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¹On leave or phased retirement Fall 2012
²On leave or phased retirement Spring 2013
³On leave or phased retirement 2012-13
Date denotes beginning of original term of service.

Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors

Jack I. Abecassis³
Edwin Sexton and Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Language Professor and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures,1990. B.A., San Francisco State University; Magistère, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne; Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Mark Allen
Associate Professor of Art, 2005. B.F.A., Skidmore College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.

Tahir R.S. Andrabi¹
Professor of Economics, 1988. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Arase³
Professor of Politics, 1989. A.B., Cornell University; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Mukesh Arora
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1998. B.S., University of Delhi, New Delhi; M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; Ph.D., West Virginia University.

Jay David Atlas
Peter W. Stanley, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1972. A.B., Amherst College; Ph.D., Princeton University.

Lisa Anne Auerbach³
Assistant Professor of Art, 2009. B.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; M.F.A., Art Center College of Design.

Allan H. Barr
Professor of Chinese, 1981. B.A., M.A., Cambridge University; D.Phil., University of Oxford.

Rita B. Bashaw
Director of Oldenborg Center and Assistant Professor of German and Russian, 2006. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

Colin Beck³
Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2009. B.A., Lewis & Clark College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.

David W. Becker¹
John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Botany and Associate Professor of Biology, 1986. B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.

Lisa Beckett
Professor of Physical Education and Senior Woman Administrator, 1987. B.A., Sonoma State University; M.S., Washington State University.

Graydon Beeks
Director of Music Programming and Facilities and Professor of Music, 1983. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Betty Bernhard²
Professor of Theatre, 1984. B.A., Western Michigan University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon.

Ralph Bolton³
Professor of Anthropology, 1972. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University.

Jessica L. Borelli³
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2009. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.

Tony D. Boston
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field Coach, 2008. B.A., M.A., Whittier College.

Pamela Bromley²
Assistant Director of College Writing and Assistant Professor of Politics/International Relations, 2011. B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Eleanor P. Brown
James Irvine Professor of Economics, 1986. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Kim B. Bruce
Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of Computer Science, 2005. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.

Everett L. Bull Jr.
Osler-Loucks Professor of Science and Professor of Computer Science, 1981. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Raymond Buriel
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychology and Professor of Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1977. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Deborah Burke
W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 1977. B.A., Barnard College; Ph.D., Columbia University.

Paul Cahill
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008. B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Laurie Cameron
Professor of Theatre and Dance and Coordinator of the Dance Program, 1991. B.A., Connecticut College; M.A., Columbia University.

Roger Caron
Professor of Physical Education and Head Football Coach, 1994. A.B. Harvard College; M.Ed., North Adams State College.

José R. Cartagena-Calderón²
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2006. B.A., Haverford College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Harvard University.

André Cavalcanti²
Associate Professor of Biology, 2005. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.

Gabriel Chandler³
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2010. B.S., California Lutheran University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Suzanne Chávez-Silverman
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1989. B.A., University of California, Irvine; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Tzu-Yi Chen³
Associate Professor of Computer Science, 2002. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Clarissa Cheney¹
Associate Professor of Biology, 1997. A.B., Goucher College; M.Phil., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Eileen J. Cheng³
Associate Professor of Chinese, 2003. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Angelina Yanyan Chin
Assistant Professor of History, 2006. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Christopher Chinn
Assistant Professor of Classics, 2007. B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.

Philip I. Choi
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2006. B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Pey-Yi Chu
Assistant Professor of History, 2012. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Mary Coffey
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1995. B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Nicki Cole
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2011. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kathleen T. Connell
Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Basketball Coach, 1996. B.S., M.S., Springfield College.

Cecilia Conrad
Vice President and Dean of the College, 2009; Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics, 1995. A.B., Wellesley College; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University.

Kevin Coogan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2011. B.S., Virginia Tech; B.S., College of Charleston; M.S., Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson.

Valerie Cowan
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Volleyball Coach, 2000. B.S., California State University, Bakersfield; M.S., Saint Mary’s College.

Alfred W. Cramer
Associate Professor of Music, 1995. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Edward J. Crane III³
Associate Professor of Biology, 2002. B.S., St. Cloud State University; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

Elizabeth Crighton
William A. Johnson Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, 1975. B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; Ph.D., University of North Carolina.

Bowman Cutter²
Associate Professor of Economics, 2008. B.A., Macalester College, M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Grace Dávila-López
Adjunct Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1991. B.A., University de Puerto Rico; M.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

N. Ann Davis
McConnell Professor of Human Relations and Professor of Philosophy, 1998. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Pierangelo De Pace³
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2009. B.A., M.S., Bocconi University; M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

Vin de Silva
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2005. B.A., Cambridge University; D.Phil., Oxford University.

