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
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, Qualitative Methods
Dakota Cintron
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Latent Variable Modeling, Measurement Theory, and Causal Inference
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
David M. Fetterman
Adjunct Professor, Visiting Scholar, and Research Fellow
Research Interests
Educational evaluation, medical education, higher education, empowerment evaluation, ethnography, tobacco prevention, tuberculosis elimination, social justice, gifted, migrant, and dropout prevention programs; homelessness, substance abuse prevention
Stephen Gilliland
University Professor
Research Interests
Organizational Justice, Employee Attitudes and Motivation, Leadership
M. Gloria González-Morales
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for Academic & Faculty Excellence
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, Product Strategy, Gaming, Technology for Health and Wellness, Educational Technology, Inclusive Design
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; Intergroup Communication
Jeanne Nakamura
Associate Professor
Director, Quality of Life Research Center
Research Interests
Engagement, Mentoring, Positive Aging
Kathy Pezdek
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Memory & Comprehension, Eyewitness Memory, Autobiographical Memory
Becky Reichard
Full 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
Full Research Professor
Research Interests
Environmental psychology, social psychology, conservation, sustainability, social influence, quantitative methods, big data
Jason T. Siegel
Professor of Psychology
Research Interests
Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Persuasion, Survey Research
Michelle Sloper
Associate Professor of Evaluation Practice
Research Interests
Positive youth development, evaluation capacity building, evaluation use, continuous quality improvement, expanded learning programs
Jennifer Villalobos
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Social justice, positive organizational psychology, psychological capital, DEI, evaluation training
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 Economics 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
Criminal Justice, Law, Applied Econometrics
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, Animal Welfare Economics
Department of Politics & Policy
Mark Abdollahian
Full Clinical Professor
Research Interests
Strategic Decision Making, International Political Economy, Sustainable Development
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
Heather E. Campbell
Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy
Director, Division of Politics & Economics
Research Interests
Public Policy, Urban Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice
Yi Feng
Luther Lee Jr. Memorial Chair Professor
Research Interests
International Political Economy, International Relations, Political Economy of China and Latin America, Quantitative Methodology
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests
Public Policy, Economic Strategy, Institutional Reform, Corruption
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
Tyler Reny
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
American Politics, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Data Visualization
Javier Rodríguez
Associate Professor
Field Chair for Policy
Research Interests
Public & Health Policy, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods for Social Science Research
Melissa Rogers
Associate Professor, Politics & Policy
Co-Director, Inequality and Policy Research Center
Field Chair, Comparative Politics
Field Chair, American Politics
Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economic Inequality
Emerit Faculty
Jean Reith Schroedel
Professor Emerita of Political Science
Former Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy