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.

• 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.

• B.Mus. Syracuse University, 1949
• M.Mus. Northwestern University, 1950

Expertise/Interest: 20th Century Composers; Renaissance Music; The Classical Period; Baroque Music.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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: Interdisciplinary Studies; Modernism; 20th Century (American) Literature; Cultural Disciplines.

• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

 

• 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.

• 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.

• B.F.A. Boston University, 1964
• M.A. University of New Mexico, 1967
• Ph.D University of New Mexico, 1975

Expertise/Interest: History of Architecture, any topic in American and Latin American Art, Photography, History of Photography, Baroque Art.

• 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.

• Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1988
• M.A. University of California, Irvine

Expertise/Interest: British and American literature, film, modernism, literary theory.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• B.A. Philosophy and International Relations, University of Southern California, 1993
• M.A. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Biola University, 1997
• Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Miami, 2002

Expertise/Interest: Epistemology (theories of truth), Philosophy of Religion (religious epistemology), Ethics (bioethics), American Pragmatism.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• B.A. Wheaton College , 1968
• M.A. Claremont Graduate University, 1972
• Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University, 1986

Expertise/Interest: 19th/20th century European philosophy, philosophy and culture.

• 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.

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• 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).