
Department Contact List
Please use the list below in the event that a faculty member has not yet been assigned to your class, or if you have emailed your faculty member and have not received a response within 48 hours. This may be needed if you have requested a permission number and have not received a response, or it is the first scheduled meeting (for a synchronous class) or the first day of the semester (for an asynchronous class), and you are not able to see your class in Cougar Courses.
The list is organized by subject of your class and there are 1-2 email addresses listed for each. You may email one or both.
- ACCT Accounting
Department Chair/Contact 1: Alan Styles, Ph.D., astyles@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- AIS American Indian Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Joely Proudfit, Ph.D., jproudfi@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Laura Romero, lromero@csusm.edu
- AMD Art, Media, & Design
Department Chair/Contact 1: Judit Herkso, M.F.A., jhersko@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Kevane Coleman, kcoleman@csusm.edu
- ANTH Anthropology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Konane Martinez, kmartine@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Christie Ashley, cashley@csusm.edu
- ARAB Arabic
Department Chair/Contact 1: Silvia Rolle-Risetto, Ph.D., srolle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- ASTR Astronomy
Department Chair/Contact 1: Stephen Tsui, Ph, D., stsui@csusm.edu
- BA Business Administration (graduate students)
Department Chair/Contact 1: Mohammad Oskoorouchi, Ph.D., moskooro@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Vee Vandereb, svandereb@csusm.edu
- BIOL Biology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Matthew Escobar, mescobar@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Lori Asaro, lasaro@csusm.edu
- BIOT Biotechnology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Moorthy Palanki, Ph.D., mpalanki@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Lori Asaro, lasaro@csusm.edu
- BRS Border Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Nicoleta Bateman, Ph.D., nbateman@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Carrie Dyal, cdyal@csusm.edu
- BUS Business Administration
BUS 202, BUS 203, BUS 204, BUS 442, BUS 444 Catalin Ratiu, Ph.D., cratiu@csusm.edu
Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
BUS 300 Jill Laing, jlaing@csusm.edu
Virginia Appleton, vappleton@csusm.edu
BUS 322, BUS 324 Robert Aboolian, raboolia@csusm.edu
Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- CHAD Child & Adolescent Development
Department Chair/Contact 1: Kimberley Pulvers, Ph.D., kpulvers@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Jill Turner, jturner@csusm.edu
- CHEM ChemistryDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Sajith Jayasinghe, Ph.D., sjayasin@csusm.edu
- CIS Computer Information SystemsDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Ali Ahmadinia, Ph.D., aahmadinia@csusm.edu
- COMM Communication
Department Chair/Contact 1: Katherine Brown, Ph.D., kbrown@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Nancy Santiago, nsantiago@csusm.edu
- CS Computer ScienceDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Ali Ahmadinia, Ph.D., aahmadinia@csusm.edu
- DNCE Dance Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Karen Schaffman, Ph.D., kschaffm@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Kevane Coleman, kcoleman@csusm.edu
- ECON Economics
Department Chair/Contact 1: Robert Brown, Ph.D., rbrown@csum.edu
Contact 2: Laura Romero, lromero@csusm.edu
- EDUC Education
Department Chair/Contact 1: Laurie Stowell, Ph.D., lstowell@csum.edu
Contact 2: Karina Miastkowska, kmiastkowska@csusm.edu
- EE Electrical EngineeringDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Reza Kamali, Ph.D., rkamali@csusm.edu
- ENTR Entrepreneurship
Department Chair/Contact 1: Catalin Ratiu, Ph.D., cratiu@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- ENVS Environmental Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Greig Guthrey, Ph.D., gguthrey@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Christie Ashley, cashley@csusm.edu
- ETST Ethnic Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Michelle Holling, Ph.D., mholling@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Christie Ashley, cashley@csusm.edu
- FIN Finance
Department Chair/Contact 1: Andreas Rauterkus, Ph.D., arauterkus@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- FMST Film Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Marion Geiger, Ph.D., mgeiger@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- FREN French
Department Chair/Contact 1: Silvia Rolle-Risetto, Ph.D., srolle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- GBM Global Business Management
Department Chair/Contact 1: Catalin Ratiu, Ph.D., cratiu@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- GBST Global Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Scott Greenwood, Ph.D., sgreenwo@csum.edu
Contact 2: Krista Gutierrez, kgutierr@csusm.edu
- GEL General Education, Life Long LearningDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Marnie Eldridge., meldridge@csusm.edu
- GEO General Education, Oral Communication
Department Chair/Contact 1: Katherine Brown, Ph.D., kbrown@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Nancy Santiago, nsantiago@csusm.edu
