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Anthropology
  • Lee Panich
    Fay Boyle Professor

    Archaeology, California, Baja California, colonialism, Spanish missions

Art and Art History
Biology
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Child Studies
Classics
  • Lissa Crofton-Sleigh headshot
    Teaching Professor

    Crofton-Sleigh teaches both Greek and Latin, Classical Myth, and Literature in Translation.

Communication
  • Justin Boren
    Associate Professor

    Justin Boren studies the impact of creating socially-supportive organizations and how supportive climates lead to improvements in psychological and physiological stress among coworkers. He teaches courses on organizational and interpersonal communication, organizational training and development, quantitative research methods, and biological approaches to human interaction.

English
Environmental Studies and Sciences
  • Chris Bacon
    Professor

    Chris is a political ecologist and an agroecologist. His research focuses on agriculture, food security, and how food systems relate to climate change, environmental justice, and sustainability transitions.

Ethnic Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History
Individual Studies
Mathematics and Computer Science
Modern Languages and Literatures
Music
  • Scot Hanna-Weir joyfully conducting with a baton
    Associate Professor

    Director of Choral Activities, Conducting

Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics and Engineering Physics
Political Science
  • Elsa Chen headshot
    Professor

    Elsa Chen teaches American politics, public policy, and research methods. Her research focuses on criminal justice sentencing policy, including racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes and the effects of mandatory minimum sentencing policies, the implementation of sentencing reform, criminal record expungement, and prisoner reentry.

Psychology
Public Health
Religious Studies
Sociology
  • Laura Nichols headshot
    Professor

    Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation and Transfer College Students

Theatre and Dance
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