Kevin Dettmar
W.M. Keck Professor of English, 2008. B.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Diercks
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2010. B.A., Houghton College; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University.

Donna M. Di Grazia
David J. Baldwin Professor of Music and Choral Conductor, 1998. B.A., M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis.

David Divita
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2010. B.A., Columbia University, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Anne Dwyer
Assistant Professor of German and Russian, 2007. B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Oona Eisenstadt
Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2004. B.A., Ph.D., McMaster University.

Richard H. Elderkin²
Professor of Mathematics, 1974. B.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.

David Elliott¹
H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and Professor of Politics, 1977. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Judson J. Emerick²
Loren Barton Babcock Miller Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Art History, 1973. B.A., Hope College; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Pierre Englebert
Professor of Politics, 1998. Licence and Licence Spéciale, Université Librede Bruxelles; M.A., The John Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Stephen A. Erickson
E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, 1964. B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.

Miriam Feldblum
Vice President and Dean of Students and Professor of Politics, 2007. B.A., Barnard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

JoAnne Ferguson¹
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Softball Coach, 2006. B.A., Shippensburg University; M.Ed., University of Virginia.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick³
Professor of Media Studies, 1998. B.A., M.F.A., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., New York University.

Thomas E. Flaherty
John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Music, 1989. B.A., Brandeis University; M.A., M.M., State University of New York, Stony Brook; D.M.A., University of Southern California.

Erica Flapan
Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics, 1986. B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Peter Flueckiger
Associate Professor of Japanese, 2003. B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Lorn S. Foster
Charles and Henrietta Johnson Detoy Professor of American Government and Professor of Politics, 1978. B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois.

Jennifer Friedlander
Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Associate Professor of Media Studies, 2003. B.A., Binghamton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

Robert R. Gaines
Associate Professor of Geology, 2004. B.S., College of William and Mary; M.S., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Stephan Ramon Garcia²
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2006. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Roberto Garza-López
Professor of Chemistry, 1992. B.S., Texas A&M; M.S., University of Texas, El Paso; Ph.D., University of Georgia.

Dru Gladney
Professor of Anthropology, 2006. B.A., Westmont College; M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.

George L. Gorse
Viola Horton Professor of Art and Professor of Art History, 1980. A.B., The Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University.

Sharon Goto
Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies, 1995. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois.

Jean Paul Gowdy
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach, 2011. B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Springfield College.

Sandy Grabiner
Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics, 1974. B.A., Rice University; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Hillary Gravendyk
Assistant Professor of English, 2009. B.A., Tulane University; M.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Green
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2006. B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Fred J. Grieman
Roscoe Moss Professor of Chemistry, 1982. B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Jill S. Grigsby
Associate Dean of the College, 2012; Richard Steele Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, 1983. Sc.B., A.M., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Eric Grosfils
Minnie B. Cairns Memorial Professor of Geology, 1995. B.S., College of William and Mary; M.S., Ph.D., Brown University.

Katherine Hagedorn³
Professor of Music, 1993. B.A., Tufts University; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University.

Jonathan Hall³
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, 2009. B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Frances Hanzawa
Associate Professor of Biology, 1994. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Johanna S. Hardin
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2002. B.A., Pomona College; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Jesse Harris
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2011. B.A., M.A., University of Chicago; M.Sc. Logic, Universiteit van Amsterdam; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Richard W. Hazlett
Stephen M. Pauley M.D. ’62 Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology, 1987. B.A., Occidental College; A.M., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Assistant Professor of Politics, 2011. B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Laura L. Mays Hoopes
Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology, 1993. A.B., Goucher College; Ph.D., Yale University; L.H.D., Goucher College.

Arthur Horowitz
Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2004. B.A., Hofstra University; Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Sharon Shih-jiuan Hou
Associate Professor of Chinese, 1981. B.A., National Taiwan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Kathleen Stewart Howe
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director of the Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History, 2004. B.S., Michigan State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico.

Glenn R. Hueckel
Adjunct Professor of Economics, 2001. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Eric A. Hurley
Associate Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies, 2007. B.A., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.A., Ph.D., Howard University.

Phyllis J. Jackson
Associate Professor of Art History, 1993. B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Joseph Jeon²
Associate Professor of English, 2011. B.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Malkiat S. Johal
Professor of Chemistry, 2006. B.Sc., University of Warwick; Ph.D., University of Cambridge.

Karl G. Johnson¹
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Biology, 2005. B.A., Grinnell College; M.S., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Cambridge University.

