HSS Faculty

Professorial Faculty

• Ralph Adolphs • Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience of Emotion, Social Neuroscience.
  Contact: radolphs@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4486 • 331B Baxter Hall

• R. Michael Alvarez • American voting behavior, campaigns and elections, American government, macro-political economy, positive theory/public choice, comparative politics, quantitative methodologies.
  Contact: rma@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4089 • 325 Baxter Hall

• Kim C. Border • Equilibrium theory, mathematical methods.
  Contact: kcborder@caltech.edu • 626-395-4218 • 205 Baxter Hall

• Peter L. Bossaerts • Finance
  Contact: pbs@rioja.caltech.edu • n/a •

• 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

• Colin F. Camerer • Corporate strategy, decision sciences and experimental economics.
  Contact: camerer@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4054 • 101 Baxter Hall

• Christopher P. Chambers • Microeconomic Theory, Mechanism Design, Political Economy.
  Contact: chambers@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3559 • 301E Baxter Hall

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

• Jaksa Cvitanic • Mathematical Finance, Contract Theory, Stochastic Optimal Control.
  Contact: cvitanic@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-1784 • 137 Baxter 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

• Federico Echenique • Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, and Mathematical Economics.
  Contact: fede@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4273 • 311 Baxter Hall

• Jean E. Ensminger • New Institutional Economics, Rational Choice Theory, Experimental Economics, Economic Anthropology, economic development
  Contact: jensming@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4541 • 202 Baxter 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

• Jacob K. Goeree • Game theory, experimental economics
  Contact: jkg@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5800 • 103 Baxter Hall

• David M. Grether • Econometric methods, experimental economics.
  Contact: dmg@doxie.caltech.edu • 626-395-4068 • 235 Baxter 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

• Matias Iaryczower • Political Economy, Institutions and Organizations, Applied Game Theory.
  Contact: miaryc@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4061 • 312 Baxter Hall

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

• Jonathan N. Katz • American politics, formal political theory, and political methodology.
  Contact: jkatz@caltech.edu • 4191/4030 • 225 Baxter Hall

• D. Roderick Kiewiet • American politics, public policy, and Russian politics.
  Contact: drk@caltech.edu • 626-395-4032 • 332B Baxter 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

• John O. Ledyard • Theory, incentive compatible mechanism design, electoral models with incomplete information, public management (Space Exploration), auction theory.
  Contact: jledyard@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8482 • 102 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

• Andrea Mattozzi • Political Economy, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics.
  Contact: andrea@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3473 • 313 Baxter Hall

• R. Preston McAfee • Business strategy, pricing, auctions, organizations, incentives, industrial organization.
  Contact: mcafee@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3476 • 100 Baxter 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

• John P. O'Doherty • Neural basis of reward and reward-related learning; neuroimaging; conditioning and associative learning; taste and olfaction; affective neuroscience.
  Contact: jdoherty@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5981 • 331A Baxter Hall

• Peter C. Ordeshook • Election processes, international relations, and applications of game theory to politics.
  Contact: ordeshook@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4478 • 332A Baxter Hall

• Thomas R. Palfrey • Formal Political Theory, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Experimental Political Science, Political Economy, Mechanism Design.
  Contact: trp@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4088 • 301A Baxter Hall

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

• Charles R. Plott • Behavioral foundations of economics and political science; laboratory experimental methods; regulation, deregulation and policy design.
  Contact: cplott@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4209 • 337 Baxter 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

• Antonio Rangel • Public economics, institutions and institutional design, political economy, contract theory.
  Contact: rangel@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4091 • 121 Baxter 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

• Jean-Laurent Rosenthal • Economic History, Game Theory, Corporate Governance
  Contact: jlr@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4058 • 133 Baxter Hall

• Robert P. Sherman • Asymptotic methods, empirical processes, nonparametric and semiparametric estimation, long-range dependence, sampling bias, discrete choice modeling, diffusion modeling
  Contact: sherman@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4337 • 119 Baxter Hall

• Matthew L. Spitzer • Law and Economics; regulation; political economy of law.
  Contact: mspitzer@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5978 • 110 Baxter Hall

• Michiko Ueda • American Political Institutions, Representation and Electoral Systems, Legislative Elections, Race and Ethnicity, State Politics, Voting Behavior, Quantitative Political Methodology
  Contact: michiko@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4558 • 207 Baxter 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

• Leeat Yariv • Game Theory, Political Economy, Psychology and Economics.
  Contact: lyariv@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8924 • 301C Baxter 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

