Expert Directory
Pitzer College faculty experts are ready to assist the members of the media on a variety of topics. If you do not find the topic you’re looking for, contact Anna Chang at 909.607.0491 or anna_chang@pitzer.edu
Economic Development:
Dipa Basu, PhD
Expertise:
African and Asian diasporic issues; Consumption; Economics and changing consumption patterns; Ethnicity; gender; race in popular culture; film and media representation; Globalization; Hip hop; Service learning and study abroad; Urban policies
Fuchun Jin, PhD
Expertise:
China - US Economic relations; International trade and finance; Monetary, marco and financial economics; Chinese economy.
Azamat Junisbai, PhD
Expertise:
Political developments; social and economic inequality in Central Asia; Societ Union and Post-communist societies
James Lehman, PhD
Expertise:
International Trade and Finance; Trade and Development Policy; Money and Banking; Public Finance.
Kate Rogers, PhD
Expertise:
Organization Theory; Inter-Organizational Networks; Business; Nonprofit and Public Organiations; Organizations and the Public Policy Environment; Corporate Responsibility.
Emma Stephens, PhD
Expertise:
Subsistence farming systems in developing countries, Commodity market participation, Spatial market analysis, Dynamic technology adoption processes, System dynamics.
Maria Soldatenko, PhD
Expertise:
Gender; Feminist Theory; Labor conditions for garment workers; Labor conditions for domestic workers; Race and class systems; Sweat shop conditions; Transnational women activism; Women and economic development.
Lako Tongun, PhD
Expertise:
African and Third-World Politics; Civil wars in Africa; Darfur; Developmental economics (Third World); Global economic development in third world countries; Global genocide; Globalization; Islamic religion; Israeli policy/conflicts; Middle East politics; Political Economy; Sudan; War in the Middle East.