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Graduate Student Association

Supporting, Serving & Socializing

Department Representatives

The GSA Legislative Assembly is comprised of representatives from each department on campus with a graduate program. It is the job of these representatives to meet once a month at our Legislative Assembly meetings, where we disseminate news of upcoming GSA events, vote on pertinent legislation and initiatives, and study the problems facing our graduate students. Department representatives may involve themselves more in the GSA by sitting on one of our several committees, but the main responsibilities of a representative is to serve as their department's voice at our monthly meetings (informing the GSA of suggestions or concerns from students within their department) and serving as the GSA's voice to their department (delivering relevant GSA information to their fellow graduate students).

Benefits to a graduate student representative include:

  • Networking with graduate students within and outside their department on a social and academic level
  • Networking with graduate students at other universities on a social and political level
  • Inclusion in important decisions and changes for graduate students
  • Familiarity with campus administrators and their roles within the system
  • Knowledge of university structure and policies
  • Leadership Development opportunities
  • Service opportunities (via university committees)

Benefits to those in a represented department include:

  • Becoming more informed of local, regional, and national issues impacting graduate students
  • Networking with graduate students outside and within their department via GSA events
  • Knowing where to take graduate student issues to be solved
  • Knowing where to find solutions to graduate student issues
  • Information on how to start a department GSA
  • Information on how other department GSAs operate
  • Knowledge of university events for grad students

Having strong representation among all departments at UNL allows GSA to further their mission of improving graduate student lives thereby enhancing the conditions for quality graduate research and helping UNL to soon achieve the status of a top 30 research institution.

Representative are chosen from within their department. Some departments vote on their representative while others simply ask for a volunteer. Search the list below to see if you department is represented. If not, feel free to email us or talk to your departmental graduate chair or secretary to find out more information. If your department's representative is not listed below, please have them email us.

Accountancy VACANT 
Actuarial Science Maliha Zuberi Email
Agricultural Economics Emile J. SalameEmail
Agricultural Leadership, Education and CommunicationVACANT 
Agronomy & HorticultureRyan RappEmail
Animal Science Mahmoud Masa'deh (Co-rep) Email
  Cody Nichols (Co-rep) Email
Anthropology VACANT 
ArchitectureVACANT 
Art & Art HistoryVACANT 
BiochemistryAndrew BrueggemanEmail
Biological SciencesTeresa DonzeEmail
Biological Systems Engineering Denis MutiibwaEmail
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Jennifer Lynn Kane Email
ChemistryVACANT 
Child, Youth & Family StudiesVACANT 
Civil and Environmental Engineering VACANT 
Classics & Religious StudiesChris SlaneEmail
Communication Studies Haley Kranstuber Email
Community & Regional PlanningTara PowerEmail
Computer Science & EngineeringShant Karakashian Email
EconomicsJared McEntafferEmail
Educational Administration Syvlia Jons 
Educational Psychology Casey TallentEmail
Electrical EngineeringEric MontgomeryEmail
Engineering MechanicsVACANT 
EnglishDeAnn AllisonEmail
Entomology Silvana MoraesEmail
FinanceJake KirchnerEmail
Food Science & TechnologyVACANT 
Geography Ashley Barnett Email
Geosciences Phillip MykelbyEmail
HistoryJared Leighton Email
Industrial & Management Systems EngineeringVACANT 
Interdepartmental Nutrition Program (INP)Bethany MurrayEmail
Journalism & Mass Communications Carson Stokebrand Email
Legal Studies VACANT 
Management Sam Nelson Email
Marketing Tim ReillyEmail
Mathematics Ines HenriquesEmail
Mechanical EngineeringJian "Jack" WangEmail
Modern Languages & Literatures Corissa BuehnerEmail
MusicElise Schauer Email
Nutrition & Health Sciences Ashley KrauseEmail
Philosophy Cameron Nelson Email
Physics & AstronomyVACANT 
Plant PathologyVACANT 
Political Science Ryan LowryEmail
Psychology Luis F. Morales Knight Email
School of Natural Resource Sciences Nate Freitas Email
Sociology Paul Breitkreutz Email
Special Ed & Communication Disorders VACANT  
Statistics Alexandra SteinEmail
Survey Research & MethodologyClarissa SteeleEmail
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Katie Cook-Wilson Email
Textiles, Clothing & Design Katie Taylor FrischEmail
Theater ArtsVACANT 
Vet & Biomedical SciencesVACANT