1On leave fall 2019
2On leave spring 2020
3On leave 2019-20
Date denotes beginning of original term of service.
Professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors
Jack I. Abecassis
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.
Lise Abrams
Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2018. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Mark Allen
Professor of Art, 2005. B.F.A., Skidmore College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
Ori Amir
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, 2017. B.A., University of Haifa, Israel; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Samuel Anderson
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2019. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Tahir R.S. Andrabi3
Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics, 1988. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Andrejevic3
Professor of Media Studies, 2014. B.A., Williams College; M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.
Mukesh Arora
Visiting Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1998. B.S., University of Delhi, New Delhi; M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; Ph.D., West Virginia University.
Lisa Anne Auerbach2
Associate Professor of Art, 2009. B.F.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; M.F.A., Art Center College of Design.
Guadalupe Bacio3
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies, 2016. B.S., B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Aimee Bahng
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, 2017. A.B., Princeton University; M.A., Middlebury College; C.Phil, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Newshaw Bahreyni
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2019. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Albany SUNY.
Nicholas Ball
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2015. B.A., Macalester College; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Allan H. Barr1
Professor of Chinese, 1981. B.A., M.A., Cambridge University; D.Phil., University of Oxford.
Colin Beck1
Associate Professor of Sociology, 2009. B.A., Lewis & Clark College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.
Graydon Beeks1
Director of Music Programming and Facilities and Professor of Music, 1983. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Steve Bickham1
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men’s Tennis Coach, 2013. B.A., University of New Mexico; M.B.A., Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Eleanor Birrell
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2018. B.A., Harvard University; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University.
Patricia Blessing
Assistant Professor of Art History, 2016. M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Mieczyslaw Boduszynski2
Assistant Professor of Politics, 2013. B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Tony D. Boston
Associate Dean of the College, 2017. Associate Professor of Physical Education and Men’s Cross Country and Track and Field Coach, 2008. B.A., M.A., Whittier College.
Franny Brogan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2018. B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Eleanor Brown
James Irvine Professor of Economics, 1986. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Geoffrey Brown
Visiting Professor of Computer Science, 2020. B.S.Swarthmore College; M.S. Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
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.
Paul Cahill
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008. B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Jordan Carpenter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Interim Cross Country and Track and Field Coach, 2017. B.A., University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
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 Cavalcanti3
Professor of Biology, 2005. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Pernambuco.
Gabriel Chandler
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2010. B.S., California Lutheran University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Jennifer Chang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2019. B.F.A., New York University; M.F.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Arlen Chase
Visiting Professor of Anthropology, 2019. B.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
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 Chen
Professor of Computer Science, 2002. S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Clarissa Cheney
Associate Professor of Biology, 1997. A.B., Goucher College; M.Phil., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Eileen J. Cheng
Associate Professor of Chinese, 2003. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Angelina Yanyan Chin1
Associate Professor of History, 2006. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Christopher Chinn
Associate Professor of Classics, 2007. B.A., Reed College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.
Philip I. Choi3
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2006. B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Pey-Yi Chu1
Associate Professor of History, 2012. B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Mary Coffey
Senior Associate Dean of the College, 2016. 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.
Thomas Connelly
Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies, 2015. B.F.A., Long Island University; M.A., University of Vermont; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University.
Karina Corona
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, 2019. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Alfred W. Cramer
Associate Professor of Music, 1995. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Edward J. Crane III
Professor of Biology, 2002. B.S., St. Cloud State University; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
Bowman Cutter
Associate Professor of Economics, 2008. B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Ellie Dannenberg
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2017. B.S., University of Georgia; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois.
Grace Dávila-López3
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
Associate Professor of Economics, 2009. B.A., M.S., Bocconi University; M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
Vin de Silva
Professor of Mathematics, 2005. B.A., Cambridge University; D.Phil., Oxford University.
Kevin Dettmar
Director of the Humanities Studio, 2018. W.M. Keck Professor of English, 2008. B.A., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael Diercks
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2010. B.A., Houghton College; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University.
Donna M. Di Grazia1
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
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2010. B.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Erica Dobbs
Assistant Professor of Politics, 2018. B.A., Howard University; M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School, MA; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Malte Dold
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2019. B.A., M.A., University of Bayreuth; M.Ed, Ph.D., University of Freiburg.
Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes
Assistant Professor of Environmental Analysis, 2017. B.S., University of California, Riverside; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Virginie A. Duzer
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008. Maîtrise, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III; M.A., Kent State University; Ph.D., Duke University.
Anne Dwyer
Director, Oldenborg Center, 2018. Associate 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 Professor of Religious Studies, 2004. B.A., Ph.D., McMaster University.
Treva Ellison
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, 2020. B.A., M.A., University of Illinois; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Pierre Englebert
H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and Professor of Politics, 1998. Licence and Licence Spéciale, Université Librede Bruxelles; M.A., The John Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Ryan Engley
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, 2019. B.A., Bridgewater State University, M.A., University of Vermont; Ph.D., University of Rhode Island.
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.
Cécile Evers
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2018. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
JoAnne Ferguson
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Softball Coach, 2006. B.A., Shippensburg University; M.Ed., University of Virginia.
Torsten Fiebig
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2019. B.S., M.S., University of Göttingen; Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.
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 Flapan3
Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics, 1986. B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Peter Flueckiger
Professor of Japanese, 2003. B.A., Harvard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.
Meghan French
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men’s and Women’s Swim and Dive Coach, 2019. B.S., M.S.W., Springfield College.
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
Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, 2004. B.S., College of William and Mary; M.S., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.
Stephan Ramon Garcia
W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and 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.
Melissa E. Givens
Assistant Professor of Music, 2018. B.A., Davidson College; M.M., Rice University Shepherd School of Music; D.M.A., University of Houston Moores School of Music.
Dru Gladney
Professor of Anthropology, 2006. B.A., Westmont College; M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington.
Elizabeth Glater
Associate Professor of Neuroscience, 2014. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University.
Manisha Goel
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2013. B.A., M.A., University of Delhi; M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Ohio State University.
Edray Goins
Professor of Mathematics, 2018. B.S., M.A., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Stanford University.
Dalia Gomez
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2018. B.A., California State Polytechnic University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Riverside.
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 Psychological Sceience and Asian American Studies, 1995. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois.
Jean Paul Gowdy3
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach, 2011. B.A., Middlebury College; M.S., Springfield College.
Michael Green2
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2006. B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Greenberg1
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2015. B.A., Brown University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Marilyn Grell-Brisk
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2019. B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Université de Lausanne; Ph.D., Université de Neuchâtel
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. Grigsby2
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.
Heidi Haddad
Associate Professor of Politics, 2013. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Frances Hanzawa
Associate Professor of Biology, 1994. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Johanna S. Hardin
Professor of Mathematics, 2002. B.A., Pomona College; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Iyun Harrison
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2019. B.F.A., Julliard School; M.F.A., Hollins University.
Esther Hernandez-Medina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2019. B.A., M.A., Santo Domingo Institute of Technology; M.P.P., Harvard University; Ph.D., Brown University.
Maryann Hohn
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2019. B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Nicole Holliday
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2016. B.A., The Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University.
Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Associate Professor of Politics, 2011. B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Sharon Shih-jiuan Hou2
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.
Janice Hudgings
Seeley W. Mudd Professor of Physics, 2013. B.A., B.S., Swarthmore College; M.Sc., Oxford University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2019. B.A., Washington University; M.Sc., London School of Economics; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Eric A. Hurley
Associate Professor of Psychological Science 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.
Fabien Jammes
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2014. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Nice.
Robyn Jensen
Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Russian, 2019. B.A., Barnard College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.
Malkiat S. Johal
Professor of Chemistry, 2006. B.Sc., University of Warwick; Ph.D., University of Cambridge.
Karl G. Johnson
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Professor of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology, 2005. B.A., Grinnell College; M.S., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Cambridge University.
Laura Johnson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2014. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Kirk Jones3
Athletic Trainer and Professor of Physical Education, 1980. B.A., Chapman College; M.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
Gizem Karaali
Professor of Mathematics, 2006. B.Sc., Bogaziçi University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Nina J. Karnovsky
Willard George Halstead Zoology 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 Kates2
H. Russell Smith Foundation Professor of History, 2001. B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Mihoko Kato
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2018. B.A., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Charles Katsiaficas
Professor of Physical Education and Men’s Basketball Coach, 1989. B.S., Tufts University; M.Ed., Azusa Pacific University.
David Kauchak
Associate Professor of Computer Science, 2014. B.S., University of Utah; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Katrina Keil
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, 2011. B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona, Tucson.
