2021-2022 Catalog 
    
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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Faculty


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For more information about individual faculty members, view their Faculty Profile on the Claremont McKenna College website.

Year denotes year of appointment.

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Gautam Agarwal
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2021
B.S., University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Fazia Aitel
Associate Professor of French, 2005
D.E.A., Université Paris VIII; Ph.D., City University of New York

Asuman G. Aksoy
Crown Professor of Mathematics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 1987
B.Sc., University of Ankara, Turkey; M.S., The Middle East Technical University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Nicole Altamirano
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2006
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Heather Antecol
Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Boswell Professor of Economics, 2001
B.A., M.A., Queen’s University, Canada; Ph.D., McMaster University, Canada

Hilary Appel
Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, 1999
B.A., Williams College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Armstrong
Professor of Biology, 2003
B.S., New Mexico State University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, The Salk Institute

William L. Ascher
Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics, 2000
B.A., University of Michigan; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

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Amy R. (Hurshman) Babbes
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2015
B.S., Michigan Technological University; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Rima Basu
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2018
B.A., M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Southern California

George Batta
Associate Professor of Economics (Accounting), 2007
A.B., University of California, Berkeley; D.B.A., Harvard University

Dionne Bensonsmith
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2021
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D, Syracuse University

Murat Binay
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2011
B.S., Bosphorus University; M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

Gary R. Birkenbeuel
Visiting Lecturer of Economics (Accounting), 2016
B.A., Claremont McKenna College

David J. Bjerk
Russell S. Bock Professor of Economics, 2007
B.A., Carleton College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Michael Shane Bjornlie
Associate Professor of History, 2007
B.A., University of Alabama, Huntsville; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Mark Blitz
Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, 1996
A.B., Ph.D., Harvard University

Hicham Bou Nassif
Assistant Professor of Government (IR), 2018
B.A., Universite Libanaise, Lebanan; M.A. Universite Saint Paul de La Sagesse, Lebanon; M.A. Universite Saint Joseph; Ph.D., Indiana University

Craig Bowman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2001, 2004
B.S., Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Jordan Branch
Assistant Professor of Government (IR), 2020
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Kathleen Brown
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1999
B.A., M.A., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Sarah Budischak
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2018
B.S., Davidson College; M.S., Virgina Tech University; Ph.D., University of Georgia

Richard C. K. Burdekin
Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Economics, 1989
B.A., University of Warwick, United Kingdom; M.Sc., University of Bristol, United Kingdom; M.A., Ph.D., University of Houston

Jodie Rae Burton
Professor of Physical Education, Senior Woman Administrator, and Head Women’s Golf Coach, 1979
B.S., M.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Andrew Busch
Crown Professor of Government, and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2004
B.A., University of Colorado; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

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Sarah Cannon
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2018
B.A., Tufts University; M.Sc., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

Bethany Caulkins
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021
B.S., California State University, San Bernardino; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Pete Chandrangsu
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2018
B.S., University of California, Ivine; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Marjorie H. Charlop
Professor of Psychology, 1984
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

Hiram E. Chodosh
President and Professor of the College, 2013
B.A., Wesleyan University; J.D., Yale Law School

Esther Chung-Kim
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2011
B.A., Drew University; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Duke University

Jennifer Clark
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Soccer Coach, 2017
B.A., Dartmouth College

Lisa Forman Cody
Associate Professor of History, 1996
A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Henri Cole
Josephine Weeks Professor of Literature, 2015
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., University of Wisconsin; M.F.A. Columbia University

Melissa Coleman
Professor of Neuroscience, 2006
B.S., Samford University; Ph.D., The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Jay A. Conger
Henry R. Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies and Professor of Psychology, 2004
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.B.A., University of Virginia; D.B.A., Harvard University

Gabriel I. Cook
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2005
B.A., Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia

Mark A. Costanzo
Professor of Psychology, 1989
B.S., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Zachary Courser
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2014
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., University of Virginia, Ph.D., University of Virginia

Christine Crockett
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2010
B.A., Claremont McKenna College, M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Riverside

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Bana Marine Dahi
Visiting Instructor of French, 2019
B.A., Damascus University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach; DML Candidate, Middlebury College

Nishant Dass
Charles M. Stone Associate Professor of Finance, 2020
B.A., National Institute of Technology; M.S., University of Michigan, M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., INSEAD

Cory Davia
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2020
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David Day
Steven L. Eggert ‘82 Professor of Leadership and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2017
B.A., Baldwin Wallace University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Akron

Leland de la Durantaye
Professor of Literature, 2012
B.A., Michigan State University; M.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Cornell University

