Museum Staff

Rosemary Gillespie, Director
gillespie@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-3445

Kipling Will, Associate Director
kipwill@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-4296

Jerry Powell, Director Emeritus
powellj@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-3207

Curatorial Staff

Peter T. Oboyski, Sr. Museum Scientist/Collection Manager
essig.museum@gmail.com, (510) 643-0804

Cheryl Barr, Sr. Museum Scientist/Collection Manager Emeritus
cbarr@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-0804

Gordon Nishida, Sr. Museum Scientist/Database Manager
nishidag@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-7426

Deanna Jackson, Assistant Museum Scientist/Outreach & Education Coordinator
oxyjack@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-0804

Kathy Schick, Assistant Specialist/Curatorial Assistant
kaschick@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-0804

Robert Zuparko, Assistant Specialist/Curatorial Assistant
rz@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-0804

Faculty Curators

Robert Dudley, Professor
wings@socrates.berkeley.edu, (510) 642-1555

Gordon Frankie, Professor
gwfrankie@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-0973

Claire Kremen, Associate Professor
ckremen@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-6339

Robert Lane, Professor
blane@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-4385

Vernard Lewis, Cooperative Extension Specialist
urbanpests@berkeley.edu, 510-665-6724

Nicholas Mills, Professor
nmills@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-1711

Patrick O’Grady, Assistant Professor
ogrady@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-0662

Nipam Patel, Assistant Professor
nipam@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-4605

Vincent Resh, Professor
resh@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-3763

George Roderick, Professor
roderick@berkeley.edu, (510) 643-3326

Neil Tsutsui, Assistant Professor
ntsutsui@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-9012

Emeritus Curator

Alexander Purcell, Professor Emeritus
ahpurcell@berkeley.edu, (510) 642-7285

Adjunct Curators

Brian Fisher, Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences
bfisher@CalAcademy.org

Charles Griswold, Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences
cgriswold@CalAcademy.org

David Kavanaugh, Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences
dkavanaugh@CalAcademy.org

Research Associates

Elizabeth Arias, Associate Specialist
etarias.bohart@berkeley.edu

William Shepard, Visiting Scholar
william.shepard@csus.edu

Graduate Student Researchers

Jeremy Anderson, PhD student
jandersen@berkeley.edu

Joanie Ball, PhD candidate
jball@berkeley.edu

Traci Grzymala, PhD student
mala@berkeley.edu

Steve Lew, PhD candidate
anotherstevelew@gmail.com

Peter Oboyski, PhD candidate
poboyski@berkeley.edu

Matthew Van Dam, PhD candidate
mvandam@berkeley.edu

Gordon Bennett, PhD student
gbennett@berkeley.edu