HUX Faculty

Faculty
Students find that the depth and breadth of experience of HUX professors affords them the opportunity to pursue a more personalized program than is often possible in traditional graduate programs, while at the same time ensuring a high caliber of academic guidance. The disciplines listed under each photo indicate the area of the HUX program in which they teach. Many also teach in CSUDH departments corresponding to these disciplines.

ISET ANUAKAN	ianuakan@csudh.edu	HISTORY
PhD. University of California, Berkeley, 2002 Expertise/Interest: 19th & 20th Century U.S. History; Non-Western (Africa & Asia) Economic & Social History; Folklore (Myths/Folktales/Folk Medicine) Research Methods; Africana Film Theory; Cultural Politics of Gender.
MARSHALL BIALOSKY	springsong@verizon.net	MUSIC
B.Mus. Syracuse University, 1949 M.Mus. Northwestern University, 1950 Expertise/Interest: 20th Century Composers; Renaissance Music; The Classical Period; Baroque Music.
KIMBERLY BOHMAN KALAJA	kbk1@nyu.edu	ENGLISH
B.A. Scripps College, Claremont 1992 M.A. Queen's University, Belfast 1995 M.A. Princeton University 2004 Ph.D. Princeton University 2004 Expertise/Interest: 19th and 20th Century Irish, British and American Fiction. Women's Literature / Studies of Gender. 19th and 20th European fiction--especially experimental movements in France--and including Eastern European texts. Film Studies. Violence in literature; Game theory and literature; Comparative Literature and Comparative Literary Theory.
DAVID W. BRADFIELD	DBradfield@csudh.edu	MUSIC
B.Mus. North Texas State University, 1976 M.Mus. North Texas State University, 1982 Expertise/Interest: Electronic/Computer Music; Music Composition/Theory; 20th Century Music; Music and Technology.
LYMAN CHAFFEE	lchaffee@csudh.edu (310) 243-3568	POLITICAL SCIENCE
A.B. Occidental College, 1960 M.A. California State University, Los Angeles, 1965 Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 1969 Expertise/Interest: International relations, world politics, Latin American politics, democracy, military, Roman Catholic Church.
ANITA CHANG	ba508@yahoo.com	MUSIC
B.M. California State University, Fullerton, 1986 M.M. Manhattan School of Music, 1987 D.M.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1994 Expertise/Interest: Piano literature, symphonic works
PATRICIA H. CHERIN	PCherin@csudh.edu	ENGLISH
B.A., M.A. California State University, Long Beach, 1969, 1975 M.A. University of Southern California, 1989 Ph.D University of Southern California, 1992 Expertise/Interest: Literary Theory; Interdisciplinary Studies; Modernisms; Poetry; Creative Writing; 20th Century (American) Literature; Pastoralism; Cultural Disciplines
DAVID A. CHURCHMAN	DavidAChurchman@aol.com	BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
B.A. University of Michigan, 1960 M.A. University of Michigan, 1964 Ed.D University of California, Los Angeles, 1972 Expertise/Interest: Military History, European 1600-Present, Middle Eastern; Arab History and Culture. Read the fascinating story and see photos of Professor Churchman's Fulbright semester in Ukraine.
MARIE CONNORS	mconnors@uci.edu	ENGLISH
B.A. University of Memphis, 1972 M.A. University of Memphis, 1981 M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, University of California, Irvine, 1989 Expertise/Interest: Poetry, creative writing, film history and criticism, American literature.
WILLIAM L. CUMIFORD	Cumiford@chapman.edu	PHILOSOPHY
B.A. Chapman College, 1963 M.A. California State University, Fullerton, 1969 Ph.D Texas Tech University, 1977 Expertise/Interest: Modern Latin America; United States Diplomatic History; Colonial Latin America; Latin American Government and Politics; Modern European History; Ancient History; United States Social, Cultural, Intellectual History; United States Government and Politics.
MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ	mdominguez@csudh.edu (310) 243-3315	FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
B.A. California State University, Los Angeles, 1970 M.A. Brown University, 1973 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1983 Expertise/Interest: Twentieth century Latin American literature/Chicano literature, Mexican folklore and folklore, Spanish American linguistics, Pre-Columbian culture.
MYRNA DONAHOE	mdonahoe@csulb.edu	HISTORY
B.A. California State University, Los Angeles, 1963 M.A. University of California, Irvine, 1981. Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1987. Expertise/Interest: Labor studies, women studies, ethnic studies, Native American studies, community studies.
