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TRUSTEES, ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY
*Jack Merritt, Professor Emeritus, Physics, 1966. A.B., Pomona College; PhD,
University of California, Berkeley.
Amatzya Mezahav, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, 2003. BA, State University
of New York, Binghamton; MA, Tufts University; PhD, University of Oregon.
Kathryn Miller, Professor of Art, 1993. B.Sc., George Washington University; MA,
Sonoma State University; M.F.A., University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sculpture/environmental art; drawing.
Sheryl F. Miller, Professor of Anthropology and Distinguished Teaching Chair in
Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, 1969. BA, Occidental College; MA, PhD,
University of California, Berkeley. National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation
Fellowships.
African archaeology; world prehistory; human evolution; African and Native American
ethnography; cultural ecology; ethnic arts.
John Milton, Professor of Biology, Kenan Chair in Computational Neuroscience,
2004. B.S., PhD, MDCM, FRCPC, McGill University. Associate Professor, The
University of Chicago; Adjunct Professor Physiology, McGill University; Adjunct
Professor of Biology, Keck Graduate Institute.
Computational neuroscience, motor control, development of expertise.
Rose Misanchuk, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, 2007. MFA, California State
University Fullerton
David S. Moore, Professor of Psychology, 1989. BA, Tufts University; MA, PhD,
Harvard University; Harvard University Social Science Dissertation Fellow; National
Research Service Postdoctoral Fellow, The City University of New York.
Sensory integration in infancy; cognitive development; categorization in infancy; neonatal
behavior; electrophysiological methods in the study of infant perception; perception of
numerosity in infancy.
*J. Emil Morhardt, Roberts Professor of Biology and Director of the Roberts
Environmental Center, 1996. BA, Pomona College; PhD, Rice University; Professor,
Assistant Professor, University of Washington.
Vertebrate ecology and physiology; environmental management.
R. Lee Munroe, Research Professor of Anthropology, 1964. PhD, Harvard University.
*Stephen A. Naftilan, Kenneth Pitzer Professor of Physics, 1981. B.S., University of
Chicago; PhD, Case Western Reserve University. Instructor, University of Southern
California and El Camino College.
Binary stars; stellar atmospheres.
Peter M. Nardi, Professor of Sociology; Director of Institutional Research, 1975. BA,
University of Notre Dame; MA, Colgate University; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
Research Assistant, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania; Instructor, Rutgers
University.
Sexuality; media; men’s studies; friendship.
John Norvell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, 2005. BA, University of
Washington; MA, PhD, Cornell University.
++Gilda Ochoa, Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano Studies, 1997. BA,
University of California, Irvine; MA, PhD University of California, Los Angeles.
++Adrian D. Pantoja, Associate Professor of Political Studies and Chicano Studies,
2006. BA, University of San Francisco; MA, PhD, Claremont Graduate University.
+++Joseph D. Parker, Associate Professor of International and Intercultural Studies,
1989. BA, Occidental College; MA, PhD, Harvard University. Visiting Assistant
Professor, Stanford University; Assistant Professor, Bucknell University; Visiting
Instructor, Carleton College.
East Asian religion; Zen Buddhism; East Asian aesthetic theory; Orientalism and
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representations of Asia and Asian-America; international feminist and gender studies;
transnational cultural studies; Asian-American culture and diaspora studies; neocolonialism
and postcolonial studies; social role of intellectuals and the academy; epistemology and
critiques of Euro-American science; critical pedagogy.
Lissa Petersen, Instructor in Academic Writing and Academic Coordinator of
International Fellows Program, 1977. BA Northwestern University; MA, Harvard
University. Director, English for Graduate Studies Program, Claremont Graduate
University.
Academic writing; acquisition of pronunciation in a second language.
Susan Phillips, Director, Center for California Cultural and Social Issues (CCCSI)
and Faculty Associate in Urban Studies, 2002. BA, California State University,
Dominguez Hills; MA, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles.
*Robert P. Pinnell, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, 1966. B.S., California State
University, Fresno; PhD, University of Kansas.
*Thomas Poon, Associate Professor of Chemistry, 2000. B.S., Fairfield University;
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles.
Zeolite host-guest chemistry, synthetic methodology, reactions of singlet oxygen.
*Marion R. Preest, Associate Professor of Biology, 1999. B.S., Otago University, New
Zealand; M.S., PhD, Cornell University.
Physiology and ecology of animal energetics; thermal biology of terrestrial ectotherms;
osmoregulatory physiology; herpetology; muscle physiology.
**Leonard C. Pronko, Professor of Theatre, 1957. BA, Drury College; MA,
Washington University; PhD, Tulane University.
*Kathleen L. Purvis-Roberts, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 2001. B.S., Westmont
College; MA, PhD, Princeton University; Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for
Atmospheric Research.
Chemistry of urban air pollution, primarily aerosols; public policy aspects of air pollution.
+Rita Roberts, Associate Professor of History and Black Studies, Scripps College,
1987. B.S., Southern Illinois University; MA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD,
University of California, Berkeley.
American history and Black Studies.
Norma Rodriguez, Professor of Psychology, 1991. BA, PhD, The University of Texas
at Austin. Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los
Angeles. Associate Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College.
Latino mental health, acculturation, and cultural adjustment
Kathryn S. Rogers, Professor of Organizational Studies, 1986. BA, Smith College;
MA, Columbia University; PhD, Washington University, St. Louis. National Institute
of Education Training Fellowship; Lecturer, University of Missouri, St. Louis;
Consultant, Educational Planning Associates, Inc.; Senior Administrator, Cemsel,
Inc.; Legal and Public Affairs Staff, Peabody Coal Company; Senior Associate, Center
for Study of Data Processing, Washington University, St. Louis; Research Associate,
IBM, Los Angeles Scientific Center.
Organization theory; inter-organizational networks; business, nonprofit, and public
organizations; organizations and the public policy environment; corporate responsibility.
Ronald G. Rubin, Professor of The History of Ideas, 1971. BA, Amherst College; MA,
PhD, Cornell University. Teaching Assistant, Instructor, Cornell University; Woodrow
Wilson Fellow.
History of early modern philosophy; history of early modern science; philosophy of science;
philosophy of mind.
*David E. Sadava, Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology, 1972. B.S.,
Carleton University; PhD, University of California, San Diego. Research Assistant,