2007-08 - Pitzer College

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TRUSTEES, ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY
Canada Department of Agriculture; Research Officer, Science Secretariat, Ottawa,
Canada; Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego;
Visiting Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado; Visiting Professor of
Molecular Biology, University of California; Visiting Scientist, City of Hope Medical
Center; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Cell biology; cancer mechanisms.
++Miguel Tinker Salas, Associate Professor of History and Chicano Studies; Pomona
College, 1993. BA, MA, PhD, University of California, San Diego.
Barry Sanders, Professor Emeritus of History of Ideas, 1972. BA, University of
California, Los Angeles; MA, PhD, University of Southern California.
Brinda Sarathy, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies/International
Intercultural Studies, 2007. BA, McGill University; M.S., PhD, University of
California, Berkeley.
Albert Schwartz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, 1965. BA, Hunter College; MA,
Ohio State University.
Daniel A. Segal, Jean Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, 1986.
BA, Cornell University; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Chicago.
The Caribbean; post-Columbian world history; the social construction of race.
Harry A. Senn, Professor Emeritus, French. 1970. BA, MA, University of Minnesota;
PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Susan C. Seymour, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, 1974. BA, Stanford
University; PhD, Harvard University.
Helia Maria Sheldon, Professor Emerita, Spanish, 1967. BA, MA, California State
University, Fullerton; PhD, University of California, Irvine.
+Marie-Denise Shelton, Professor of French and Black Studies, Claremont McKenna
College, 1977; Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, 1993. BA, MA,
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles.
Sharon Nickel Snowiss, Professor of Political Studies, 1969, Avery Fellow,
Claremont Graduate University, 1988. A.B., University of California, Berkeley; MA,
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Research Assistant, Science and
Technology, Inc.; Postgraduate Research Assistant, Institute of Industrial Relations,
University of California, Los Angeles; Teaching Associate, University of California,
Los Angeles.
Political philosophy, including ancient, modern, and contemporary, as well as comparisons of
Eastern and Western thought; futurology, including forecastings, science fiction, altered
states of consciousness, social and philosophical impact of technology, genetic engineering;
French literature and politics; feminist political thought; mind/body healing and Qi Gong.
++Maria Gutierrez de Soldatenko, Associate Professor of Gender and Feminist
Studies and Chicana Studies, 1998. BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Gender, race and class; feminist theory; women and economic development.
Eric Steinman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, 2007. BA, Augustana College; MA,
PhD, University of Washington.
Emma Stephens, Assistant Professor of Economics, 2007. B.Sc., McGill University;
MA, PhD, Cornell University.
Claudia Strauss, Professor of Anthropology, 2000. BA, Brown University; MA, PhD,
Harvard University.
Cognitive anthropology; psychological anthropology; language, culture and society;
race/class/gender variation in the U.S.; social theory and culture theory; anthropology of
policy.
Ann H. Stromberg, Professor of Sociology Emerita, 1973. BA, Pomona College; MA,
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Columbia University; PhD, Cornell University. Director of Summer Study Abroad
Program: Health and Healthcare in Costa Rica.
John D. Sullivan, Professor of Political Studies, Emeritus, 1975. BA, MA, San
Francisco State College; PhD, Stanford University.
*Zhaohua (Irene) Tang, Associate Professor of Biology, 2001. B.S., State University of
New York at Stony Brook; PhD, University of California, Los Angeles; Postdoctoral
Fellow, California Institute of Technology; Research Fellow, Beckman Research
Institute of the City of Hope.
Cell and molecular biology, biochemistry; cell cycle control in yeast.
**James Taylor, Associate Professor of Theatre, 1991. BA, Colorado College; M.F.A.,
Southern Methodist University.
*Diane Thomson, Assistant Professor of Biology, 2004. B.S., University of Arizona,
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Conservation biology, population modeling, ecology of biological invasions, plant ecology, and
plant/pollinator interactions.
++Miguel Tinker Salas, Associate Professor of History and Chicano Studies, 1993.
BA. MA, PhD University of San Diego, California.
Lako Tongun, Associate Professor of International and Intercultural Studies and
Political Studies, 1988. BA, St. Mary’s College of California; MA, PhD, University of
California, Davis. Lecturer, University of California, Davis and California State
University, Sacramento.
African and third-world politics; political economy, developmental economics (Third World).
++Maria Aguiar Torres, Dean of Students, Chicano Studies Center, The Claremont
Colleges, and Visiting Professor in Spanish, 1976. BA, University of California,
Riverside; MA, New Mexico State University; PhD candidate, Claremont Graduate
University.
Laura Skandera Trombley, President, 2002. BA, MA, Pepperdine University; PhD,
University of Southern California.
+++Richard N. Tsujimoto, Professor of Psychology, 1973. BA, Stanford University;
PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Clinical psychology; methods for improving predictive accuracy; epistemology in psychology.
Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, 2007. BA, Pitzer
College; MA, PhD, University of California, Berkeley.
Edith M. Vasquez, Assistant Professor of English and World Literature, 2006. BA,
University of California, Los Angeles; MA, PhD, University of California, Riverside.
Rudi Volti, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, 1969. BA, University of California,
Riverside; MA, PhD, Rice University.
Albert Wachtel, Professor of English, 1974. BA, Queens College; PhD, State
University of New York, Buffalo. NDEA Fellow in English; Instructor, Assistant to
the Dean, State University of New York, Buffalo; Fellow, Creative Arts Institute,
Berkeley; Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Visiting
Professor, Conference in Modern Europe, State University of New York, Buffalo;
Danforth Associate; NEH Fellow, Summer Institute on Tragedy, Dartmouth.
Joyce; Shakespeare; epic and scripture; fiction; tragedy; theory of literature; 20th-century
novel.
Andre Wakefield, Assistant Professor of History, 2002. PhD, University of Chicago.
Modern Germany, environmental, science and technology.
Dana Ward, Professor of Political Studies, 1982. BA, University of California,
Berkeley; MA, University of Chicago; M.Phil., PhD, Yale University; Fulbright
Lecturer, Ankara University, Turkey; Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins-Nanjing
University Center for Chinese and American Studies; Visiting Professor, Miyazaki