Honors Advisor Assignment
Students are assigned to an Honors advisor in the major they will be completing their Honors work for University Honors Laureate or Honors Scholar designations. Current Honors students should go to Student Admin, Academic Progress & Advising, and Advisor to view their advisors. If you have recently changed majors and are not sure who your Honors advisor is or if one of the advisors listed for your Honors major is not listed below, please contact us at honors@uconn.edu and we will help with an Honors advisor assignment.
If you are applying to the Honors program and are not sure who to work with or are unsure who your Honors advisor is, please email us at honors@uconn.edu and let us know your name, ID, and intended Honors major.
Note: All Advisors listed in the followings sections are for the Storrs Campus unless otherwise noted.
Academic Center for Exploratory Students (ACES)
ACES Majors: Jennifer (Lech) Oliveira (Storrs)
ACES Majors: Akosua Agyei (Stamford)
ACES Majors: Kaitlin Heenehan (Hartford)
College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources (CAHNR)
| Majors | Advisors |
| AGNR-Department | TBD (all AGNR changes, not an Honors Advisor) |
| Agriculture & Natural Resources | Sandra Bushmich |
| Allied Health Sciences | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Allied Health Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Allied Health Sciences | Jessica Beaudet Malek |
| Allied Health Sciences | Cheryl Eckert |
| Allied Health Sciences | Tamara Kaliszewski (Waterbury) |
| Allied Health Sciences | Paula McDowell |
| Allied Health Sciences | Justin Nash |
| Allied Health Sciences | Anna Ramos |
| Allied Health Sciences | Aviana Rosen (Waterbury) |
| Allied Health Sciences | Lauren Wilson |
| Animal Science | Mary Anne Amalaradjou |
| Animal Science | Sarah Reed |
| Animal Science | Steven Zinn |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Richard Dunn |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Rigoberto Lopez |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Farhed Shah |
| Applied & Resource Economics | Charles Towe |
| Diagnostic Genetic Science | Denise Anamani |
| Dietetics | Valerie Duffy |
| Dietetics | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Dietetics Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Economics of Sustainable Development & Management | Farhed Shah |
| Environmental & Natural Resource Economics | Charles Towe |
| Environmental Sciences | Sara Tremblay |
| Environmental Sciences | Jason Vokoun |
| Environmental Studies | Carol Atkinson-Palombo |
| Exercise Science | Doug Casa |
| Exercise Science | Craig Denegar |
| Exercise Science | Elaine Lee |
| Exercise Science | Stephanie Singe |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Landscape Architecture | Jill Desimini |
| Medical Laboratory Sciences | Bruce Blanchard |
| Medical Laboratory Sciences | ahshonors@uconn.edu (additional collaborator for all Medical Laboratory Sciences Preliminary Plans of Study) |
| Natural Resources | Ashley Helton |
| Natural Resources | Beth Lawrence |
| Natural Resources | Thomas Meyer |
| Natural Resources | Anita Morzillo |
| Natural Resources | Isaac (Morty) Ortega |
| Natural Resources | Tracy Rittenhouse |
| Nutritional Sciences | Catherine Andersen |
| Nutritional Sciences | Chris Blesso |
| Nutritional Sciences | Ock Chun |
| Nutritional Sciences | Ji-Young Lee |
| Nutritional Sciences | Yangchao Luo |
| Pathobiology | Antonio Garmendia |
| Pathobiology | Kirklyn Kerr |
| Pathobiology | Neha Mishra |
| Pathobiology | Emily Reinhardt |
| Pathobiology | Steven Szczepanek |
| Pathobiology | Edan Tulman |
| Pathobiology | Paulo Verardi |
| Pathobiology | Elisio Wunder |
| Sustainable Plant & Soil Systems | Gerald Berkowitz |
College of Engineering (ENGR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors advisor assignments: | Jennifer Steszewski (not an Honors advisor) |
| Biomedical Engineering | Patrick Kumavor |
| Chemical Engineering | Kelly Burke |
| Chemical Engineering | Yongku Cho on leave (FA24) |
| Chemical Engineering | Anson Ma on leave (FA24) |
| Chemical Engineering | Jeff McCutcheon |
| Chemical Engineering | Ranjan Srivastava |
| Civil Engineering | Shinae Jang |
| Civil Engineering | Manish Roy |
| Computer Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
