On Special Appointment
Joe Addington
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music
Director of the Afro-Cuban Drumming Ensemble
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., California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Dean Anderson
Director of Instrumental Activities, Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.M., M.M., University of Missouri at Columbia; D.M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Jamie Angell
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
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., University of California, 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
Marcus Benigno
Part-Time Instructor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., McGill University
Kirk Bentzen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
A.B., Occidental College; M.P.T., University of Southern California; M.B.A., La Sierra University; D.P.T., University of Southern California
Mariano Bertucci
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires; M.A. University of Denver; Ph.D. University of Southern California
Alma Bezares Calderon
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Politics
B.S., Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey; M.S., Universite de Montreal; M.S., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Ann Blythe
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Geology
B.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania
Mariska Bolyanatz
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Gordon College, Massachusetts; M.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Jongnic Bontemps
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music Production
B.A., Yale University
Janis Breidenbach
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Prescott College
Lauren Brown
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Cesar Castro
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor; Director of the Son Jarocho Ensemble
Clinton Dale Chapman
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Psychology
B.S., M.S., Montana State University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Celia Chen
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington
Youssef Chouhoud
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., M.A., Lehigh University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Yating Chuang
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics
B.A., National Tsing Hua University; M.P.P., University of Maryland, College Park; Ph.D., University of Madison Wisconsin
Mary Clark
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Clearwater
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., PhD., University of California, Santa Barbara
Zinzi Clemmons
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Columbia University
Ara Corbett
Part-Time Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.F.A., Boston University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Juvenal Cortes
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Shawn Costantino
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor, Music
Director of the Occidental Jazz Ensemble,
B.Mus., Studio Music and Jazz, University of Miami; M.M., Jazz Studies, De Paul University
Gerald Daigle
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Perry Daniel
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
Corey Davis
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Temple University; M.P.H., University of North Carolina
Sandra De la Loza
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., California State University, Long Beach
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., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Syracuse University
Douglas Duquette
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.A., M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Zohaa A. El Gamal
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
Lily Margaret Eluvathingal
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
B.S., Bangalore University; M.S., Mysore Univresity; Ph.D., Florida International University
Motoko Ezaki
Non-Tenure Track Professor, East Asian Studies
Advisory Committee, Group Language
B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Lyla Fadali
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Brian Fitzmorris
Non-Tenure Track Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
Jacques Fomerand
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Assistant Director, Occidental-and-the-U.N. program
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 and Environmental Policy, Program Contact
B.A., College of New Rochelle; M.S., Capella University
Janelle Franco
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., College of New Rochelle; M.S., Capella University
Debra Freas
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Advisory Committee for Classical Studies
B.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Gabriel Freiman
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Physics
M.S., Engineering Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (Engineering); M.S., University of Paris 6 (Applied Physics); Ph.D., Ecole Polytechnique
Devin Fromm
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Core Program
B.A., University of Montana; M.A., University of Pittsburgh
Douglas Gardner
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
Director, Occidental-at-the-U.N. program
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; Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park
Susan Geffen
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Russell Gleason
Laboratory Coordinator
B.S., B.A., California State University, Fullerton; M.S., California State University, Long Beach
Alicia Gonzalez
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Mike Gray
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Hajnal
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Christopher Hawthorne
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Yale University
Jen Hofer
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., University of Iowa
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
Jorge Huerta
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater and Latino/a and Latin American Studies
Edmond Johnson
Director of Advising
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Edward Kammerer
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Politics
B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Bryan Klausmeyer
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Stephen Klemm
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; M.A., Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Trace Turville Konerko
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.A., Vanderbilt University; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Desiree La Vertu
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Music
Director of Choral and Vocal Activities
B.Mus., California State University, Fullerton; M.M., University of Nevada, Reno
Nishu Lal
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
B.S., M.S., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Peter Lanfer
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A.R., Yale University Divinity School; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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, Mathematics
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Swee Fong Lee
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, East Asian Studies
B.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; M.A., Hitotsubashi University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach
Marisol Leon
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Candice Lin
Wanless Artist in Residence
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
Joan Ling
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Chatham College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer Logan
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
B.A., M.A., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Viviana MacManus
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Raul Madrid
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Politics
B.A., M.A., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; M.A., Claremont Graduate University
Susanna Maing
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
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
Laural Meade
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Theater
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
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 Studies
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Miller
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.S., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Malek Moazzam-Doulat
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Karen Molinder
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Biology
A.B., Occidental; Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles
Natalie Murren
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.A., Willamette University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Paul S. Nam
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, History
B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Myralyn Nartey
Part-Time Non-TenureTrack Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Patricia O'Neill
Part-Time Non-TenureTrack Assistant Professor, Psychology
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., Alliant International University
Daryl Ono
Non-Tenure Track Instructor of Accounting, Economics
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Pacific Western University
Dina Ormenyi
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Gloria Orozco
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Ostendorf
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., Northwestern University; M.F.A., Mills College; Ph.D., New York University
Jocelyn Webb Pedersen
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.A., University of Iowa, Center for the Book; M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
John Phillips
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
G. Simeon Pillich
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Leonid Piterbarg
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
M.S., Ph.D., Moscow University
Charles Brady Potts
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology
B.A., Rhodes College; M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Erica Preston-Roedder
Postdoctoral Fellow, Philosophy
B.A., Stanford University; M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., New York University
Glenn Price
Director of the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band
B.Mus., University of Toronto; M.M., Ph.D., Eastman School of Music
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., University of Southern California
Karina Rincon
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Ashley Robart
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A., Columbia University; M.A., M.Phil, Yale University; Ph.D., Yale University
Ross Rudel
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Montana State University; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine
Dylan Sabo
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ekaterina Savchenkova
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Moscow State University
Gary Schindelman
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Biology; Advisory Committee, Biochemistry
B.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., New York University
Jane Schmitz
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sami Siegelbaum
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., New York University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Elizabeth Simmons
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Profressor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., Bennington College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Sherry Simpson Dean
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
B.S., Boston University
Robert Sipchen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Isaac Speer
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology
Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.S., Allegheny College; M.F.A., State University of New York; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki
Mellon Postdoctural Fellow, American Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Yuki Taylor
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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., California Institute of Technology
Victoria Umanskaya
Full-Time 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
Kevin Urstadt
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
B.A., Rutgers; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Nicole Vick
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.S., M.P.H., University of Southern California
Weidong Wang
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., Jilin University; Ph.D., Rochester University
Kenjus Watson
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Education
A.B., Occidental College; M.E., Pennsylvania State University
Joel Wedberg
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Geology
SC.B., San Diego State University
Ezra Weisz
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Garrett Williams
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., Augsburg College; M.F.A., The American Film Institute
Jonathan P. Williams
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Biology
B.S., University of North Carolina at Wilmington; M.S., California State University, Northridge
Doug Wilson
Part-Time Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Santa Monica; Ph.D., Pacficia Graduate Institute
Keiko Yokoyama
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.E., M.E., Ph.D., Tokyo University
Andrew G. Young
James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow
B.S., Carnegie Mellon; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Anne Yu
Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Chemistry
B.A., Pomona College; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles
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 Professor, Education; Director of the Community Literacy Center
B.A., University of California, Irvine; M.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills
Steve Zimmer
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Goucher College; M.S., California State University, Los Angeles