2019-2020 Catalog

Faculty

President

Jonathan Veitch

President and Professor Affiliated Faculty, History

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Dean

Wendy F. Sternberg

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

B.A., Union College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Associate Deans

Carolyn Brighouse

Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs

Professor, Cognitive Science, Philosophy

B.A., University of Liverpool; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Ron Buckmire

Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs

Professor, Mathematics

B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Salvador Fernandez

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

On Regular Appointment

Michael Amoruso

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Lehigh University; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Bevin Ashenmiller

Associate Professor, Economics; Advisory Committee, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Phillip M. Ayoub

Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., Washington University; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Cornell University

Madeline Baer 

Associate Professor,Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., American University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Erica Ball

Professor, History 

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Renee Baran

Associate Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry; Advisory Committee, Neuroscience

B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Treena Basu

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.S. Jogamaya Devi College: University of Calcutta; M.S. University of Texas-Pan American; M.S. Bengal Engineering and Science University; Ph.D. University of South Carolina

Linda Besemer

James Irvine Distinguished Professor, Art and History

B.A., B.F.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., Tyler School of Art

Scott Bogue

Professor, Geology

A.B., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Mariska Bolyanatz

Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Elizabeth Braker

Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Urban and Environmental Policy; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., Colorado College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Jim L. Brown

Professor, Mathematics

B.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Thomas Burkdall
Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Patricia Cabral
Assistant Professor, Psychology
B.A., M.A., California State University, Northridge;  Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Jeffrey Cannon
Assistant Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry
A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

Mijin Cha
Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.S., Cornell University; J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law; LL.M., Ph.D., University of London

Anthony Tirado Chase

Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A.L.S., Columbia University; M.A.L.D., Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Celia Chen

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Tsung Chi

Professor, Politics; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Studies

B.A., National Chengchi University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University

Lesley Chiou

Professor, Economics

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mary Christianakis

Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., M.Ed., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Lan T. Chu

Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., M.A., New York University; Ph.D., George Washington University

Juvenal Cortes

Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Chris Craney

Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

B.S., University of Puget Sound; M.S., D.A., Washington State University

Alexander F. Day

Associate Professor, History; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Studies

B.A., Colby College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Allison de Fren

Associate Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., Grinnell College; M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub

Associate Professor, Chemistry

B.S., Ecole Normale Superieure; M.S., Ph.D., Paul Sabatier University

Nancy Dess

Professor, Psychology; Advisory Committee, Kinesiology, Neuroscience

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Peter Dreier

E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics; Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Syracuse University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Sophal Ear

Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.P.A. Princeton University; M.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Dennis Eggleston

Professor, Physics

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Ellis

Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Hanan Elsayed

Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., Montclair State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University; Graduate Certificate in African Studies, Rutgers University 

Sharla Fett

Professor, History; Advisory Committee, American Studies, Black Studies

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Rutgers University

Daniel Fineman

Professor, English

B.A., Franklin and Marshall College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

James Ford III

Associate Professor, English; Advisory Committee, American Studies, Black Studies

B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Broderick Fox

Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., Harvard University; M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Eric Frank

Professor, Art and History

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Syracuse University; Ph.D., New York University

Regina Freer

Professor, Politics; Advisory Committee, Black Studies, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Michael Gasper

Associate Professor, History

B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Nina Gelbart

Professor, History; Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies

A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Irene Girton

Professor, Music

B.Mus., Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Shana Goffredi

Associate Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

B.A., University of San Diego; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Thalia González

Associate Professor, Politics

B.A., Arizona State University; J.D., Northwestern University

Susan Gratch

Professor, Theater

B.A., M.F.A., University of Michigan

Susan Grayson

Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d’études, Université de Bordeaux

Glenn A. Elmer Griffin

Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., Pacific Union College; Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary

Felisa Guillén

Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., M.A., University of Madrid; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Jorgen Harris

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Laura Hebert

Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Denver

Mary Beth Heffernan

Professor, Art and Art History

B.F.A., Boston University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 1995

Caroline Heldman

Professor, Politics

B.A., Washington State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Michael Hill

Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor of Chemistry

B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Victoria University of Wellington; Ph.D., Australian National University 

Jane Hong

Assistant Professor, History

B.A., Yale University; A.M., Brown University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Andrea Hopmeyer

Professor, Psychology

B.A., Clark University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Maryanne Horowitz

Professor, History

A.B., Pembroke College, Brown University; M.A.T., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Aleem Hossain

Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture

B.A., University of Chicago; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew Jalil

