Skip to main content

Chair Resources

 

 

Anthropology
  • Lee Panich
    Professor

    Archaeology, California, Baja California, colonialism, Spanish missions

Art & Art History
Biology
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Child Studies
Classics
  • Lissa Crofton-Sleigh
    Teaching Professor

    Crofton-Sleigh teaches both Greek and Latin, Classical Myth, and Literature in Translation.

Communication
  • Mike Whalen
    Knight-Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Professor

    Michael Whalen is a documentary filmmaker who teaches screenwriting, film/tv production and history courses on Hollywood and the U.S. film/television industry. Prior to returning to Santa Clara to teach, he spent 10 years living in Los Angeles as a working television writer, producer and director.

English
Environmental Studies & Sciences
  • Chris Bacon
    Associate Professor

    Chris is a political ecologist and an agroecologist. His research focuses on agriculture, food security, and how food systems relate to climate change, environmental justice, and sustainability transitions.

Ethnic Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History
Individual Studies
Mathematics & Computer Science
Modern Languages & Literatures
Music
  • Scot Hanna-Weir
    Associate Professor

    Director of Choral Activities, Conducting

Neuroscience
Philosophy
  • Erick Ramirez headshot
    Associate Professor

    Ethics, Moral Responsibility, Applied Ethics, Hume

Physics
  • Guy Ramon
    Professor

    Ph.D., Israel Institute of Technology, 2002

Political Science
  • Elsa Chen headshot
    Professor

    Elsa Chen teaches American politics, public policy, and research methods. Her research focuses on criminal justice sentencing policy, including racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes and the effects of mandatory minimum sentencing policies, the implementation of sentencing reform, criminal record expungement, and prisoner reentry.

Psychology
Public Health
Religious Studies
Sociology
  • Laura Nichols headshot
    Professor

    Applied Sociology, Inequalities, Experiences of First-Generation and Transfer College Students

Theatre & Dance
College Staff Reporting Structure and FAQ Chairs Timetable AD Assignments Chair's Grant Recommendation form