| Computer Science | Phillip Bradford (Stamford) |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Jinbo Bi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Suining He |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Amir Herzberg (on leave) |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Yuan Hong |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Sheida Nabavi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Zhijie (Jerry) Shi |
| Computer Science & Engr (CS/CSE) | Yufeng Wu |
| Data Science (coming Fall 2023) | TBD |
| Electrical Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
| Engineering - Undecided | Shoshana Armington |
| Engineering Physics (undeclared) | Althea Lozefski |
| Engineering Physics - Electrical | Faquir Jain |
| Engineering Physics - Materials | Rainer Hebert |
| Engineering Physics - Mechanical | Ugur Pasaogullari |
| Environmental Engineering | Alexander Agrios |
| Environmental Engineering | Tim Vadas |
| Environmental Engineering | Guiling Wang |
| MGMT & ENGR for Manufacturing | Jiong Tang |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Seok-Woo Lee (limited advisees) |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Yuanyuan Zhu (main Honors advisor) |
| Mechanical Engineering | Horea Ilies |
| Mechanical Engineering | Jason Lee |
| Mechanical Engineering | Julian Norato |
| Multidisciplinary Engineering | Shoshana Armington |
| Multidisciplinary Engineering - Industrial Design | Jorge Paricio |
| Robotics Engineering | Ali Gokirmak |
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Africana Studies | Fiona Vernal |
| American Sign Language Studies | Linda Pelletier |
| American Studies | Matthew McKenzie (Avery Point) |
| American Studies | Chris Vials |
| Anthropology | Alexia Smith |
| Applied Data Analysis | Lyle Scruggs |
| Biology Majors - All | Zen Buraceski (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Biology Majors - All | Danyel Cuffee (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Biology Majors - All | Gavin Huismann (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Biology Majors - All | Katerine Pais (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Biological Sciences | Kenneth Campellone |
| Biological Sciences | Rahul Kanadia |
| Biological Sciences | Eric Schultz |
| Biological Sciences | Sarah Knutie |
| Biological Sciences | Mark Urban |
| Chemistry | Nicholas Leadbeater |
| Chemistry | Thomas Seery |
| Chinese | Chunsheng Yang |
| Cognitive Science | Gerry Altmann |
| Cognitive Science | Andrea Calabrese |
| Cognitive Science | Roslyn Holy Fitch |
| Cognitive Science | Edward Large (Music interest) |
| Cognitive Science | Diane Lillo-Martin (ASL interest) |
| Cognitive Science | Michael Lynch |
| Cognitive Science | Jennifer Mozeiko |
| Cognitive Science | Letitia Naigles (on leave until Nov 2024) |
| Cognitive Science | Heather Read |
| Cognitive Science | William Snyder |
| Cognitive Science | Evelyn Tribble |
| Communication | Sara Stifano (NEW FA24 Stamford & Storrs) |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Sara Johnson |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Jeffrey Shoulson |
| Classics & Ancient Mediteranian Studies | Roger Travis |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Andy Bush |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Carlos Garcia-Robledo |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Sarah Knutie |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Ed McAssey |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Yaowu Yuan |
| Economics | Kenneth Couch |
| Economics | Vicki Knoblauch (Stamford) |
| Economics | Richard Langlois |
| Economics | Olivier Morand |
| English | Inda Watrous (all new admits, not an Honors Advisor) |
| English | Pamela Bedore (Avery Point) |
| English | Fred Roden (new admits at Stamford) |
| English | Thomas Shea (Hartford) |
| English | Erika Wiliams |
| Environmental Sciences | Sara Tremblay (freshmen & sophomores) |
| Environmental Sciences | Jason Vokoun |
| Environmental Studies | Thomas Bontly |
| French | Valerie Saugera |
| Geographic Information Science | John-Andrew (Andy) Jolly-Ballantine |
| Geography | John-Andrew (Andy) Jolly-Ballantine |
| Geoscience | Robert Thorson |
| German | Friedemann Weidauer |
| German | Sebastian Wogenstein |
| History | Joel Blatt (new admits at Stamford) |
| History | Heather Parker (all campuses) |
| History | Sylvia Schafer |
| Human Dev. & Family Studies | Caitlin Lombardi - (Hartford, Stamford, Storrs & Waterbury) |
| Human Rights | Elizabeth Holzer |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Italian Literary and Cultural Studies | Philip Balma |
| Journalism/Pre-Journalism | Marie Shanahan |
| Judaic Studies | Stuart Miller |