Kirk Jones
Athletic Trainer and Professor of Physical Education, 1980. B.A., Chapman College; M.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Gizem Karaali¹
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2006. B.Sc., Bogaziçi University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Nina J. Karnovsky
Associate Professor of Biology, 2004. B.A., Wesleyan University; M.S., Montana State University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Zayn R. Kassam
John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, 1995. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., McGill University.

Gary Kates
Professor of History, 2001. B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Charles Katsiaficas
Professor and Physical Education/Athletics Director, 1989. B.S., Tufts University; M.Ed., Azusa Pacific University.

Katrina Keil
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2011. B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson.

Benjamin Keim
Assistant Professor of Classics, 2011. B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of London; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge.

Arash Khazeni
Assistant Professor of History, 2010. B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.

Wha Sook Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2004. M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Jonathan King
Director and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2009. B.S., California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D. Cornell University.

Jason Kingsbury
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2012. B.A., Hamilton College; Ph.D. Boston College.

Konstantine Klioutchkine
Associate Professor of German and Russian, 2002. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Michael Kuehlwein
George E. and Nancy O.Moss Professor of Economics, 1987. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Fan-Ming Kung
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2004. B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., New York University.

Aaron Kunin
Associate Professor of English, 2005. A.B., Brown University; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Duke University.

Kyoko Kurita
Professor of Japanese, 1990. B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.

Alfred S. Kwok
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2000. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Yale University.

Jade Star Lackey
Assistant Professor of Geology, 2007. B.A., Middlebury College; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Thomas G. Leabhart
Resident Artist and Professor of Theatre, 1982. B.A., Rollins College; M.A., University of Arkansas.

Ann Lebedeff
Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Tennis Coach, 1998. B.A., M.A., San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Genevieve Lee
Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, 1994. B.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; Diplome Superieur d’ Execution, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris; M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University.

James A. Lehman
Visiting Professor of Economics, 2011. B.A., Davidson College; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University.

Sidney Lemelle
Professor of History and Africana Studies, 1986. B.A., M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Anthony Lepore
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, 2011. B.A., Fordham University; M.F.A., Yale University.

Jonathan Lethem
Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English, 2011.

Rachel Levin
Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, 1991. B.S., Antioch College; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Rena Levitt
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2011. B.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Richard Stephen Lewis³
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, 1985. B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

James D. Likens
Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics, 1969. A.B., M.B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

Eric Lindholm
Professor of Music, 1995. A.B., Princeton University; M.M., Boston University; Artist diploma, Yale University.

Sherry Linnell
Resident Designer and Professor of Theatre, 1975. B.A., M.F.A., University of California, Irvine.

Jane Liu
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2012. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Fernando A. Lozano
Associate Professor of Economics, 2004. B.A., University of San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Joyce J. Lu
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2008. B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., University of Hawaii at Manoa; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.

Gwendolyn Lytle
Resident Artist and Professor of Music, 1984. B.A., Hunter College; M.A., New England Conservatory of Music.

Pardis Mahdavi
Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2006. B.A., Occidental College; M.I.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Paul Mann
Professor of English, 1987. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Stephen V. Marks
Elden Smith Professor of Economics, 1982. B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Princeton University.

Sylvia Martin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2012. B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Alma Martinez
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2006. B.A., Whittier College; M.F.A., University of Southern California; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Daniel Martínez
Professor of Biology, 1996. Licenciado, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Jonathan Matsui
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2009. B.S., University of Washington; Ph.D., Washington University.

Richard J. Mawhorter²
Professor of Physics, 1989. B.Sc., Wheaton College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.

April J. Mayes
Assistant Professor of History, 2006. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Jacob McDonie
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2012. B.A., Ohio University, Athens; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Richard D. McKirahan Jr.
Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy, 1973. A.B., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., M.A., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Susan J. McWilliams
Associate Professor of Politics, 2006. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

David Menefee-Libey
Professor of Politics, 1989. B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Wallace Meyer
Director of the Bernard Field Station and Assistant Professor of Biology, 2012. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Humboldt State; Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Char Miller
Director and W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, 2007. B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

Lynne K. Miyake
Professor of Japanese, 1989. B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Nivia Montenegro
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1980. B.A., University of Miami; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Jon Moore
Laboratory Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Biology, 2012. B.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Thomas A.G. Moore¹
Professor of Physics, 1987. B.A., Carleton College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Sandeep Mukherjee
Associate Professor of Art, 2006. B.Sc., Manipal Institute of Technology; M.S., University of California, Berkeley; B.F.A., Otis College of Art and Design; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles.

Maria Cristina Negritto
Director and Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, 2008. Licenciada, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Ph.D., Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center.

