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	William Alves Associate Professor of Music D.M.A., University of Southern California Music composition • computer music • alternate tuning systems • gamelan music • abstract computer animation
	Isabel Balseiro Professor of Comparative Literature Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor of Humanities Ph.D., New York University Contemporary writers and film makers of Africa and South America • cultural and race studies • film and postcolonial literature
	Hal S. Barron Professor of History Louisa and Robert Miller Professor of Humanities Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania U.S. social history • history of rural America • immigration and ethnicity
	Marianne De Laet Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society Ph.D., University of Utrecht, Netherlands Social studies of science • cultural anthropology • technology and culture • video game culture • practices of knowledge-making • collaboration and management in big science
	Erika Dyson Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Ph.D., Columbia University Religion and science • intersections between social-change activism and religion • American religious history • and church and state
	Gary R. Evans Professor of Economics Ruth and Harvey Berry Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership Ph.D., University of California, Riverside Financial institutions • small business development • enterprise and entrepreneurship
	Jeffrey D. Groves Professor of Literature Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School Nineteenth-century American literature • history of the book • Shakespeare
	Charles Kamm Assistant Professor of Music D.M.A., Yale University Joint music faculty Concert choir • chamber choir • music history
	Michael D. Lamkin Professor of Music Ph. D., University of Iowa Joint music faculty Central European music and history 1750-1950 • intersections of European cultures
	Debra Mashek Assistant Professor of Psychology Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook Close relationships • psychology of gender • psychology of incarceration
	Rachel Mayeri Associate Professor of Media Studies M.F.A., University of California, San Diego Experimental documentary production • motion graphics and animation • history of special effects • genetics and society • ecology and art • history of science and art

	Richard G. Olson Professor of History Willard W. Keith Jr. Fellow in the Humanities Ph.D., Harvard University History of science • gender issues in science • science and religion • U.S. science policy
	Jay Prag Visiting Professor of Economics Ph.D., University of Rochester Corporate finance • managerial economics • monetary theory

	Paul Steinberg Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Policy Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz International and comparative environmental politics • policy analysis • sustainable development • biodiversity • political science research methods
	Lisa M. Sullivan Professor of Economics Ph.D., University of Toronto Comparative history of work • medieval and early American economic history • economics of higher education
	Chang Tan Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Contemporary Chinese art and visual culture • modernity and modernism in Asia • representation of urban space in art and literature
	Jennifer Tucker Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of Science, Technology, and Society Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University Feminist, gender, and sexuality studies • science and society
	Jacqueline Wernimont Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature Ph.D, Brown University Sixteenth and seventh century British literature • poetic theory • history of science and mathematics (1500-1700) • gender in science studies
	Darryl Wright Department Chair Professor of Philosophy Ph.D., University of Michigan History of ethics • moral and political philosophy

Emeritus Faculty

	Tad Beckman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Picture not available	Nathaniel Davis Professor Emeritus of Political Science

	J'nan Morse Sellery Professor Emerita of Literature Ph.D., University of California, Riverside