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Endowed Professorships

The Arango Professorship in Latin American History, 2004
The R. Stanton Avery Professorships, 1994
The David J. Baldwin Professorship in Music, 1958
The Henry Kirke White Bent Professorship in Biology, 1915
The Frank P. Brackett Professorship in Astronomy, 1914
The Commander Lingurn H. Burkhead Professorship in Mathematics, 1980
The Minnie B. Cairns Memorial Professorship in Geology, 1971
The Carnegie Professorship in Chemistry, 1920
The Warren Finney Day Professorship in History, 1914
The Robert C. Denison Professorship in Philosophy, 1924
The Charles and Henrietta Johnson Detoy Professorship in American Government, 1976
The John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professorship in Botany, 1960
The John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professorship in Music, 1972
The Roy Edward Disney Professorship in Creative Writing, 2001
The Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professorship in English, 1961
The Joseph N. Fiske Professorship in Mathematics, 1903
The Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professorship in Modern Languages, 1993
The Edwin F. and Margaret Hahn Professorship in the Social Sciences, 1990
The Willard George Halstead Professorship in Biology, 1915
The Martha N. Hathaway Professorship and Dean of Women Fund, 1925
The William Atwood Hilton Professorship in Biology, 1967
The Viola Horton Professorship in Art History, 1976
The James Irvine Foundation Professorship in Economics, 1975
The Frank S. Jennings Professorship in English, 1936
The William A. Johnson Memorial Professorship in Government, 1959
The Fletcher Jones Professorship in Economics, 1980
The W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professorships, 1985
The Fred Krinsky Professorship in Jewish Studies, 2000
The Henry G. Lee Professorship in English, 2004
The E. Wilson Lyon Professorship in the Humanities, 1969
The Nancy M. Lyon Professorship in Biblical History and Literature ,1909
The Philip C. and Gertrude L. McConnell Professorship in Human Relations, 1980
The John Knox McLean Professorship in Religion and Religious Studies, 1932
The Loren Barton Babcock Miller Professorship in Fine Arts, 1975
The John Sutton Miner Professorship in History, 1966
The George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professorship in Economics, 2000
The Roscoe Moss Professorship, 2006
The Seeley W. Mudd Professorship in Physics, 1925
The Edwin Clarence Norton Professorship in Classics, 1910
The Everett S. Olive Professorship, 2006
The Osler-Loucks Professorship in Science, 1981
The Pacific Basin Institute Presidency Fund, 1999
The Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professorship in Media Studies, 2001
The Stephen M. Pauley M.D. Endowed Professorship in Environmental Studies, 2000
The Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professorship in Economics, 1985
The Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Directorship of the Pomona College Museum of Art, 2003
The Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Professorship in Neuroscience, 2003
The Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professorship in the Humanities, 2000
The William Polk Russell Professorship in Mathematics, 1982
The Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professorship in Science, 1969
The Henry E. Sheffield Professorship in History, 1970
The Edwin Sexton and Edna Patrick Smith Professorship in Modern European Languages, 1961
The Elden Smith Professorship in Economics, 1966
The H. Russell Smith Professorship in International Relations, 1984
The Henry Snyder Professorship in Sociology, 1927
The Phebe Estelle Spalding Professorship in English, 1910
The Peter W. Stanley Professorship in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2003
The Stedman-Sumner Professorship in Economics, 1911
The Richard Steele Professorship in the Social Sciences, 1997
The Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professorship in Music, 1969
The Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professorship in Psychology, 1978
The George Erving Thompson Memorial Professorship in Government, 1979
The Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professorship in Computer Science, 1975
 
Professorship Holders

 
  Jay David Atlas
Peter W. Stanley Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy
A.B., Amherst College
Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Cognitive Science; Linguistics; Logic; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Pragmatics of Language
 

 
  William P. Banks
Edwin F. and Margaret Hahn Professor of Psychology
B.A., St. John's College
M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Expertise Areas: Attention; Psychology; Cognition; Implicit Memory; Models of Memory; genocide and the problem of evil; consciousness and cognition

 

 
  David W. Becker
John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Botany and Associate Professor of Biology
B.A., Oberlin College
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Expertise Areas: Plant Physiology; Photosynthesis; Plant Biology; Environmental Stresses on Plants and their Responses
 

 
  Eleanor P. Brown
James Irvine Foundation Professor of Economics
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Federal Tax Policy; Not-for-Profit Organizations; Personal Philanthropy; The Market for Volunteer Labor; Charitable giving
 

 
  Kim B. Bruce
Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of Computer Science
B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Expertise Areas: Computer Science Education; Programming Languages; Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Languages
 

