Returning to Pomona after a five-year hiatus, Mark Andrejevic (media studies) researches and writes about digital media technology.
Yuki Arita (Asian languages and literatures) conducts conversation analysis, investigating the systematicity of social interaction in Japanese.
Jordan Daniels (environmental analysis) works at the intersection of environmental philosophy, critical theory and feminist thought, and was previously a visiting lecturer and visiting assistant professor.
Olivia Lafferty(English) studies contemporary trans-Pacific literatures and visual cultures, examining the circuits of U.S. and Spanish colonialism.
Clint Moore (physical education) is the new head coach of the men’s soccer team after eight seasons as assistant coach at Colorado School of Mines.
Sarah E. Noll ’13 (chemistry) develops ambient ionization mass spectrometry methods, alongside more traditional techniques, to characterize biomaterials used in cultural heritage.
Leila Safavi (economics and public policy) conducts research on energy and environmental markets, including electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy and legal frameworks.
Kelsey Sasaki (linguistics and cognitive science) examines the mental mechanisms involved in our comprehension of linguistic meaning, and also does community-engaged linguistic fieldwork.
Samuel Thomas (computer science) studies secure computer hardware and focuses on building and optimizing systems to study these architectures.
Previously a visiting assistant professor, Jody Valentine (classics) researches contemporary artists who reimagine ancient materials in new, discordant ways.
Returning to Pomona after six years in Australia, Zala Volcic (media studies) focuses on media and nationalism, and has published and taught widely on media education, transitional justice, gender and civic disposition.
Ania Vu (music) explores the interplay between language, time, and the sounds of nature. As a pianist, she performs music from both the standard and contemporary repertoire.
Previously a visiting assistant professor, Daniel Watling (religious studies) specializes in Islamic philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on medieval Iberia and North Africa.
Yuqing Zhu (neuroscience), a visiting assistant professor at Pomona in 2023, builds AI models inspired by brains to discover new ways to make AI more energy-efficient and better understand what makes real brains so computationally adept.
Michael Zlatin (computer science) works to design improved algorithms for fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization and decision sciences.