David Schaberg
Dean of Humanities
Humanities
David Schaberg was appointed dean of Humanities in July 2012. 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.
Victoria Sork
Dean of Life Sciences
Life Sciences
Victoria Sork became dean of Life Sciences in September 2009. Sork is a professor in the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and in the university’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She is a pioneer in the field of landscape genetics, an area that integrates genomics, evolutionary biology and conservation.
Sork came to UCLA in 2000 and was appointed Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Academic Initiatives after serving as an American Council for Education fellow-in-residence on campus. Her faculty appointments began in January 2002.
Prior to coming to UCLA, Sork was a professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where she founded the International Center for Tropical Ecology. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and earned her bachelor’s degree in science with honors from UC Irvine.
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.
Patricia A. Turner
Senior Dean of the College
Dean/Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate Education
Patricia Turner was appointed senior dean of the UCLA College in June 2016, and has served as dean and vice provost of UCLA’s Division of Undergraduate Education since December 2012. Turner came to UCLA from UC Davis where, in 1999, she was appointed vice provost for undergraduate education. From 2004 to 2006, she served as interim dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, before returning to the position of vice provost of undergraduate education in the spring of 2007.
Turner is a professor in World Arts and Cultures and African-American Studies, and her research focuses on racial dynamics as they surface in folklore and popular culture. Her fourth book, “Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African-American Quilters,” was published by University of Mississippi Press in 2009.
Turner is a member of UCDC Academic Advisory Council. She also has served as executive director of the Reinvention Center, a national consortium of deans and vice provosts of undergraduate education at research universities.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from SUNY College at Oneonta and a master’s and Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