Associate Professor, Economics

A.B., Sc.B., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

David Kasunic

Associate Professor, Music

B.A., Amherst College; M.F.A., Ph.D., Princeton University 

Brian Kim

Associate Professor, Psychology

B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University

Sarah Kozinn

Assistant Professor, Theater

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University; Post-doctorate Fellow, Occidental College

John T. Lang

Associate Professor, Sociology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University

Darren Larsen

Assistant Professor, Geology

B.A., Colby College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 

Brandon Lehr

Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tamás Lengyel

Professor, Mathematics

Diploma, Ph.D., Eotvos University, Budapest

Kathryn Leonard

Professor, Computer Science

B.S., University of New Mexico; M.S., Ph.D., Brown University

Ross Lerner

Assistant Professor, English

B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Ainsley LeSure

Assistant Professor, Politics

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Carmel Levitan

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Advisory Committee, Neuroscience

B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Justin Li

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science, Computer Science

B.S., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Jan Lin

Professor, Sociology; Advisory Committee, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Williams College; M.S., London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., New School for Social Research

Krystale E. Littlejohn

Assistant Professor, Sociology

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

John Chung-En Liu

Assistant Professor, Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Studies

B.S., National Taiwan University; M.A., Yale University; M.E.M., Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Mary J. Lopez

Associate Professor, Economics; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Shanna Lorenz

Associate Professor, Music

B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., New York University

Heather Lukes

Associate Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Amy Lyford

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Linda Lyke

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., M.F.A., Kent State University

Jacob Mackey

Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., Univresity of Texas at Austin; M.S., Christ Church, Oxford; Ph.D., Princeton University

Gary Martin

Professor, Biology

B.A., M.A., California State College, Sonoma; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Martha Matsuoka

Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

A.B., Occidental College; M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

John McCormack

Associate Professor, Biology; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Amanda Zellmer McCormack

Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Lynn Mehl

Professor, Kinesiology, Psychology

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Warren Montag

Louis M. Brown Family Professor in Literature, English

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School 

Jesse Mora

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., Claremont McKenna; M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Richard Mora

Associate Professor, Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., Harvard College (Sociology); M.A., University of Michigan (Education); M.A., Harvard University (Sociology); Ph.D., Harvard University (Sociology and Social Policy)

Clair Morrissey

Associate Professor, Philosophy

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kelema Lee Moses

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Ramin Naimi

Professor, Mathematics

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Raul Navarro

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.S., Yale University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 

Leila Neti

Associate Professor, English

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D.,University of California, Irvine 

Diana Ngo

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.S., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Gretchen North

John W. McMenamin Endowed Chair in Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry; Advisory Committee, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of Connecticut; M.A., College of William and Mary; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Cheryl Okumura

Assistant Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry; Steering Committee, Public Health

B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Christopher Oze

Professor, Geology

B.A., Whitman College; Ph.D., Stanford University

Jennifer Piscopo

Associate Professor, Politics; Advisory Committee, Latin American and Latino/a Studies

B.A., Wellesley; M.Phil, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Roberta Pollock

Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

B.S., Emory University; Ph.D., Harvard University

Daniel Pondella

Professor, Biology; Director, Vantuna Research Group

A.B., M.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Julie Prebel

Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric

Director of Writing Center & Programs

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., California State University, San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Washington

Ryan Preston-Roedder

Associate Professor, Philosophy

B.A., Rice University; Ph.D., New York University

Timothy Rainone

Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.S., M.S., McGill University; Ph.D., Texas A&M University

Marcella Raney

Associate Professor, Kinesiology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Movindri Reddy

Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., University of Natal; M.A., Ph.D., Cambridge University

Seva Rodnyansky

Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Jaclyn Rodríguez

Professor, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, American Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Stuart Rugg

Professor, Kinesiology

B.S., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Margaret Rusmore

Michael G. Gibby ’68 and Barbara J. Gibby ’68 Professor of Science Professor, Geology

B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington

James Sadd

Professor, Environmental Science

B.S., University of Southern California; M.S., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Arthur Saint-Aubin

Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Janet Scheel

Associate Professor, Physics

B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana; M.A., M.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 

Adam Schoenberg

Assistant Professor, Music

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.M., D.M.A., The Juilliard School

Alec Schramm

Professor, Physics

B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Joseph Schulz

Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry; Advisory Committee, Neuroscience

B.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Bhavna Shamasunder

Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy; Steering Committee, Public Health

B.S./B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.ES., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Derek Shearer

Stuart Chevalier Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., The Union Graduate School

