2017-2018 Catalog

Faculty

President

Jonathan Veitch

President and Professor Affiliated Faculty, History

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University; 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., UC Los Angeles

Associate Deans

Carolyn Brighouse

Associate Dean of the College for Core Curriculum and Student Issues, Professor, Cognitive Science, Philosophy

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

Susan Gratch

Associate Dean of the College for Curriculum and Academic Support, Professor, Theater

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

Eileen Spain

Associate Dean of the College for Research, Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry

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

Regular Faculty

Bevin Ashenmiller

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

B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Courtney Baker

Associate Professor of American Studies

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

Erica Ball

Professor of American Studies

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., U.C. 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 & 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., U.C. Santa Cruz

John Bouchard

Professor, Theater

B.A., U.C. Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., Rice University

Elizabeth Braker

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

B.A., Colorado College; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Ron Buckmire

Professor, Mathematics

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

Thomas Burkdall

Associate Professor, Writing & Rhetoric

B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Jeffrey Cannon

Assistant Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

A.B. Occidental College; Ph.D. U.C. Irvine

Mijin Cha

Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.S., Cornell University; J.D. University of California, Hastings College of the Law; LLM, Ph.D., University of London

Anthony Tirado Chase

Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Sarah Chen

Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Advisory Committee, Group Language

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

Tsung Chi

Professor, Politics; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Lesley Chiou

Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., MIT

Mary Christianakis

Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., M.Ed., U.C. Los Angeles; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., U.C. 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

Chris Craney

Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

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

Alexander F. Day

Assistant Professor, History; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Language and Cultures

B.A. Colby College; M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Santa Cruz

Allison de Fren

Assistant Professor, Media Arts & Culture

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

Nancy Dess

Professor, Psychology; Advisory Committee, Kinesiology; Advisory Committee, Neuroscience

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

Peter Dreier

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

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

Sophal Ear

Associate Professor, Diplomacy & World Affairs

B.A. U.C. Berkeley; M.P.A. Princeton University; M.S., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Dennis Eggleston

Professor, Physics

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., U.C. 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., U.C. Los Angeles

Hanan Elsayed

Assistant 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

Salvador Fernández

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

B.A., U.C. Riverside; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Sharla Fett

Professor, History; Advisory Committee, American 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

Assistant Professor, English

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

Broderick Fox

Associate 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, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., U.C. 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

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

Irene Girton

Professor, Music

B.Music, 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., U.C. Santa Barbara

Thalia González

Associate Professor, Politics

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

Susan Grayson

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

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. 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., U.C. Santa Barbara

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

Associate 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

Marcia Homiak

Professor, Philosophy

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

Andrew Jalil

Assistant Professor, Economics

A.B.; Sc.B. Brown University; Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley

David Kasunic

Associate Professor, Music

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

Sanjeev Khagram

John Parke Young Chair in Global Political Economy

B.A.; M.A.; Ph.D. Stanford

Brian Kim

Associate Professor, Psychology

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

Alan Knoerr

Associate Professor, Mathematics, Cognitive Science

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

Sarah Kozinn

Assistant Professor in 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

Ari Laskin

Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., University of Victoria; M.A., York University; M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Irvine

Brandon Lehr

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., U.C. 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., U.C. Berkeley

Justin Li

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

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 of Sociology

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

John Chung-En Liu

Assistant Professor in Sociology

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

Adelaida López

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

B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Mary Lopez

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

B.A., U.C. 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., U.C. Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Amy Lyford

Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Linda Lyke

Professor, Art and Art History

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

Jacob Mackey

Assistant Professor, Comparativ Studies in Literature and Culture

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

Donna Maeda

Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., St. Olaf College; Ph.D., University of Southern California; J.D., U.C. Berkeley

Gary Martin

Professor, Biology

B.A., M.A., California State College, Sonoma; Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Martha Matsuoka

Associate Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

A.B., Occidental College; M.C.P., U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

John McCormack

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

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

Lynn Mehl

Professor, Kinesiology and Psychology

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

Nancy Marie Mithlo

Associate Professor, Art and Art History; Chair of American Indian Studies at The Autry Museum of the American West

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

Warren Montag

Brown Family Professor in Literature, English

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

Robby Moore

Elbridge Amos Stuart Professor of Economics

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

Jesse Mora

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A. Claremont McKenna; M.A. John Hopkins-SAIS; M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Santa Cruz

Richard Mora

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

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

Clair Morrissey

Associate Professor, Philosophy

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; 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., U.C. Los Angeles; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Raul Navarro

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

D. Keith Naylor

Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Pacific School of Religion; Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Leila Neti

Associate Professor, English

B.A., U.C. Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Irvine

Eric Newhall

Professor, English; Advisory Committee, American Studies

A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Diana Ngo

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.S. Harvard University; Ph.D. U.C. 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., U.C. Los Angeles

Cheryl Okumura

Assistant Professor, Biology

B.A. Pomona College; Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles

Christopher Oze

Associate Professor, Geology

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

Jennifer Piscopo

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

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

Roberta Pollock

Professor, Biology; Biochemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry

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

Daniel Pondella

Associate Professor, Biology; Director, Vantuna Research Group

A.B., M.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Julie Prebel

Associate Professor, Writing & Rhetoric

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.A., Cal State San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Washington

Ryan Preston-Roedder

Associate Professor, Philosophy

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

Marcella Raney

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

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

Movindri Reddy

Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Jaclyn Rodríguez

Professor, Latino/a and Latin 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., U.C. Los Angeles

Margaret Rusmore

Professor, Geology

B.S., U.C. 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., Caltech

George Schmiedeshoff

Professor, Physics

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Adam Schoenberg

Assistant Professor, Music

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

Alec Schramm

Professor, Physics

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

Joseph Schulz

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

B.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., U.C. San Diego

Bhavna Shamasunder

Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

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

Derek Shearer

Stuart Chevalier Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

BA, 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

Associate Professor, Cognitive Science; Psychology

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

Daniel Snowden-Ifft

Professor, Physics

B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Ronald Solórzano

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

B.S., M.Ed., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Lisa Sousa

Professor, History; Chair, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Damian Stocking

Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Department

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. 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

John Swift

Professor, English

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

La Mont Terry

Associate Professor, Education

A.B., M.A.T., Occidental College; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Kerry Thompson

Associate Professor, Biology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Nalsey Tinberg

Professor, Mathematics

B.A., U.C. 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., U.C. 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

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., University of Washington; M.Div., Princeton Theol. Sem.; 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., U.C. 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

Dale Wright

David B. and Mary H. Gamble Professor in Religion, Religious Studies

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

Jean Wyatt

Professor, English

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

Xiao-huang Yin

Professor, American Studies; Affiliated Faculty, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Affiliated Faculty, History

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

Amanda Zellmer

Assistant Professor, Biology

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

On Special Appointment

Suzie Abajian

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Education

B.A.​, M.A., Occidental College​​; Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles

Joe Addington

Director of the Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Afro-Cuban Drumming Instructor

Maria Adreani

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., U.C. Santa Barbara; M.A., Northeastern University; M.S., Cal State Northridge; Ph.D. Florida State University

Adelina Alegria

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Education

B.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Dean Anderson

Director of Instrumental Activities, Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor

B.M., M.M., University of Missouri at Columbia; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Jamie Angell

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor of the Practice, Theater

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

Jeffrey Arendt

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Binghampton University

Jeremiah Axelrod

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, History

B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., U.C. Irvine

Kanadpriya Basu

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.Sc., Presidence College, University of Calcutta; M.Sc., Bengal Engineering and Science University; M.S., University of Texas-Pan American; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

Marcus Benigno

Part-Time Instructor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., McGill University

Kirk Bentzen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

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

Mariano Bertucci

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Alma Bezares Calderon

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Politics

B.S., ITESM; M.S., Universite de Montreal; M.S., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, History

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Delhi

Ann Blythe

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Geology

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

Mariska Bolyanatz

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinoise, Chicago; Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles

Janis Breidenbach

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., M.A., U.C. Los Angeles; Ph.D., Prescott College

Lauren Brown

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Cesar Castro

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Clinton Dale Chapman

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Psychology

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

Celia Chen

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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

Youssef Chouhoud

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Yating Chuang

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., National Tsing Hua University; M.P.P., University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., University of Madison Wisconsin

Mary Clark

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Brian Clearwater

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

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

Zinzi Clemmons

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English

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

Ara Corbett

Part-Time Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric

B.A. Loyola Marymount University; M.F.A., Boston University; M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Juvenal Cortes

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Shawn Costantino

Director of the Occidental Jazz Ensemble, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor

B.Mus., Studio Music and Jazz, University of Miami; M.M., Jazz Studies, De Paul University

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

Corey Davis

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

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

Sandra De la Loza

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor, Art and Art History

B.A. U.C. Berkeley; M.A. Cal State Long Beach

Emmanuelle Despagnet-Ayoub

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

Jenna K. Dillon

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor

B.A. Columbia College Chicago

Daron Djerdjian

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., U.C. Los Angeles; Ph.D., Syracuse University

Philippe Douhart

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Thomas Gregory Drummond

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry

B.A., University of West Georgia; M.S., California Institute of Technology

Douglas Duquette

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

Zohaa A. El Gamal

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

Lily Margaret Eluvathingal

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., Bangalore University; M.S., Mysore Univresity; Ph.D., Florida International University