- GEOG Geography
Department Chair/Contact 1: Nicoleta Bateman, Ph.D., nbateman@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Carrie Dyal, cdyal@csusm.edu
- GEW General Education, Writing
Department Chair/Contact 1: Rebecca Lush, Ph.D., rlush@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Courtney Utsler, cutsler@csusm.edu
- GRMN German
Department Chair/Contact 1: Silvia Rolle-Risetto, Ph.D., srolle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- HD Human Development
Department Chair/Contact 1: Fernando Soriano, Ph.D., fsoriano@csum.edu
Contact 2: JoAnn Espinoza, jespinoz@csusm.edu
- HIST History
Department Chair/Contact 1: Antonio Zaldivar, azaldivar@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Patricia Canas, pcanas@csusm.edu
- HSCI Health Science
Department Chair/Contact 1: Paul Stuhr, Ph.D., pstuhr@csum.edu
Contact 2: JoAnn Espinoza, jespinoz@csusm.edu - KINE Kinesiology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Paul Stuhr, Ph.D., pstuhr@csum.edu
Contact 2: JoAnn Espinoza, jespinoz@csusm.edu - LBST Liberal Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Nicoleta Bateman, Ph.D., nbateman@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Carrie Dyal, cdyal@csusm.edu
- LING Linguistics
Department Chair/Contact 1: Nicoleta Bateman, Ph.D., nbateman@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Carrie Dyal, cdyal@csusm.edu
- LTWR Literature & Writing Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Rebecca Lush, Ph.D., rlush@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Courtney Utsler, cutsler@csusm.edu
- MATH Mathematics
Department Chair/Contact 1: Amber Puha, apuha@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Jennifer Johnson, jejohnson@csusm.edu
- MDIA Media Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Judit Herkso, M.F.A., jhersko@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Kevane Coleman, kcoleman@csusm.edu
- MGMT Management
Department Chair/Contact 1: Catalin Ratiu, Ph.D., cratiu@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- MIS Management Information Systems
Department Chair/Contact 1: Yi (Norman) Sun, Ph.D., ysun@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- MKTG Marketing
Department Chair/Contact 1: Vassilis Dalakas, Ph.D., vdalakas@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- MLAN Modern Language Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Silvia Rolle-Risetto, Ph.D., srolle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- MSC CybersecurityDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Teresa Macklin, Ph.D., macklin@csusm.edu
Contact 2: JoAnne Mendez, jmendez@csusm.edu
- MSW Social Work
Department Chair/Contact 1: Blake Beecher, Ph.D., bbeecher@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Deborah Hayden, dhayden@csusm.edu
- MUSC Music
Department Chair/Contact 1: Ching-Ming Cheng, Ph.D., ccheng@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Brian Barry, bbarry@csusm.edu
- NURS Nursing
Department Chair/Contact 1: Wendy Hansborough, Ph.D., whansbro@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Darcy Wright, dlwright@csusm.edu
- OM Operations Management
Department Chair/Contact 1: Robert Aboolian, Ph.D., raboolia@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Casey Green, cgreen@csusm.edu
- PE Physical EducationDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Paul Stuhr, Ph.D., pstuhr@csum.edu
- PH Public Health
Department Chair/Contact 1: Christina C. Holub, Ph.D., cholub@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Anastasia Steele, asteele@csusm.edu - PHIL Philosophy
Department Chair/Contact 1: Michael McDuffie, Ph.D., mcduffie@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Laura Romero, lromero@csusm.edu - PHYS PhysicsDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Stephen Tsui, Ph, D., stsui@csusm.edu
- PSCI Political Science
Department Chair/Contact 1: Stephen Nichols, Ph.D., snichols@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Krista Gutierrez, kgutierr@csusm.edu - PSYC Psychology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Dustin Calvillo, dcalvill@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Soheyla Darvish-Mohseni, smohseni@csusm.edu - SE Software EngineeringDepartment Chair/Contact 1: Simon Fan, Ph.D., sfan@csusm.edu
- SLP Speech-Language Pathology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Sue Moineau, Ph.D., smoineau@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Vanessa Lua, vlua@csusm.edu - SOC Sociology
Department Chair/Contact 1: Marisol Clark-IbaƱez, Ph.D., mibanez@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Lupe Lopez, gulopez@csusm.edu - SPAN Spanish
Department Chair/Contact 1: Silvia Rolle-Risetto, Ph.D., srolle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Oneita Billings, obilling@csusm.edu
- SSCI Social Sciences
Department Chair/Contact 1: Jill Weigt, Ph.D., jweigt@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Krista Gutierrez, kgutierr@csusm.edu - TA Theatre Arts
Department Chair/Contact 1: Judy Bauerlein, Ph.D., jbauerle@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Brian Barry, bbarry@csusm.edu
- WGSS Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Department Chair/Contact 1: Jodie Lawston, Ph.D., jlawston@csusm.edu
Contact 2: Christie Ashley, cashley@csusm.edu