BRYAN FEUER	bfeuer@csudh.edu (310) 243-3962	HISTORY
B.A. University of Arizona, 1967 M.F.A. University of California, Irvine, 1971 M.A. California State University, Long Beach, 1977 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angles, 1981 Expertise/Interest: Archaeology, ancient world civilizations (Greece, Rome, and the Near East), slavery (particularly in the ancient world), the city in history, warfare in history and literature, the individual and society.
KATE GALE	kgale@csudh.edu	LITERATURE
B.A. Arizona State University, 1987 M.A. California State University, Northridge, 1990 Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, 2004 Expertise/Interest: Twentieth century American poetry, African American literature and myth, theater, opera
PATRICIA B. GAMON	pgamon@socal.rr.com (310) 243-3310	ART
B.A. University of Central Florida, 1978 M.A. Florida State University, 1981 Ph.D Stanford University, 1991 Expertise/Interest: Art and visual culture from the Renaissance through Postmodernism.
LILA B. GELLER	LGeller@csudh.edu (310) 243-3322	LITERATURE
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1952 M.A. California State University, Northridge, 1965 Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles, 1969 Expertise/Interest: Shakespeare; Renaissance Studies; Drama; Women's Studies; Jane Austen.
THOMAS J. GIANNOTTI, JR.	TGiannotti@csudh.edu (310) 243-3322	LITERATURE
B.A. University of California, Riverside, 1976 M.A. University of California, Riverside, 1979 Ph.D University of California, Riverside, 1985 Expertise/Interest: Modern British and American Literature (1800-Present); Composition Theory; Historical Rhetoric; Literary Criticism/Theory; 20th Century Irish Literature; Autobiographies.
JUDSON GRENIER	judgrenier@earthlink.net (310) 545-7819	HISTORY
• B.A. University of Minnesota, 1951 • M.A. University of California (Berkeley), 1952 • Ph.D. UCLA, 1965 Expertise/Interest: U.S. history 1800-1965, westward movement, Civil War, Progressive Era, California history, World War II.
WILLIAM M. HAGAN	haganw@aol.com	PHILOSOPHY
A.B. University of Santa Clara, 1948 M.A. Gonzaga University, 1950 S.T.L. Faculte de Theologie, Enghien Belgium, 1957 S.T.D. Georgetown University, 1960 Expertise/Interest: Philosophy of Religion; Aristotle; Scholasticism; World Religions; Topics in Ethics; Classical Western Philosophy; Philosophy of Culture, Language; Religious Studies; Fundamentalism; Non-Fundamentalist Belief; Secular Humanism; Existentialism; Nature of Philosophy; Science; Religion; Sexist and Racist Language; Critical Thinking.
ARTHUR L. HARSHMAN	artz23@earthlink.net	ART
B.A. Antioch College, 1964 M.A. Michigan State University, 1964 M.A. University of Chicago 1968 Ph.D University of Chicago 1977 Expertise/Interest: Art History - particularly Modern Art: the movements of Futurism, Dada, Surrealism; Renaissance Art; Ancient to Modern Art Theory; History of Film; Intellectual, Cultural and Military History of Europe, History of Military Uniforms.
GILAH Y. HIRSCH	gilah@linkline.com	ART
B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1967 M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1970 Expertise/Interest: 2-D Design; Modern or Abstract Painting.
FUMIKO HOSOKAWA	FHosokawa@csudh.edu (310) 243-3448	HISTORY
B.A. California State University, Long Beach, 1969 M.A./Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles, 1971, 1973 M.S. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1984 Expertise/Interest: Ethnic Minorities; Family Studies; Aging; Counseling; Domestic Violence.
JAMES S. JEFFERS	JJeffers@csudh.edu (310) 243-3191	HISTORY
B.A. Biola University, La Mirada, 1977 M.A. University of California, Irvine, 1985 Ph.D University of California, Irvine, 1988 Expertise/Interest: Ancient Greece and Rome, History of Christianity, Medieval Europe, Renaissance/Reformation, Religious Studies.
KATHRYN KENDZORA	khux@cox.net (949) 552-3995	ENGLISH
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1988 M.A. University of California, Irvine Expertise/Interest: British and American literature, film, modernism, literary theory.
KENNETH LEE	klee44@gmail.com	RELIGION
A.B.Occidental College, 1988 M. Div. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1992 M.Phil. Columbia University, 1997 Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001 Expertise/Interest: East Asian Buddhism, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Eastern Religions, Western Religions
DONALD F. LEWIS	DLewis@csudh.edu (310) 243-3328	PHILOSOPHY
B.A. University of Toledo, 1964 M.A. University of Toledo, 1965 Ph.D University of Southern Illinois, 1970 Expertise/Interest: Contemporary European Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Science; Existentialism; Social/Political Philosophy; topics in the History of Philosophy.
