On Special Appointment
Suzie Abajian
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Education
B.A., M.A., Occidental College; PhD. University of California Los Angeles
Joe Addington
Director of the Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Afro-Cuban Drumming Instructor
Maria Adreani
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Northeastern University; M.S., California State University, Northridge; Ph.D. Florida State University
Adelina Alegria
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Education
B.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Dean Anderson
Director of Instrumental Activities
B.M., M.M., University of Missouri at Columbia; Ph.D., UCLA
Terri Anderson
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology
B.A. U.C. Irvine, M.A. U.C.L.A., Ph.D U.C.L.A.
Jamie Angell
Associate Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Rafael Araya-Gochez
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
M.A. Johns Hopkins, Ph.D Johns Hopkins
Jeffrey Arendt
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., University of Illinois; Ph.D., Binghampton University
Jeremiah Axelrod
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, History
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., UC Irvine
Kanadpriya Basu
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
B.Sc. Presidence College, University of Calcutta; M.Sc. Bengal Engineering and Science University; M.S. University of Texas-Pan American; Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Kirk Bentzen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
B.A., Occidental College; M.P.T., University of Southern California; M.B.A. La Sierra University; D.P.T. University of Southern California
Gargi Bhattacharyya
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
B.S., M.S., University of Calcutta; Ph.D., Iowa State University
William Bing
Director of the Caltech-Occidental College Concert Band
M.M., USC; B.M., University of Michigan
Ann Blythe
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Geology
B.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania
Anne Bray
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A. Colgate University; M.F.A., U.C.L.A.
Teresia Brooks
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater
B.A., Spelman College
Lauren Brown
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Jennifer Carson
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., San Francisco University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Cesar Castro
Director of the Son Jarocho Ensemble
Maria Castro
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad Complutense, M.A. George Washington University, M.A. University of Washington, Ph.D University of Washington
Clinton Dale Chapman
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Psychology
B.S., M.S., Montana State University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Mary Clark
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., UCLA
Brian Clearwater
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A. University of Tennessee; M.A., PhD., UCSB
Stephanie Cooper
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
B.A., B.S., Pepperdine University; Ph.D., University of Georgia
Shawn Costantino
Director of the Occidental Jazz Ensemble, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor
B.Mus., Studio Music and Jazz, University of Miami; MM, Jazz Studies, De Paul University
Geoffrey Cromwell
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Geology
B.A. Occidental College; M.S., Ph.D. University of California San Diego
Ruth Cusick
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Politics
B.A., Scripps College; J.D. City University of New York
Gerald Daigle
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
B.A. Pomona College; M.A. Cambridge University; Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Jenna K. Dillon
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor
B.A. Columbia College Chicago
Daron Djerdjian
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Economics
B.A., UCLA; Ph.D., Syracuse University
Eric Doehne
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.S., Haverford College; M.S., Ph.D., U.C. Davis
Brian Louis Dorsey
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Thomas Gregory Drummond
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry
B.A., University of West Georgia; M.S., Caltech
Zohaa A. El Gamal
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
Tim Emmons
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music
B.A., UC Santa Barbara; M.A., USC
Motoko Ezaki
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Lisa Filipe
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A., Occidental College; C.Phil., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Luke Fischbeck
Wanlass Artist in Residence: Lucky Dragons
Brian Fitzmorris
Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
Jacques Fomerand
Assistant Director, Occidental-and-the-U.N. program; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., Lycée Janson de Sailly; M.A., Diplôme de I’Institut d’Études Politiques; Ph.D., City University of New York
Heng Lam Foong
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A. College of New Rochelle, M.S. Capella University
Gabriel Frieman
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
M.S. in Engineering, Engineering Institut National des Sciences Appliquees; M.S.in Applied Physics, University of Paris 6; Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique
Douglas Gardner
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy & World Affairs
B.A., Denison University; M.A., Thunderbird School of International Management
Jean-Luc Gauvreau
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
B.S. Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada; PhD. University of Maryland College Park
Russell Gleason
Laboratory Coordinator
B.S., B.A., California State University, Fullerton; M.S., California State University, Long Beach
James Glisson
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., New College of Florida; M.A. State University of New York, Stony Brook; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Jill Gold
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
A.B., Occidental College
Alicia Gonzalez
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., UCLA
Hollis Goodall
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art History & Visual Arts
B. A., University of Texas, Austin; M.A. University of Kansas
Harry Gray
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Chemistry
B.A., UC Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Scott Hartstein
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
Christopher Hawthorne
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., Yale University
Matthew Hill
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics
B.S., UCLA; M.A., UCLA; Ph.D., UCLA
Daniel Horowitz
Visiting Professor, History
B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Harvard
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
Spencer Jackson
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A. Occidental College; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Edmond Johnson
Director of Advising; NTT Assistant Professor
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Kristine Kaiser
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., M.S., Cleveland State University; Ph.D., UCLA
Jeremy Kallick
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry
B.A., Occidental College
Anna Katz
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D. Princeton University
Alan Khuu
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry
B.S., M.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Desiree La Vertu
Director of Choral and Vocal Activities, Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Music
B.Mus., CSU Fullerton; M.M. University of Nevada, Reno
Nishu Lal
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.S., M.S., UC, Irvine; Ph.D., UC Riverside
Linda Lasater
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Chemistry; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry
B.A., State University of New York; M.S., Nova University; Ph.D., University of South Florida
Don Lawrence
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Stephen Little
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.S. Cornell University; M.A. University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. Yale University
Jennifer Logan
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
B.A., M.A., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Gloria Lum
Co-Director of Chamber Music, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Cello Instructor
B.A., University of Southern California
James Maley
Collections Manager Moore Laboratory of Zoology
B.S., M.S., University of Alaska Fairbanks; Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Francisco Martinez
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater
Jessica Maxwell
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., Princeton University
Anna Mayer
Wanlass Visiting Artist, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., Washington University; B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts
Sarah Meacham
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics
A.B. Princeton University; M.A. UCLA, Ph.D. UCLA
Laural Meade
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Theater
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., UCLA
Santiago Meija
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy
B.S.; University of Los Andes, Bogota; B.A., University of Los Andes, Bogota; M.A.; University of Chicago
Jane E. Mendel
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., B.A., University of Mississippi; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Andrew Miller
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., UCLA
Carina Miller
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., Universidad de Buenos Aires; M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Jeffrey Miller
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.S. UC Davis; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Malek Moazzam-Doulat
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Karen Molinder
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A. Occidental, Ph.D U.C.L.A.
