Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Laura Hebert, chair
Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; M.A., University of Oregon Ph.D., University of Denver
Bevin Ashenmiller
Associate Professor, Economics
B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Phillip Ayoub
Associate Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., Washington University; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., Cornell University
Erica Ball
Professor, American Studies
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Mary Christianakis
Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., M.Ed., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Allison de Fren
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., Grinnell College; M.F.A., New York University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Nancy Dess
Professor, Psychology
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Motoko Ezaki
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Culture
B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Sharla Fett
Professor, History
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., Rutgers University
Michael Gasper
Associate Professor, History
B.A., Temple University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Nina Gelbart
Professor, History; Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women's Studies
A.B., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Susan Grayson
Professor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Wright Institute Los Angeles Attestation d'études, Université de Bordeaux
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., Victoria University of Wellington; Ph.D., Australian National University
Marcia Homiak
Professor, Philosophy
A.B., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Maryanne Horowitz
Professor, History
A.B., Pembroke College, Brown University; M.A.T., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Melinda Houston
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Krystale E. Littlejohn
Assistant Professor, Sociology
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Mary J. Lopez
Associate Professor, Economics
B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Heather Lukes
Associate Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., University of California, Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Amy Lyford
Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Richard Mora
Associate Professor, Sociology
B.A., Harvard College (Sociology); M.A., University of Michigan (Education); M.A., Harvard University (Sociology); Ph.D., Harvard University (Sociology & Social Policy)
Clair Morrissey
Associate Professor, Philosophy
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel
Jennifer Piscopo
Assistant Professor, Politics
B.A., Wellesley; M.Phil, University of Cambridge; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Julie Prebel
Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
Director of Writing Center and Programs
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., California State University, San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Washington
Erica Preston-Roedder
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy
B.A., Stanford University; M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., New York University
Lisa Sousa
Professor, History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Eileen Spain
Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry
B.S., Sonoma State University; Ph.D., University of Utah
Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Kristi Upson-Saia
Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., University of Washington; M.Div., Princeton Teol. Sem.; Ph.D., Duke University
Lisa Wade
Associate Professor, Sociology
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., New York University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yurika Wakamatsu
Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Jean Wyatt
Professor, English
A.B., Pomona College; Ph.D., Harvard University