| Latino and Latin American Studies | Anne Gebelein |
| Linguistics/Philosophy | William Snyder |
| Linguistics/Philosophy | Hendrikus Van Der Hulst |
| Linguistics/Psychology | William Snyder |
| Marine Sciences | Claudia Koerting (Avery Point) |
| Maritime Studies | Mary K Bercaw Edwards (FA24 only on leave SP25 & FA25, Avery Point) |
| Maritime Studies | Helen Rozwadowski (Avery Point) |
| Mathematics (All) | Rachel D'Antonio (all new Honors students, applicants & changes, not an Honors Advisor) |
| Mathematics (All) | Joseph Tinnel (first-year students only) |
| Mathematics | Matthew Badger |
| Mathematics | Vasileios Chousionis |
| Mathematics | Keith Conrad |
| Mathematics | Alvaro Lozano-Robledo |
| Mathematics & App Math | Luke Rogers |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat | Maria Gordina |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Iddo Ben-Ari |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Katherine Hall |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Erin Rizzie |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Thomas Roby |
| Math, App Math, Math/Stat & Math/Physics | Damin Wu |
| Math-Act Sci, Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Stephen Camilli |
| Math-Act Sci, Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Britta Hay |
| Math-Act Sci, Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Andrew Niedzielski |
| Math-Act Sci, Math-Act Sci-Finance & Math/Stat | Dan Watt |
| Math/Physics & Appl Math | David Reed Solomon |
| Mathematics/Statistics/Statistical Data Science | Haim Bar |
| Mathematics/Statistics/Statistical Data Science | Elizabeth Schifano |
| Molecular & Cell Biology | Everyone listed on the MCB faculty page, except for Masakazu Yamamoto, are Honors advisors. |
| Philosophy | Marcus Rossberg |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Elena Dormidontova |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Richard Jones |
| Physics/Engineering Physics | Peter Schweitzer |
| Physiology & Neurobiology - Undergraduate Coordinator | Zen Buraceski (contact for all new Honors BIOL, PNB applicants & changes) |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Xinnian Chen |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joanne Conover |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph Crivello |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Angel de Blas |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Jeffrey Divino |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Rahul Kanadia |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Alexander Jackson |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Kristen Kimball |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Nicole Krauss |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Joseph LoTurco |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Karen Menuz |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Andrew Moiseff |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Daniel Mulkey |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Akiko Nishiyama |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Linnaea Ostroff |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | John Redden |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Daniel Schwartz |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Natale Sciolino |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Jianjun Sun |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Geoffrey Tanner |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Anastasios Tzingounis |
| Physiology & Neurobiology | Randall Walikonis |
| Physiology & Neurobiolgy | Jianzhong Yu |
| Political Science | Beth Ginsberg (Stamford) |
| Political Science | Virginia Hettinger |
| Political Science | Jessamy Hoffmann (freshmen) |
| Political Science | Jeffrey Ladewig |
| Political Science | Matthew Singer |
| Political Science | Jennifer Sterling-Folker |
| Political Science | Yonatan (Yoni) Morse (Stamford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Astur (Storrs & Waterbury) |
| Psychological Sciences | Janet Barnes-Farrell |
| Psychological Sciences | Jeffrey Burke |
| Psychological Sciences | Chi-Ming Chen |
| Psychological Sciences | James Chrobak (all new PSYC students) |
| Psychological Sciences | Marie Coppola |
| Psychological Sciences | Dean Cruess |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberly Cuevas |
| Psychological Sciences | James Dixon |
| Psychological Sciences | Inge-Marie Eigsti |
| Psychological Sciences | Deborah A. Fein |
| Psychological Sciences | Amy Gorin |
| Psychological Sciences | Lori Gresham (Stamford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Jessica Groves - Advising Coordinator |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Henning |
| Psychological Sciences | Blair T. Johnson |
| Psychological Sciences | Jamie Kleinman (Avery Point) |
| Psychological Sciences | Nicole Landi |
| Psychological Sciences | Vicki Magley |
| Psychological Sciences | Etan Markus |
| Psychological Sciences | Kerry Marsh (Hartford) |
| Psychological Sciences | Stephanie Milan |
| Psychological Sciences | Letitia Naigles |
| Psychological Sciences | Crystal Park |
| Psychological Sciences | Felicia Pratto |
| Psychological Sciences | Nairan Ramirez-Esparza |
| Psychological Sciences | Heather Read |
| Psychological Sciences | John Salamone |
| Psychological Sciences | Rhiannon L. Smith |
| Psychological Sciences | Ian Stevenson |
| Psychological Sciences | Harvey Swadlow |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberli Treadwell (Storrs and Waterbury) |
| Psychological Sciences | Eiling Yee |
| Sociology | Matthew Hughey |
| Sociology | Ingrid Semaan (Stamford) |
| Spanish | Rosa Helena Chinchilla |
| Spanish | Miguel Gomes |
| Spanish | Guillermo Irizarry (all new students) |
| Speech, Lang. & Hearing Sciences | Emily Myers (new for FA24) |
| Pre-Statistical Data Science and Pre-Applied Data Analysis | Alyssa O'Keefe (contact for applicants & changes for these two majors, not an Honors Advisor) |
| Statistical Data Science/pre-Statistical Data Science/Statistics | Haim Bar |
| Statistical Data Science/pre-Statistical Data Science/Statistics | Elizabeth Schifano |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Nathan Alder |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Andrei Alexandrescu |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Chris Malinoski |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Eric May |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Dylan Murray |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Ron Ortenberg |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Kristen Ramsey |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Victoria Robinson |
| Structural Biology & Biophysics | Carolyn Teschke |
| Urban & Community Studies | Phil Birge-Liberman |
| Urban & Community Studies | Mary Donegan |
| Urban & Community Studies | Stacy Maddern |
| Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies | Nancy Naples |
School of Business (BUSN)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Alana Adams |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Jose Aponte |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Jia Cai |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Laila Chaoui |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Kristin Glinzak |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Brandy Nelson |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | (Robert) Alex Sauer |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Inga Poetzl |
| 1st-Year & Sophomore Business | Hunter Tashea |
| Accounting | Alina Lerman |
| Analytics & Information Management | Stephen Fitzgerald |
| Finance | Liping Qiu |
| Health Care Management | Resul Cesur |
| Health Care Management | William Pace |
| Management | Kyoungjo (Jo) Oh |
| Mgmt & Engineering for Manufacturing | Jiong Tang |
| Marketing | Nicholas Lurie |
| Real Estate/Urban Economics | Jeffrey Cohen |
School of Education (EDUC)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Education | Elizabeth Howard |
| Education | Catherine Little |
| Sport Management | Laura Burton |
School of Fine Arts (FNAR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Acting | Adrienne Macki |
| Art | Alison Paul |
| Art | John Richardson |
| Art History | Robin Greeley |
| Design & Technical Theater | Adrienne Macki |
| Digital Media & Design | Clarissa Ceglio |
| Digital Media & Design | Joseph (Tom) Scheinfeldt |
| Digital Media & Design | Matthew Worwood (Stamford) |
| Gen Prog in Music/Music/Pre-Teachings Music Education | Louis Hanzlik (new for FA24) |
| Gen Prog in Music/Music/Pre-Teachings Music Education | Eric Rice (on leave 2024-2025) |
| Puppetry | Bartolo Roccoberton Jr. |
| Theatre Studies | Adrienne Macki |
School of Nursing (NURS)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Nursing - Honors Coordinator | Sharon Casavant - Nursing Honors Coordinator and Honors advisor AY 2024-2025 |
| Nursing | Ivy Alexander |
| Nursing | Cheryl Beck |
| Nursing | Katherine Bernier |
| Nursing | Eileen Carter |
| Nursing | Sharon Casavant |
| Nursing | Michelle Cole |
| Nursing | Eileen Condon |
| Nursing | Christine DiLeone |
| Nursing | Carrie Eaton |
| Nursing | Maurade Gormley |
| Nursing | Wendy Henderson |
| Nursing | Michelle Judge |
| Nursing | Tiffany Kelley |
| Nursing | Steven Kinsey |
| Nursing | Ruth Lucas |
| Nursing | Annette Maruca |
| Nursing | Kelley Newlin-Lew |
| Nursing | Barbara O'Neill |
| Nursing | Louise Reagan |
| Nursing | Christina Ross |
| Nursing | Juliette Shellman |
| Nursing | Natalie Shook |
| Nursing | Marianne Snyder |
| Nursing | Christine Tocchi |
| Nursing | Tom Van Hoof |
| Nursing | Stephen Walsh |
| Nursing | Gee Su Yang |
School of Pharmacy (PHAR)
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Pharmacy Studies (1st & 2nd years) | Megan Delaney |
| Pharmacy Studies & Doctor of Pharmacy | Brian Aneskievich |
School of Social Work (SOCW)
| Honors Advisor: Hartford Campus | Joy Learman |
Regional Campuses
Avery Point
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Liaison | Laura May |
| CLAS - American Studies | Matthew McKenzie |
| CLAS - English | Pamela Bedore |
| CLAS - History | Heather Parker |
| CLAS - Marine Sciences | Claudia Koerting |
| CLAS - Maritime Studies | Matthew McKenzie |
| CLAS - Maritime Studies | Helen Rozwadowski (on leave, returning SP24) |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Jamie Kleinman |
Hartford
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Liaison | Kaitlin Heenehan |
| BUSN - Business Administration (limited to current students) | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Business Data Analytics | Stephen Fitzgerald |
| BUSN - Financial Management (limited to current students) | Liping Qiu |
| BUSN - Marketing Management | Nicholas Lurie |
| CLAS - English | Thomas Shea |
| CLAS - Human Dev. & Family Studies | Caitlin Lombardi |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Kerry Marsh |
| CLAS - Urban & Community Studies | Phil Birge-Liberman |
| SOCW - Social Work | Joy Learman |
Stamford
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Program Staff & Advisor, and ACES Honors Advisor | Akosua Agyei |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Alison Lerman |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Dan Levy |
| BUSN - Business Administration (limited to current students) | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Business Data Analytics | Stephen Fitzgerald |
| BUSN - Financial Management | Liping Qiu |
| BUSN - Financial Technology | TBD |
| BUSN - Marketing Management | Nicholas Lurie |
| ENGR - Computer Science | Shoshana Armington (added to all ENGR students, not as an Honors advisor) |
| ENGR - Computer Science | Phillip Bradford |
| FNAR - Digital Media & Design | Matthew Worwood |
| CLAS - Communication | Sara Stifano (starting FA24) |
| CLAS - Economics | Vicki Knoblauch |
| CLAS - English | Fred Roden (new admits) |
| CLAS - History | Joel Blatt (new admits) |
| CLAS - History | Heather Parker |
| CLAS - Human Dev. & Family Studies | Caitlin Lombardi |
| CLAS - Political Science | Beth Ginsberg |
| CLAS - Political Science | Yonatan (Yoni) Morse |
| CLAS - Psychological Sciences | Lori Gresham |
| CLAS - Sociology | Ingrid Semaan |
| General Studies | Laura Tropp |
Waterbury
| Majors | Honors Advisors |
| Honors Liaison | Jamie Caruso |
| Allied Health Sciences | Tamara Kaliszewski |
| Allied Health Sciences | Aviana Rosen |
| American Studies | tbd |
| BUSN - 1st-Years & Sophomores | Nakeia Moore |
| BUSN - Business Administration | Nora Madjar |
| BUSN - Business Data Analytics | Stephen Fitzgerald |
| English | tbd |
| History | Heather Parker |
| Human Dev. & Family Studies | Caitlin Lombardi |
| Psychological Sciences | Robert Astur |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberly Cuevas |
| Psychological Sciences | Kimberli Treadwell |
| Urban & Community Studies | tbd |
Additional Support
Major/Program
| Majors | Honors Advisor |
| Bachelor of General Studies (BGS) | James Hill |
| Honors Program Staff | Kaitlin Heenehan |
| Honors Program Staff | Anne Kim |
| Honors Program Staff | Jennifer Lease Butts |
| Honors Program Staff | Jennifer Oliveira |
| Honors Program Staff | Patricia Szarek |
| Individualized Major | Ken Cormier |
| Pre-Health Professions | Megan Baro |
| Pre-Health Professions | Christina Gray |
| Pre-Health Professions | Krista Rogers |
| Pre-Health Professions | Keat Sanford |
| Pre-Health Professions | Sarah Scheidel |
| Pre-Law Advisors | Christina Gray and/or Sarah Scheidel |