Yunhua Ding
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, 2021
B.S. Harbin Engineering University; M.S., Ph.D., Indiana University

Stacey Doan
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2015
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Brian Duistermars
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2019
B.S., University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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Gretchen Edwalds-Gilbert
Professor of Biology, 2000
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Cornell University Medical College/Sloan Kettering Institute

Gastón Espinosa
Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, 2004
M.Div., Princeton Seminary; M.Ed., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Mary F. Evans
Jerrine and Thomas Mitchell ‘66 Professor of Environmental Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2009
B.A., James Madison University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder

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Robert Faggen
Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, 1988
A.B., Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Ryan Fahey
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Soccer Coach, 2020
B.A., Claremont McKenna College

Matthew Faldyn
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2019
B.S., Ph.D., Louisiana State University

John C. Farrell
Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature, 1990
A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Jennifer Feitosa
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2018
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Central Florida

Heather L. Ferguson
Associate Professor of History, 2011
B.A., La Sierra University; M.A., University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Ricardo Fernholz
Associate Professor of Economics, 2011
B.A.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Elise Ferree
Professorial Lecturer in Biology, 2010
B.S., The College of William and Mary; M.S., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Patrick Ferree
Associate Professor of Biology, 2010
B.Sc., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.S., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Darren Filson
James G. Boswell Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2007
B.A., University of Saskatchewan, Canada; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester

Andrew Finley
Associate Professor of Economics (Accounting), 2015
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

Findley Finseth
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2016
B.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Cornell University, University of Montana

Jeffrey Allen Flory
Associate Professor of Economics, 2012
B.A., Reed College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park

Bassam K. Frangieh
Professor of Arabic, 2008
B.A., Damascus University, Syria; M.S., Ph.D., Georgetown University

Franck Fu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021

Lenoid (Lenny) Fukshansky
Professor of Mathematics, 2007
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin

G

Megan Gallagher
Visiting Instructor of Literature, 2018
B.A., M.A., University of Northern Iowa; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Ananda R. Ganguly
Morcos F. Massoud Associate Professor of Accounting and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2007
B. Commerce, University of Calcutta, India; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Gina Oaks Garcia
Assistant Professor of Physical Education, 2018
B.A., California State University, Fullerton

Marcie Gardner
Visiting Instructor of Government, 2019
B.A., University of Redlands; J.D., University of California at Davis

Julio Garin
Associate Professor of Economics, 2017
B.Sc., Universidat ORT; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Lily Geismer
Associate Professor of History, 2010
B.A., Brown University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Michael Gelman
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2017
B.A., Carnegie Mellon University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Gary Gilbert
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 1998
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Benjamin Gillen
Associate Professor of Economics, 2018
B.A., Yale University; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Sarah Gilman
Associate Professor of Biology, 2007
B.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Matthew Glassman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government (DC), 2018
B.A., Hamilton College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Carlos Enrique Gonzales
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2007
B.A., Brigham Young University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Gail Gottfried
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2021
A.B., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Scot A. C. Gould
Professor of Physics, 1991
A.B., Middlebury College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Laura Grant
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2016
B.A., M.S., Boise State University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Romina Akemi Green Rioja
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2021
B.A., San Francisco State University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Charles D. Griffiths
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Men and Women Swim Coach, 2001
B.A., Denison University; M.S.S., United States Sports Academy

H

Gary Michael Hamburg
Otto M. Behr Professor of European History, 2004
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University

Maija Harkonen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2018
B.A., University of Texas, Austin; M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University

Alison M. Harris
Cook-Ostby Associate Professor of Psychology, 2012
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Harvard University

Mary E. Hatcher-Skeers
Professor of Chemistry, 1998
B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.S., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Washington

Daniel Hayden
Professor of Military Science, 2020
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.S., Missouri University of Science and Technology; M.M.A., United States Army Command and General Staff College

Eric Helland
William F. Podlich ‘66 Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 1998
B.A., University of Missouri; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University

Esther M. Hernandez
Visiting Instructor of Spanish, 2002
B.S., University of Havana, Cuba; B.F.A., M.A., University of the Arts, Havana, Cuba

James C. Higdon
Professor of Physics, 1987
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Mark Huber
Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2009
B.S., Harvey Mudd College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Eric Hughson
Don and Lorraine Freeberg Professor of Economics and Finance, 2007
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Cynthia Ann Humes
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 1990
A.B., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Paul E. Hurley
Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy, 2006
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Bushra Hussain
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, 2021

Mioy Huynh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021

Wei-Chin Hwang
Professor of Psychology, 2006
B.A., University of Utah; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

