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Department Chair Directory 

Find contact information for general campus department chairs below, along with links to division and department websites for additional information. To request an update to this list, please contact evc105student@ucsd.edu.  

School of Arts & Humanities 

History 
Department Chair: Mark Hendrickson (ghendrickson@ucsd.edu)  
Literature 
Department Chair: Daisuke Miyao (dmiyao@ucsd.edu)  
Music 
Department Chair: Thomas Erbe (terbe@ucsd.edu)
Philosophy 
Department Chair: Samuel Rickless (srickless@ucsd.edu)  
Theatre & Dance 
Department Chair: Lisa Portes (lportes@ucsd.edu)  
Visual Arts 
Department Chair: Monique Van Genderen (mvangenderen@ucsd.edu)  

 

School of Biological Sciences 

Cell and Developmental Biology  
Department Chair: Arshad Desai (abdesai@ucsd.edu)  
Ecology, Behavior and Evolution  
Department Chair: Elsa Cleland (ecleland@ucsd.edu)  
Molecular Biology 
Department Chair: Dong-Er Zhang (d7zhang@ucsd.edu)  
Neurobiology  
Department Chair: Ryan Hibbs (rehibbs@ucsd.edu)  

 

School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences 

Halicioğlu Data Science Institute 
Chair, Faculty Council: David Danks (ddanks@ucsd.edu)

 

School of Global Policy and Strategy

Associate Dean: Samuel Bazzi (sbazzi@ucsd.edu)

 

Jacobs School of Engineering 

Bioengineering 
Department Chair: Adam Engler (aengler@ucsd.edu)  
Computer Science and Engineering 
Department Chair: Steven Swanson (sjswanson@ucsd.edu)  
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Department Chair: Pamela Cosman (pcosman@ucsd.edu )   
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 
Department Chair: Stefan Llewellyn Smith (sllewellynsmith@ucsd.edu)
NanoEngineering 
Department Chair: Liangfang Zhang (zhang@ucsd.edu)  
Structural Engineering 
Department Chair: Michael Todd (mdtodd@ucsd.edu)  

 

School of Physical Sciences 

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Department Chair: Alison Coil (astrochair@ucsd.edu)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Department Chair: TBD
Chemistry & Biochemistry 
Department Chair: Michael Burkart (chairburkart@ucsd.edu)  
Mathematics 
Department Chair: Michael Holst (chair@math.ucsd.edu; mholst@ucsd.edu)  
Physics 
Department Chair: Oleg Shpyrko (chair@physics.ucsd.edu)  

 

Rady School of Management

Senior Associate Dean: On Amir (oamir@ucsd.edu)

 

School of Social Sciences 

Anthropology 
Department Chair: Pascal Gagneux (pgagneux@ucsd.edu) 
Cognitive Science 
Department Chair:  Douglas Nitz (dnitz@ucsd.edu)  
Communication 
Department Chair: Patrick Anderson (pwa@ucsd.edu)  
Economics 
Department Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler (econchair@ucsd.edu)  
Education Studies 
Department Chair: Megan Hopkins (mbhopkins@ucsd.edu)  
Ethnic Studies 
Department Chair: Yến Lê Espiritu (yespiritu@ucsd.edu)
Linguistics 
Department Chair: Eric Baković (ebakovic@ucsd.edu)  
Political Science 
Department Chair: Lawrence Broz (jlbroz@ucsd.edu)  
Psychology 
Department Chair: John Serences (jserences@ucsd.edu)  
Sociology 
Department Chair: Mary Blair-Loy (socio-chair@ucsd.edu)  
Urban Studies & Planning  
Department Chair: Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell (mbussell@ucsd.edu)