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
Full Research Professor
Research Interests
Educational Program Evaluation, K–12 Educational Curricula, Comprehensive School Reform
Michelle Bligh
Dean, School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
Professor of Organizational Behavior
Research Interests
Leadership, Organizational Culture, Charismatic Leadership
Kendall Cotton Bronk
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Adolescent Moral Development, Positive Youth Development
Andrew Conway
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
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
Assistant Clinical Professor of Evaluation
Senior Research Fellow
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 & 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
Research Interests
Occupational Health Psychology, Positive Organizational Psychology, Work-Life Issues
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
Chair, Social Psychology Programs
Research Interests
Self and Social Identity; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; 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
Leadership Evaluation, Assessment, and Development; Impact of Leader Development Interventions
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
Deborah Freund
University Professor
Director of Community and Student Engagement
Research Interests
Value-Based Reimbursement, Medicaid Managed Care, Health Disparities
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
Matthew B. Ross
Assistant Professor of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Urban Economics, Labor Economics, Public Policy Evaluation
CarlyWill Sloan
Assistant Professor of Economic Sciences
Research Interests
Labor Economics, Economics of Crime, Economics of Discrimination
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 Associate 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
Chair, Division of Politics & Economics
Field Chair, Public Policy
Research Interests
Public Policy, Urban Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice
Stephen Omar El-Khatib
Visiting Assistant Professor of American Politics
Research Interests
American Politics, Identity and Immigration, Mixed Method Research, Psychology and Morality, State and Local Policy
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
Melissa Rogers
Associate Dean, School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation
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
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Management
Founder, Co-Director, Quality of Life Research Center