Margaret Nelson
Moseley Fellow, 2012. B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Sok Keng Lilian Zhiru Ng¹
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2000. B.A., National University of Singapore; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Neva Novarro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2012. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Gilda Ochoa
Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1997. B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Daniel O’Leary³
Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, 1994. B.A., Linfield College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael O’Malley
Associate Professor of Art, 2001. B.A., University of Notre Dame; B.F.A., New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University; M.F.A., Stanford University.

Sara Olson
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2012. B.A., Lawrence University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

David W. Oxtoby¹
President and Professor of Chemistry, 2003. B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Karen Parfitt³
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, 1994. B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Mary Paster
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2006. B.A., Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Adam Pearson
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2011. B.S., Cornell University; M.A., University of Connecticut; M.S., Ph.D., Yale University.

Bryan E. Penprase³
Frank Parkhurst Brackett Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1993. B.S., M.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Frank L. Pericolosi
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Baseball Coach, 2003. B.A., Williams College; M.Ed., Springfield College.

Laura Perini
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2007. B.S., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

William J. Peterson
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Music and College Organist, 1979. B.M., B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Melissa Petreaca
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2010. B.S., The Master’s College; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Alice Pigott
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2010. Licence Lettres Modernes, Maîtrise de Littérature Française, Université de la Sorbonne Paris IV; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

Sheila Pinkel³
Professor of Art, 1986. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles.

Frances Pohl
Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds ’56 Professor of Humanities and Professor of Art History, 1985. B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Virginie Pouzet-Duzer
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008. Maîtrise, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III; M.A., Kent State University; Ph.D., Duke University.

Leonard C. Pronko
Professor of Theatre, 1957. B.A., Drury College; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Tulane University.

Ami Radunskaya
Professor of Mathematics, 1994. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Sarah Raff³
Associate Professor of English, 2002. B.A., Ph.D., Yale University.

Claudia Rankine¹
Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English, 2006. B.A., Williams College; M.F.A., Columbia University.

Lynn Rapaport
Henry Snyder Professor of Sociology, 1989. B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Columbia University.

Arden Reed
Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English, 1979. B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.

Dara Rossman Regaignon
Director of College Writing and Associate Professor of English, 2005. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis University.

Linda A. Reinen
Associate Professor of Geology, 1995. B.S., M.S., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., Brown University.

Kirk Reynolds
Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Coach, 1990. B.S., Lewis and Clark College; M.S., Claremont Graduate University.

Hans J. Rindisbacher
Professor of German and Russian, 1995. Licentiatus Philosophiae, M.A., University of Bern, Switzerland; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Joti Rockwell
Assistant Professor of Music, 2007. B.S., Haverford College; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Alexander J. Rodriguez
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Men’s and Women’s Water Polo Coach, 2005. B.A., M.A., Pepperdine University.

Colleen Rosenfeld²
Assistant Professor of English, 2010. B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Larissa Rudova
Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor of Modern Languages and Professor of German and Russian, 1991. B.A., Pedagogical Institute, Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R.; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington

Adolfo Rumbos
Professor of Mathematics, 1991. B.S., B.A., Humboldt State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.

Erin Runions¹
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2005. B.M., University of British Columbia; M.C.S., Regent College; Ph.D., McGill University.

Ghassan Youssef Sarkis
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2002. B.S., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University.

Matthew H. Sazinsky
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2007. B.S., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jennifer Scanlon
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Soccer Coach, 2003. B.A., Macalester College; M.S., University of New Hampshire.

Gibb Schreffler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, 2012. B.A., Ithica College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

John E. Seery
George Erving Thompson Professor of Politics, 1990. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Cynthia R.D. Selassie
Professor of Chemistry, 1990. B.A., Mount St. Mary’s College; M.A., Duke University; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Lenny Seligman
Professor of Biology, 1996. B.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of Washington.

Shahriar Shahriari
William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics, 1989. B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Anthony Shay³
Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, 1997. M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Shlomo Sher
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2012. B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Marie Shurkus
Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies, 2011. M.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Ph.D., Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Victor I. Silverman
Professor of History, 1993. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia Smiley
Professor of Psychology, 1989. B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Darryl A. Smith
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2004. B.A., University of Nevada; M.Div., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Gary N. Smith
Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, 1981. B.S., Harvey Mudd College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Sara Owsley Sood
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2007. B.A., DePauw; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.

Michael D. Steinberger
Associate Professor of Economics, 2004. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard J. Stolzberg
Visiting Professor of Chemistry, 2010. B.S., Tufts University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Philip Streich
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, 2011.B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.
Associate Professor of History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 2006. B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

William Swartz
Professor of Physical Education and Soccer Coach, 1986. B.S., Southern Connecticut State University; M.B.A., Thomas College.

