Spring 2023 Joint Senate Officers
President: Marie Thorn
President Pro Tempore: Logan Grodsky
Critic: Matthew Tweden
Clerk: Maddox Addy
Treasurer: Deniz Erdal
Sergeant-at-Arms: Daniel Gallagher
Historian: Rania Alaoui
Spring 2023 Society Presiding Officers:
Di President: Callie Stevens
Phi Speaker: Andrew Forbes
Contact our Clerk, Maddox Addy (maddy6@unc.edu), for queries regarding Joint Senate communications and/or this website.
Contact our Sergeant-at-Arms, Daniel Gallagher (dgallag@unc.edu), or use our Chamber Request Form for information regarding renting our historic properties.
Contact our Historian, Rania Alaoui (ralaoui@unc.edu) for questions regarding DiPhi’s history, archives, and portrait collection.
Sign up for our guest email list for information about weekly debates and social events here!
Campus Locations
- Dialectic Chamber: Located at 310 New West Hall on East Cameron Avenue. We hold our meetings here every Monday at 7:30 PM. Please stop by.
- Philanthropic Chamber: Located in 407 New East Hall on East Cameron Avenue. We hold social events and committee meetings here.
Mailing Address
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
P.O. Box 795
179 E. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
United States
Di-Phi Foundation
Please contact our foundation (president@diphi.org), currently led by President John O’Connor, for any information regarding the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Inc.
The Foundation’s Mailing address is:
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 774
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3647
Faculty Adviser
Our current faculty adviser is Professor and Alumnus Senator Bland Simpson, pictured below. Dr. Simpson is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing and author of many books about the Carolinas. Find his contact information and curriculum vitae here. Also, learn about North Carolina’s “Amazon” from him here.