 
  Everett L. Bull, Jr.
Osler-Loucks Professor of Science and Professor of Computer Science
B.A., Pomona College
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Theory of Computation, Applications of Logic to Computer Science; Computer Security
 

 
  John Raymond Buriel
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychology and Professor of Chicano Studies
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Expertise Areas: Children Who Translate for Their Parents; Multicultural Education; Chicano Psychology; Cultural Psychology; Immigration and Sociocultural Change; Latino Parents and Child Care
 

 
  Deborah Burke
W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Psychology
B.A., Barnard College
Ph.D., Columbia University
Expertise Areas: Aging and Cognition; Language and Memory; Psychology (language and memory); Word Finding Failures (tip of the tongue)
 

 
  Cecilia Conrad
Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics
A.B., Wellesley College
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Minority Women; Distribution of Income; Science and Technology Labor Market; Race and Economic Status; Local public expenditures; Urban Economics
 

 
  Elizabeth H. Crighton
William A. Johnson Professor of Government and Professor of Politics
B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Expertise Areas: Comparative Gender Politics; Comparative Ethnic Conflict and peacemaking; comparative European politics
 

 
  N. Ann Davis
Philip C. and Gertrude L. McConnell Professor of Human Relations and Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Bioethics; Ethics; Evil; Morality; Abortion Debate
 

 
  Oona Eisenstadt

Fred Krinsky Professor in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., Ph.D., McMaster University
Expertise Areas: Contemporary continental philosophy; Modern Jewish philosophy; Judaism and political theory; children's literature
 

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David Elliott
H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and Professor of Politics
B.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Cornell University
Expertise Areas: U.S. Foreign Policy; Vietnam War; Asian Security Issues
 


 
  Judson J. Emerick
Loren Barton Babcock Miller Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of Art History
B.A., Hope College
M.A., University of Michigan
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Expertise Areas: Late Antique and Early Medieval art; Hellenistic and Ancient Roman Imperial art; art and liturgy; the history of art history
 

 
  Stephen A. Erickson
E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy
B.A., St. Olaf College
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Heidegger; Philosophy; European Thought; Crises in Contemporary Value Systems; The Future of Human Spirituality
 

 
  Thomas E. Flaherty
The John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Music
B.A., Brandeis University
M.A., M.M., State University of New York, Stony Brook
D.M.A., University of Southern California
Expertise Areas: Electronic Music; 20th Century Music History and Theory
 

 
  Erica Flapan
Commander Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Hamilton College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Expertise Areas: Embedded Graphs; Knot Theory; Topological Chemistry; Topology; 3-manifolds
 

 
  Leo J. Flynn
George Erving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics
B.A., San Jose State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Expertise Areas: Democracy; Criminal Justice; Media and Politics; Legal Issues; American Politics; The U.S. Constitution
 

 
  Lorn S. Foster

Charles and Henrietta Johnson Detoy Professor of American Government and Professor of Politics
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois
Expertise Areas: Campaigns and Elections; Civil Rights; Race and Power; Public Policy; Urban Politics; American National Government; the Voting Rights Act
 


 
  Jennifer Friedlander

Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
B.A., Binghamton University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Expertise Areas: Contemporary Art Controversies; Cultural Studies; Film Theory; Psychoanalytic Theory


 
  George L. Gorse
Viola Horton Professor of Art History
A.B., The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Expertise Areas: Art; History of Cities; Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture; Italian Baroque Art and Architecture; Medieval Art History; History of Cities, Palaces, Villas and Gardens; History of Genoa

 
  Sandy Grabiner
Joseph N. Fiske Professor of Mathematics
B.A., Rice University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Pure Mathematics, especially functional analysis; Pure Mathematics, especially Analysis
 

 
  Fred J. Grieman
Roscoe Moss Professor of Chemistry
B.A., University of California, Irvine
M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Chemistry; Molecular Ion Spectroscopy; Free-Jet Expansion Spectroscopy; Laser Spectroscopy

 

 
  Jill S. Grigsby
Richard Steele Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology
Sc.B., Brown University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Expertise Areas: Aging; Population; Family

 
  Richard W. Hazlett
Stephen M. Pauley M.D. Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Geology
B.A., Occidental College
A.M., Dartmouth College
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Expertise Areas: Geology; Mineralogy; Petrology; Volcanoes
 

 
  Laura L. Mays Hoopes
Halstead-Bent Professor of Biology
A.B., Goucher College
Ph.D., Yale University
L.H.D, Goucher College
Expertise Areas: Gene Regulation; Molecular biology of aging
 

