2023-2024 Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2023-2024 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

Benyamin Ahmadnia
Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2023 
B.Sc., University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran; M.Sc., Ph.D., Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Fazia Aïtel
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

Reginald Anderson
Post-Doctoral Fellow of Mathematics and Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2023
B.A., Colorado College; M.S., Ph.D., Kansas State University

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

Najah Azzouzi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, 2022
B.A., Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

B

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
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

Heidi Blocker
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2022
B.S., Texas State University, San Marcos; M.A., Ph.D., University of Denver

Hicham Bou Nassif
Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow, 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
Associate Professor of Government (IR), 2020
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Nicholas Buccola
Professor of Government, 2023
B.A., B.S., Santa Clara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

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

Brian D. Bullard
Visiting Lecturer of Economics (Accounting), 2023
B.A., Claremont McKenna College

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

Kevin R. Busch
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2023
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Oxford University

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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

Edward Cartee
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Soccer Coach, 2023
B.A., Trinity University 

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

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

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

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

D

Laura Dannhäuser
Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Kravis Leadership Institute and Visiting Assistant Professor of Leadership, 2023
B.Sc., German Sport University Cologne; M.A., Newcastle University, United Kingdom; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University 

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

Megan Davidson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2018
B.A., M.A., University of Northern Iowa; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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

Adriana di Bartolo-Beckman
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Silicon Valley Program, 2022
B.S., Northern Arizona University; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

Stacey Doan
Norwood and Frances Berger Professor of Psychology, Business, and Society, 2015
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Zachary Dodds
Visiting Professor of Integrated Sciences, 2023
B.A., M.S., Ph.D, Yale 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

Ioannis D. Evrigenis
Professor of Government, 2023
B.A., Grinnell College; M.Sc., London School of Economics & Political Science; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University

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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

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

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

Rachel Fenning
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2022
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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
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

Juliana Fillies
Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2022
B.A., M.A., University of Cologne, Germany; Ph.D., Arizona State University

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
Associate Professor of Biology, 2016
B.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Cornell University, University of Montana

Daniel Firoozi
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2023
B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Michael Fortner
Pamela B. Gann Associate Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2021
B.A., Emory University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

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

Joseph Frigault
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2021
B.A., Mount Allison University, Canada; M.A., University of British Columbia, Canada; Ph.D., Boston University

Franck Fu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021

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

G

Paul Gaffney
Visiting Associate Professor of Literature, 2022
B.A., Western Washington University, Bellingham; Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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

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

Julio Garín
Peter K. Barker ‘70 P’01 Associate Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, 2017
B.Sc., Universidat ORT; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

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

Michael Gelman
Associate 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 in Government in the Washington, D.C. Internship Program, 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

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

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

Nyree Gray
Visiting Lecturer of Economics (Accounting), 2023
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Southwestern Law School

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Juergensmeyer
Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, 2021
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana; M.Div, Union Theological Seminary; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

K

Emily Kan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2024
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

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

Jason Keller
Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Ecology, 2023
B.S., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

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

Ellen Ketels
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

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

Yong Kim
Henry Crown 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

Radhika Koul
Assistant Professor of Literature, 2023
B.A., Yale College; Ph.D., Stanford University

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

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

L

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

Jessica Laser
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2024
B.A., Brown University; MFA, University of Iowa; Ph.D. (expected 2024), University of California, Berkeley

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

Seth Lerer
Visiting Professor of Literature, 2024
B.A., Wesleyan University; B.A., M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., University of Chicago

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

Ran (Ron) Libeskind-Hadas
Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Biology and Founding Chair, 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
Professor of Philosophy, 2009
B.A., Texas Tech University; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Greg Lonzo
Associate 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.

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

Paul Christopher Manuel
Visiting Professor of Government in the Washington Program , 2023
B.A., M.A., Boston University; M.T.S., Boston College; Ph.D., Georgetown University

Adrienne M. Martin
Akshata Murty ‘02 and Rishi Sunak 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

Mellissa Martinez
Visiting Lecturer of Literature, 2019
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., California State University, Fullerton

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

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 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

Bhaven Mistry
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.S., California State University, Northridge; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

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

Tanner J. Moore
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, 2023
B.A., Miami University; M.A., University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., Purdue 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

Jean-Pierre D. Murray
Assistant Professor of Government, 2023
B.Sc., Université des Antilles; M.Sc., Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux; B.Sc., M.Sc., University of the West Indies, Mona; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Boston  

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

V. Samuel Nelson
George C.S. Benson Professor of Public Affairs, 2008
B.S., University of Wyoming; M.S., Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Paul Nerenberg
Kravis Associate Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Science, 2023
B.S., Johns Hopkins University; PhD., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Instructor 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
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
Associate Professor of Government, 2015
B.A., Claremont McKenna College: M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia

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

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

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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

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

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

Sarah Robinson
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2023
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

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

Evan Rosenman
Assistant Professor of Statistics, 2023
A.B., Harvard University; M.S., Georgetown University; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford 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

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

Kenneth Scalmanini
Associate 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
Kravis Associate Professor of Integrated Sciences: Biology, 2012
Vordiplom (B.Sc. equivalent); Diplom (M.Sc. equivalent), University of Bonn, Germany; Ph.D. University of California, Davis

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

David Schwarz
Associate 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

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

Julie W. Suh
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics (Accounting), 2023
B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business

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

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Sherylle Tan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2005
B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University

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

Edgar Tellez Foster
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2023
B.A., National Autonomous University of Mexico; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

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

Sara Thompson
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Silicon Valley Program, 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
Associate 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

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
Associate Professor of Spanish and 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 Assistant Professor 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

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

Noah Warren
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2023
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. (expected 2024), University of California, Berkeley

Sandra Watson
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2022
B.A., Spelman College; Ph.D., Rockefeller University

Yosef Washington
Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2023
B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

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

Rich Whitney
Visiting Professor of Leadership, 2022
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

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

Branwen Williams
George R. Roberts Professor of Integrated Sciences: 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

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

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Shibu Yooseph
Kravis Professor of Integrated Sciences: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2023
BTECH, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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

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Jessica Zarkin
Assistant Professor of Government, 2022
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University