HMC
Faculty

Department Chair: Lisa Sullivan

 Faculty: William Alves  |  Isabel Balseiro  |  Hal S. Barron  |  Marianne De Laet
Gary R. Evans  |  Jeffrey D. Groves  |  Charles Kamm  |  Michael D. Lamkin
Phil Marquez  |  Debra Mashek  |  Rachel Mayeri  |  Richard G. Olson
Jay Prag  |  Paul Steinberg  |  Lisa M. Sullivan  |  Darryl Wright

Emeritus Faculty: Tad Beckman  |  Nathaniel Davis  |  J'nan Morse Sellery

alves

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 


balseiro 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 

barron 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 

delaet 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 

evans          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     
Jeffrey D. Groves
Professor of Literature
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
Nineteenth-century American literature • history of the book • Shakespeare 

kamm   
Charles Kamm
Assistant Professor of Music
D.M.A., Yale University
Joint music faculty
Concert choir • chamber choir • music history

lamkin       
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 

marquez   Phil Marquez
Visiting Professor of Photography
M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University
Human interaction in the environment • suburban landscape 

mashek        
Debra Mashek
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Close relationships • psychology of gender • psychology of incarceration 

mayeri            
Rachel Mayeri
Assistant 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 Olson       
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 

prag   Jay Prag
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics (Spring 2005)
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Corporate financing • managerial economics • monetary theory 

Paul Steinberg               
Paul Steinberg
Assistant 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 

sullivan              Lisa M. Sullivan
Professor of Economics
Department Chair
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Comparative history of work • medieval and early American economic history • economics of higher education 

wright   
Darryl Wright
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Michigan
History of ethics • moral and political philosophy

Emeritus Faculty

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

Nathaniel Davis
Professor Emeritus of Political Science 

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