 
  Kathleen Stewart Howe
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Director of the Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History
B.S., Michigan State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Expertise Areas: Art; Museums and Culture; History of Graphic Arts; Photography and Visual Representation; History of Photography and Printmaking; Photography and the Politics of Visual Representation
 

 
  Jerry Irish
John Knox McLean Professor of Religion and Religious Studies
B.A., Cornell University
B.D., Southern Methodist University
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Religious Ethics; Feminist Theology; God
 

 
  Karl G. Johnson
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel Professor of Neuroscience and Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., Grinnell College
M.S., University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Expertise Areas: Biology; Molecular Biology; Developmental Neurobiology; Developmental Biology; Axon Guidance

 

 
Michael K. Kuehlwein
George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics
B.A., Swarthmore College
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Altruism; Bequest Motive; Saving; Estate Taxes; Gift Taxes; Consumer Spending
 

 
  James D. Likens
Morris B. and Gladys S. Pendleton Professor of Economics
B.A., M.B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Expertise Areas: Credit Unions; Financial Services Industry
 

 
  Michael D. McGaha
Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor of Modern Languages
B.A., University of Dallas
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Expertise Areas: Cervantes; Spanish; Kabbalah; Mysticism; Sephardic History and Literature; Medieval; Renaissance; Theater
 

 
  Richard D. McKirahan, Jr.
Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics, Professor of Philosophy
A.B., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., M.A., University of Oxford
Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Ancient Greece; Greek Gods; Greek Literature; Greek Language; Ancient Philosophy
 

 
  Catalin D. Mitescu
Seeley W. Mudd Professor of Physics
B.Eng., McGill University
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Expertise Areas: Computational and Statistical Physics; Critical Phenomena; Electrical Network Analysis; Fluid Dynamics; Fractal Networks; Thermodynamics; Properties of Randomly Disordered Systems; Eastern Orthodox Church and Faith
 

 
  Hans C. Palmer
W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Economics
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Economics; Long-term Care; Care for the Elderly; Comparative Economics
 

 
  William J. Peterson
Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Music and College Organist
B.M., B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Nationalism and Music; Organ; History of Western Music; History of French Music
 

 
  Frances K. Pohl
Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professor of Humanities and Professor of Art History
B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise Areas: Art and Politics; American Art; Feminism
 

 
  Claudia Rankine
The Henry G. Lee Professor of English
B.A., Williams College
M.F.A., Columbia University
Expertise Areas: Creative Writing; Poetry

 
  Arden Reed
Arthur M. and Fanny M. Dole Professor of English
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Expertise Areas: Image/Text Relations; Modernism; Contemporary Art; English Romantic Literature; 19th-Century French Culture

 
  Gary N. Smith
Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics
B.A., Harvey Mudd College
Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Economics; Statistics; Financial Markets
 

 
  Frederick Sontag
Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Stanford University
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
LL.D., College of Idaho
Expertise Areas: Existentialism; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical Theology
 

 
  Bruce R. Telzer
Blanche and Frank R. Seaver Professor of Science and Professor of Biology
B.A., State University of New York, Buffalo
M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Expertise Areas: Cell Biology; Intracellular Motility; Biochemistry of Microtubules and Molecular Motors; Mechanisms of Mitosis
 

 
  Miguel Tinker Salas
Arango Professor of Latin American History and Professor of History and Chicano/a Studies
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Expertise Areas: Contemporary Venezuela; Oil, Politics and Culture in Venezuela; Contemporary Mexican Politics; Mexico in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Latin American History; Chicanos/as and Latinos in the United States; Chicano/a History; Latin American Immigration and the Diaspora; Contemporary Mexican Politics, Elections 2006

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Helena M. Wall
Warren Finney Day Professor of History and Director of the Hart Institute for American History
B.A., Brandeis University
A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Expertise Areas: Colonial and Revolutionary America; American Social History; Early Modern European history
 

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David Foster Wallace
Roy Edward Disney Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English
A.B., Amherst College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
 


 
  Kenneth B. Wolf
John Sutton Miner Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Expertise Areas: Christian Views of Islam; Medieval Spain; Saints and the Idea of Sanctity
 

 
  Frank C. Wykoff
Elden Smith Professor of Economics
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Expertise Areas: Economics; Capital Measurement; Econometrics; Macroeconomics
 
  Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History
B.A., Macalester College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Expertise Areas: Asia; Confucianism; History; Intellectual History; Japan; Japanese history; The Pacific War; Traditional and modern Asian history

 
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