Faculty and Staff Directory
Main office: Sequoia Hall (SQ) 141
Phone: 818-677-3051
Family & Consumer Sciences faculty and staff are listed alphabetically below, along with email addresses and pictures. If the faculty member has a website, it will be linked to her or his photo.
Faculty Office Hours Fall 2009
FULL TIME FACULTY AND STAFF

Akers, Alyce, PhD
Department Chair and Professor
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: Sequoia Hall Main Office (SQ 141)
818.677.3051
Besnilian, Annette, MPH, RD, CLE
Asst. Director Marilyn Magaram Center
Dietetic Internship Director
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
Office location: SQ204D
818.677.4489
(full time faculty)
Brinn-Feinberg, Victoria, PhD, IIDA, CID
Professor
Areas of emphasis: Interior Design, Urban Studies & Planning
Office location: SQ 204B
818.677.4693
(full time faculty)
Administrative Support Coordinator
Office location: SQ 141
818.677.3051
(full time staff)
Cai, Tom, MS
Professor
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
Office location: SQ 200B
818.677.3122
(full time faculty)
Assistant Professor
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design and Merchandising
Office location: SQ 200H
818-677-4486
(full time faculty)
Chen, Tom, PhD
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
(Emeritus faculty)
Chowa, Lydia, PhD
(no photo available)
Professor
Director Didactic Program in Dietetics
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ200A
818.677.4086
(full time faculty)
Assistant Professor
Area of Emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science
Office location: SQ 200R
818.677.3021
(full time faculty)
Filbeck, Marilynn, PhD
Professor
Areas of emphasis: Family & Consumer Sciences Education,
Consumer Affairs
Office location: SQ 220
818.677.3001
(Currently serving as Associate Dean of HHD)
Gill, Anne, MS
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 200Q
818.677.3116
(full time faculty)

Gilbert, Joyce A., PhD, RD, LD
Director, Marilyn Magaram Center
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science
Office location: SQ120
818.677. 3102
Assistant Professor
Area of Emphasis: Family Studies
Office Location: SQ 200P
818.677.7851
(full time faculty)
Griffin, Judith, MS
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office Location: SQ 208D
818.677.7915
(part time faculty)
Director-Child and Family Studies Center
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: 18330 Halstead St.
818.677.3131
(full time faculty)
Hill, Barbara, MS
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 200M
818.677.7149
(full time faculty)
Kim, JongEun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Area of Emphasis, Apparel Design and Merchandising
Office location: SQ208B
818.677.3907
(full time faculty)
Kohn, Rodika R, M Arch, MFA
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office location: SQ 200L
818.677.4485
(full time faculty)
Larkin, Dee, MS, RD
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
(retired)
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs, Apparel Design & Merchandising
Office location: SQ 200B
818.677.3120
(full time faculty)
Lisagor, Terri, EdD, MS, RD
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ 200F
818.677.3119
(full time faculty)
MacDonald, Richard, PhD, LMFT
Associate Professor
Area of emphasis: Family Studies, Human Sexuality
Coordinator, Human Sexuality Minor
Office location: SQ 200G
818.677.4830
(full time faculty)
Martin, Allen, PhD
Associate Professor
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
Office Location: SQ 200U
818.677.7252
(full time faculty)
Mauksch, Roberta, MS
Associate Professor
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
(emeritus faculty)
Owens, Nancy, PhD
Professor
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design and Merchandising
(emeritus faculty)
Pontikis, Kyriakos, PhD
Associate Professor
Area of Emphasis: Interior Design
Office Location: SQ 208C
818.677.3117
(full time faculty)
Robinette, Karen, EdD
Professor
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design & Merchandising
Office locations: SQ200J
818.677.3440
(full time faculty)
Smith, Christine, PhD, RD
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
(Emeritus faculty)
Instructional Support
Office location: SQ 207
818.677.3846
(full time staff)
Thakur, Anubhuti (Bhatia), PhD
Assistant Professor
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office location: SQ200N
818.677.4962
(full time faculty)
Torabian Esfahani (Riasati), Setareh, PhD
Assistantt Professor
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ 200K
818.677.2842
(full time faculty)
Warren, Shirley, MS
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design & Merchandising
Office location: SQ 204C
818.677.4488
(full time faculty)
PART TIME FACULTY

Berger, Roxane, MA
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office location: SQ 203
818.677.4831
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design & Merchandising
Office location: SQ 245
818.677.7253
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office Location: SQ204A
818-677-4487
(part time faculty)
Clemens, Roger, PhD, CNS, FACN, FIFT
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ134
818.677.4489
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science
Office location: SQ204D
Davis, Catherine, MS
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
office location: SQ200V
818.677.6898
Gaynor, Patricia, MS
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office location: UH105
818.677.2941
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Apparel Design & Merchandising
Office location: SQ245
818.677.7253
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 204A
818-766-4487
(part time faculty)
Hatkoff, Terry, PhD
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office locations: SQ 211
818.677.3620
(part time faculty)
Holman, Sylvia, MS, RD
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Nutriton, Dietetics, & Food Science
(part time faculty)
Keating, Liza, MS
Area of Emphasis: Family Studies
Child and Family Studies Center
Office location: SQ 211
818.677.3620
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science
Office location: SQ200T
818.677.3023
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Interior Design
Office location: SQ 203
818-677-4831
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ200Q
818.677.3116
(part-time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science
Office location: SQ 200HT
818-677-3023
(part time faculty)
Oliva, Juan, MS
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 211
818.677.3620
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ287C
818.677.3504
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
Office location: SQ 211
818.677.3620
(part time faculty)
Smith, Dianne, PhD
(no photo available)
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 281C
818.677.4098
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science
Office location: SQ 287B
818-677-4489
(part time faculty)
Trieu, My Trinh (Sony), MS
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 204A
818.677.4487
(part time faculty)
Wilder, David, MS
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
Office location: SQ 211
818.677.3620
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science
Office location: SQ245
818.677.7263
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Williams, Scott, M, MA, LMFT
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 200V
818.677.6898
(part time faculty)
Williams, Wendy Hill, MA, LMFT
Area of emphasis: Family Studies
Office location: SQ 200V
818.677.6898
(part time faculty)
Area of emphasis: Consumer Affairs
Office location: SQ 200V
818.677.6898
(part time faculty)
(no photo available)
Department of Family & Consumer Sciences
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8308
818.677.3051
email: fcs@csun.edu
Family & Consumer Sciences main office is on the first floor of Sequoia Hall, which is east of the Oviatt Library, west of the University Student Union and south of Jacaranda Hall.
A note about visitor parking: Drive up to the info gate at Lindley and Nordhoff for instructions about where to park and to purchase a parking pass ($5.00 per day).

Brown, Ms Sheila
Cao, Wei, PhD
Fajardo-Lira, Claudia
Giordano (Schock), Angie
Harrel-Smith, Jerry-Ann
Lewis-Goldstein, Diane
Sontag, Ms Paulette

Schlesinger, Cynthia