Michael Shelton

Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies; Cognitive Science; Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.S., St. Cloud State University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Aleksandra Sherman

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science; Advisory Committee, Neuroscience

B.A., Rutgers University; Ph.D., Northwestern University

Andrew Shtulman

Professor, Cognitive Science; Psychology

B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Harvard University

Daniel Snowden-Ifft

Ezra Frederick Scattergood Professor, Physics

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Ronald Solórzano

Professor, Education; Affiliated Faculty, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.S., M.Ed., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Lisa Sousa

Professor, History; Advisory Committee Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Eileen Spain

Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry

B.S. Sonoma State University; Ph.D., University of Utah

Sabrina Stierwalt

Assistant Professor, Physics

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Cornell University

Damian Stocking

Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture 

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Marla Stone

Professor, History

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Amber Stubler

Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Woody Studenmund

Laurence de Rycke Professor of Economics

A.B., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Eric Sundberg

Associate Professor, Mathematics

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., Rutgers University 

La Mont Terry

Associate Professor, Education

A.B., M.A.T., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Kerry Thompson

Professor, Biology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Nalsey Tinberg

Professor, Mathematics

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Ph.D., University of Warwick

Saul Traiger

Professor, Cognitive Science, Philosophy

B.A., State University of New York, Binghamton; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Dolores Trevizo

Professor, Sociology; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew K. Udit

Associate Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

H.B.Sc., University of Toronto; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Kristi Upson-Saia

Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., University of Washington; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Duke University

Raul Villa

Professor, English; Advisory Committee, American Studies; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Lisa Wade

Associate Professor, Sociology

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., New York University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Yurika Wakamatsu

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Kirsten Wandschneider

Associate Professor, Economics

M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Illinois

Kevin M. Williams

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Jean Wyatt

Professor, English

A.B., Pomona College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Xiao-huang Yin

Professor, American Studies; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Studies; Affiliated Faculty, History

B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Meimei Zhang

Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

On Special Appointment

Joe Addington

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music

Director of the Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble 

Maria Adreani

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Northeastern University; M.S., California State University, Northridge; Ph.D., Florida State University

Adelina Alegria

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Education

B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Sky Anderson

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., Utah State University; M.A., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Jamie Angell

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor of the Practice, Theater

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Alec Arellano

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Politics

B.A., Colorado College; M.A., University of Texas, Austin

Jeremiah Axelrod

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, History

Director of the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles

B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Marcus Benigno

Part-Time Instructor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., McGill University

Kirk Bentzen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

A.B., Occidental College; M.P.T., University of Southern California; M.B.A., La Sierra University; D.P.T., University of Southern California

Mariano Bertucci

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Politics

B.A., Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires; M.A. University of Denver; Ph.D. University of Southern California

Philip Bloom

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Art and Art History

B.A., Middlebury College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Ann Blythe

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Geology

B.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania

Jongnic Bontemps

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music Production

B.A., Yale University

Janis Breidenbach

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Prescott College

Lauren Brown

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Elizabeth Carter

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., University of North Carolina

Maria Castro

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; M.A., George Washington University; M.A.,Ph.D., University of Washington

Cesar Castro

Non-Tenure Track Instructor; Director of the Son Jarocho Ensemble

Clinton Dale Chapman

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Psychology

B.S., M.S., Montana State University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma 

Hsing-Hau Chen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science

BA., B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Brian Clearwater

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program

B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., PhD., University of California, Santa Barbara

Zinzi Clemmons

Writer in Residence; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English

B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Columbia University

Ara Corbett

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric

B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.F.A., Boston University; M.A., California State Univeristy, Los Angeles

Shawn Costantino

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music

Director of the Occidental Jazz Ensemble

B.Mus., University of Miami; M.M., De Paul University

David Crabb

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

B.F.A., Texas State University; M.F.A.,Cranbrook Academy of Art

Gerald Daigle

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Perry Daniel

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

William Davis

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art and Art History

B.A., University of the West of England, Bristol School of Art and Design; M.A., Lund University

Kenturah Davis

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., Yale University

Corey Davis

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Temple University; M.P.H., University of North Carolina 

Daron Djerdjian

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Douglas Duquette

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.A., M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Zohaa A. El Gamal

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

Motoko Ezaki

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture; Advisory Group, Group Language

B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Caroline Farrell

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Bates College; J.D., Golden Gate University

Brian Fitzmorris

Non-Tenure Track Professor of the Practice, Theater

B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University

Jenny Foldenuer

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

B.A., University of California, Davis; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Jacques Fomerand

