Humanities Faculty

Professorial Faculty

• John Brewer • Early modern British history and literature; early modern European history; the history of consumerism; history of post-world war 2 Britain; the history of collecting; the history of cultural patrimony; European cultural history; the history of social sciences
  Contact: jbrewer@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5763 • 313 Dabney Hall

• Warren C. Brown • Social history of early medieval Europe, conflict resolution, social and institutional memory.
  Contact: wcb@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4482 • 212 Dabney Hall

• Jed Z. Buchwald • History of physics, philosophy of physical sciences, history of understanding of pre-classical antiquity.
  Contact: buchwald@its.caltech.edu • 626-395-3210 • 202 Dabney Hall

• Fiona Cowie • Philosophy of mind; philosophy of psychology and linguistics; cognitive science.
  Contact: fcowiecaltech@yahoo.com • 626-395-3606 • 207 Dabney Hall

• Tracy K. Dennison • Pre-revolutionary Russia, Demographic History, Institutions and Economic Growth, History of Ideas about Peasant Societies.
  Contact: tkd@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1742 • 201B Dabney Hall

• Mordechai Feingold • Early modern history, history of science.
  Contact: feingold@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8696 • 213 Dabney Hall

• Kevin M. Gilmartin • Romantic literature; relationship between political journalism and Romantic poetry.
  Contact: kmg@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3611 • 309 Dabney Hall

• Kristine Haugen • Early modern literature and intellectual history.
  Contact: haugen@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1774 • 301D Dabney Hall

• Christopher R. Hitchcock • Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of linguistics, metaphysics.
  Contact: cricky@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3602 • 210 Dabney Hall

• Philip T. Hoffman • Economic history of Europe and the world, economic development, institutional change
  Contact: pth@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4085 • 115 Baxter Hall

• Catherine Jurca • Twentieth-century American literature and film.
  Contact: cjurca@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3603 • 315 Dabney Hall

• Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald • Modern history of the physical sciences; European intellectual history.
  Contact: diana_buchwald@caltech.edu • 626-395-8044 • 201 F Dabney Hall

• J. Morgan Kousser • Racial discrimination in schools, politics, and the distribution of public goods.
  Contact: kousser@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4080 • 214 Baxter Hall

• Gideon Manning • History of modern philosophy, history of medicine, history of biology
  Contact: gmax@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3731 • 201A Dabney Hall

• Dominic P. Murphy • Philosophy of mind, history of modern philosophy, philosophy of science.
  Contact: murphy@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3612 • 204 Dabney Hall

• George W. Pigman III • Renaissance literature; history of psychoanalysis
  Contact: gwp@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3601 • 208 Dabney Hall

• Steven R. Quartz • Impact of neuroscience advances for many of the traditional problems of mind, ranging from a neurally plausible theory of mental representation, the origin of knowledge, to the formal learning properties of neurally constrained developing systems.
  Contact: steve@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4401 • 209 Dabney Hall

• Robert A. Rosenstone • History on film; modern culture, biography, and the Modern Age.
  Contact: rr@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4069 • 307 Dabney Hall

• Cindy A. Weinstein • 19th-century American literature and culture.
  Contact: caw@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3600 • 311 Dabney Hall

• James F. Woodward • Philosophy of science; political philosophy.
  Contact: jfw@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4163 • 211 Dabney Hall

• Jiji Zhang • Philosophy of Causation, Foundations of Causal and Statistical Inference, Epistemology
  Contact: jiji@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1798 • 215 Dabney Hall

Non-Professorial Faculty

• Andreas Aebi • German.
  Contact: aebi@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3620 • 302 Dabney Hall

• Gloria Arjona • Spanish Literature, popular culture, Latin American music.
  Contact: arjona@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1739 • 201C Dabney Hall

• Shelley Bennett • 19th and 20th century art.
  Contact: sbennett@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4443 • 206 Baxter Hall

• Ginevra Crosignani • Early Modern British History, Church History.
  Contact: ginevrac@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1757 • 201D Dabney Hall

• Christine M. Daley • 20th century American literature and cultural studies, Los Angeles literature, modern American history of religion, war narratives, contemporary literature
  Contact: cdaley@hss.caltech.edu • n/a •

• Jennifer R. Davis •
  Contact: jrdavis@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3621 • 312 Dabney Hall

• Matthew D. Eddy • History of Science, Medicine, Philosophy and Religion, 1600-1914; History of the Book and Reading Practices, 1600-1914; History of Colonialism and Travel, 1600-1914; History of the Mind, Morality and Psychology 1600-1914; History of Anthropology and Human Origins, 1600-1914
  Contact: eddius@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1720 • 113 Dabney Hall

• Mary Esteve • 19th and 20th Century American literature and culture
  Contact: esteve@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3611 • 309 Dabney Hall

• Daniel A. Garcia • Comparative literature, linguistics
  Contact: dagarcia@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3616 • 301E Dabney Hall

• John (Jack) B. Geasland • Fiction and Film. Screenwriting and novel writing.
  Contact: geasland@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4212 • 11 Dabney Hall

• Merrill Joan Gerber • Gerber is a well-published and prize-winning short story and novel writer.
  Contact: gerber@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3680 • 215 Baxter Hall

