team, Duvall served as director for the Elon College Fellows.

She has published in several venues, received numerous grants and provided undergraduate research mentoring to more than two dozen Elon students. Her scholarly area of expertise includes assistive technology, which has the goal of making tech solutions for people with disabilities.

Duvall received a CATL Diversity and Inclusion Grant to create, assess and disseminate course materials for the Department of Computer Science that meet the goals of culturally responsive teaching materials. She was also named a CATL Scholar during the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic year.

In 2018, she received the Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, excellence in teaching award, which recognizes outstanding teaching, scholarship, service-leadership, mentorship and staff.

“Serving as a faculty member and as director of the Elon College Fellows has given me a strong appreciation for the work that supports students and faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences,” Duvall said. “With the Computer Science department preparing for the new School of Engineering and Computing, this is an opportunity for me to learn more about how the academic units at Elon collaborate while doing my best to assist the College.”

Duvall joins an Elon College administrative team that recently included Associate Professor Angela Lewellyn, who concluded her service to the college when she was appointed to the role of assistant provost for academic excellence and integrity.

She holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from East Carolina University.

About Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences

Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences provides the foundation for the study of the liberal arts and sciences at Elon University. The college is comprised of 21 departments and 35interdisciplinary programs across three branches: the arts and humanities; natural, mathematical and computational sciences; and social and behavioral sciences. It hosts Elon’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society celebrating excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.

Committed to the growth of students’ intellectual curiosity, intercultural competence and critical thinking, the college champions disciplinary knowledge and interdisciplinary applications to reflect upon, respond to and offer solutions to complex problems in an interconnected and changing world.

With more than 47 majors and 66 minors, the college is Elon University’s largest academic division. Two-thirds of the nearly 1,600 students who graduate from Elon annually do so with at least one major or minor in the college. Within a year, over 90% of college graduates report employment in their chosen field or enrollment in top post-graduate programs.

College faculty are prolific and preeminent scholars and creators in their fields, recognized for expertise at national and international levels. Each year, its more than 300 full-time faculty publish hundreds of articles, chapters, and books, and they present at scores of conferences and events. Their scholarship results in grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health and other prominent centers of research.