Kazumi Takahashi
Adjunct Associate Professor of Japanese, 1990. B.A., M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

David Tanenbaum
Professor of Physics, 1997. B.S., Harvey Mudd College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.

Julie Tannenbaum³
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2009. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Charles J. Taylor³
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2002. B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.

James Taylor
Professor of Theatre, 1991. B.A., Colorado College; M.F.A., Southern Methodist University.

Mercedes Teixido¹
Associate Professor of Art, 1995. B.A., Wake Forest University; M.F.A., University of Arizona.

Bruce R. Telzer
Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Science and Professor of Biology, 1979. B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Hung Cam Thai¹
Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, 2006. B.A., University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Peter B. Thielke³
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2001. A.B., Stanford University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

Lynn L. Thomas
Professor of Anthropology, 1976. A.B., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Valorie Thomas
Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies, 1998. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Suzanne C. Thompson
Professor of Psychology, 1982. B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Miguel Tinker Salas³
Arango Professor of Latin American History and Professor of History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1993. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

Kyla Wazana Tompkins³
Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, 2004. B.A., York University; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Friederike von Schwerin-High
Associate Professor of German and Russian, 2005. Zwischenprüfung, Universität Heidelberg; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts.

Helena M. Wall
Warren Finney Day Professor of History, 1984. B.A., Brandeis University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Margaret Waller
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1986. B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Junryo Watanabe
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Biology, 2011. B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Nicole Weekes
Associate Dean of the College, 2012; Professor of Neuroscience, 1998. B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Dwight Whitaker¹
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2007. B.S., University of Connecticut; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University.

Heather Williams
Associate Professor of Politics, 1998. B.A., Amherst College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Kenneth Baxter Wolf
John Sutton Miner Professor of Classics and History, 1985. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.

Robert L. Woods Jr.²
Professor of History, 1974. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard K. Worthington³
Professor of Politics and Coordinator of the Program in Public Policy Analysis, 1990. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon.

Jonathan Wright
Associate Dean of the College, 2011; William A. Hilton Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology, 1998. B.A., Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University; M.A., Ph.D., Oxford University.

Jianhsin Wu
Adjunct Professor of Chinese, 1990. B.A., Beijing Normal University; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, 1983. B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Louis Yu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2012. B.S., Queen’s University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Victoria.

Alma C. Zook¹
Professor of Physics, 1982. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Instructors

Louise Cosand
Visiting Instructor in Neuroscience and Psychology, 2012. B.A., Colgate University; Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern California.

Mariana Lazarova
Visiting Instructor in Physics and Astronomy, 2012. B.S., Sweet Briar College; M.S., Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Riverside.

Samantha Matherne
Visiting Instructor in Philosophy, 2012. B.A., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Riverside.

Gregory Ogin
Visiting Instructor in Physics and Astronomy, 2012. B.S., University of St. Thomas; Ph.D. candidate, California Institute of Technology.

Christelle Rolland
Visiting Instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005. License, Maîtrise, DEA, doctorat candidate, University of Paris, Sorbonne-Nouvelle.

Michelle Zemel
Instructor in Economics, 2012. B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Tel Aviv University, Israel; Ph.D. candidate, New York University.


Lecturers

Patrick Joseph Addington
Lecturer in Music, 2012.

Pablo Baler
Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2011. B.A., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Ted Bardacke
Lecturer in Environmental Analysis, 2005. B.A., Wesleyan University; M.S., Columbia University.

Peter Bergevin
Lecturer in Economics, 2005. B.S., Salem State College; M.S., Ph.D., Arizona State University.

Gayle Blankenburg
Lecturer in Music, 1994. B.M., Performer’s Certificate, M.M., Indiana University.

Bobby Bradford
Lecturer in Music and Director of Jazz Ensemble, 1974. B.M., Huston-Tillotson College; former sideman, Ornette Coleman Quartet.

Barb Catlin
Lecturer in Music, 2012. B.S., Grand Canyon University; M.A., Arizona State University.

Monica French
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2011.

Meg Jolley
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 1994. B.A., Pomona College; M.S., University of Illinois.

John Jurewitz
Lecturer in Economics, 1984. B.A., University of San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Mark Kampe
Lecturer in Computer Science, 2012. B.S., M.S., University of California, Los Angeles.

Manfred Keil
Lecturer in Economics, 2011. M.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.S., Ph.D., University of London, England.

Margaret L. Kemp
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2008. B.S., Northwestern University; MFA, The George Washington University.

Victoria Koenig
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 1994. Training with Maracci, Kreel, Lichine, and the Eliot Feld Ballet.

