Peer Academic Advisors

Meet Your Peer Academic Advisors

At Rice, academic advising is multi-layered and mutually reinforcing. The idea is to help you to become fully responsible for your academic and intellectual life at the university. This means, of course, that you have to have access to good information and to good advice. By your third day on campus, you'll possess a proper handful of advising pathways that, when followed carefully, will help you to become your best Rice self.

Here, we want to call your attention to fellow Humanities students who have been selected and trained to help you navigate your academic life from O-Week to your very last semester. They are part of the university's larger system of Peer Academic Advisors, and we hope that you'll make a concerted effort to seek them out. They are phenomenal resources. Keep in mind, you're not limited to speaking only with PAAs from your college. Be adventurous!

PAAs come in three basic flavors: Each college has one or two Head PAAs who provide leadership for the program in their particular college. There are also O-Week PAAs. They are a subset of PAAs who have been selected to work on campus during new student orientation. Year-Long PAAs round out each college's PAA cohort. They arrive and are ready to work once the school year gets under way. Athletic PAAs are especially well attuned to the special demands and opportunities of scholar-athletes (but again, you can seek out Athletic PAAs even if you don't plan to letter at Rice).

Humanities Peer Academic Advisors
2024-25

Baker College

  • Emma Codianne, ASIA Major, erc5@rice.edu
  • Josie Feeney, SPAN Major, jmf11@rice.edu
  • Michael Garcia, HIST Major, PLST Minor, mdg16@rice.edu
  • Lynn-Chi Nguyen, MDHM Minor, lhn3@rice.edu
  • Riya Patmidi, ENST Minor, rrp12@rice.edu
  • Celeste Uribe, ENGL Major, PLST and THEA Minors, cau5@rice.edu

Brown College

  • Maya Adhikari, ENGL Major, PLST Minor, ma117@rice.edu
  • Sara Davidson, GERM Major, PLST Minor, sld9@rice.edu
  • Andrew Kim, RELI Minor, ask14@rice.edu
  • Cecile Nguyen, HART Major, cqn1@rice.edu
  • Tanya Richards, ENGL Major, MDHM Minor, trr5@rice.edu

Duncan College

  • Alisha Aggarwal, VADA Major, MDHM Minor, ava5@rice.edu
  • Stacy Couillard, AAAS Minor, sac18@rice.edu
  • Brittney Hsu, MDHM Minor, bah13@rice.edu
  • AJ Jacobs, PLST Minor, aj78@rice.edu
  • Sarah Knowlton, ENGL Major, MDEM Major, smk21@rice.edu
  • Sam Peltrau, ENGL Major, AAAS and CMST Minors, sp152@rice.edu
  • Nat Pujet, FREN Minor, np60@rice.edu
  • Rachel Toole, ENST Minor, rct7@rice.edu
  • Kayla Yao, ENST Minor, kgy1@rice.edu

Hanszen College

  • Matthew Ahn, ASIA Major, mca3@rice.edu
  • Mia Baumann, SPAN Major, MDHM Minor, mib5@rice.edu
  • Amanda Giordano, ENST Minor, alg25@rice.edu
  • Angela Hu, MDHM Minor, ah110@rice.edu
  • Sophia Jacob, ENGL Minor, sgj3@rice.edu
  • Kenzie Langhorne, HIST and ENGL Majors, PLST Minor, kl150@rice.edu
  • Sage (Jiwon) Lee, HART Major, MUCH Minor, jl285@rice.edu
  • AJ Shin, PHIL Major, HART and FREN Minors, ajs27@rice.edu

Jones College

  • Seryna Ayala, HART Minor, ssa10@rice.edu
  • Luisa Bustamante Tolda, LALX Minor, lb50@rice.edu
  • Amy Cao, CREW Minor, ayc8@rice.edu
  • Varsha Chandramouli, SPAN Major, MDHM Minor, vkc1@rice.edu
  • Ric Chang, PHIL Minor, ec63@rice.edu
  • Maya Hoffman, MDHM Minor, mh106@rice.edu
  • Abigail Li, SPAN Major, al181@rice.edu
  • Rija Naqvi, PLST and MDHM Minors, rhn1@rice.edu
  • Ithzel Rubio, PLST and SWGS Minors, ir22@rice.edu
  • Eduardo Ruiz, MDHM Minor, er36@rice.edu

Lovett College

  • Dasseny Arreola, ENGL Major, dsa5@rice.edu
  • Sophia Brandon, HIST Major, PLST Minor, sjb11@rice.edu
  • Kelly Chee, MDHM Minor, kc80@rice.edu
  • Riya Yarlagadda, MDHM Minor, ry25@rice.edu
  • Olivia Chang, MDHM Minor, oac3@rice.edu

Martel College

  • Josh Gill, ASIA Major, jg100@rice.edu
  • Lillian He, SPAN Minor, lhh5@rice.edu
  • Kathryn Hu, HIST Major, kh150@rice.edu
  • Kyra McKauffley, ENGL Major, CREW Minor, mckauffley@rice.edu
  • Chloe Pesqueira, PLST Minor, cap12@rice.edu
  • Elsabet Samuel, GERM Minor, ess7@rice.edu
  • Carolyn Teng, HART Minor, cht5@rice.edu
  • Dean Toumajian, PLST Minor, dat6@rice.edu

McMurtry College

  • Angela Benitez, MDHM Minor, ab165@rice.edu
  • Tina Huang, ASIA Minor, th56@rice.edu
  • Erin Kang, HART Minor, edk5@rice.edu
  • Cal Mascardo, ART Major, SWGS Minor, mascardo@rice.edu
  • Pedro Ribeiro, PHIL Major, PLST Minor, pm41@rice.edu
  • Akshara Sankar, MDHM Minor, as386@rice.edu
  • Zabrina Sidhu, MDHM Minor, zks1@rice.edu
  • Lauren Verthein, SPAN, PLST and ENSt Minors, ljv2@rice.edu

Sid Richardson College

  • Sonakshi Bhalla, PHIL Major, sb157@rice.edu
  • Mariella Gonzalez Molina, HIST and HART Majors, MUCH Minor, msg11@rice.edu
  • Aniyah Johnson, FREN Minor, amj20@rice.edu
  • Brad Joiner, CLAS Minor, bj27@rice.edu
  • Grace Kwon, ENGL Major, jk95@rice.edu
  • Talia Levy, ENGL Major, tbl2@rice.edu
  • Jenny Lui, ART Major, jl268@rice.edu
  • Abby McKellop, SPAN Minor, am238@rice.edu

Wiess College

  • Michael Bolanos, ART Major, bb72@rice.edu
  • Lucy Bozinov, HIST Major and GERM Minor, leb13@rice.edu
  • Erin Chen, CMST Minor, ec82@rice.edu
  • Barakat Ibrahim, MDHM Minor, bai1@rice.edu
  • Mariam Khan, ENGL Major, mk155@rice.edu
  • Elaine Lui, PHIL Minor, yl204@rice.edu
  • Charis Xiong, ASIA Minor, cx25@rice.edu
  • Jane Yoo, Art Major, jy121@rice.edu

Will Rice College

  • Liam Collins, ENGL Major, lrc7@rice.edu
  • Loïc Duggal, ASIA Minor, loic.duggal@rice.edu
  • Angela Hu, HART Major, ah161@rice.edu
  • Nikitha Kota, SWGS Major, nk57@rice.edu
  • Neha Poreddy, SPAN Minor, nrp8@rice.edu
  • Lucas Salaberry, GERM Minor, lns4@rice.edu