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

Assistant Director, Occidental-and-the-U.N. program

B.A., Lycée Janson de Sailly; M.A., Diplôme de I’Institut d’Études Politiques; Ph.D., City University of New York

Heng Lam Foong

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., College of New Rochelle; M.S., Capella University 

Gabriel Freiman

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics

M.S., Engineering Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (Engineering); M.S., University of Paris 6 (Applied Physics); Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique

Devin Fromm

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program

B.A., University of Montana; M.A., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Douglas Gardner

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

Director, Occidental-at-the-U.N. program

B.A., Denison University; M.A., Thunderbird School of International Management

Jean-Luc Gauvreau

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics

B.S., Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada; Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park 

Ramona Gonzalez

Johnston-Fix Professor of the Practice of Songwriting

A.B., Occidental College

Alicia Gonzalez

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

A.B., Stanford University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Nathan Graeser

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program

B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington; M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Mike Gray

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Christopher Hawthorne

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Yale University

Jen Hofer

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., University of Iowa

Melinda Houston

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Kinesiology

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Brendan Hughes

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.F.A.,Yale University

Molly Jacobs

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., City University of New York; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Edmond Johnson

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Director of Advising

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

Chris Kim

Director of Instrumental Activities

B.M., Northwestern University; M.M., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Stephen Klemm

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., John Hopkins University

Desiree La Vertu 

Director of Choral and Vocal Activities

B.Mus., California State University, Fullerton; M.M., University of Nevada, Reno

Nishu Lal

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.S., M.S., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Peter Lanfer

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A.R., Yale University Divinity School; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Linda Lasater

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

B.A., State University of New York; M.S., Nova University; Ph.D., University of South Florida

Viola Lasmana

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Don Lawrence

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Swee Fong Lee

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; M.A., Hitotsubashi University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach

Kenji Liu

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art and Art History

B.A., John F. Kennedy University; M.A., California Institute of Integral Studies

Viviana MacManus

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

Susanna Maing

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

James Maley

Collections Manager Moore Laboratory of Zoology

B.S., M.S., University of Alaska Fairbanks; Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Katarzyna Marciniak

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Media Arts and Culture

M.A., University of Lodz; M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Oregon

Francisco Martinez

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater

Win Nadia McLaughlin

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Geology

B.S., University of the Pacific; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon

Laural Meade

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Theater

A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Andrew Miller

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., Princeton University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Jeffrey Miller

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Computer Science

B.S., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Sydney K. Mitsunaga-Whitten

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Religious Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Yale University

Malek Moazzam-Doulat

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Religious Studies

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook

Karen Molinder

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles

Nicole Moore

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Geology

B.S., University of Nebraska; M.S., Western Washington University; Ph.D., Oregon State University

Gaea Morales

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

A.B., Occidental College

Natalie Muren

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.A., Willamette University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Andre Naffis-Sahley

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, English

B.A., University of Leicester; M.Litt., University of St. Andrews

Daryl Ono

Non-Tenure Track Instructor of Accounting, Economics

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Pacific Western University

Dina Ormenyi

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music; Piano Instructor

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Gloria Orozco

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Ostendorf

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric

B.A., Northwestern University; M.F.A., Mills College; Ph.D., New York University

Jocelyn Webb Pedersen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

John Phillips

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

G. Simeon Pillich

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Music

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Charles Brady Potts

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A., Rhodes College; M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Erica Preston-Roedder

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy

B.A., Stanford University; M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., New York University

Glenn Price

Director of the Caltech-Occidental Wind Orchestra

B.Mus., University of Toronto; M.M., Ph.D., Eastman School of Music

Ben Ratskoff

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor, Religious Studies

B.A., Northwestern University; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles

Kathryn Renton

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

Karina Rincon

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Ashley Robart

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz 

Dylan Sabo

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Philosophy, Cognitive Science

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Shizu Saldamando

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Jacob Sargent

Associate Director, Instruction and Research, Center for Digital Liberal Arts

Gary Schindelman

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

B.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., New York University

Jane Schmitz

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Stephanie Schrader

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Oberlin College;  Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Robert Sipchen

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Kai Small

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, San Diego

Isaac Speer

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Julia Sushytska

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., John Carroll University; M.A., Ph.D., Stony Brook University

