Meet our Faculty
The College of Arts and Science faculty are at the heart of our school. World-renowned experts in their fields, they lead research that informs the way we see, understand, and live in the world around us. At the same time, they strongly value their teaching and connection with their students, often working with undergraduates on research projects and discussing issues after class. With a low 7:1 student to faculty ratio, instructors are uniquely accessible for assistance, support, research, and guidance.
Featured Profiles
Lily Claiborne and Jonathan Waters
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cinema and Media Arts
What do geology and filmmaking possibly have in common? How can they work together to help us understand the Earth and our place in it? Claiborne and Waters answer these questions through their innovative joint course.
Panka Bencsik
Medicine, Health & Society
Bencsik researched the effect of traffic congestion on food choice in Los Angeles County. With her collaborators, she analyzed smartphone GPS data to track foot traffic to fast-food restaurants and grocery stores during periods of heavy traffic congestion.
Adeana McNicholl
Religious Studies
McNicholl shares the origins of the Chinese Ghost Festival and the moral metaphors what we can learn from these Buddhist ghost stories.
Jens Meiler
Biological Sciences
Meiler is spearheading a project using computational modeling, AI-driven predictions, and structural biology, to develop a groundbreaking vaccine that offers long-lasting protection against all alphaviruses.
Faculty by Department and Program
- African American and Diaspora Studies
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Art
- Asian Studies
- Biological Sciences
- Business
- Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
- Chemistry
- Cinema and Media Arts
- Classical and Mediterranean Studies
- Climate and Environmental Studies
- Communication of Science and Technology
- Communication Studies
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Economics
- English
- European Studies
- French and Italian
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- German, Russian, and East European Studies
- History
- History of Art
- Jewish Studies
- Mathematics
- Medicine, Health, and Society
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy Studies
- Religious Studies
- Sociology
- Spanish and Portuguese
- Theatre