HAROLD MARIENTHAL	hathal@aol.com (845) 758-2977	THEATRE ARTS
B.S. Northwestern University, 1947 M.A. Northwestern University, 1948 Ph.D. The University of Southern California, 1966 Expertise/Interest: Script-writing, topics in theatre, film.
BEN MIJUSKOVIC	(310) 243-3328	PHILOSOPHY
B.A., M.A. Roosevelt University, 1964, 1967 M.A., Ph.D University of California, San Diego, 1991, 1972 M.S. San Diego State University, 1987 Expertise/Interest: Moral Decisions; Themes in Western Philosophy; Marx, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Husserl; History of Ideas; Ethics; History of Philosophy (Ancient and Modern); Philosophy of Religion; Man and Society; Existentialism and Phenomenology; Social Ethics; Medical Ethics; Philosophy in Literature; Love.
CHRISTOPHER MONTY	c.cmonty@verizon.net	HISTORY
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1991 M.A. University of California, Riverside, 1994 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 2004 Expertise/Interest: Russian Empire and the Soviet Union; modern Europe; imperialism; European cultural and intellectual history, 1800-present; Russian and Soviet cultural and intellectual history, 1800-present; modern Latin America; theory and history.
JOANNA NACHEF	jnachef@elcamino.edu	MUSIC
B.Mus. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1980 M.Mus. University of Southern California, 1983 D.M.A. University of Southern California, 1988 Expertise/Interest: Choral Music; Multi-cultural and Ethnic Music; Interdisciplinary Humanities.
ABE C. RAVITZ		ENGLISH
B.A. City College of New York, 1949 M.A. New York University, 1950 Ph.D New York University, 1955 Expertise/Interest: 19th-20th Century American Literature; American Popular Culture.
HAMOUD SALHI	hsalhi@csudh.edu (310) 243-3568	POLITICAL SCIENCE
B.A. University of Algiers, 1981 M.A. USC, 1985 Ph.D. USC, 1995 Expertise/Interest: Comparative politics, international relations, cultural pluralism, political economy, information technology and social and political change.
PORFIRIO SANCHEZ	porfhry@aol.com	FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
B.A. New Mexico State University, 1955 M.A. New Mexico State University, 1958 Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1964 Expertise/Interest: Traditional and contemporary Hispanic literature, ethics and women's studies, alienation in women's literature, topics in alienation and estrangement, Chicano/Latino history, literature, and culture.
EPHRIAM SANDO	esando@csudh.edu	ENGLISH
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1956 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1958 Ph.D University of California, Los Angeles, 1962 Expertise/Interest: Creative Writing; Victorian Literature; Poetry; T. S. Eliot.
JACQUELINE SHANNON	drjshannon@aol.edu	MUSIC
B. F. A. Florida State University, 1986 M. A. University of Montana, 1989 D. M. A. University of Washington, 2000 Expertise/Interest: Eighteenth century music, music appreciation, brass techniques
LYLE E. SMITH	lsmith@csudh.edu	ENGLISH
B.A. Willamette University, 1965 M.A. Harvard University, 1971 Ph.D Harvard University, 1971 Expertise/Interest: 18th Century British Literature and Culture; British Drama; Literary Criticism; Shakespeare; Renaissance Literature and Culture; 17th Century Literature and Culture; Comparative Mythology; Joseph Campbell; Carl Jung.
FRANCES J. STEINER	FSteiner@csudh.edu	MUSIC
B.S. Temple University, 1956 M.A. Radcliffe College, 1958 B.Mus. Curtis Institute of Music, 1956 D.M.A. University of Southern California, 1969 Expertise/Interest: Women in Music; Performance Practices; Theory; Baroque and Classical Periods of Music.
S. GLEN WHITE	GWHITE@dc.rr.com	ART
B.A. Louisiana State University, 1963 B.F.A. Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles, 1967 M.F.A. Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles, 1967 Expertise/Interest: Studio Painting; Contemporary Art; Modern Art; Printmaking; Art Criticism.
JOANNE ZITELLI	JZitelli@csudh.edu	ENGLISH
B.A. California State University, Long Beach, 1972 M.A. Occidental College, 1974 Ph.D University of California, Irvine, 1982 Expertise/Interest: 19th Century English and Continental Literature (poetry and prose); Romantic movement; 17th Century English and Continental Literature (especially Milton); Philosophy and Literature; Literary Theory; Feminist Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies (especially poetry and painting).

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