Search
Search Term

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 jessicaj@ucsd.edu.

Division of Arts & Humanities

Department Chair: Edward Watts (ewatts@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Yingjin Zhang (litchair@ucsd.edu)

Music

Department Chair: Anthony Burr (aburr@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Jonathan Cohen (cohen@ucsd.edu)

Theatre & Dance

Department Chair (Interim): Robert Brill (rbrill@ucsd.edu)

Visual Arts

Department Chair: Amy Adler (aadler@ucsd.edu)

Division of Biological Sciences

Cell and Developmental Biology

Section Chair: Mark Estelle (mestelle@ucsd.edu)

Ecology, Behavior and Evolution

Section Chair: Jonathan Shurin (jshurin@ucsd.edu)

Molecular Biology

Section Chair: Cornelius Murre (cmurre@ucsd.edu)

Neurobiology

Section Chair: Stefan Leutgeb (sleutgeb@ucsd.edu)

Jacobs School of Engineering

Bioengineering

Department Chair: Kun Zhang (kzhang@bioeng.ucsd.edu)

Computer Science and Engineering

Department Chair: Sorin Lerner (lerner@ucsd.edu)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department Chair: Bill Lin (billlin@ucsd.edu)

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Department Chair: George Tynan (mae-chair@ucsd.edu)

NanoEngineering

Department Chair: Shaochen Chen (shc064@ucsd.edu)

Structural Engineering

Department Chair: John S. McCartney (j1mccartney@ucsd.edu)

Division of Physical Sciences

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department Chair: Vicki Grassian (vhgrassian@ucsd.edu)

Mathematics

Department Chair: James McKernan (jmckernan@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Brian Maple (chair@physics.ucsd.edu)

Division of Social Sciences

Anthropology

Department Chair: Steven Parish (sparish@ucsd.edu)

Cognitive Science

Department Chair: Douglas Nitz (dnitz@ucsd.edu)

Communication

Department Chair: Brian Goldfarb (bgoldfarb@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Graham Elliot (econchair@ucsd.edu)

Education Studies

Department Chair: Carolyn Hofstetter (chofstetter@ucsd.edu)

Ethnic Studies

Department Chair: Andrew Jolivétte (ajolivette@ucsd.edu)

Linguistics

Department Chair: Eric Baković (ling-chair@ucsd.edu)

Political Science

Department Chair: Thad Kousser (tkousser@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Michael Gorman (mgorman@ucsd.edu)

Department Chair: Amy Binder (socio-chair@ucsd.edu)

Urban Studies & Planning

Department Chair: Isaac Martin (iwmartin@ucsd.edu)