Benjamin Keim
Associate Professor of Classics, 2011. B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of London; M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge.
Arash Khazeni
Associate Professor of History, 2010. B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University.
Evan Kindley
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2018. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., University College London; Ph.D. Princeton University.
Jonathan King
Director and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2009. B.S., California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D., Cornell University.
Jordan Kirk
Associate Professor of English, 2013. B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Konstantine Klioutchkine
Associate Professor of German and Russian, 2002. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Niree Kodaverdian
Visiting Assistant Professor in Economics, 2017. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Michael Kuehlwein1
George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics, 1987. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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.
Alex La
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Men and Women’s Water Polo Coach, 2020. B.A., M.B.A., University of La Verne.
Jade Star Lackey
Associate Professor of Geology, 2007. B.A., Middlebury College; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Tom Le
Assistant Professor in Politics, 2015. B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Thomas G. Leabhart
Resident Artist and Professor of Theatre, 1982. B.A., Rollins College; M.A., University of Arkansas.
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.
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
Richard Stephen Lewis
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological Science, 1985. B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Michigan State University.
Zhao Li
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2019. B.S., Wu Yuzhang Honors College, Sichuan University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
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
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2012. B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University.
Marc Los Huertos
Stephen M. Pauley M.D. ‘62 Associate Professor of Environmental Analysis, 2014. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Fernando A. Lozano3
Professor of Economics, 2004. B.A., University of San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.
Joyce J. Lu
Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2008. B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley.
Stephen V. Marks
Elden Smith Professor of Economics, 1982. B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Princeton University.
Daniel Martínez
Professor of Biology, 1996. Licenciado, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Natalie Mashian
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2019. B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Harvard University
Sara Masland
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, 2017. B.A., Bowdoin College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.
Richard J. Mawhorter1
Professor of Physics, 1989. B.Sc., Wheaton College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
April J. Mayes
Associate Professor of History, 2006. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Richard D. McKirahan Jr.2
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
Professor of Politics, 2006. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Robin Melnick
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2016. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, Stanford 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 Associate Professor of Biology, 2012. B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., Humboldt State; Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Char Miller
Director of Environmental Analysis and W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, 2007. B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University.
Jessie A. Mills
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2018. B.A., New York University; M.A.,Northwestern University; M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon 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. Moore2
Professor of Physics, 1987. B.A., Carleton College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.
Jorge Moreno
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2017. MSc., Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
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.
Claire Nettleton
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2016. B.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Sok Keng Lilian Zhiru Ng
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.
Joanne Nucho
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, 2016. B.F.A., New York University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Gilda Ochoa
Professor of Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1997. B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Daniel O’Leary
Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, 1994. B.A., Linfield College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Sara Olson
Associate Professor of Biology, 2012. B.A., Lawrence University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Michael O’Malley
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.
Joseph C. Osborn
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2018. B.S., Rochester Institute of Technology; M.F.A., University of Southern California; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Giovanni Ortega3
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2016. B.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles.
Alexandra Papoutsaki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2017. B.Sc., Athens University; M.Sc., Ph.D., Brown University.
Karen Parfitt3
Professor of Neuroscience, 1994. B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Mary Paster3
Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2006. B.A., Ohio State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Adam Pearson
Associate Professor of Psychological Science, 2011. B.S., Cornell University; M.A., University of Connecticut; M.S., Ph.D., Yale University.
John Pennington
Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, 1998. B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; M.F.A, Hollins University.
Frank L. Pericolosi
Professor of Physical Education and Head Baseball Coach, 2003. B.A., Williams College; M.Ed., Springfield College.
Laura Perini
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2007. B.S., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Maria Prokopenko
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology, 2014. B.S., Moscow State University, Russia; B.A., Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, Russia; M.S., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Sarah Queener
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Lacrosse Coach, 2017. B.A., Yale University; M. Ed., University of La Verne.
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.
Lynn Rapaport
Henry Snyder Professor of Sociology, 1989. B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Columbia University.
Carolyn Ratteray3
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, 2016. B.F.A., New York University; M.F.A., University of San Diego.
Linda A. Reinen1
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.
Larisa Reznik
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2019. B.A., Bowdoin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Hans J. Rindisbacher
Professor of German and Russian, 1995. Licentiatus Philosophiae, M.A., University of Bern, Switzerland; Ph.D., Stanford University.
