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, and medicine; Minority relationship to health promotion; Mass media messages targeting health behavior change
Tarek Azzam
Senior Visiting Fellow
Research Interests
Social research and methodologies, Policy and program evaluations, Data visualization and evaluation
Tiffany Berry
Full Research Professor
Research Interests
Educational program evaluation, K–12 educational curricula, After-school programs, Comprehensive school reform
Michelle Bligh
Dean, School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Research Interests
Organizational culture, Leadership in corporate cultures, Charismatic leadership, Interpersonal trust, Political and executive leadership
Kendall Cotton Bronk
Associate Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Adolescent moral development, Positive youth development
Andrew Conway
Associate Provost for Research
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Intelligence, Working memory, Statistics
William Crano
Oskamp Chair, Distinguished Professorship in Psychology
Research Interests
Social influence; Effects of persuasive information on drug addiction and HIV/AIDS; Minority and majority relationships to health information;
Children and adolescent relationship to health information
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management
Founder, Co-Director, Quality of Life Research Center
Research Interests
Creativity and innovation, Flow
Stewart I. Donaldson
Distinguished University Professor
Executive Director, Claremont Evaluation Center
Director, The Evaluators' Institute (TEI)
Research Interests
Positive psychology, positive organizational & community development, peak performance at work and in sports, optimal health & well-being, and culturally responsive and international theory-driven evaluation science
Leslie Fierro
Assistant Clinical Professor of Evaluation
Research Interests
Evaluation policy in the design, conduct, and use of program evaluations
Cindi Gilliland
Clinical Full Professor of Human Resource Management
Director, Human Resource Management
Research Interests
Social innovation, resilience and well-being, diversity and inclusion
Stephen Gilliland
University Professor
Research Interests
Organizational justice, employee attitudes and motivation, leadership, integrity testing
Saeideh (Saida) Heshmati
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Human flourishing across the lifespan, positive relationships and love, longitudinal analysis, social network analysis, ecological momentary assessment
Michael Hogg
Professor of Social Psychology
Chair, Social Psychology Programs
Research Interests
Self and social identity, group processes and intergroup relations, influence and leadership, identity-uncertainty and extremism, language and social identity
Jeanne Nakamura
Associate Professor
Co-director, Quality of Life Research Center
Research Interests
Engagement, Mentoring, Positive aging
Kathy Pezdek
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Memory and comprehension, Visual memory, Eyewitness memory, Suggestibility of memory, Autobiographical memory
Becky Reichard
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Leadership evaluation, assessment, and development; impact of leader development interventions; leader developmental readiness; leader motivation and self-development, longitudinal research on leader development
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, Motivation, Research Methodology
Division of Politics & Economics
Department of Economic Sciences
Graham Bird
Clinical Professor of Economic Sciences
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
Research Interests
Public safety, Political economy, Public choice, Experimental/Behavior
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests
Public policy, Economic strategy, Institutional reform, Corruption
Tom Kniesner
University Professor
Chair, Department of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Labor economics, Health economics, Econometrics
Joshua Tasoff
Associate Professor of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Behavioral economics, experimental economics, microbial economics
Thomas Willett
Horton Professor of Economics
Director, Claremont Institute for Economic Studies
Research Interests
International money and finance
Political economy of economic policy
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
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, Plato, Heidegger, American politics
Heather E. Campbell
Professor, Department of Politics & Government
Co-chair, Department of Politics & Government
Field Chair, Public Policy
Research Interests
Public policy, urban environmental policy, environmental justice, water policy, gentrification, student evaluations of teaching
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests
Public policy, Economic strategy, Institutional reform, Corruption
Christopher N. Krewson
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & Government
Research Interests
American political institutions, Judicial behavior, Public opinion, Research methodology
Javier Rodríguez
Mary Toepelt Nicolai and George S. Blair Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Public and health policy, social inequality; Causal identification in policy analysis and program evaluation; Quantitative methods for social science research
Jean Reith Schroedel
Thornton F. Bradshaw Chair
Professor of Political Science
Co-chair, Department of Politics & Government
Field Chair, American Politics
Research Interests
Native American voting rights, American political development, women and politics, religion and politics, and congressional policy-making
Department of International Studies
Mark Abdollahian
Full Clinical Professor
Research Interests
Strategic decision making, International political economy, Sustainable development, Growth, Human social cultural behavioral modeling, Econometrics, Predictive analytics, Computational modeling and simulation, Data analytics, Visualization
Yi Feng
Luther Lee Jr. Memorial Chair in Government
Research Interests
International political economy, Public policy analysis, Quantitative methodology, Global power shifts, Globalization
Jacek Kugler
Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of International Relations
Research Interests
Causes and consequences of war, Political performance, Nuclear deterrence, Power transition, Political demography, Development, Decision-making
Melissa Rogers
Associate Professor of International Studies
Chair, Department of International Studies
Field Chair, Comparative Politics
Research Interests
Comparative politics, political economy, economic inequality, Latin American politics, state institutional and economic development, research design, econometrics
Sallama Shaker
Full Clinical Professor of Middle East & International Studies
Research Interests
Power politics, religion, and culture in the Middle East; Feminization of poverty and global challenges; Islam state politics; Islamic feminism; Cultural diversity; Globalization
Zining Yang
Assistant Clinical Professor
Research Interests
Formal modeling, data analysis