Becoming a Department Representative

Department representatives are a vital part of the GSO. They help by distributing information to graduate students about current GSO events and issues, as well as bringing feedback from their department to our monthly meetings. If your department is under-represented, we’d love to have you as a part of the GSO! To inquire about serving as a department representative email: gso@bu.edu or contact your department’s Director of Graduate Studies or graduate student association. 

About the Representative Structure

Anyone is welcome to attend GSO meetings, but each department is only allowed a certain number of voting representatives. Each Masters or Ph.D. program or department in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is entitled to choose representative(s) to the GSO body. Each representative must be a current graduate student in the program or department they represent.

Each department can have no more than two representatives per department or program with one additional alternative representative. For every voting session, it is in your department’s best interest to have full representation with both representatives present. However, to maintain good standing, only one representative needs to be present at each GSO general meeting. 

If you see that your department is not listed or that your department is  not making full use of their allotted representative positions, please email us at GSO@bu.edu!

American & New England Studies Representatives: 

Jack Ott jdvott@bu.edu
Makenzie Coker mecoker@bu.edu

Anthropology and Archaeology Representatives: 

Haylee Backs hbacks@bu.edu
Brooke Rothamer baroth@bu.edu

Biology Representatives:

Guangmei Liu gmliu@bu.edu
Mingqi Sha msha@bu.edu

Chemistry Representatives: 

Ryan Pham ryanpham@bu.edu
Matthew Vince mjkv@bu.edu

Classical Studies Representatives: 

Matheus Ely Pessoa mpessoa@bu.edu
Xander Tyska atyska@bu.edu

Earth & Environment Representatives:

Annabelle Gao algao@bu.edu
Sophia Tigges stigges@bu.edu

English Representatives: 

Mike Barry barrymic@bu.edu
Michela Gerardin gerardin@bu.edu

History Representatives: 

Dominic Howell domhow@bu.edu
Katie Wynn (alt) kwynn@bu.edu

History of Art and Architecture Representatives:

Zachary Lacy zlacy@bu.edu
Sarah Grimes srgrimes@bu.edu

Mathematics and Statistics:

Ben Krewson krewson@bu.edu
Kate Finnerty ksfinn@bu.edu

Philosophy Representatives: 

Alec Koppers akoppers@bu.edu

Physics Representatives: 

Julia Ryshkewitch jryshkew@bu.edu
Vera Staub vs100@bu.edu

Political Science Representatives: 

David Hackett hackettd@bu.edu
Shivan Fazil sfazil@bu.edu

Psychology Representatives: 

Shane George shanegeo@bu.edu
Meredith Rowe mererowe@bu.edu

Religious and Theological Studies Representatives: 

Josh Smith jsmith@bu.edu

Romance Studies Representatives: 

Erika Villalobos erikavt@bu.edu
Fargol Khosravanifard fargolkh@bu.edu

Sociology Representatives: 

Elinore Avni elinorea@bu.edu
Yasemin Girgin ygirgin@bu.edu