Joti Rockwell2
Associate Professor of Music, 2007. B.S., Haverford College; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Alexander J. Rodriguez2
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Men’s and Women’s Water Polo Coach, 2005. B.A., M.A., Pepperdine University.
Colleen Rosenfeld
Associate 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
Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics, 1991. B.S., B.A., Humboldt State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Erin Runions3
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. Sazinsky1
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2007. B.S., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jennifer Scanlon
Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Soccer Coach, 2003. B.A., Macalester College; M.S., University of New Hampshire.
Gibb Schreffler
Assistant Professor of Music, 2015. B.A., Ithaca College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.
Judith Sclafani
Visiting Instructor of Geology, 2019. B.S., College of William and Mary; M.S., University of Georgia; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.
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. Selassie2
Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, 1990. B.A., Mount St. Mary’s College; M.A., Duke University; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Lenny Seligman2
John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Biology, 1996. B.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of Washington.
Robert Sirvent
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, 2019. B.A., Hope International University; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; J.D., University of Maryland School of Law; Ph.D., London School of Theology.
Shahriar Shahriari
William Polk Russell Professor of Mathematics, 1989. B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Prageeta Sharma
Professor of English, 2019. B.A., Simon’s Rock College; M.A., New School for Social Research; M.F.A., Brown University.
Anthony Shay
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 Sher1
Associate Professor of Psychological Science, 2012. B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Blerta Shtylla
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2013. B.S., Lafayette College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Victor I. Silverman3
Professor of History, 1993. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Patricia Smiley
Professor of Psychological Science, 1989. B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Darryl A. Smith
Associate 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.
G. Gabrielle Starr
President. Professor of English and Neuroscience, 2017. B.A., M.A., Emory University; Ph.D., Harvard University.
Michael D. Steinberger
Associate Professor of Economics, 2004. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sharon Stranford
Professor of Biology, 2014. B.A., Arcadia University; Ph.D., Drexel 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 Professor of Japanese, 1990. B.A., M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
David Tanenbaum
Associate Dean of the College, 2019. Professor of Physics, 1997. B.S., Harvey Mudd College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.
Julie Tannenbaum
Associate 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 Teixido
Loren Barton Babcock Miller Fine Arts Professor, 1995. B.A., Wake Forest University; M.F.A., University of Arizona.
Hung Cam Thai3
Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, 2006. B.A., University of Florida; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Peter B. Thielke
Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy, 2001. A.B., Stanford University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Valorie Thomas
Phebe Estelle Spalding 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.
Miguel Tinker Salas
Leslie Farmer Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies, 1993. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, 2004. B.A., York University; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Stanford University.
Valerie Townsend
Professor of Physical Education and Head Volleyball Coach, 2000. B.S., California State University, Bakersfield; M.S., Saint Mary’s College.
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré3
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, 2016. B.A., University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal; M.A., University of Lille III, France; Ph.D., University of Sorbonne-Paris IV.
Jody Valentine
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, 2019. B.A., Evergreen State College; B.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Christopher Van Ginhoven Rey
Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2015. B.A., Pomona College; A.M., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
John Walsh
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Football Coach, 2017. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Tufts University.
Jennifer Ward-Batts
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2017. B.A., University of North Carolina; Ph.D., University of Washington
Nicole Weekes3
Harry S. and L. Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychological Science and Professor of Neuroscience,1998. B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Dwight Whitaker
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2007. B.S., University of Connecticut; Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University.
Heather Williams
Professor of Politics, 1998. B.A., Amherst College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University.
Kara Wittman
Director of College Writing and Assistant Professor of English, 2016. B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.
Kenneth Baxter Wolf3
John Sutton Miner Professor of History and Professor of Classics, 1985. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University.
Richard K. Worthington
Professor of Politics, 1990. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon.
Jonathan Wright2
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.
Melanie Wu
Professor of Computer Science, 2015. B.S., M.S., Peking University; M.S., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Kevin Wynter
Assistant Professor of Media Studies, 2018. B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., York University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Feng Xiao
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, 2015. B.A., M.Ed., Beijing Language and Culture University; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University.
Samuel Hideo Yamashita2
Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, 1983. B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Michelle Zemel1
Associate Professor of Economics, 2012. B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Tel Aviv University, Israel; Ph.D., New York University.
Jing Zhou
Visiting Assistant Professor in Asian Languages and Literatures, 2018. B.A., M.A., Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China; Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa.