I

Michael (Mike) Izbicki
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2019
B.S., United States Naval Academy; M.S., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D, University of California Riverside

J

Erica Perkins Jasper
William B. Arce Director of Athletics, Physical Education & Recreation and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2019
B.A.,M.Ed., Washington State University

Kyle Jay
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2015
B.S., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

Gabbrielle Michelle Johnson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2020
B.A., Ohio State University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Erin Jones
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2018
B.A., Scripps College; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Terril Jones
Visiting Lecturer of Government, 2015
B.A., Pomona College

K

Tomoe Kanaya
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2007
A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Chiu-Yen Kao
Keck Foundation Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science, 2011
B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Manfred W. Keil
Associate Professor of Economics, 1995
Zwischenpruefung, Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany; M.A., University of Texas; M.S., Ph.D., London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Charles R. Kesler
Dengler-Dykema Distinguished Professor of Government, 1983
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

Minju Kim
Professor of Korean, 2003
B.A., M.A., Yonsei University, Korea; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Yong Kim
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 2017
B.A., Trinity College, University of Cambridge; M.Sc., Ph.D., London School of Economics

Amy L. Kind
Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, 1997
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Lisa Langdon Koch
Assistant Professor of Government, 2016
B.A., Boston College; M.P.P., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Daniel A. Krauss
Professor of Psychology, 2000
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University; M.A., J.D., Ph.D., University of Arizona

James Kreines
Professor of Philosophy, 2007
B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

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Adam Landsberg
Professor of Physics, 1998
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Aaron M. Leconte
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2011
B.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute

Shana Levin
Crown Professor of Psychology, George R. Roberts Fellow, and Associate Dean of the Faculty, 1998
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Ran (Ron) Libeskind-Hadas
Founding Chair for Integrated Sciences and Professor of Computer Science, 2021
B.A., Harvard University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

William Lincoln
Associate Professor of Economics, 2015
S.B., A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D, University of Michigan

Daniel Livesay
Associate Professor of History, 2015
B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Seth Lobis
Associate Professor of Literature, 2007
B.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Dustin Locke
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2009
B.A., Texas Tech University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Greg Lonzo
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s and Women’s Water Polo Coach, 2006
B.S., Pepperdine University

Wendy Lower
John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2012
B.A., Hamilton College, M.A., Ph.D. American University, Washington D.C.

Philip A. Luck
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2021
B.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Frederick R. Lynch
Associate Professor of Government, 1991
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., University of Missouri; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

M

Joel Mackey
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2016
B.S., California State University, Bakersfield; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Florian Pascal Madison
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2019
B.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Basel, Switzerland

Matthew Magilke
Associate Professor of Economics (Accounting), 2010
B.S., MBA, St. Cloud State University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Adrienne M. Martin
Akshata Murty ‘02 and Rishi Sunak Associate Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2014
B.A., New York University; M.A., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chloe Martinez
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2015
B.A., Barnard College; M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. Boston University, M.F.A., Warren Wilson College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Sarah Marzen
Assistant Professor of Physics, 2019
B.S., Caltech; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Morcos F. Massoud
Robert A. Day Distinguished Professor of Accounting, 1980
B. Comm., M. Comm., Alexandria University, Egypt; M.B.A., Ph.D., New York University

Elizabeth Matsushita
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2021
B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A. San Francisco State University; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Peter J. McAniff
Visiting Lecturer in Economics (Accounting), 2015
B.A., Holy Cross College; J.D., UCLA School of Law; MBA UCLA Anderson School of Management

Donald A. McFarlane
Kenneth S. Pitzer Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, 1991
B.Sc., University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; M.Sc., Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Lisa Meulbroek
Fritz B. Burns Professor of Financial Economics, 2003
A.B., University of Chicago; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniel Merton Michon
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2007
B.A., Bowdoin College; M.Ed., John Carroll University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Kenneth P. Miller
Rose Associate Professor of State and Local Government, 2003
B.A., Pomona College; J.D., Harvard Law School; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Troy R. Mills
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2021
B.S., Iowa State University of Science and Technology; M.S., Iowa State University; M.P.H., M.A., Ph.D. (A.B.D.), University of Iowa

John G. Milton
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Professor of Biology, 2004
B.Sc., Ph.D. MDCM, FRCPC, McGill University, Canada

Kevin Moffett
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2013
B.A., University of Florida; M.F.A., University of Iowa

Jenna A. Monroy
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2016
B.Sc., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D., Northern Arizona University

James Morrison
Professor of Literature and Film, 2001
B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo

Mukasa Mubirumusoke
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, 2018
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., Boston College; Ph.D., Emory University