Ronald Kramer
Lecturer in Sociology, 2012. B.A., La Trobe University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Tamaki Terada Landis
Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literatures, 1998. B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.A., San Francisco State University.

Meredith Landman
Lecturer in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2009. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Hsin-Chieh Li
Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literatures, 2012. B.A.m M.A., National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

Andrew Long
Lecturer in Media Studies, 2011. B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

Melissa Manfull
Lecturer in Art, 2012. BFA, California State University, Long Beach; MFA, Concordia University.

Jennifer Nazareno
Lecturer in Asian American Studies, 2012. B.A., M.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, San Francisco.

Erin O’Brien
Lecturer in Psychology, 2012. B.A., University of MAry Washington; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Grduate University.

Susan Suntree
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2012. B.A., University of Arizona; M.A., University of Kent, Canterbury.

Loredana Vetere
Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy, 2012. M.A., University Federico II, NAples; Ph.D., University La Sapienza, Rome.

Walker Wells
Lecturer in Environmental Analysis, 2005. B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.C.R.P., California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.

Nanik Wenten
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 1999.

Nyomen Wenten
Lecturer in Music and Director of Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, 1999. Music and Dance Conservatory, Bali; National Academy of Dance, Jogyakarta; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Travis Wilkerson
Visiting Fellow in Media Studies, 2012. B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.

Rosten Woo
Lecturer in Art, 2012. B.A., Cornell University.

Hong Yao
Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literatures, 2003. B.A., Nanjing University.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Oluwakemi Balogun
Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, 2012. B.A., Pomona; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley.

Dashiell Fryer
Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematics, 2012. B.A., B.S., San Jose State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Anna Joo Kim
Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Analysis, 2011. B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Kevin Sea
Robbins Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry, 2011. B.A., Whitworth College; M.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
 

Performance Music Faculty

Carolyn Beck
Bassoon, 2002. B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.M., Yale University; D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music.

Gayle Blankenburg
Piano, 1994. B.M., Performer’s Certificate, M.M., Indiana University.

Gary Bovyer
Clarinet, 2008. B.A., San Jose State University; M.M., The Juilliard School.

Ray Burkhart
Trumpet, 2002. B.A., Occidental College; M.M., University of Southern California; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University.

Francisco J. Castillo
Oboe, 2003. B.A. and Licenciatura, University of Costa Rica; M.M., University of Southern California.

Theresa Dimond
Percussion, 1991. B.M., M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California.

Mary Dropkin
Harp, 1996. B.M., University of Southern California.

Ken Foerch
Saxophone, 2002. B.M., Michigan State University; M.M., Eastman School of Music; D.M.A., University of Southern California.

Cynthia Fogg
Viola, 1998. B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.M., University of Southern California.

Gregory Geiger
Voice, 2003. B.M., M.M., Michigan State University.

Phil Keen
Trombone, 2007. B.M., California State University, Long Beach; M.M., University of Michigan.

Stephen Klein
Euphonium and Tuba, 1979. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Eastman School of Music.

Ursula Kleinecke-Boyer
Voice, 2008. B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Eastman School of Music.

Margaret Kohn
Piano, 1970. B.A., Radcliffe College.

Roger Lebow
Cello, 1993. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.M., University of Southern California.

Danielle Ondarza
Horn, 2010. B.M., University of Southern California.

Todor Pelev
Violin, 1995. B.M., Sofia Conservatory of Music, Bulgaria; M.M., D.M.A., Eastman School of Music.

Holly Shaw Price
Voice, 2002. B.M., Oberlin College; M.M., University of Southern California.

Rachel Rudich
Flute, 1992. B.A., Goddard College; M.M., D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music.

Jack Sanders
Guitar, 1980. B.F.A., M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.

Sarah Thornblade
Violin, 2011. B.M., Indiana University; M.M., Northern Illinois University.

Fred Tinsley
String Bass, 1992. B.F.A., University of Connecticut; M.M., University of Redlands; member, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Jason Yoshida
Guitar, 2008. B.M., M.M., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Phillip Young
Piano, 2001. B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; D.M.A., University of Southern California.

Linda Zoolalian
Piano, 2008. B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California

Oldenborg Center Language Residents

Chinese: Jiangyun Zou
M.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University

German: Ulrich Ciesla
M.A., University of Regensburg

Japanese: Aki Kishihara
B.A., International Christian University

Russian: Anastasia Bobysheva
M.A., Saint Petersburg State University

Spanish: Zeltia Fucinos-Mosquera
B.A., University of Salamaca

Spanish: Mariana Jaimes
B.A., Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan
 

Africana Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges

Dipannita Basu
Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College, 1995. Ph.D., Manchester University.

