2025-2026 Catalog

Faculty

Tenure and Tenure Track Faculty

Martha Matsuoka, chair; designated transfer adviser

Professor; Executive Director, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute

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

Claire Cahen

Assistant Professor
B.A., Pomona College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York

Peter Dreier

E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics

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

Karla Peña

Assistant Professor
B.A., California State University Northridge; M.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University 

James Sadd

Professor

B.S., University of Southern California; M.S., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of South Carolina

 

Bhavna Shamasunder

Associate Professor

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

 

Madeline Wander
Assistant Professor
B.A. Occidental College; M.U.R.P., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles

 

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Maya Abood
Visiting Instructor
A.B., Occidental College; M.A., MIT

Sharon Cech
Visiting Instructor
B.A., Bard College; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles 

Rick Cole
Visiting Assistant Professor
A.B., Occidental College; M.S., Columbia University

Jordanne Dervaes

Visiting Instructor 

Rosa Romero
Visiting Instructor
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.Ed., UH Manoa