Yuki Taylor

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Camilla Taylor

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach

Adrienne Tien

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies

B.A., Wellesley College; M.S., Syracuse University

Gregory Tollisen

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics

B.S., University of Portland; M.S., California Institute of Technology

Anthony Trochez

Non-Tenure Track instructor, Education

B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Victoria Umanskaya

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A. (DHE), Saratov State University; Ph.D., University of Wyoming

Igor Umanskiy

Laboratory Coordinator

M.S., Saratov State University, Russia; Ph.D., Saratov State University, Russia

John Urquiza

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Urban and Environmental Policy, Sociology

Kevin Urstadt

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Nicole Vick

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.S., M.P.H., University of Southern California

Michael Vorenberg

Ray A. Billington Professor of United States History

A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Weidong Wang

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Instrumentation Facilities Manager

B.S., Jilin University; Ph.D., Rochester University 

Ezra Weisz

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

David Weldzius

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Garrett Williams

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., Augsburg College; M.F.A., The American Film Institute

Jonathan P. Williams

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology

B.S., University of North Carolina at Wilmington; M.S., California State University, Northridge

Doug Wilson

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology

B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Santa Monica; Ph.D., Pacficia Graduate Institute

Umit Yalcinalp

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science

B.A., Middle East Technical University; M.S., Ph.D.,Case Western Reserve University

Keiko Yokoyama

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.E., M.E., Ph.D., Tokyo University

Patricia Yossen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani;M.F.A., Pratt Institute

Anne Yu

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry

B.A., Pomona College; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles

Laurel Zahn

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology

B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., California State University, Long Beach

John Zalewski

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater

B.F.A., California State University, Long Beach

Désirée Zamorano

Non-Tenure Track Professor, Education

Director of the Community Literacy Center

B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills

Steve Zimmer

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Goucher College; M.S., California State University, Los Angeles

Emeritus Faculty

Arthé Anthony

Professor of American Studies, Emeritus (1979-2014)

B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Boston University

David Axeen

Professor of American Studies, Emeritus (1969-2007)

B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Elizabeth Barber

Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology, Emerita (1969-2007)

B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

John Bouchard

Professor of Theater, Emeritus  (1986-2018)

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Rice University

Larry Caldwell

Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor in Political Science, Professor of Politics, Emeritus (1967-2014)

B.A., College of Wooster; M.A., M.A.L.D., Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Wellington K. K. Chan

National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor of the Humanities; Professor of History, Emeritus (1971-2010)

B.A., Yale University; B.Lit., University of Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Sarah Chen

Professor of East Asian Studies, Emerita (1989-2019)

Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University

Norman S. Cohen

Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emeritus (1966-1998)

B.A., George Washington University; M.A., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Phoebe Dea

Fletcher Jones Professor of Chemistry (1993-2014)

B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Donald Deardorff

Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry (1981-2015)

Advisory Committee, Kinesiology 

B.S., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ph.D., University of Arizona

Frank P. DeHaan

Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1961-1995)

A.B., Calvin College; Ph.D., Purdue University

Lynn Dumenil

Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emerita (1991-2014)

B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 

Alan Freeman

Professor of Theater, Emeritus (1969-2014)

A.B., M.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., American Film Institute

Erich A. Frey

Professor of German, Emeritus (1960-1996)

B.A., Nebraska Wesleyan University; M.A., University of Nebraska; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Evelyne Glaser

Registrar, Emerita (1980-1998)

A.B., Occidental College

Donald Y. Goldberg

Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus (1978-2002)

B.A., New College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth College; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Gottlieb

Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Emeritus (1997-2015)

A.B., Reed College

Allen Gross

Professor of Music, Emeritus (1983- 2014)

B.A., Queens College; M.A., University of California, Berkeley; D.M.A., Stanford University

John Hafner

Curator of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology and Professor of Biology, Emeritus (1982-2010) 

James F. Halstead

Professor of Economics, Emeritus (1977-2004)

B.S., University of Maryland; Ph.D., Stanford University

Brice Harris, Jr.

