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Meet Our Advisers

Learn more about the Advising Center team!

Occidental's Advising Center is staffed by a talented team of faculty members and academic affairs administrators who are available to help students navigate our academic program. 

Senior Director of Advising

B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara

Edmond Johnson has provided campus-wide leadership in academic advising at Occidental...

Resident Associate Professor, Core Program
Core Program

Jackie Elam's areas of specialization include death studies, critical theory, genre studies (esp. horror and sci-fi), film noir, 19th and 20th-century...

Resident Assistant Professor, College Writing Program
College Writing Program

Professor Ostendorf teaches a wide range of writing and literature courses in the Writing and Rhetoric Department and the Cultural Studies Program.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Geology
Geology

Naomi Rodgers focuses on Structural Geology and Tectonics at outcrop to orogen scales. She seeks to use structural analysis to answer tectonic...

Contact Advising Center
Johnson Student Center

First floor, Room 134