Arely Zimmerman
Assistant Professor of Intercollegiate Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, 2018. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Megan Zirnstein
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 2019. B.A., University of Memphis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Alma C. Zook
Professor of Physics, 1982. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Instructors
Elijah Quetin
Visiting Instructor in Physics and Astronomy, 2015. B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lecturers
Joseph Addington
Lecturer in Music, 2008.
Nani Agbeli
Lecturer in Music, 2016.
Greg Antill
Lecturer in Philosophy, 2019. B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Jonathan Campbell
Lecturer in Music, 2019. B.A., Luther College; M.A., Luther Seminary; D.M.A., North Dakota State University.
Zaylin Cano
Lecturer in Dance, 2016. B.A., Kent University, England; M.A., California State University, San Bernardino.
Barb Catlin
Lecturer in Music, 2012. B.S., Grand Canyon University; M.A., Arizona State University.
Bana Dahi
Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019. B.S., Damascus University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D. expected, Middlebury College.
Julie Dale
Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literatures, 2019. B.A., M.A., Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Monica French
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2011. B.A., Pitzer College; M.F.A., California State University, Fullerton.
Kim Gadlin
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2003. B.A., Pitzer College.
Ryan Hay
Lecturer in Philosophy, 2019. A.B., Washington University in Saint Louis; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Joshua Herr
Lecturer in History, 2020. B.A. Wheaton College; M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Christina Hurtado-Pierson
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2017. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., The University of Manchester; M.F.A., Columbia University.
Meg Jolley
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 1994. B.A., Pomona College; M.S., University of Illinois.
Jennie Jung
Lecturer in Music, 2013. B.M., University of Toronto; M.M., Yale University; D.M.A., Julliard School.
John Jurewitz
Lecturer in Economics, 1984. B.A., University of San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Mark Kampe
Lecturer in Computer Science, 2015. B.S., M.S., University of California, Los Angeles.
Manfred Keil
Lecturer in Economics, 2016. M.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.S., Ph.D., University of London, England.
Victoria Koenig
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 1994. Training with Maracci, Kreel, Lichine, and the Eliot Feld Ballet.
Tamaki Terada Landis
Lecturer in Asian Languages and Literatures, 1998. B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.A., San Francisco State University.
Sarah MacLean
Lecturer in Environmental Analysis, 2019. B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Karin Mak
Lecturer in Intercolegiate Department of Asian American Studies, 2018. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jessica Martinez-Tebbel
Lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies, 2019. B.A., Metropolitan State University; M.S., Minnesota State University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Mary Michele Miner
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2017. B.S., Southern Illinois University.
Nicole Moore
Lecturer in Geology, 2018. B.S., University of Nebraska, Omaha; M.S., Western Washington University; Ph.D. Oregon State University.
Graham Odell
Lecturer in International Relations, 2018. B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
June O’Leary
Lecturer, 2019. B.S., Purdue University; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Harvard School of Public Health; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Dhiren Panikker
Lecturer in Intercolegiate Department of Asian American Studies, 2019. B.M., California State University, Fullerton; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D. expected, University of California, Riverside.
Zdravko Planinc
Lecturer in Religious Studies, 2020. B.A., M.A., York University; Ph.D., Harvard University.
Elm Pizarro
Lecturer in Dance, 2016. B.A., University of Washington.
Rose Portillo
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2014. B.A., Pomona College.
Meagan Prahl
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2016. B.A., Case Western Reserve University; M.F.A., Brown University.
Ann Quinley
Lecturer in Politics, 1992. B.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Stanford University.
Nicolette Rohr
Lecturer in History, 2019. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside.
Jennifer Schulz
Lecturer in Dance, 2018. B.A., Penn State University; M.F.A., University of South Carolina.
Benjamin Schlau
Lecturer in Environmental Analysis, 2019. B.A., College of Charleston; B.S., Portland State University; M.S., Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Irvine.
Amanda Stuart
Lecturer in Theatre and Dance, 2019. B.A., California State, Fullerton; M.F.A., Penn State University.
Oscar Ulloa
Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2019. B.A, University of California, Riverside; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Riverside.
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.
Masahiro Yamada
Lecturer in Philosophy, 2019. A.B., M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., New York University.
Zilong Ye
Lecturer in Computer Science, B.S., Shandong University; M.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo.
Nyoman 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.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Christina Bejarano
Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, 2018. B.A., M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.
Rosalia Romero
Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, 2019. B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University.
