Senate Members 2026-2027
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
- Nick Cull (Faculty Council Chair), cull@usc.edu
School of Architecture
- Karen Kensek, (Faculty Council Chair), kensek@usc.edu
- Alex Robinson, alexander.robinson@usc.edu
Bovard College
- Hicham Jaddoud (Faculty Council Chair), jaddoud@usc.edu
- Theresa Haskins, thaskins@usc.edu
School of Cinematic Arts
- Kiki Benzon, (Faculty Council Chair), kbenzon@cinema.usc.edu
- Michael Bodie, bodie@usc.edu
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
- Nina Kang (Faculty Council Chair), ninakang@usc.edu
- Rita Barakat, rbarakat@usc.edu
- Doug Becker, dfbecker@usc.edu
- Jason Buhle, buhle@usc.edu
- Chrisandra Kufeld, kufeldt@usc.edu
- Marcos Briano, marcos@usc.edu
- Shannon Gibson, smgibson@usc.edu
- Mayfield Tracie, tracie.mayfield@usc.edu
- Mona Farid Nejad, faridnej@usc.edu
- Eleni Soultanakis, soul@usc.edu
- Meredith Wells-Lepley, mlepley@usc.edu
School of Dramatic Arts
- Stephanie Shroyer, (Faculty Council Chair), shroyer@usc.edu
Davis School of Gerontology
- Daniel Nation (Faculty Council Chair), dnation@usc.edu
- Mireille Jacobson, mireillj@usc.edu
Gould School of Law
- Felipe Jimenez, (Faculty Council Chair), tlyon@law.usc.edu
Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry
- Elizabeth Brummel, (Faculty Council Chair), fjimenez@law.usc.edu
Independent Health Professions
- Rebecca Aldrich (Faculty Council Chair), aldrich@usc.edu (Chan Division of OS/OT)
- Emily Ochi, eochi@usc.edu (Chan Division of OS/OT)
- Beth Pyatak, crall@usc.edu (Chan Division of OS/OT)
- Mike Andersen (Faculty Council Chair), manderse@pt.usc.edu (Physical Therapy Division)
- Stacey Dusing, stacey.dusing@pt.usc.edu (Physical Therapy Division)
- Amir Khastoo, khastoo@pt.usc.edu (Physical Therapy Division)
- Clarisa Martinez, clarisa@usc.edu (Physical Therapy Division)
Iovine/Young Academy
- Olamipose Somoye , (Faculty Council Chair), osomoye@usc.edu
Keck School of Medicine
- Kristi Lewton, (Faculty Council Chair), lewton@usc.edu
- Rita Burke, Rita.Burke@med.usc.edu
- Tom Davidson, tdavidson@chla.usc.edu
- Aninda Das, anindada@usc.edu
- Michelle Dexter, Michelle.Dexter@med.usc.edu
- Karen Kay Imagawa, kimagawa@chla.usc.edu
- Hossein Javdar, jadvar@med.usc.edu
- Lorraine Kelley-Quon, lkquon@chla.usc.edu
- Jeremy Laney, Jeremy.Laney@med.usc.edu
- Neha Nanda, Neha.Nanda@med.usc.edu
- Orgel Etan, eorgel@chla.usc.edu
- Uttam Sinha, sinha@med.usc.edu
- Aneesah Smith, Aneesah.Smith@med.usc.edu
- Jane Steinberg, janestei@usc.edu
- Margaret Trost, mtrost@chla.usc.edu
USC Libraries
- Jennifer Silverman, (Faculty Council Chair), jas84961@usc.edu
- Javier Sepulveda Garibay, jgaribay@usc.edu
Marshall School of Business
- Milan Miric, (Faculty Council Chair), mmiric@usc.edu
- Kristin Diehl, kdiehl@usc.edu
Mann School of Pharmacy
- Yong (Tiger) Zhang (Faculty Council Chair), tyongz@usc.edu
- Julie Ann Dopheide, dopheide@usc.edu
Retired Faculty Association
- Valerie Folkes, (Chair), folkes@usc.edu
Roski School of Fine Arts
- Andrew Campbell campbela@usc.edu
Rossier School of Education
- Artineh Samkian, (Faculty Council Chair Fall 2026), samkian@rossier.usc.edu
- Stephen Aguilar, (Faculty Council Chair Spring 2027), aguilars@usc.edu
Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
- Julie Cederbaum (Faculty Council Chair), jcederba@usc.edu
- Samuel Mistrano, mistrano@usc.edu
Sol Price School of Public Policy
- Alexandra Graddy-Reed, (Faculty Council Chair), graddyre@usc.edu
- Michael Harris, meharris@usc.edu
Thornton School of Music
- pending
Viterbi School of Engineering
- Lucio Soibelman (Faculty Council Chair), soibelma@usc.edu
- Lessa Grunenfelder, grunenfe@usc.edu
- Tony Levi, alevi@usc.edu
- Steve Nutt, nutt@usc.edu
- Giselle Ragusa, ragusa@usc.edu
- Kelly Sanders, ktsanders@usc.edu
- Kendra Walther, kwalther@usc.edu
Non-voting senators:
- Academic Freedom Council (Co-Chair), Robert Rasmussen rkrasmus@usc.edu
- Academic Freedom Council (Co-Chair), Scott Soames soames@usc.edu
- Faculty Affairs Committee (Co-Chair), Stephen E. Bradforth, stephen.bradforth@usc.edu
- Faculty Affairs Committee (Co-Chair), Shantanu Dutta, shantanu@usc.edu
- Faculty Handbook Committee (Co-Chair), Odilon Camara, ocamara@usc.edu
- Faculty Handbook Committee (Co-Chair), John Matsusaka, matsusak@usc.edu
- Faculty Handbook Committee (Co-Chair), Daniel Pecchenino, dpecchen@usc.edu
- Faculty Rights & Responsibilities (Co-Chair), Ryan Bubb, rbubb@usc.edu
- Faculty Rights & Responsibilities (Co-Chair), Steven Mednick, sbmednic@usc.edu
- Finance & Enrollments (Co-Chair), John Matsusaka matsusak@usc.edu
- Finance & Enrollments (Co-Chair/Provost Liaison), Ginger Clark ginger.clark@usc.edu
- Faculty History Committee (Chair), Robert Labaree, labaree@usc.edu
- Information Systems Committee (Co-Chair), Patrick Crispen, pcrispen@usc.edu
- Information Systems Committee (Co-Chair), Francis Pereira, pereira@usc.edu
- Teaching & Learning (Co-Chair), Erdem Biyik, erdem.biyik@usc.edu
- Teaching & Learning (Co-Chair), Kimon Drakopoulos, drakopou@usc.edu
- Deadlines & Leaves (Co-Chair), Anthony Dukes, dukes@marshall.usc.edu
- Deadlines & Leaves (Co-Chair), Jinchi Lv, jinchilv@marshall.usc.edu
- University Research Committee (Chair), TBD
PENDING SENATE MEMBERS
Glorya Kaufman School of Dance -TBD
