Chair Resources

Archaeology, California, Baja California, colonialism, Spanish missions

Photography

Area of Study: Biology and Neuroscience Education

Education Psychology

Turkeltaub teaches all levels of Greek and Latin language, literature, and composition classes, and has taught various courses in translation on classical comedy, tragedy, mythology, comparative literature, and Greek civilization.

Michael Whalen is a documentary filmmaker who teaches screenwriting, film/tv production and history courses on Hollywood and the U.S. film/television industry. Prior to returning to Santa Clara to teach, he spent 10 years living in Los Angeles as a working television writer, producer and director.

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.

Specialties: differential geometry, expository mathematics, mathematical economics

Director of Choral Activities, Conducting

Neuropsychology

Epistemology, Metaethics, Moral Epistemology

Ph.D., Israel Institute of Technology, 2002

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.

Developmental Psychology

American Religious History

Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First Generation College Students

Acting, Voice