• Judith R. Goodstein • History of science and modern Europe.
  Contact: jrg@cco.caltech.edu • 626-395-2700 •

• Judith Hall • Poetry and Fiction.
  Contact: hall@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1757 • 201D Dabney Hall

• Ritsuko Hirai Toner • Japanese
  Contact: rhirai@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-6082 • 201E Dabney Hall

• Kayoko Hirata • Japanese.
  Contact: hirataja@caltech.edu • 626-395-4210 • 304 Dabney Hall

• Virginia Iris Holmes • Modern Jewish History, Modern Germany, Modern European History, The Holocaust, Women's and Gender History.
  Contact: viholmes@caltech.edu • 626-395-3378 • Einstein Papers Project

• Jozsef Illy • History of Modern Physics, History of Relativity, Life and Work of Albert Einstein
  Contact: illy@einstein.caltech.edu • 626-395-8070 • Einstein Papers Project

• Alexander Raymond Jones • History of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in antiquity
  Contact: alexander.jones@utoronto.ca • 626-395-1750 • 301C Dabney Hall

• Richard E. Kipling • Journalism/media studies
  Contact: rkelcam@aol.com • 626-395-4682 • 217 Baxter Hall

• Anne Jacob Kox • History of 19th and 20th century physics; Einstein, Lorentz.
  Contact: ajk@einstein.caltech.edu • 626-395-3378 • Einstein Papers Project

• Michael Laib • Relationship between language learning and language acquisition.
  Contact: laib@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4212 • 11 Dabney Hall

• Bozhong Li •
  Contact: bozhong@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4216 • 105 Baxter Hall

• Andrea Loettgers • Historical, methodological, and epistemological aspects of the development of scientific instruments, development and application of computer simulations in modern physics.
  Contact: andreal@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5396 • 201F Dabney Hall

• Carol Magun • Creative writing, Literature.
  Contact: magun@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1757 • 201D Dabney Hall

• Feng-Ying Ming • Chinese Language, Literature, Film, Theater, and popular culture.
  Contact: fming@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4070 • 310 Dabney Hall

• Thomas Neenan • Music theory and music history.
  Contact: neenan@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4072 • 116 Dabney Hall

• Gregory O'Malley • Colonial British America, slavery, slave trade, inter-cultural encounters
  Contact: omalley@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4064 • 213 Baxter Hall

• Christiane H. Orcel • French language; autobiography; literary theory; 20th-century French literature.
  Contact: orcel@its.caltech.edu • 626-395-3640 • 301B Dabney Hall

• Robert "Roy" C. Ritchie • Director of Research at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens. Scholar in 17th and 18th century Anglo-American history.
  Contact: roy@hss.caltech.edu • 626-405-2116 • Huntington Library

• Ze'ev Rosenkranz • German history, German-Jewish history, non-scientific aspects of Einstein's life and work, archival science.
  Contact: zeev@einstein.caltech.edu • 626-395-3658 • Einstein Papers Project

• Tilman Sauer • History and Philosophy of Science.
  Contact: tilman@einstein.caltech.edu • 626-395-8544 • Einstein Papers Project

• William H. Sherman • Renaissance culture, the history of the book, magic and science
  Contact: bsherman@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1738 • 119 Dabney Hall

• Richard J. Squibbs • Eighteenth-centuryBritish literature and culture; literature and culture of the early American Republic; eighteenth-century transatlantic literary relations
  Contact: rsquibbs@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1749 • 316 Dabney Hall

• John A. Sutherland • 19th century English literature.
  Contact: jgs@hss.caltech.edu • n/a •

• Xiangyun Wang •
  Contact: wxyun@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-6082 • 201E Dabney Hall

• Juliann Kay Wolfgram • Asian art.
  Contact: jwolfgram@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4443 • 206 Baxter Hall

• Steven J. Youra • Composition Pedagogy, Writing Across the Curriculum, Film, 20th Century British and American Literature.
  Contact: syoura@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3706 • 13 Dabney Hall

• Charles de Bedts • French literature.
  Contact: cdb@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4070 • 310 Dabney Hall

• Jeroen van Dongen • History of Science, History of 20th century physics, Einstein.
  Contact: jvdongen@einstein.caltech.edu • 626-395-8069 • Einstein Papers Project

Emeritus Faculty

• Louis Breger • Psychoanalytic Theory; psychology of dreaming, psychoanalysis and literature.
  Contact: • n/a •

• Heinz E. Ellersieck •
  Contact: • n/a •

• Stuart Ende •
  Contact: • n/a •

• Daniel J. Kevles • History of modern science; science and society; modern American history.
  Contact: daniel.kevles@yale.edu • 203 432-1356 • Yale

• Jenijoy La Belle • William Blake; Shakespeare; Theodore Roethke; women and mirrors.
  Contact: jlb@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3605 • 301A Dabney Hall

• Valentina A. Lindholm • Russian.
  Contact: val@hss.caltech.edu • n/a •

• Oscar Mandel • Aesthetics; drama; art history.
  Contact: om@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4078 • 301B Baxter Hall

• Annette J. Smith • French language and19th-century French literature.
  Contact: falaises@earthlink.net • n/a •

In Memoriam