Motoko Ezaki

Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Advisory Committee, Group Language

B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Lyla Fadali

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Lisa Filipe

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program

B.A., Occidental College; C.Phil., Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles

Brian Fitzmorris

Non-Tenure Track Professor of the Practice, Theater

B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University

Jacques Fomerand

Assistant Director, Occidental-and-the-U.N. program; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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 & Environmental Policy, Program Contact

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

Debra Freas

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture; Advisory Committee for Classical Studies Minor

B.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., U.C. Irvine

Gabriel Freiman

Part-Time 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 Instructor, Core Program

B.A., University of Montana; M.A., University of Pittsburgh

Douglas Gardner

Director, Occidental-at-the-U.N. program; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

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

Susan Geffen

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology

M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Roger George

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., Fletche School of Law and Diplomacy

Russell Gleason

Laboratory Coordinator

B.S., B.A., CSU Fullerton; M.S., CSU Long Beach

Alicia Gonzalez

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

A.B., Stanford University; M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Mike Gray

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Peter Hajnal

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy

M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Joseph Hankins

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

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

Christopher Hawthorne

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy

B.A., Yale University

Katiuska Hayes

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater

B.A., Escuela Professional School of the Arts

Matthew Hill

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Economics

B.S., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

Wanless Artist in Residence, Art and Art History

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

Jen Hofer

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

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

Melinda Houston

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

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

Jorge Huerta

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater and Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Edmond Johnson

Director of Advising; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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

Edward Kammerer

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Politics

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

Bryan Klausmeyer

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

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

Trace Turville Konerko

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

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

Desiree La Vertu

Director of Choral and Vocal Activities, Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Music

B.Mus., CSU Fullerton; M.M., University of Nevada, Reno

Nishu Lal

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor

B.S., M.S., U.C. Irvine; Ph.D., U.C. Riverside

Peter Lanfer

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A.R., Yale University Divinity School; Ph.D., U.C. 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

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Media Arts and Culture

B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., San Francisco State University

Don Lawrence

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor

B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Swee Fong Lee

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Marisol Leon

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

B.A., Yale University; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; J.D., U.C. Berkeley

Diana Linden

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., City University of New York; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D., City of University of New York

Joan Ling

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., Chatham College; M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Jennifer Logan

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music

B.A., M.A., CSU Fresno; Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Viviana MacManus

Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., U.C. San Diego

Susanna Maing

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; M.F.A. U.C. Los Angeles

James Maley

Collections Manager Moore Laboratory of Zoology

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

Francisco Martinez

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater

Brigid McCaffrey

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture

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

Sarah Meacham


Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

A.B. Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Laural Meade

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Theater

B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Jane E. Mendel

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.S., B.A., University of Mississippi; Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Elli Menounou

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., Panteion University; M.A., CSU Long Beach; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Adrienne Merritt

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

B.A., M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Andrew Miller

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

B.A., Princeton University; M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Jeffrey Miller

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science

B.S. U.C. Davis; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Santa Barbara

Laurel B. Mitchell

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

B.B.A. College of William and Mary; Ph.D., Columbia University

Malek Moazzam-Doulat

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

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

Karen Molinder

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

B.A. Occidental; Ph.D U.C. Los Angeles

Natalie Murren

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

Paul S. Nam

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, History

B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Myralyn Nartry

Part-Time Non-TenureTrack Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Daryl Ono

Non-Tenure Track Instructor of Accounting, Economics

B.A., U.C. Los Angeles; Ph.D., Pacific Western University

Dina Ormenyi

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music

B.A., U.C. Santa Barbara; M.F.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Gloria Orozco

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles

Sarah Ostendorf

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing & Rhetoric

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

Jocelyn Webb Pedersen

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., U.C. Santa Barbara

Misha Pesenson

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics

M.S., Ph.D., University of Saratov

John Phillips

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

G. Simeon Pillich

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Leonid Piterbarg

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

M.S., Ph.D., Moscow University

Charles Brady Potts

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

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

Courtney Powers

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs

B.A., U.C. Berkeley; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Erica Preston-Roedder

Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy

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

Glenn Price

Director of the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band

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

Tatiana Prytkova

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

M.S. Saratov State University; Ph.D. Duke University

Lara Rabinovitch

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

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

Amy Ramnarine

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

B.S., Florida A&M University; M.A., Ph.D., Florida International University

Walter Richmond

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

B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ph.D., USC

Karina Rincon

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies

B.A., Occidental College; M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Christian Roberts

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology

B.S., M.S., Ph.D, U.C. Los Angeles

Andrea Rodriguez-Minkoff

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

B.A., M.A.T, Occidental College; Ph.D, U.C. Los Angeles

Suzanne Manizza Roszak

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

B.A. Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil, Yale University; Ph.D., Yale University

Cassia Roth

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Ross Rudel

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History

B.A., Montana State University; M.F.A., U.C. Irvine

Dylan Sabo

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Cognitive Science

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

Ricardo Salinas

Part-Time Teaching Artist, Theater

B.A., San Francsico State University

Ekaterina Savchenkova

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics

B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Moscow State University

Gary Schindelman

Full-Time 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., U.C. Davis; M.P.H., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Jeffrey Alan Seymour

Practioner Professor, Politics; Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A., M.A., U.C. Los Angeles

Elizabeth Simmons

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Profressor, Critical Theory and Social Justice

B.A., Bennington College; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley

Sherry Simpson Dean

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Diplomacy & World Affairs

B.S. Boston University

Robert Sipchen

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric

B.A., U.C. Santa Barbara

Tom Slotten

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

B.G.S., University of Michigan; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Lucie Suchomelova

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology

M.S., Ph.D., Charles University

Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki

Mellon Postdoctural Fellow, American Studies

B.A., Occidental College; M.A., CSU Los Angeles; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Yuki Taylor

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Adrienne Tien

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies

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

Gregory Tollisen

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics

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

Victoria Umanskaya

Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics

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

Igor Umanskiy

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics

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

Kevin Urstadt

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science

B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Ph.D., U.C. Riverside

Sybil Venegas

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art and Art History

B.A., Mills College; M.A., San Jose State University; Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles

Gabriela Venturini

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Nicole Vick

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

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

Weidong Wang

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

Kenjus Watson

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Education

B.A., Occidental College; M.E., Pennsylvania State University

Joel Wedberg

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Geology

SC.B. San Diego State University

Ezra Weisz

Part Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater

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

Garrett Williams

Part-Time 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., UNC Wilmington; M.S., CSU Northridge

Doug Wilson

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology

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

Daniel Wohl

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music

B.A., Bard College; M.M., University of Michigan School of Music; D.M.A., Yale School of Music

Keiko Yokoyama

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry

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

Anne Yu

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry

B.A., Pomona College; M.S., U.C. Los Angeles

Laurel Zahn

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology

B.S. U.C. Santa Cruz; M.S. CSU Long Beach

Désirée Zamorano

Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Education; Director of the Community Literacy Center

B.A., U.C. Irvine; M.A., CSU Dominguez Hills

Steve Zimmer

Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy

B.A. Goucher College; M.S. CSU Los Angeles

Emeritus Faculty

Arthé Anthony

Professor, American Studies, Emeritus (1979-2014)

B.A., UC Irvine; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., UC Irvine

David Axeen

Professor Emeritus, American Studies (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

Larry Caldwell

Cecil H. and Louise Gamble Professor in Political Science, 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 Emeritus, History (1971-2010)

B.A., Yale University; B.Lit., University of Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard 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, Chemistry (1993-1995)

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

Donald Deardorff

Carl F. Braun Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Kinesiology (1981-2015)

B.S., Cal Poly 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., UC Berkeley

Stuart B. Elliott

Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1960-1992)

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

Alan Freeman

Professor Emeritus, Theater (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., UC Los Angeles

Robert Gottlieb

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

A.B., Reed College

Allen Gross

Professor of Music, Emeritus (1983- 2014)

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

John Hafner

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

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

Anne B. Howells

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

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

Alvin M. Hudson

Professor of Physics, Emeritus (1956-1987)

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

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., UCBerkeley; M.A., Stanford University

Clifton Kroeber

Norman Bridge Professor of Hispanic American History, Emeritus (1955-1990)

A.B., M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Frank L. Lambert

Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (1948-1981)

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

James H. Lare

Professor of Politics, Emeritus (1962-2002)

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

Herman A. Lauter

Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus (1963-1991)

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

Diana Card Linden

Professor, Cognitive Science; Emerita (1963-1991)

A.B., M.A., Ph.D. UC 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., UC Los Angeles

Rae McCormick

Professor of Education, Emerita (1977-2004)

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

Jacquelyn Ann McCoy

College Librarian, Emerita (1986-2001)

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

Michael Near

Professor, English, Emeritus (1988-2013)

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UC Berkeley

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; English, 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, 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

Jeffrey Tobin

Associate Professor, 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

Patrick H. Wells

Professor of Biology, Emeritus (1957-1991)

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

Jim Whitney

Professor, Economics, Emeritus (1982-2014)

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

Robert W. Winter

Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus (1963-1994)

A.B., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Esther Yau

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

Louise Yuhas

Professor, Art History & 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

Katie Grogan
Assistant Athletic Director of Operations

Joseph Gonzalez
Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Medicine

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 Wetmore
Head Coach, Baseball