The School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation is home to world-class faculty who are experts in their fields of endeavor. You’ll collaborate closely with them on research and benefit from individualized attention and a faculty-wide commitment to professional and personal mentorship.
Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences
Eusebio Alvaro
Full Research Professor
Research Interests
Social Influence Processes, Health Promotion, Disease Prevention & Medicine
Tarek Azzam
Senior Visiting Fellow
Research Interests
Social Research and Methodologies, Policy & Program Evaluations, Data Visualization and Evaluation
Tiffany Berry
Dean, School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
Full Research Professor
Research Interests
Educational Program Evaluation, K–12 Educational Curricula, Comprehensive School Reform
Michelle Bligh
Executive Vice President & Provost
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Research Interests
Leadership, Organizational Culture, Charismatic Leadership
Kendall Cotton Bronk
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Purpose in Life, Adolescent Moral Development, Positive Youth Development
Wanda Casillas
Director of MS: Evaluation and Applied Research (Online)
Associate Research Professor
Research Interests
Culturally Responsive Evaluation, Evaluation in Service of Equity and Social Justice, Using Systems Thinking in Evaluation and Applied Research, Using Values-based Research and Evaluation to Solve Social Problems
William Crano
Stuart Oskamp Chair of Psychology
Research Interests
Social Influence, Effects of persuasive information on drug addiction and HIV/AIDS, Minority and majority relationships to health information
Jessica Diaz
Director, Human Resource Management
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Organizational behavior, employee experience, psychological safety, diversity, equity, and inclusion, leader development, statistics and methodology
Stewart I. Donaldson
Distinguished University Professor
Executive Director, Claremont Evaluation Center
Executive Director, The Evaluators' Institute (TEI)
Research Interests
Positive Organizational Psychology, Health/Well-Being & Positive Functioning Across Cultures, Program Design & Re-Design, Culturally Responsive Theory-Driven Measurement & Evaluation
Leslie Fierro
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
Evaluation Policy in the Design, Conduct, and Use of Program Evaluations
Cindi Gilliland
Professor of Practice in Organizational Psychology
Research Interests
Social Innovation, Resilience & Well-Being, Diversity and Inclusion
Stephen Gilliland
University Professor
Research Interests
Organizational Justice, Employee Attitudes and Motivation, Leadership
M. Gloria González-Morales
Associate Professor of Psychology
Faculty Director, Preparing Future Faculty
Research Interests
Work stress; work-life issues; workplace victimization and incivility; relational practices and cultures; diversity; positive organizational interventions to enhance well-being and performance.
Danielle Green
Assistant Professor of Practice
Research Interests
User Experience Research, Product Strategy
Saeideh (Saida) Heshmati
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Human Flourishing Across the Lifespan, Positive Relationships & Love, Longitudinal Analysis
Michael Hogg
Professor of Social Psychology
Research Interests
Self and Social Identity; Intergroup Relations and Group Processes; Influence and Leadership; Uncertainty, Radicalization and Extremism
Jeanne Nakamura
Associate Professor
Co-director, Quality of Life Research Center
Research Interests
Engagement, Mentoring, Positive Aging
Michael Quinn Patton
Visiting Senior Scholar
Research Interests
Use of evaluation to support sustainability and equity, food systems transformation, sociology of knowledge
Kathy Pezdek
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Memory & Comprehension, Eyewitness Memory, Autobiographical Memory
Becky Reichard
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Development of those not typically represented in leadership roles (e.g., women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+), Psychological mechanisms underlying the process of leader development (e.g., feedback, goal striving, self-views, implicit theories, leader development readiness), Development of leadership through experiences outside of the work context (e.g., global, sports, volunteering, crisis)
P. Wesley Schultz
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
Environmental psychology, social psychology, conservation, sustainability, social influence, quantitative methods, big data
Michael Scriven
Distinguished Professor
Research Interests
Philosophy, Mathematics, Evaluation methodologies, Critical thinking, Technology studies, Computer studies
Jason T. Siegel
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Persuasion
Anna Woodcock
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
Identity, Identity balance, Stereotypes, Diversity, STEM, Prejudice, Longitudinal Research, Quasi-Experimental Research, Intervention Evaluation, Theory-driven Interventions, Implicit Bias, Implicit identities
Division of Politics & Economics
Department of Economic Sciences
Graham Bird
Clinical Professor of Economic Sciences
Program Director: International Money and Finance; International Economic and Development Policy
Co-Director: Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies
Research Interests
International Finance, International Macroeconomics, Economic Development
C. Mónica Capra
Professor of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics
Gregory DeAngelo
Associate Professor of Economic Sciences
Director, Computational Justice Lab
Research Interests
Law, Political Economy, Public Choice
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests
Public Policy, Economic Strategy, Institutional Reform, Corruption
Tom Kniesner
Senior Research Fellow
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Health Economics, Econometrics
Joshua Tasoff
Associate Professor of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Microbial Economics
Paul J. Zak
Professor of Economic Sciences, Psychology & Management
Director, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
Research Interests
Neuroeconomics, Neuroscience of Narratives, Neuromanagement
Department of Politics & Government
Carlos Algara
Mary Toepelt Nicolai and George S. Blair Assistant Professor
Research Interests
American politics, the United States Congress, ideological representation, electoral politics, elite institutions
Mark Blitz
Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy
Field Chair, Political Philosophy
Director, Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom
Research Interests
Political science, Philosophy, American politics
Heather E. Campbell
Professor, Department of Politics & Government
Director, Division of Politics & Economics
Field Chair, Public Policy
Thornton F. Bradshaw Chair
Research Interests
Public Policy, Urban Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests
Public Policy, Economic Strategy, Institutional Reform, Corruption
Tyler Reny
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
American Politics, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Psychology
Javier Rodríguez
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Public & Health Policy, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Social Science Research
Department of International Studies
Mark Abdollahian
Full Clinical Professor
Research Interests
Strategic Decision Making, International Political Economy, Sustainable Development
Yi Feng
Luther Lee Jr. Memorial Chair Professor
Research Interests
International Political Economy, International Relations, Political Economy of China and Latin America, Quantitative Methodology
Jacek Kugler
Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of International Relations
Research Interests
Causes and Consequences of War, Political Performance, Power Transition
Tanu Kumar
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Development, political behavior, urban politics, digital technology
Melissa Rogers
Associate Professor, International Studies
Co-Director, Inequality and Policy Research Center
Field Chair, Comparative Politics
Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economic Inequality
Sallama Shaker
Senior Fellow of Middle East & International Studies
Research Interests
Power Politics, Religion, and Culture in the Middle East; Feminization of Poverty and Global Challenges; Globalization
Emeriti Faculty
Jean Reith Schroedel
Professor Emerita of Political Science
Former Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy