Faculty
Advisory Committee
![Professor Alexander Day](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/day-alexander_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Alexander F. Day
Professor, History & Asian Studies
B.A. Colby College; M.A., Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz
Alexander Day studies the intellectual, social, and cultural history of peasants, food, and agrarian change in China. He teaches Chinese, East Asian, and world history. Read his °ÄÃŲʿª½± Story profile.
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John T. Lang
Associate Professor, Sociology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
John Lang is deeply interested in food as a site for sociological exploration.
![Headshot of Carmel Levitan](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/levitan_carmel_400x408.jpg?h=a18299f3)
Carmel Levitan
Professor, Cognitive Science
B.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Carmel Levitan studies multisensory interactions, researching how the different senses integrate information.
Affiliated Faculty
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Sharon Cech
Visiting Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., Bard College; M.A., UCLA
Sharon Cech (she/her) is a Program Director at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at °ÄÃŲʿª½± (UEPI). With over a decade of experience working to advance farm to school, farmers…
![Professor Amy Holmes Tagchungdarpa](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/amy_holmes-tagchungdarpa_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
Associate Professor, Religious Studies & Asian Studies
B.A., Victoria University of Wellington; Ph.D., Australian National University
Areas of specialization: Buddhism in Tibet, the East and South Asian Himalayas, and beyond.
![Professor Andrew Jalil](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/jalil-andrew_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Andrew Jalil
Associate Professor, Economics
A.B.; Sc.B. Brown University; Ph.D. UC Berkeley
Andrew Jalil is an economist, whose research is in two distinct areas: (1) macroeconomic history (financial crises, monetary and fiscal policy, the Great Depression) and (2) food policy (health, sustainability).
![Martha Matsuoka](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/matsuoka_martha-03_400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Martha Matsuoka
Professor, Urban and Environmental Policy; Executive Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute
A.B., °ÄÃŲʿª½±; M.C.P., UC Berkeley Ph.D., UCLA
Martha Matsuoka ’83 focuses her teaching and research on community-based organizing and social movements for environmental justice, particularly in planning and policy.Â
![Professor Clair Morrissey](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/faculty-images/morrissey-clair_400x400.jpg?h=a7e6d17b)
Clair Morrissey
Professor, Philosophy
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Clair Morrissey is a moral philosopher who specializes in practical ethics and political philosophy.
![Karla Pena](/sites/default/files/styles/person_listing/public/KarlaHS%20%282%29.jpg)
Karla Peña
Assistant Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., California State University Northridge; M.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., Cornell University
Karla Peña's teaching and research is centered on social movements and the political ecology of natural resource extraction and environmental change, from a local and global perspective.
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Rosa Romero
Visiting Instructor, Urban & Environmental Policy
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.Ed., University of Hawaii, Manoa
Rosa Romero is a Program Director at the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI) at °ÄÃŲʿª½±. Rosa specializes in Farm to Preschool, Garden and Health curriculum development and…
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Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr.
Associate Professor, Philosophy
B.A., Pitzer College; M.A., P.h.D., U.C. Riverside
Robert Sanchez specializes in Mexican/Latinx/Latin American philosophy, as well as existentialism, and he has interests in the philosophy of race, the philosophy of food, and the history of philosophy. He co-hosts a blog on Mexican philosophy.Â
Derek Shearer
Stuart Chevalier Professor, Diplomacy and World Affairs
BA, Yale University; PhD, The Union Graduate School
Ambassador Shearer serves as Director of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, handling the college's international relations and directing the expansion of its international affairs programs.