CMC Faculty Affiliates
Heather Antecol, Ph.D. - Dr. Antecol is the Director of the Berger Institute and the Boswell Professor of Economics. She has published papers on various aspects of labor economics, including youth outcomes, immigration, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the U.S. military and federal government. Recent work includes the decision to “opt-out” of the labor market and elder care.
William Ascher, Ph.D. - Dr. Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics with interests in public policy and political economy. He has contributed reports for the World Bank and the UN Research Institute for Social Development on the approaches to channeling income resource wealth into such social programs as health care and education, especially through conditional cash transfer programs. He has also done research on Latin American and Southeast Asian policies on poverty alleviation.
Audrey Bilger, Ph.D. - Dr. Bilger is Associate Prof. of Literature who focuses on 18th-Century Humor & Satire and Early Women Writers.
David Bjerk, Ph.D. - Dr. Bjerk is the Russell Bock Associate Professor of Public Economics. His research focuses on crime and the criminal justice system, as well as issues of race and gender in the labor market.
Lisa Cody, Ph.D. - Dr. Cody is a cultural historian of Britain and France with a research focus on gender, family, medicine and the professions in 18th-century Britain. She is particularly interested in how women have combined their identities as family members with larger aspirations in a period and place in which few women were able to have "professional" identities.
Diane Halpern, Ph.D. - Dr. Halpern is Trustee Professor of Psychology & Roberts Fellow. Her interests are loosely rooted in human cognition, sex differences in cognitive abilities, critical thinking, using the principles of cognitive psychology to enhance teaching and learning, and work and family interactions.
Oana Hirakawa, Ph.D. - Dr. Hirakawa is an Assistant Professor of Economics, with an interest in gender and household economics, as part of a broader applied microeconomics research agenda.
Wei-Chin Hwang, Ph.D. - Dr. Hwang is Associate Professor of Psychology at CMC. His research focuses on understanding and reducing mental health disparities, psychotherapy process and outcomes, improving therapist cultural competency and effectiveness when working with people from different backgrounds, and developing models and frameworks for culturally adapting therapy for ethnic minorities. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and has an independent practice in Pasadena and Claremont, California.
Tomoe Kanaya, Ph.D. - Dr. Kanaya is a developmental psychologist with interest in educational and social policy oriented research. She is currently working on a research project examining story-telling memory in bilingual and monolingual children. The purpose of this study is to determine if the relationship between mothers' narration style and children memory development is the same for bilingual children (who experience delays in language development during early childhood) compared to monolingual children. Findings from this research will have immediate implications for bilingual educational policies.
Amy Kind, Ph.D. - Dr. Kind is Chair of the Department of Philosophy. She teaches classes in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and logic.
Nita Kumar, Ph.D. - Dr. Kumar is a Professor of history and studies families and education in India.
Frederick R. Lynch, Ph.D. - Dr. Lynch is Associate Professor of Government and specializes in workforce diversity management, organization of health care, inequality and public policy, political and social movements, juvenile delinquency and public policy.
Serkan Ozbeklik, Ph.D. - Dr. Ozbeklik is Assistant Prof. of Economics with interest in labor economic and applied econometrics.