• Jasmina Arifovic • Agent based computational economics, experimental economics, macroeconomics
  Contact: arifovic@sfu.ca • n/a •

• 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

• Christina J. Campbell • Biological Anthropology, Primatology
  Contact: campbell_christina@smc.edu • 626-395-4487 • 331C Baxter Hall

• Mickael Camus • Neurophysiology of Human Motor Control
  Contact: camusm@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4297 • 332C Baxter Hall

• Bradford Cornell • Applied Financial Economics
  Contact: bcornell@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8773 • 321 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

• Benedetto De Martino •
  Contact: bmartino@caltech.edu • 626-395-1753 • 51 Broad

• 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

• Elsa Ermer • Social cognition; judgment and decision-making; reasoning; evolutionary psychology
  Contact: ermer@psych.ucsb.edu • 626-395-4092 • 319 Baxter 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

• Jan Glascher • Neuroimaging of Emotion, Learning and Decision-Making.
  Contact: glascher@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4976 • 57 Broad

• 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

• Todd A. Hare • Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatric Neuroimaging
  Contact: thare@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4297 • 332C Baxter 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

• Daniela Iorio •
  Contact: diorio@caltech.edu • 626-395-4443 • 206 Baxter Hall

• Rick L. Jenison • Computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuroeconomics
  Contact: rjenison@caltech.edu • 626-395-4022 • 301D Baxter Hall

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

• Daniel Kennedy • Cognitive Neuroscience
  Contact: dkennedy@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4868 • 59 Broad

• 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

• Bruce N. Lehmann • Economics and Finance
  Contact: blehmann@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3476 • 100 Baxter Hall

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

• Yuanchuan Lien • Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design, Experimental Economics, Financial Economics
  Contact: ylien@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8695 • 211 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

• Rosa L. Matzkin • Econometrics, Microeconomic Theory, Nonparametric Methods
  Contact: matzkin@hss.caltech.edu • n/a •

• Edward J. McCaffery • Tax law , particularly from the vantage points of public finance theory and feminist theory.
  Contact: emccaffe@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4606 • 108 Baxter Hall

• Fabio Michelucci • Auction Theory, Mechanism Design, Contract Theory, Industrial Organization.
  Contact: fabiom@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-8695 • 211 Baxter Hall

• Milica Milosavljevic • Integration of Marketing and Neuroscience
  Contact: mmilosav@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4211 • 332F Baxter 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

• Lynn K. Paul • Neuropsychology
  Contact: lkpaul@caltech.edu • 626-395-4077 • 317 Baxter Hall

• Hilke Plassmann • Neuroeconomics, Behavioral Decision-Making, Consumer Behavior
  Contact: hilke_plassmann@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5982 • 332E Baxter 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

• Wolfram Schultz • Neuroscience, Neurophysiology and Behavior
  Contact: ws234@cam.ac.uk • 626-395-5978 • 110 Baxter Hall

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

• Ken-Ichi Shimomura • Economic Theory, Experimental Economics
  Contact: shimomur@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4156 • 333 Baxter Hall

• Michael L. Spezio • Cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, emotion, systems neuroscience, ethics.
  Contact: mlspezio@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4899 • 59B Broad

• 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 •

• Elizabeth Tricomi • Cognitive neuroscience; functional neuroimaging; reward-related learning; goal-directed action
  Contact: etricomi@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-5907 • 30 Broad

• Naotsugu Tsuchiya • Neural basis of consciousness, vision science, conditioning learning, neuroscience of emotion, neuroimaging.
  Contact: naotsu@klab.caltech.edu • 626-395-4025 • 63 Broad

• Atsuko Ueda • Applied micro-econometrics
  Contact: aueda@caltech.edu • 626-395-3680 • 215 Baxter Hall

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

• Simon J. Wilkie • Industrial organization and strategy, public finance, game theory and mechanism design with applications to the economics of telecommunications and networks.
  Contact: wilkie@hss.caltech.edu • n/a •

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

• Takehiko Yamato • Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Public Economics, Industrial Organization
  Contact: yamato@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3680 • 215 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 •

• Lance E. Davis • Evolution of capital markets, institutional change, technological change.
  Contact: led@hss.caltech.edu • 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

• Edwin S. Munger • Political geography, race and ethnic relations, sub-Saharan Africa
  Contact: munger@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-3634 • 134B Baxter Hall

• Thayer Scudder • Long-term community studies, socio-economic impacts of large-scale development projects in the tropics and subtropics.
  Contact: tzs@hss.caltech.edu • 626-395-4207 • 204 Baxter Hall

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

In Memoriam

• Jeffrey S. Banks

• Richard D. McKelvey