Marina Muncan
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Cross Country Coach, 2020
B.A., Villanova University

Stephanie Muravchik
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2014
B.A., M.A., University of Maryland, College Park; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Chanel Monet Murchison
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Basketball Coach, 2019
B.A., William & Mary; MBA, John Carroll University

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Christopher Nadon
Associate Professor of Government, 2006
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

V. Samuel Nelson
Professor of Mathematics, 2008
B.S., University of Wyoming; M.S., Ph.D., Louisiana State University

James H. Nichols
Dr. Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics and Professor of Government, 1979
B.A., Yale College; Ph.D., Cornell University

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Susanne Obdrzalek
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2006
B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Saman Olfati
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2014
B.A., M.A., Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Michael D. O’Neill
Professor of Mathematics, 2000
B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

I. Serkan Ozbeklik
Associate Professor of Economics, 2007
B.A., Marmara University, Turkey; M.A., University of Guelph, Canada; Ph.D., The Ohio State University

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Sooran Pak
Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean, 2021
B.A., Seoul Women’s University; M.A. Seoul National University; M.A., University of Buffalo, the SUNY; Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Ahona Panda
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2021
B.A., M.A., Jadavpur University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

Albert Park
Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies, 2007
B.A., Northwestern University: M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

Jeho Park
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2018
B.S., Incheon National University: M.S., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Blanford Chase Parker
Visiting Professor of Literature, 2019
B.A., Cornell College: M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Emily Pears
Assistant Professor of Government, 2015
B.A., Claremont McKenna College: M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

Roberto Pedace
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, 2015, 2017
B.A., California State University, San Bernardino; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Minxin Pei
Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2009
B.A., Shanghai International Studies University; M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Jonathan Petropoulos
John V. Croul Professor of European History, 1999
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

John J. Pitney, Jr.
Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, 1986
B.A., Union College; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Marion Ruth Preest
Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, 1999
B.Sc., Otago University, New Zealand; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University

Yunied Puig de Dios
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2020
Bsc., University of Havana, Cuba; M.S., Universita degli Studi di Padova and Universite Brodeaux I; Ph.D., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia and Universita degli Studi di Milano

Kathleen Purvis-Roberts
Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science, 2001
B.S., Westmont College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

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Fatos Radoniqi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2021
B.A., Whittier College; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Alex Rajczi
Deborah and Kenneth Novack ‘67 Professor of Ethics and Leadership and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2004
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Jay Ramesh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2021
A.B., B.S., Duke University; M.A., Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., Columbia University

Yaron Raviv
Associate Professor of Economics, 2004
B.A., M.A., Hebrew University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Catherine L. Reed
McElwee Family Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2007
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Ellen K. Rentz
Associate Professor of Literature and Associate Dean of the Faculty, 2009
B.A., Washington University; M.A., University of York, England; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Ronald E. Riggio
Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, 1996
B.S., Santa Clara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Colin Robins
Associate Professor of Environmental Science, 2012
B.A., Macalester College; M.S., Oregon State University; Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Shanna Rose
Alice Tweed Tuohy Associate Professor of Government, 2014
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Joshua Rosett
Curb Family Associate Professor of Business and Law and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2003
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Cristina Rosetti
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2021
B.A., California State University, Fullerton; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Ralph A. Rossum
Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism, 1984-91, 1994
B.A., Concordia College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

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Jeffrey Talley Salmon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2019
B.A., Furman University; M.A. Northern Illinois University, Ph.D., The Catholic University of America

Santiago Sandi-Urena
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021

Sarah Sarzynski
Associate Professor of History, 2013
B.A., University of Oregon; M.A. University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Maryland

Kenneth Scalmanini
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Basketball Coach, 1995
A.A., Santa Rosa Junior College; B.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.A., Azusa Pacific University

Jessamyn Schaller
Associate Professor of Economics, 2019
B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D. University of California, Davis

Lars Schmitz
Associate Professor of Biology, 2012
Vordiplom (B.Sc. equivalent); Diplom (M.Sc. equivalent), University of Bonn, Germany; Ph.D. University of California, Davis

S. Andrew Schroeder
Associate Professor of Philosophy, 2011
B.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., Harvard University

Thomas Schur
Lecturer of Literature, 2011
B.A., North Carolina State University; M.F.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David Schwarz
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Tennis Coach, 2014
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Cortland State University

Diana Selig
Kingsley Croul Associate Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2001
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Kevin Setter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, 2019
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Paul Settles
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Tennis Coach, 2003
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., University of Cambridge

Cameron Shelton
McMahon Family Associate Professor of Political Economy and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2008
B.S., A.B., Ph.D., Stanford University