John Favreau
Post-MFA Fellow in Theatre and Dance, 2017. B.A., Arizona State University; M.F.A., California State University, Fullerton.
Performance Music Faculty
Carolyn Beck
Bassoon, 2002. B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.M., Yale University; D.M.A., Manhattan School of Music.
Tamara Bevard
Voice, 2017. B.M., DePaul University 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.
Francisco J. Castillo
Oboe, 2003. B.A. and Licenciatura, University of Costa Rica; M.M., University of Southern California.
Connie Deeter
String bass, 2014. B.M., M.M., Julliard School.
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, 2001. 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.
Scott Graff
Voice, 2016. B.A., Occidental College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
Jennie Jung
Piano, 2013. B.M., University of Toronto; M.M., Yale University; D.M.A., Julliard School.
Aron Kallay
Piano, 2011. B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.M., University of Michigan; D.M.A., University of Southern California.
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
Voice, 2008. B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Eastman School of Music.
Scott Lehmkuhl
Voice, 2017. B.A., M.M., University of California, Los Angeles.
Danielle Ondarza
Horn, 2010. B.M., University of Southern California.
Maggie Parkins
Cello, 2016. B.M., Eastman School of Music; D.M.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Todor Pelev
Violin, 1995. B.M., Sofia Conservatory of Music, Bulgaria; M.M., D.M.A., Eastman School of Music.
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.
Jason Yoshida
Guitar, 2008. B.M., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.M., D.M.A., University of Southern California.
Phillip Young
Piano, 2001. B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Peabody Conservatory of Music; D.M.A., University of Southern California.
Oldenborg Center Language Residents
Chinese: Ruirui Zhang
M.A., Beijing Foreign State University
French: Marie Segura
B.A., University of Nantes
German: Timan Vietor
B.A. expected, June 2020, University of Freiburg
Japanese: Makiko Saigo
B.A., International Christian University
Russian: Mariia Glukhova
B.A., St. Petersburg State University and Bard College
Spanish: Blanca Barranco Lafuente
M.A., Universidad de Granada
Spanish: Katherine Pérez Guttiérez
B.A., Universidad de Chile
Africana Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges
Laura Harris
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.
Marie-Denise Shelton
Professor of French Language and Literature, Claremont McKenna College, 1977. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Maryan Soliman
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Scripps College, 2016. B.A., University of California at Berkeley; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
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
Associate Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College, 2008. B.A., Spelman College; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University.
Lako Tongun
Associate Professor of International and Intercultural Studies and Political Studies, Pitzer College, 1988. B.A., St. Mary’s College of California; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis.
Vanessa Tyson
Assistant Professor of Politics, Scripps College, 2015. B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Sheila Walker
Professor of Psychology, Scripps College, 1993. B.A., American University; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Cornell University.
Asian American Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges
Jih-Fei Cheng1
Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Scripps College, 2015. Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Wendy Cheng
Associate Professor of American Studies, Scripps College, 2016. Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Stacey Doan
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 2015. Ph.D., Cornell University.
Alfred Flores
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, Harvey Mudd College, 2018. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Todd Honma
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Pitzer College, 2012. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Wei-Chin Hwang
Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, 2003. B.A., University of Utah; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Azamat Junisbai
Associate Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College, 2009. Ph.D., Indiana University
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.
Warren Liu2
Associate Professor of English, Scripps College, 2009. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of Iowa.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College, 2001. B.A., Columbia University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts.
Tamara Venit-Shelton
Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College, 2012. B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford 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. Yep2
Professor of Asian American Studies, Pitzer College, 2004. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Faculty at Other Claremont Colleges
Rita Cano Alcalá
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Scripps College, 1995. B.A., University of Texas, San Antonio; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Texas.
Martha Gonzalez
Assistant Professor of Chicana/o - Latina/o Studies, Scripps College, 2013. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle.
Maria Soldatenko
Associate Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Transnational Studies, Pitzer College, 1998. B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Emeriti Faculty and Staff
C. Freeman Allen
Professor of Chemistry, 1954; Emeritus, 1994. B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Masago Armstrong
Registrar, 1955; Emerita, 1985. B.A., M.A., Stanford University.
Jay David Atlas
Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1972; Emeritus, 2014. A.B., Amherst College; Ph.D., Princeton 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.
David W. Becker
Associate Professor of Biology, 1986; Emeritus, 2016. B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
Lisa Beckett
Professor of Physical Education and Senior Woman Administrator, 1987; Emerita, 2018. B.A., Sonoma State University; M.S., Washington State 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.
