Find Your Faculty Advisor for GSIs
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 |