Chairs and Directors

Department Chairs & Vice Chairs

Name	Position	Department
joão costa vargas	Department Chair	Anthropology
Jennifer Syvertsen	Department Vice Chair	Anthropology
Lynne Marsh	Department Chair	Art
Kristoffer Neville	Department Chair	Art History
Vorris Lynn Nunley	Acting Department Chair	Black Study
Jeffrey Sacks	Department Chair	Comparative Literature & Languages
Heidi Brevik-Zender	Department Vice Chair	Comparative Literature & Languages
Tom Lutz	Department Chair	Creative Writing
Charmaine Craig	Department Vice Chair	Creative Writing
Anthea Kraut	Department Chair	Dance
taisha paggett	Department Vice Chair	Dance
Benjamin Liu	Interim Department Chair	Hispanic Studies
Steven Helfand	Department Chair	Economics
Marcelle Chauvet	Department Vice Chair	Economics
Sherryl Vint	Department Chair	English
Jennifer Nájera	Department Chair	Ethnic Studies
Gerald Clarke	Department Vice Chair	Ethnic Studies
Brandon Robinson	Department Chair	Gender & Sexuality Studies
Steven Hackel	Department Chair	History
Judith Rodenbeck	Department Chair	Media & Cultural Studies
Jonathan Ritter	Department Chair	Music
Andrews Reath	Department Chair	Philosophy
Jennifer Merolla	Department Chair	Political Science
Nicholas Weller	Department Vice Chair	Political Science
Daniel Ozer	Department Chair	Psychology
Misaki Natsuaki	Department Vice Chair	Psychology
Melissa Wilcox	Department Chair	Religious Studies
Adalberto Aguirre Jr.	Department Chair	Sociology
Root Park	Department Chair	Theatre, Film & Digital Production

Name	Position	Department
Wallace Cleaves	Director	California Center for Native Nations
Brian Geiger	Director	Center for Bibliographic Studies
Jeanette Kohl	Co-Director	Center for Ideas and Society
dylan rodriguez	Co-Director	Center for Ideas and Society
Walter Clark	Director	Center for Iberian & Latin American Music
Edward Chang	Director	Young Oak Kim Center (YOK)

Name	Position	Department
David Biggs	Acting Director	Asian Studies
Juliann Allison	Director	Global Studies
Judith Rodenbeck	Director	Gluck Fellows Program
Khaleel Abdulrazak	Director	Interdepartmental Program of Neuroscience
Alfonso Gonzales	Director	Latin American Studies
Heidi Brayman	Director	Liberal Studies & Interdisciplinary Programs
Muhamad Ali	Director	Middle East and Islamic Studies
David Biggs	Director	Southeast Asian Studies