Department Chairs 2022-2023

2022-2023 Department Chairs and Program Directors

Arts

Art	Jimin	Lee	jiminlee@ucsc.edu
Digital Arts and New Media Program	Karlton	Hester	hesteria@ucsc.edu
Film & Digital Media	Peter	Limbrick	limbrick@ucsc.edu
History of Art & Visual Culture	Derek	Murray	dcmurray@ucsc.edu
Music	Amy	Beal	abeal@ucsc.edu
Performance, Play and Design	Michael	Chemers	chemers@ucsc.edu

Baskin Engineering

Applied Mathematics	Garaud	Pascale	pgaraud@ucsc.edu
Biomolecular Engineering	Elise	Knittle	eknittle@ucsc.edu
Computational Media	Magy	Seif El-Nasr	mseifeln@ucsc.edu
Computer Science & Engineering	JJ	Garcia-Luna-Aceves	jjaceves@ucsc.edu
Electrical & Computer Engineering	Kenneth	Pedrotti	pedrotti@ucsc.edu
Statistics	Robert	Lund	rolund@ucsc.edu

Humanities

Critical Race and Ethnic Studies	TBD
Feminist Studies	Zsuzsanna	Abrams	zabrams@ucsc.edu
History	Alice	Yang	ayang@ucsc.edu
History of Consciousness	Tomba	Massimiliano	mtomba@ucsc.edu
Language and Applied Linguistics	Bryan	Donaldson	bdonaldson@ucsc.edu
Linguistics	Matthew	Wagers	mwagers@ucsc.edu
Literature	Juan	Poblete	jpoblete@ucsc.edu
Philosophy	John	Bowin	jbowin@ucsc.edu
Writing Program	Amy	Vidali	avidali@ucsc.edu

Physical & Biological Sciences

Astronomy & Astrophysics	Puragra	Guha Thakurta	pguhatha@ucsc.edu
Chemistry & Biochemistry	Glenn	Millhauser	glennm@ucsc.edu
Coastal Science and Policy Program	Anne	Kapuscinski	akapuski@ucsc.edu
Earth & Planetary Studies	Matthew	Clapham	jmclapham@ucsc.edu
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Carr	Mark	mhcarr@ucsc.edu
Mathematics	Jie	Qing	qing@ucsc.edu
Microbiology & Envionrmental Toxicology	Fitnat	Yildiz	fyildiz@ucsc.edu
Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology	Grant	Hartzog	hartzog@ucsc.edu
Ocean Sciences	Raphael	Kudela	kudela@ucsc.edu
Physics	Bruce	Schumm	schumm@ucsc.edu
Science Communication Program	Erika	Check-Hayden	ehayden@ucsc.edu

Social Sciences

Anthropology	Andrew	Mathews	amathews@ucsc.edu
Economics	Alan	Spearot	aspeartot@ucsc.edu
Education	George	Bunch	gbunch@ucsc.edu
Environmental Studies	Weixin	Cheng	wxcheng@ucsc.edu
Latin American & Latino Studies	Catherine	Ramirez	cathysue@ucsc.edu
Legal Studies Program	Mark	Massoud	mmassoud@ucsc.edu
Politics	Benjamin	Read	bread@ucsc.edu
Psychology	Benjamin	Storm	bcstorm@ucsc.edu
Sociology	Miriam	Greenberg	miriam@ucsc.edu

2021-22 Department Chairs and Program Directors

2020-21 Department Chairs and Program Directors

2019-2020 Department Chairs and Program Directors