Halford Fairchild
Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College, 1993. B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Laura Harris
Associate Professor of English and World Literature, Pitzer College, 1997. B.A., San Diego State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

Rita Roberts
Professor of History, Scripps College, 1987. B.S., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Damien Schnyder
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Scripps College, 2011. B.A., M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.

Marie-Denise Shelton
Professor of French, Claremont McKenna College, 1977. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Africana Studies Affiliates:

Fazia Aitel
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Claremont McKenna College, 2009. D.E.A, Université de Paris VIII; M.A., Ph.D., City University of New York.

Alicia Bonaparte
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College, 2009. B.A., Spelman College; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.

Marlene Daut
Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 2009. B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame.

Matthew Delmont
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Scripps College, 2009. B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University.

Linda Perkins
University Associate Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, 2003. B.S., Kentucky State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

KaMala Thomas
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Pitzer College, 2009. B.A., M.A., California State University, San Bernadino; M.S., MPH, San Diego State University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

Sheila Walker
Professor of Psychology, Scripps College, 1993. B.A., American University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Vincent Wimbush
Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, 1983. B.A., Morehouse College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Asian American Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges

Wei-Chin Hwang
Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College, 2003. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

YouYoung Kang
Associate Professor of Music, Scripps College, 2001. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas P. Kim
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Scripps College, 2000. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.

Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, 2001. B.A., Columbia University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.

Joseph Parker
Associate Professor of International and Intercultural Studies, Pitzer College, 1989. B.A., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Linus Yamane
Professor of Economics, Pitzer College, 1988. B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Kathleen S. Yep
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Pitzer College, 2004. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

David Yoo
Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College, 1994. B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.Div., Princeton Seminary; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.

Chicano/a Latino/a Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges

Rita Cano Alcalá
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Scripps College, 1995. B.A., University of Texas; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Texas.

Javier Galvez
Lecturer in Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1995.

Adrian Pantoja
Professor of Political Studies, Pitzer College, 2006. B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University.

Maria Soldatenko
Associate Professor of Gender and Feminist Studies, Pitzer College, 1998. B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Emeriti Faculty and Staff

Gerald M. Ackerman
Professor of Art, 1970; Emeritus, 1989. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

C. Freeman Allen
Professor of Chemistry, 1954; Emeritus, 1994. B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Martha E. Andresen
Professor of English, 1972; Emerita, 2006. B.A., B.S., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Yale University.

William DeW. Andrus
Professor of Zoology, 1960; Emeritus, 1991. A.B., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Masago Armstrong
Registrar, 1955; Emerita, 1985. B.A., M.A., Stanford University.

Anne H. Bages
Director, Oldenborg Center, 1988; Professor of Physical Education, 1959; Emerita, 2003. B.A., University of Illinois; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles.

Jon Dickson Bailey
Professor of Music, 1982; Emeritus, 2000. B.A., Northwestern University; M.Div., Drew University Theological School; M.A., University of California, Berkeley; D.M.A., Stanford University.

Alvin L. Beilby
Professor of Chemistry, 1958; Emeritus, 1998. B.A., San Jose State College; Ph.D., University of Washington.

Donald L. Bentley
Professor of Mathematics, 1964; Emeritus, 2001. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University.

Margery Smith Briggs
Professor of Music, 1943; Emerita, 1980. B.Mus.Ed., M.Mus., Chicago Musical College.

Sherwin Carlquist
Professor of Botany, 1976; Emeritus, 1992. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Toni Clark
Associate Professor of English, 1983; Emerita, 2011. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Edward W. Copeland
Professor of English, 1972; Emeritus, 2002. A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.

René Coppieters
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Linguistics, 1976; Emeritus, 2006. Licence, University of Louvain; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Virginia Crosby
Professor of Romance Languages, 1963; Emerita, 1984. B.A., Whittier College; M.A., The Claremont Graduate School; Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Penny Lee Dean
Professor of Physical Education, 1978; Emerita, 2005. B.A., Pomona College; M.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ed.D., United States Sports Academy.

Margaret H. Dornish
Professor of Religious Studies, 1969; Emerita, 2001. A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., The Claremont Graduate School.

Gordon K. Douglass
Professor of Economics, 1959; Emeritus, 1987. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

William L. Faust
Professor of Psychology, 1953; Emeritus, 1991. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.

Leo J. Flynn
Professor of Politics, 1967; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., San Jose State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.

Jürgen Froehlich
Director of the Stauffer Language Laboratory and Professor of German and Russian, 1975; Emeritus, 2004. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.

Alfred M. Gibbens
Vice President for Development, 1979; Emeritus, 1995. B.A., Franklin College; M.A., Butler University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; D.H.L., Yankton College; D.L.A., Mt. Marty College.