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

Janet Sheung
Assistant Professor of Physics, 2019
B.S., California Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois

Jon A. Shields
Professor of Government, 2008
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Andrew Sinclair
Assistant Professor of Government, 2018
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.S. Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Aseema Sinha
Wagener Family Profsssor of Comparative Politics, Professor of Government (IR) and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2011
B.A., Lady Shri Ram College; M.A., M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Derik Jalal Smith
Associate Professor of Literature, 2018
B.A., The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., Northwestern University

Janet Kiholm Smith
Von Tobel Professor of Economics, 1996
B.S., University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Ulysses Sofia
Weinberg Family Dean of Science, Professor of Physics, George R. Roberts Fellow, and Dean of Keck Science, 2017
B.A., Wesleyan University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tessa Solomon-Lane
Assistant Professor of Biology, 2018
B.A., Vassar College; M.S., Ph.D., Georgia State University

Glenn Stewart
Assistant Professor of Physical Education, Head Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Coach, 2016
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles

Kyle Sweeney
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Football Coach, 2011
B.A., Occidental College; M.S., Illinois State University

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Zhaohua (Irene) Tang
Professor of Biology, 2001
B.S., State University of New York, Stony Brook; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Jennifer Morrison Taw
Associate Professor of Government (IR), 2006
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

James D. Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Accounting, 1981-1983, 1989
B.S.B.A., Georgetown University; M.B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., Wayne State University; CPA, California, Michigan

George Thomas
Wohford Professor in American Politicial Institutions and Professor of Government, 2007
B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Marie-Claude Thomas
Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, 2017
M.A., Ph.D., Universite de Paris

Sara Thompson
Visiting Assistant Professor (part-time), 2017
B.A., M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D., Colorado State University

Diane M. Thomson
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, 2004
B.S., University of Arizona; M. Phil, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Briana Toole
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2018
B.A., Florida State University; M.A., University of Sheffield; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

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Lauren Uhr
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach, 2015
B.A., Fairfield University

Sharda Umanath
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2015
B.A., Washington University, St. Louis; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University

Hou Ung
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2017
B.A., California State University, San Bernardino M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Peter Uvin
Professor of Government, 2015
Licences in Diplomatic and Political Science (M.A. equivalents), University of Ghent, Belgium; International Graduate School course certificate, University of Stockholm, Sweden; Ph.D. University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Piercarlo Valdesolo
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2011
B.A., Amherst College; M.S., Ph.D., Northeastern University

Norman Valencia
Assistant Professor of Portuguese, 2013
Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de los Andes; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Yale University.

Robert J. Valenza
Dengler-Dykema Professor of Mathematics and the Humanities, and Professor of Mathematics, 1988
B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Corinna Vallianatos
Visiting Instructor of Literature, 2019
B.A., University of Virginia, M.F.A., University of Arizona

Ethan Van Arnam
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2017
B.A., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Caltech

Ariel Vaughn
Visiting Assistnat Professor of Chemistry, 2021

Salvador Velazco
Associate Professor of Spanish, 1997
B.A., University of Guadalajara, Mexico; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Jamel Velji
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 2015
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., McGill University; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

Tamara Venit-Shelton
Professor of History, 2012
B.A., Amherst College, M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University

Kurt Vlasich
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Volleyball Coach, 2002
B.S., Pepperdine University

Robert von Hallberg
Professor of Literature, 2010
A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Stanford University

Angela Vossmeyer
Associate Professor of Economics, 2015
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Aditi Vyas
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2021

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William Walkenbach
Associate Professor of Physical Education and Head Baseball Coach, 2015
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Georgia State University

Chelsea Zi Wang
Assistant Professor of History, 2016
B.A., University of British Columbia; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Nicholas O. Warner
Professor of Literature, 1980
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Anna Wenzel
Professor of Chemistry, 2006
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Emily A. Wiley
Professor of Biology, 2002
B.A., Western Washington University; Ph.D., University of Washington

Branwen Williams
George R. Roberts Associate Professor of Environmental Science, 2011
B.Sc., University of Guelph; M.Sc., University of Quebec, Montreal; Ph.D., Ohio State University

Nancy B. Scott Williams
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2003
B.S., Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle

Sierra Williams
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021
B.S., Temple University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Kaitlyn Woltz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2021
B.A., Loyola University New Orleans; M.A., Ph.D. candidate, George Mason University

Helen Wong
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2018
B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Yale University

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Fan Yu
Gordon C. Bjork Professor of Financial Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2008
B.Sc., M.Sc., McMaster University, Canada; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University