On Special Appointment
Joe Addington
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
Sky Anderson
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., Utah State University; M.A., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Jamie Angell
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Alec Arellano
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Politics
B.A., Colorado College; M.A., University of Texas, Austin
Jeremiah Axelrod
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, History
Director of the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
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
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs, Politics
B.A., Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires; M.A. University of Denver; Ph.D. University of Southern California
Philip Bloom
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Art and Art History
B.A., Middlebury College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Ann Blythe
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Geology
B.S., Ph.D., Cornell University; M.S., University of Pennsylvania
Jongnic Bontemps
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music Production
B.A., Yale University
Janis Breidenbach
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
Elizabeth Carter
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., University of North Carolina
Maria Castro
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A., Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; M.A., George Washington University; M.A.,Ph.D., University of Washington
Cesar Castro
Non-Tenure Track Instructor; 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
Hsing-Hau Chen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science
BA., B.S., M.S., National Taiwan University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern California
Brian Clearwater
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., PhD., University of California, Santa Barbara
Zinzi Clemmons
Writer in Residence; Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, English
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., Columbia University
Ara Corbett
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., Loyola Marymount University; M.F.A., Boston University; M.A., California State Univeristy, Los Angeles
Shawn Costantino
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Music
Director of the Occidental Jazz Ensemble
B.Mus., University of Miami; M.M., De Paul University
David Crabb
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.F.A., Texas State University; M.F.A.,Cranbrook Academy of Art
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
William Davis
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of the West of England, Bristol School of Art and Design; M.A., Lund University
Kenturah Davis
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., Yale University
Corey Davis
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Temple University; M.P.H., University of North Carolina
Daron Djerdjian
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
Motoko Ezaki
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture; Advisory Group, Group Language
B.A., M.A., Seinan Gakuin University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Caroline Farrell
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Bates College; J.D., Golden Gate University
Brian Fitzmorris
Non-Tenure Track Professor of the Practice, Theater
B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
Jenny Foldenuer
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.A., University of California, Davis; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
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
B.A., College of New Rochelle; M.S., Capella University
Gabriel Freiman
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 Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A., University of Montana; M.A., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
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
Ramona Gonzalez
Johnston-Fix Professor of the Practice of Songwriting
A.B., Occidental College
Alicia Gonzalez
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Spanish and French Studies
A.B., Stanford University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Nathan Graeser
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Core Program
B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington; M.S., Ph.D., University of Southern California
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
Christopher Hawthorne
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.A., Yale University
Jen Hofer
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Brown University; M.F.A., University of Iowa
Melinda Houston
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Kinesiology
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Brendan Hughes
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.F.A.,Yale University
Molly Jacobs
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A., City University of New York; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Edmond Johnson
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor
Director of Advising
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris Kim
Director of Instrumental Activities
B.M., Northwestern University; M.M., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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
Desiree La Vertu
Director of Choral and Vocal Activities
B.Mus., California State University, Fullerton; M.M., University of Nevada, Reno
Nishu Lal
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics
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
Viola Lasmana
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Culture
B.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Don Lawrence
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics
B.A., Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Swee Fong Lee
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., Tokyo Gakugei University; M.A., Hitotsubashi University; M.A., California State University, Long Beach
Kenji Liu
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Art and Art History
B.A., John F. Kennedy University; M.A., California Institute of Integral Studies
Viviana MacManus
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
A.B., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Susanna Maing
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
Katarzyna Marciniak
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Media Arts and Culture
M.A., University of Lodz; M.A., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Oregon
Francisco Martinez
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater
Win Nadia McLaughlin
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Geology
B.S., University of the Pacific; M.S., Ph.D., University of Oregon
Laural Meade
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Theater
A.B., Occidental College; M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew Miller
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., Princeton University; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Miller
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Computer Science
B.S., University of California, Davis; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Sydney K. Mitsunaga-Whitten
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Yale University
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 College; Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles
Nicole Moore
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Geology
B.S., University of Nebraska; M.S., Western Washington University; Ph.D., Oregon State University
Gaea Morales
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
A.B., Occidental College
Natalie Muren
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.A., Willamette University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Andre Naffis-Sahley
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, English
B.A., University of Leicester; M.Litt., University of St. Andrews
Daryl Ono
Non-Tenure Track Instructor of Accounting, Economics
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Pacific Western University
Dina Ormenyi
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Music; Piano Instructor
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
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
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
G. Simeon Pillich
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Music
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Charles Brady Potts
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
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, 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 Wind Orchestra
B.Mus., University of Toronto; M.M., Ph.D., Eastman School of Music
Ben Ratskoff
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Instructor, Religious Studies
B.A., Northwestern University; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Kathryn Renton
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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 Assistant Professor, Biology
B.A., Reed College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Dylan Sabo
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Philosophy, Cognitive Science
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shizu Saldamando
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Jacob Sargent
Associate Director, Instruction and Research, Center for Digital Liberal Arts
Gary Schindelman
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
Stephanie Schrader
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert Sipchen
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Writing and Rhetoric
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
Kai Small
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., University of California, San Diego
Isaac Speer
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Sociology
B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Julia Sushytska
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., John Carroll University; M.A., Ph.D., Stony Brook University
Yuki Taylor
Non-Tenure Track Associate Professor, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Camilla Taylor
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., University of Utah; M.F.A., California State University, Long Beach
Adrienne Tien
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., Wellesley College; M.S., Syracuse University
Gregory Tollisen
Non-Tenure Track Professor, Mathematics
B.S., University of Portland; M.S., California Institute of Technology
Anthony Trochez
Non-Tenure Track instructor, Education
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Victoria Umanskaya
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Economics
B.A. (DHE), Saratov State University; Ph.D., University of Wyoming
Igor Umanskiy
Laboratory Coordinator
M.S., Saratov State University, Russia; Ph.D., Saratov State University, Russia
John Urquiza
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Practice, Urban and Environmental Policy, Sociology
Kevin Urstadt
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
Michael Vorenberg
Ray A. Billington Professor of United States History
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Weidong Wang
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Instrumentation Facilities Manager
B.S., Jilin University; Ph.D., Rochester University
Ezra Weisz
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Theater
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
David Weldzius
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago; M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Garrett Williams
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
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Psychology
B.A., University of Georgia; M.A., University of Santa Monica; Ph.D., Pacficia Graduate Institute
Umit Yalcinalp
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Computer Science
B.A., Middle East Technical University; M.S., Ph.D.,Case Western Reserve University
Keiko Yokoyama
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Chemistry
B.E., M.E., Ph.D., Tokyo University
Patricia Yossen
Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Art and Art History
B.A., Escuela Provincial de Artes Visuales Juan Mantovani;M.F.A., Pratt Institute
Anne Yu
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
John Zalewski
Non-Tenure Track Instructor, Theater
B.F.A., California State University, Long Beach
Désirée Zamorano
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