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 Fall 2024. We update information as it becomes available to us.

Department Name	Faculty Advisor Name
African American Studies	Micah Khater
Agricultural and Resource Economics	Michael Anderson
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology	Adam Benkato
Ancient Greek and Roman Studies	Duncan Macrae
Anthropology	Corinne Hayden
Architecture	Simon Schleicher
Art Practice	Asma Kazmi
Astronomy	Alexei Filippenko
Bioengineering	Mohammad Mofrad
Buddhist Studies	Jacob Dalton
Business Administration	Sara Beckman Jennifer Chatman
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Joelle Frechette
Chemistry	Evan Miller
City and Regional Planning	Daniel Chatman
Civil and Environmental Engineering	David Sedlack
Comparative Literature	Niklaus Largier
Computer Science	Dan Garcia
Data Science	Ani Adhikari
Demography	Joshua Goldstein
Design MDes	Kyle Steinfeld
Earth and Planetary Science	Michael Manga
East Asian Languages and Cultures	Andrew Jones
Economics	Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Education	Cati de los Rios
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	Babak Ayazifar
Energy and Resources	Daniel Kammen
English	Kara Elizabeth Wittman
Environmental Science, Policy and Management	Ian Wang
Environmental Health Sciences	Ellen Eisen
Ethnic Studies	Shari Huhndorf
Film and Media	Weihong Bao
French	Richard Kern
Gender and Women’s Studies	Eric Stanley
Geography	Jon G Kosek
German	Karen Feldman
Global Studies	You-Tien Hsing
Hispanic Languages and Literatures (Spanish and Portuguese)	Estelle Tarica
History	Carla Hesse
History of Art	Lauren Kroiz
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Rhonda Lee Righter
Information Science	Michael Rivera
Integrative Biology	Jimmy McGuire
Italian Studies	Rhiannon Welch
Jewish Studies	John Efron Ethan Benjamin Katz
Landscape Architecture	Anna Brand
Latin American Studies	Alan Karras
Legal Studies	Jonathan Marshall
Linguistics	Hannah Sande
Materials Science and Engineering	Ting Xu
Mathematics	Thomas Scanlon
Mechanical Engineering	Hayden Taylor
Metabolic Biology	Andreas Stahl
Molecular and Cell Biology	P. Robert Beatty James Hurley Craig Miller Eunyong Park Elcin Unal
Molecular Toxicology (Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology)	Daniel Nomura
Music	David Milnes
Near Eastern Studies	Rita Lucarelli
Neuroscience	Yang Dan
New Media	Thomas McEnaney
Nuclear Engineering	Peter Hosemann
Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology	Andreas Stahl
Performance Studies	Brandi Catanese
Philosophy	Nicholas Kolodny
Physics PhD	Holger Mueller
Plant and Microbial Biology	Matthew Traxler
Political Science	Christopher K Ansell
Psychology	Lance Kriegsfeld
Public Health	Amanda Brewster
Public Policy	Jack Glaser
Rhetoric	Michael Mascuch
Rhetoric PhD	Michael Mascuch Fumi Okiji
Scandinavian Languages and Literatures	Tim Tangherlini
Slavic Languages and Literatures	Robyn M Jensen
Social Welfare	Anu Manchikanti Gomez
Sociology	Joshua R Goldstein
Sociology PhD	Heather A Haveman
South and Southeast Asian Studies	Rahul Bjorn Parson
Statistics	Andrew Bray
Vision Science / Optometry	Teresa Puthussery