David Schaberg
Senior Dean of the College
Dean of Humanities
Humanities
David Schaberg was appointed dean of Humanities in July 2012, and became Senior Dean of the UCLA College in July 2020. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1996, Schaberg previously served as chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and as co-director of the Center for Chinese Studies.
Schaberg has published articles on early Chinese literature, historiography and thought, and Greek/Chinese comparative issues. He is the author of “A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography,” which was awarded the 2003 Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies. He is also a contributor to a new translation of China’s first great historical work, “The Zuo Tradition,” to be published by the University of Washington Press.
Schaberg received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University and his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
Tracy Johnson
Dean of Life Sciences
Life Sciences
Tracy Johnson was appointed dean of life sciences in September 2020. She is holder of the Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair, and a professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology.
Johnson, who joined the UCLA faculty in 2013, is recognized for her scientific leadership, contributions to educational innovation, and as a champion of diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and has served as associate dean for inclusive excellence in the division of life sciences since January 2015.
Prior to joining UCLA, she was a member of the UC San Diego biological sciences faculty and a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and cell biology at UC San Diego and her doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at UC Berkeley.
Miguel García-Garibay
Dean of Physical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Miguel García-Garibay was appointed dean of physical sciences in May 2016, after four years as chair of the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He has been a faculty member in the department since 1992.
Garcia-Garibay came to UCLA after doing postdoctoral research at Columbia University, which followed his Ph.D. studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada. He was promoted to full professor in 2000 and he has served as Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since 2005. Garcia-Garibay is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
His current research efforts are aimed at the development of artificial molecular machinery in highly organized crystalline media, and the development of green chemistry by taking advantage of organic reactions in molecular nanocrystals.
García-Garibay received his B.S. degree in 1985 at the Universidad Michoacan in Mexico and his PhD in 1988 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Darnell Hunt
Dean of Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Darnell Hunt was appointed dean of Social Sciences effective July 2017. He previously served as chair of the Department of Sociology and as director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. A professor of sociology and of African American studies, he has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 2001.
Hunt has written extensively on race and media, including numerous scholarly journal articles and popular magazine articles. He has also published four books on these issues, including “Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.” Over the past two decades, he has led several projects that explore issues of access and diversity in the Hollywood film and television industry, in particular the Bunche Center’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report.
Hunt received an A.B. in journalism from the University of Southern California, an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA. He is a member of the American Sociological Association and the Association of Black Sociologists. At UCLA, he has served on a number of campus committees and was the recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award in 2011.
Adriana Galván
Dean of Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate Education
Neuroscientist Adriana Galván was appointed dean of undergraduate education effective July 2020. A member of the UCLA faculty since 2008, Galván is a professor of psychology, is co-executive director of the Center for the Developing Adolescent and is director of the Developmental Neuroscience Lab at UCLA.
Her research focuses on adolescent brain development and behavior, particularly in the domains of learning, motivation, and decision-making. She is a board member and on the leadership team of the Center for the Developing Adolescent and a standing member of the NIH Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section. Galván has been actively involved in the UCLA Academic Senate, having served on the executive committee, the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, and the Undergraduate Council.
Galván is a faculty affiliate of the UCLA Brain Research Institute and the UCLA Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program, an executive committee member of the UCLA Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and co-director of the NICHD T32 Predoctoral Training Program in Adolescent Brain and Behavioral Development.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and behavior from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Cornell University.