Ralph Bolton
Professor of Anthropology, 1972; Emeritus, 2015. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University.
Deborah Burke
Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, 1977; Emerita, 2018. B.A., Barnard College; Ph.D., Columbia University.
Laurie Cameron
Professor of Theatre and Dance, 1991; Emerita, 2017. B.A., Connecticut College; M.A., Columbia University.
Sherwin Carlquist
Professor of Botany, 1976; Emeritus, 1992. B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Roger Caron
Professor of Physical Education and Head Football Coach, 1994; Emeritus, 2017. A.B., Harvard College; M.Ed., North Adams State College.
Kathleen T. Connell
Professor of Physical Education and Women’s Basketball Coach, 1996; Emerita, 2017. B.S., M.S., Springfield College.
Cecilia Conrad
Vice President and Dean of the College, 2009; Professor of Economics, 1995. Emerita, 2013. A.B., Wellesley College; A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University.
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.
Elizabeth Crighton
Professor of Politics, 1975; Emeritus, 2017. B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; Ph.D., University of North Carolina.
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.
Richard H. Elderkin
Professor of Mathematics, 1974; Emeritus, 2013. B.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder.
David Elliott
Professor of Politics, 1977; Emeritus, 2013. B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., Cornell University.
Judson J. Emerick
Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Art History, 1973; Emeritus, 2015. B.A., Hope College; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Fass
Vice President for Planning, 1990. B.E., The Cooper Union; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin.
Leo J. Flynn
Professor of Politics, 1967; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., San Jose State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lorn 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.
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.
Sandy Grabiner
Professor of Mathematics, 1974; Emeritus, 2014. B.A., Rice University; Ph.D., Harvard University.
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.
Richard W. Hazlett
Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology, 1987; Emeritus, 2015. B.A., Occidental College; A.M., Dartmouth College; Ph.D., University of Southern California.
Robert D. Herman
Professor of Sociology, 1960; Emeritus, 1998. B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Laura L. Mays Hoopes
Vice President and Dean of the College, 1993-1998; Professor of Biology, 1993; Emeritus, 2015. A.B., Goucher College: Ph.D., Yale University; L.H.D., Goucher College.
Jerry Irish
Vice President and Dean of the College, 1986-1993; Professor of Religion and Religious Studies, 1986; Emeritus, 2011. B.A., Cornell University; B.D., Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., Yale University.
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.
Sidney Lemelle
Professor of History and Africana Studies, 1986; Emeritus, 2016. B.A., M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
James D. Likens
Professor of Economics, 1969; Emeritus, 2015. A.B., M.B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
Lee Cameron McDonald
Vice President and Dean of the College, 1970-1975; 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.
David W. Oxtoby
President, 2003; Emeritus, 2017. B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Hans C. Palmer
Vice President and Dean of the College, 1998-2001; Professor of Economics, 1962; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
William J. Peterson
Professor of Music and College Organist, 1979. B.M., B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Sheila Pinkel
Professor of Art, 1986. Emerita, 2013. B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles.
Thomas C. Pinney
Professor of English, 1962; Emeritus, 1997. B.A., Beloit College; Ph.D., Yale University.
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.
Burdette C. Poland
Professor of History, 1958; Emeritus, 1989. B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.
Leonard C. Pronko
Professor of Theatre, 1957; Emeritus, 2014. B.A., Drury College; M.A., Washington University; Ph.D., Tulane University.
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.
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.
Suzanne C. Thompson
Professor of Psychology, 1982; Emeritus, 2014. B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
Robert L. Woods Jr.
Professor of History, 1974. Emeritus, 2013. B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Frank C. Wykoff
Professor of Economics, 1968; Emeritus, 2008. B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
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: A. Cramer (fall), A. Chin (spring)
On Downing Exchange: A. Khazeni, J. Kirk
On Fulbright Fellowships: J. Abecassis, J. Friedlander, Z. Kassam, S. Olson, M. Boduszynski, G. Kates
On Goldwater/Science Fellowships: M. Johal
On Truman Scholarships: R. Worthington
On Udall Fellowships: H. Rindisbacher, Wright
On Thomas J. Watson Fellowships: M. Paster
Pre-Professional Advisors
Chemical Engineering: C. Taylor
Engineering: Zook
Health Science: Lewis
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