Each department that appoints GSIs has a Faculty Advisor for GSI Affairs. Responsibilities of Faculty Advisors for GSI Affairs include

  • providing consultation on policy and regulations pertaining to GSI appointments;
  • assisting in cases of unresolved conflict between GSIs and the faculty members with whom they teach; and
  • approving an alternate 300-level pedagogy course for first-time GSIs who cannot take this required course in their teaching department, either because the number of GSIs is too low to make a course feasible or because of an intractable scheduling conflict.

Faculty are nominated for this position by the department chair and are appointed by the Dean of the Graduate Division. For more information about this department role, please see Faculty Advisors for GSI Affairs: Roles and Responsibilities.

You may be able to find your Faculty Advisor and their contact information on your CalCentral account. Go to “Academics” and scroll to the bottom right of the page. You will see a list under “Advising” which includes your Faculty Advisor name and email. Otherwise, GSIs who wish to contact their Faculty Advisor for GSI Affairs should contact the one listed below for the department in which they are teaching. The list is current as of Spring 2021. We update information as it becomes available to us.

Department Name Faculty Advisor Name
African American Studies Tianna Paschel
Agricultural and Resource Economics Michael Anderson
Anthropology Karen Nakamura
Architecture Simon Schleicher
Art Practice Al-An deSouza
Astronomy Alexei Filippenko
Athletic Study Center
(Special Education Joint Program)
Derek Van Rheenen
Bioengineering Mohammad Mofrad
Buddhist Studies Jacob Dalton
Business Administration Jennifer Chatman
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Joelle Frechette
Chemistry Matthew Francis
City and Regional Planning Daniel Chatman
Civil and Environmental Engineering David Sedlack
Classics Duncan MacRae
Comparative Literature Niklaus Largier
Computational Biology Haiyan Huang
Data Science Education Program (DSEP) Ani Adhikari
Demography Joshua Goldstein
Design (Architecture; Env Design) Kyle Steinfeld
Development Practice George Scharffenberger
Earth and Planetary Science Inez Fung
East Asian Languages and Cultures Mark Blum
Economics Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Education Cati de los Rios
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Dan Garcia (CS)
Babak Ayazifar (EE)
Energy and Resources Daniel Kammen
English Kara Elizabeth Wittman
Environmental Science, Policy and Management Ian Wang
Ethnic Studies Shari Huhndorf
Film and Media Weihong Bao
French Richard Kern
Gender and Women’s Studies Eric Stanley
Geography Jon G Kosek
German Deniz Gokturk
Graduate Division Gail Brager
Hispanic Languages and Literatures
(Spanish and Portuguese)
Ivonne Del Valle
History Stephanie E Jones-Rogers
History of Art Aglaya Glebova
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Rhonda Lee Righter
Information Michael Rivera
Integrative Biology Jimmy McGuire
International and Area Studies
(Asian Studies, Global Studies)
Alan Karras
Italian Studies Mia Fuller
Jewish Studies John Efron, Ethan Benjamin Katz
Journalism Andres Cediel
Legal Studies (Jurisprudence and Social Policy) Jonathan Marshall
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Anna Brand
Law Rachel Stern
Linguistics Gasper Begus
Materials Science and Engineering Ting Xu
Mathematics Thomas Scanlon
Mechanical Engineering Hayden Taylor
Molecular and Cell Biology Eunyoung Park
P. Robert Beatty
Yang Dan
James H. Hurley
Barbara J. Meyer
Molecular Toxicology
(Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology)
Daniel Nomura
Music David Milnes
Near Eastern Studies Margaret Larkin
Neuroscience Yang Dan
New Media Abigail De Kosnik
Nuclear Engineering Peter Hosemann
Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology Andreas Stahl
Philosophy Daniel Warren
Physics Marjorie Shapiro
Plant and Microbial Biology Kathleen Ryan
Political Science Christopher K Ansell
Psychology No Faculty Advisor Assigned
Public Health Jennifer Alice Lachance
Public Health – Biostatistics Alan Hubbard
Public Health – Community Health Sciences Denise Herd
Public Health – Environmental Health Sciences Martyn Smith
Public Health – Epidemiology Arthur Reingold
Public Health – Health Policy and Management William Dow
Public Health – Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Fenyong Liu
Public Policy John Glaser
Rhetoric Samera Esmeir
Scandinavian Tim Tangherlini
Slavic Languages and Literatures Robyn M Jensen
Social Welfare Susan Stone
Sociology Joshua R Goldstein
South and Southeast Asian Studies Rahul Bjorn Parson
Spanish and Portuguese Daylet Dominguez
Statistics Andrew Bray
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies Brandi N Catanese
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies Christine Palmer
Vision Science / Optometry Austin Roorda