Professor of History, Emeritus (1965-2003)

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Marcia Homiak

Professor of Philosophy, Emerita (1974-2019)

A.B., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Anne B. Howells

Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Emeritus (1966-2005)

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington

Jane S. Jaquette

Bertha Harton Orr Professor in the Liberal Arts, Emeritus (1969-2005)

B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Cornell University

Brigida A. Knauer

Dean of Students, Emerita (1967-1992)

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University

Alan Knoerr

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Cognitive Science, Emeritus (1991-2018)

B.A., Oberlin College; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University 

Herman A. Lauter

Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus (1963-1991)

B.S., Purdue University; M.A., University of Washington, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Diana Card Linden

Professor of Cognitive Science, Emerita (1982-2017)

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Michael M. McAleenan

Professor of Sociology and Law, Emeritus (1972-2005)

B.A., M.A., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Hawaii; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Rae McCormick

Professor of Education, Emerita (1977-2004)

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ed.D., University of Southern California

Jacquelyn Ann McCoy

College Librarian, Emerita (1986-2001)

A.B., M.S.L.S., Syracuse University

Robby Moore

Elbridge Amos Stuart Professor of Economics, Emeritus (1978-2019)

A.B., M.S.L.S., Syracuse University

Martin L. Morton

James Irvine Professor in Environmental Biology, Emeritus (1967-2000)

A.B., M.A., San Jose State College; Ph.D., Washington State University

Joan Rand Moschovakis

Professor of Mathematics, Emerita (1965-1995)

A.B. University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

D. Keith Naylor

Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus (1989-2019)

A.B. University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Michael Near

Professor of English, Emeritus (1988-2013)

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Eric Newhall

Professor of English, American Studies Emeritus (1975-2019)

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Martin N. Olson

Professor of Education, Emeritus (1975-2005)

B.A., M.Ed., Western Washington State College; Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Lewis J. Owen

Irma and jay Price Professor of English Literature, Emeritus (1959-1987)

A.B., A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of London

Annabelle M. Rea

Professor of French, Emerita (1966-2002)

B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Stanford University

Thomas Robertson

Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus (1960-1991)

B.A., University of St. Andrews; M.A., University of Southern California

Andrew F. Rolle

Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History, Emeritus (1952-1988)

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Martha Ronk

Irma and Jay Price Professor of English Literature, Emeritus (1980-2014)

B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Yale University

Timothy D. Sanders

Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1964-1992)

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University

Anne Schell

Professor of Psychology, Emerita (1971-2017)

B.S., Baylor University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Herbert Segall

Associate Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1958-1989)

B.S., City College of New York, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Nathan Shenfeld

Associate Professor of Psychology, Emeritus (1965-1988)

B.S., Illinois Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Buffalo

John Brooks Slaughter

President, Emeritus (1988-1999)

B.S., Kansas State University; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Thomas A. Slobko

Chief Information Officer and Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus (1971-2006)

A.B., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas C. Somerville

Professor of Music, Emeritus (1977-2000)

B.A., B.M., University of Dubuque; M.M, D.M.A., University of Southern California

John S. Stephens, Jr.

James Irvine Professor of Environmental Biology, Emeritus (1959-2003)

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

John Swift

Professor of English, Emeritus (1981-2019)

B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Jeffrey Tobin

Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Emeritus (1998-2011)

B.A., Earlham College; M.A., University of Hawaii, Manoa; Ph.D., Rice University

Dennis A. Vanderweele

Professor of Psychology, Emeritus (1973-2006)

B.S., M.A., Western Michigan University; Ph.D., University of Maine 

Jim Whitney

Professor of Economics, Emeritus (1982-2014)

B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin 

Dale Wright

David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor in Religion, Emeritus (1980-2018)

B.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Iowa

Esther Yau

Professor of Art History and the Visual Arts, Emeritus (1990-2009)

Louise Yuhas

Professor of Art History and the Visual Arts, Emerita (1977-2013)

B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Athletic Coaches

Anahit Aladzhanyan

Assistant Athletic Director

Head Coach, Women's Basketball

Rob Bartlett

Compliance Officer

Head Coach, Cross Country and Track & Field

Heather Collins

Head Coach, Women's Volleyball

Robert Cushman
Head Coach, Football

Joseph Gonzalez
Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Medicine

Katie Grogan
Assistant Athletic Director of Operations

Alison Heahnel

Title IX Deputy

Head Coach, Softball

Jaime Hoffman

Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics

Rod Lafaurie

Head Coach, Men's Soccer

Colm McFeely

Assistant Athletic Director

Head Coach, Women's Soccer

Stephanie Janice Mark
Head Coach, Lacrosse

Will Morris

Community Wellness Coordinator

Head Coach, Men's and Women's Golf

Brian Newhall 

Associate Athletic Director

Head Coach, Men's Basketball

Olivia Sabins

Department Service Coordinator

Jack Stabenfeldt

Head Coach, Men's and Women's Water Polo

Steve Webb

Head Coach, Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving

Michael Wells

Assistant Athletic Director, Sports Information Director 

Luke Wemore

Head Coach, Baseball