Marjorie Harth
Director and Chief Curator of the Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History, 1981; Emerita, 2004. B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Robert D. Herman
Professor of Sociology, 1960; Emeritus, 1998. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Norman P. Hines
Professor of Art, 1973; Emeritus, 2000. B.A., Pomona College; M.F.A., The Claremont Graduate School.

Jerry Irish
Professor of Religion and Religious Studies, 1986; Emeritus, 2011. B.A., Cornell University; B.D., Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., Yale University.

Morton C. Johnson
Director of Annual Giving, 1952; Emeritus, 1976. B.A., Pomona College.

Stanleigh Jones
Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, 1984; Emeritus, 2003. B.A., Virginia Military Institute; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Karl George Kohn
Professor of Music and Composer in Residence, 1950; Emeritus, 1994. A.B., A.M., Harvard University; L.H.D., Pomona College.

Lee Cameron McDonald
Professor of Government, 1952; Emeritus, 1990. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard University; LL.D., Pomona College.

Michael D. McGaha
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1970; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., University of Dallas; Ph.D., University of Texas.

Robert Mezey
Poet in Residence and Professor of English, 1976; Emeritus, 1999. B.A., University of Iowa; graduate study, University of Iowa and Stanford University.

Catalin D. Mitescu
Professor of Physics, 1965; Emeritus, 2012. B.Eng., McGill University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.

Patrick H. Mulcahy
Professor of Physical Education, 1969; Emeritus, 2007. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Hans C. Palmer
Professor of Economics, 1962; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Edwin Allen Phillips
Professor of Botany, 1948; Emeritus, 1980. B.A., Colgate University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Thomas C. Pinney
Professor of English, 1962; Emeritus, 1997. B.A., Beloit College; Ph.D., Yale University.

Burdette C. Poland
Professor of History, 1958; Emeritus, 1989. B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

John E. Quinlan
Director of Administrative Computing and Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1958; Emeritus, 1999. B.S., Marquette University; M.S., University of Arkansas; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ann G. Quinley
Vice President and Dean of Students and Professor of Politics, 1992; Emerita, 2007. B.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Stanford University.

Jerome J. Rinkus
Associate Professor of German and Russian, 1973; Emeritus, 2003. B.A., Middlebury College; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University.

Mike Riskas
Professor of Physical Education, 1961; Emeritus, 2003. B.S., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles.

Monique Saigal
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1965; Emerita; 2011. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Peter W. Stanley
President, 1991; Emeritus, 2003. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University; L.H.D., Occidental College; L.H.D., Rhodes College.

Wayne E. Steinmetz
Professor of Chemistry, 1973; Emeritus, 2007. A.B., Oberlin College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Robert F. Thorne
Curator of the Pomona College Herbarium, 1962; Emeritus, 1988. A.B., Dartmouth College; M.Sc., Ph.D., Cornell University.

Curtis W. Tong
Professor of Physical Education and Director of Athletics, 1983; Emeritus, 1998. B.A., Otterbein College; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University.

Roger E. Vogler
Professor of Psychology, 1967; Emeritus, 1992. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Michelle Wierson
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1992; Emerita, 2005. B.A., Furman University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia.

William O. Wirtz II
Professor of Biology, 1968; Emeritus, 2003. B.A., Rutgers University; graduate study, University of Florida; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Frank C. Wykoff
Professor of Economics, 1968; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Steven C. Young
Professor of English, 1967; Emeritus, 2004. B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.

Donald H. Zenger
Professor of Geology, 1962; Emeritus, 1999. B.S., Union College; M.A., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Advising

General Advisors

General Academic Advisor to Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors: Associate Dean of Students.
General Academic Advisor to International Students: Director of Oldenborg.

Scholarship/Fellowship General Advisors:

On Beinecke Fellowships: Friedlander.
On Jack Kent Cooke: O’Malley.
On Downing Exchange: Yamashita.
On Ford Diversity Fellowships: A. Martinez.
On Fulbright Fellowships: Goto, Kates, Leabhart, Rindisbacher.
On Goldwater/Science Fellowships: Johal.
On James Madison Fellowships: Silverman.
On Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships: Yamashita.
On NCAA Postgraduate Fellowships: Scanlon.
On Rockefeller Brothers Scholarships: Buriel.
On Truman Scholarships: Shahriari.
On Udall Fellowships: Miller.
On Thomas J. Watson Fellowships: Horowitz, Kunin.

Pre-Professional Advisors

Chemical Engineering: Kwok.
Education/Public School Teaching: Silverman.
Engineering: Zook.
Health Science: Sazinsky.
Pre-Business: Likens.