Dwayne Morris-Irvin
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
Kelema Moses
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Paul S. Nam
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, History
B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D, UCLA
Daryl Ono
Non-Tenure Track Instructor of Accounting, Economics
B.A., UCLA; Ph.D., Pacific Western University
Gloria Orozco
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. U.C.L.A., M.A. U.C.L.A., Ph.D U.C.L.A.
Sarah Ostendorf
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English and Writing & Rhetoric
B.A., Northwestern University; MFA, Mills College; Ph.D. New York University
Keelan Overton
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., James Madison University; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D. U.C. Los Angeles
Stephanie O’Keefe
Co-Director of Chamber Music, Part-Time Non-Tenure Track French Horn Instructor
Applied Music Major, University of Illinois; Applied Music Major, University of Arizona; Applied Music Major, University of Nevada
Jocelyn Webb Pedersen
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., U.C. Santa Barbara
G. Simeon Pillich
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Brady Potts
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A. Rhodes College, M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD University of Southern California
Sarah Rara
Wanlass Aristist in Residence: Lucky Dragons
Walter Richmond
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture; Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., Ph.D., USC
Karina Rincon
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., UCLA
Christian Roberts
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
B.S., M.S., Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles
Derek Ross
Non-Tenure Track Instructor in Chemistry
B.A. Occidental College; M.S. University of California, Los Angeles
Suzanne Roszak
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A. Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil, Yale University; PhD, Yale University
Ross Rudel
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., Montana State University; M.F.A., U.C. Irvine
Thaddeus Russell
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., Antioch College; M.A., M.Phil; Ph.D., Columbia University
Dylan Sabo
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bethel Saler
Billington Visiting Professor of US History
B.A., Bryn Mawr College; M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roy Salgado
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
B.S., M.S., California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D. University of New Mexico
Janine Salinas Schoenberg
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz; M.F.A. University of Southern California
Gary Schindelman
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Biology
B.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., New York University
Jane Schmitz
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., UC Davis; M.P.H., Ph.D., UC Los Angeles
Stephanie Schrader
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A. Occidental College; M.A. Oberlin College; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Danzy Senna
Writer in Residence, Non-Tenure Track Faculty Member
Jeffrey Alan Seymour
Practitioner Professor, Politics; Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Yoko Shirai
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A. University of California, Berkeley; M.A. Sophia University; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Sherry Simpson Dean
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Diplomacy & World Affairs
B.S. Boston University
Robert Sipchen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing & Rhetoric
B.A., UC Santa Barbara
Tom Slotten
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.G.S., University of Michigan; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A. Hampshire College; M.F.A. Claremont Graduate University; M.A. California Institute of the Arts
Anthony Sparks
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
BFA, M.A., Ph.D. University of Southern California
Linda Stark
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., UC Davis; M.F.A., U.C. Irvine
Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
Mellon Postdoctural Fellow, American Studies
B.A., Occidental College; M.A., CSU Los Angeles; Ph.D., UCLA
Yuki Taylor
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Adrienne Tien
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., Wellesley College; M.S., Syracuse University
Gregory Tollisen
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics
B.S., University of Portland; M.S., Caltech
David Trasoff
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa Tremain
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing & Rhetoric
BA, Sonoma State University; MA, Felding Graduate University; MA, California State University, Northridge; PhD., University of California, Santa Barbara
Horacio Trujillo
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.S.F.S., Georgetown University; M.A., Stanford University
Victoria Umanskaya
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics
B.A. (DHE), Saratov State University; Ph.D., University of Wyoming
Igor Umanskiy
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
M.S., Saratov State University, Russia; Ph.D., Saratov State University, Russia
Jacqueline Valenzuela
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., California State University, Northridge; M.P.H., University of Southern California
Gabriela Venturini
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Chemistry
M.S., Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
Nicole Vick
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.S., M.P.H., University of Southern California
Joel Wedberg
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Geology
SC.B. San Diego State University
David Weldzius
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Arts
B.F.A. University of Illinois, M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts
Jonathan P. Williams
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology
B.S., UNC Wilmington, M.S., CSU Northridge
Jemima Wyman
Wanlass Visiting Artist, Art History & Visual Arts
B.A., Queensland University of Technology; M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts
Lisa Ybarra
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Politics
B.A., Whittier College; M.A., University of Southern California
Keiko Yokoyama
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.E. Tokyo University, M.E. Tokyo University, Ph.D Tokyo University
Laurel Zahn
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology
B.S. University of California, Santa Cruz, M.S. California State University Long Beach
Désirée Zamorano
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Education; Director of the Community Literacy Center
B.A., UC Irvine; M.A., Cal State Dominguez Hills
Steve Zimmer
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A. Goucher College; M.S. CSU Los Angeles