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 for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and James G. 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; Director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, 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
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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
Associate 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
CARE Center Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2021
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University
Keilee Bessho
Interim Instructor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Golf Coach, 2024
B.A., University of Redlands; M.A., California State University, Long Beach
Murat Binay
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, 2011
B.S., Bosphorus University; M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Maya Binyam
Visiting Lecturer of Literature, 2024
B.A., Yale University
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
Robert Brodman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2022
B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Eastern Michigan University; Ph.D., Kent State University
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
Jordan Branch
Associate Professor of Government (IR), 2020
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
James Buchholz
Visiting Professor of Physics
B.S. Indiana State University; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
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., Virginia 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
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
Rebeca Castaneda Leffler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2024
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate 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, Irvine; 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
Robert Comito
Visiting Lecturer of Biology, 2024
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., California State University, Long Beach; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
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
Co-Director of the Policy Lab and Associate Professor of the Practice, 2014
B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.A., University of Virginia, Ph.D., University of Virginia
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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; Director, Financial Economics Institute, 2020
B.A., National Institute of Technology; M.S., University of Michigan, M.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., INSEAD
Megan Davidson
Director for the Center for Writing and Public Discourse, and 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; Director, Kravis Leadership Institute, 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
Christopher Dettmar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2022
B.S., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; PhD., Purdue University
Stacey Doan
Norwood and Frances Berger Professor of Psychology, Business, and Society; Director, Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development, 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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Zeynep Enkavi
Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Neuroscience, 2024
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Stanford University
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
Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics, 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
John C. Farrell
Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature, 1990
A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Mitchell A. Fedorka
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Men’s Golf Coach, 2017
B.A., University of La Verne
Jennifer Feitosa
Associate Professor of Psychology, 2018
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Central Florida
Rachel Fenning
Associate Professor of Psychology and Director, Claremont Autism Center, 2022
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Devin Fergus
Professor of History and Public Affairs, 2024
B.A., M.A., North Carolina State University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Heather L. Ferguson
Associate Professor of History and Faculty Co-Director, The Open Academy, 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; Director, Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 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; Director, Dreier RoundTable, 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
Leonid (Lenny) Fukshansky
Professor of Mathematics, 2007
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
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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
General Counsel and 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 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
Isidro González
Pre-Doctoral Fellow of History and Visiting Instructor of History, 2024
B.A., University of San Diego; M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
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
Vice President for Human Relations and Chief Diversity Officer; and 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
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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; and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Scripps College, 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; Co-Director of the Policy Lab, 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
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Lynn Itagaki
Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, 2024
A.B., Harvard University; M.A., C.Phil., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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
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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 and Co-Director, Dreier RoundTable, 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
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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
Peter Kelly
Assistant Professor of Economics (Finance), 2024
B.S., University of Notre Dame; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Meric Keskinel
Visiting Professor of Economics
B.A., University of Istanbul; M.A., Northeastern University; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
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
Taehyung Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2021
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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 and Director, Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, 1997
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.
Lisa Langdon Koch
Associate 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
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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
Jia “Gloria” Lee
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, 2024
Shaun Lee
Associate Professor of Integrated Sciences: Molecular Biology and Microbiology, 2024
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Oregon Health and Science University
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
Mira Liu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2024
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; Director, Mgrublian Center for Human Rights, 2012
B.A., Hamilton College, M.A., Ph.D. American University, Washington D.C.
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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
Associate Director of Programming for the Center for Writing and Public Discourse; and 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
Associate Director of Multilingual Writing for the Center for Writing and Public Discourse; and 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
Thomas McHenry
Visiting Associate Professor of Government, 2003
B.A., Yale College; M.F.S., Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; J.D., New York University
Joshua Metzger
Visiting Lecturer of Economics, 2022
B.S., J.D., New York University
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; and Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, 2003
B.A., Pomona College; J.D., Harvard Law School; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Bhaven Mistry
Associate Director of the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab; and 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
Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2024
B.A., M.A., University of Botswana; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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
Associate 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 Men’s and Women’s 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
David Nolan
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Women’s Soccer Coach, 2022
B.A., La Sierra University; M.A., Concordia 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
Director of the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab and 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
Ryan Patel
Visiting William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow, 2024
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.B.A., University of California, Irvine
Emily Pears
Associate Professor of Government, 2015
B.A., Claremont McKenna College: M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Roberto Pedace
Visiting Professor of Economics
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 and Co-Director, Dreier RoundTable, 1986
B.A., Union College; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Piyush Prakash
Visiting Lecturer of Leadership, 2024
B.Tech., Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya Faculty of Engineering & Technology; M.A., Tata Institute of Social Sciences; M.P.P., University of Chicago
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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Ramkishen Rajan
Visiting William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow, 2024
B.Soc.Sci., National University of Singapore; M.A., Claremont Graduate University; M.A., University of Michigan; 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
Colin Rathbun
Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Chemistry, 2024
B.S., Hope College; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
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
Benjamin Schlau
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, 2021
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
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 Professor of Political Economy and George R. Roberts Fellow; Director, Lowe Institute of Political Economy, 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
Aaron Sheng
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2023
B.S., Ph.D. University at Buffalo
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 and Faculty Co-Director, The Open Academy, 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 Professor 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
George Thomas
Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Professor of Government; Director, Salvatori Center for Individual Freedom, 2007
B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andrew Thompson
Post-Doctoral Fellow of Integrated Sciences: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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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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.
Skania Valencia
Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Softball Coach, 2024
B.S., M.B.A, Mercy College
Corinna Vallianatos
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2019
B.A., University of Virginia, M.F.A., University of Arizona
Ethan Van Arnam
Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2017
B.A., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., Caltech
Cesar Vargas Nunez
Assistant Professor of Government, 2024
B.A., Pitzer College; Ph.D., Stanford University
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 Women’s 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
Nia Walker
Assistant Professor of Integrated Sciences: Biology, 2025
A.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., Stanford 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
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
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; and Director, Roberts Environmental Center, 2011
B.Sc., University of Guelph; M.Sc., University of Quebec, Montreal; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Diana Williams
Professor of Integrated Sciences: Neuroscience, 2024
B.A., Brooklyn College, City University of New York; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, 2018
B.A., Pomona College; Ph.D., Yale University
Taia Wu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2024
B.A., Scripps College; Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
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Jingyu Xu
Assistant Professor of Economics (Accounting), 2024
B.Mgt., Shanghai Business School; M.S., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
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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
Ruijun Zhao
Visiting Professor of Mathematics, 2024
B.S., M.S., Nankai University; Ph.D. Purdue University
Xiao Zhang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, 2023
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