People Spotlights

Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Visual Culture (2023–2025)

Anna Stielau

Teaching visual culture at Caltech is a pleasure and a privilege. I support future scientists and engineers in becoming sharper critics of a world in which images increasingly mediate knowledge — a world they are helping to build."

PhD '25, Social Sciences

Ke Shi

I came to Caltech because I was drawn to its unique and rigorous social sciences program. I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful campus and the tight-knit community after I arrived."

Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Neuroscience (2015–24)

Jeffrey A. Cockburn

Science and education isn't about filling buckets, it's about lighting fires. If you bring the gasoline, HSS will hand you the match."

Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Medieval History

Patrick Morgan

Teaching humanities courses at Caltech is an incredible opportunity to teach and insist on clarity of expression, argumentation, and reasoning in the work of students whose scientific research will be at the forefront of their fields. Our work as HSS instructors has such an impact!"

PhD '25, Social Sciences

Peter Doe

After speaking with one of the students in the social sciences PhD program, I saw Caltech as a place where the faculty would invest in me as a student, rather than try to get things out of me."

Social and Decision Neuroscience Graduate Student

Sneha Reddy Aenugu

The drive to understand the nature of intelligence is what brought me to Caltech. Only with a vision of merging the disciplines of humanities, neuroscience, and AI, will we be able to build and deploy artificial intelligence in a safe and sustainable manner—and that happens to be my vision."

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