Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Bhavna Shamasunder, chair

Associate Professor

B.S., B.A., University of California, San Diego; M.ES, Yale University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Mijin Cha

Associate Professor

B.S., Cornell University; J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law; LL.M., Ph.D., University of London

Peter Dreier

E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics

Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
Interim Faculty Director, Center for Community Based Learning

B.A., Syracuse University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Martha Matsuoka

Associate Professor

A.B., Occidental College; M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Seva Rodnyansky

Assistant Professor

B.A., Northwestern University; Ph.D., University of Southern California

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Rick Cole

Visiting Assistant Professor

A.B., Occidental College; M.S., Columbia University

Fernanda Jahn Verri

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., M.A., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Bonnie S.  Wang

Visiting Instructor

B.A., National Chengchi University; M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

John (Gus) Wendel

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Steve Zimmer

Visiting Instructor
B.A., Goucher College; M.S., California State University, Los Angeles