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Pomona
College Promotes 11 Outstanding Professors
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Pomona College, one of the nation’s leading liberal arts
colleges, has promoted eight faculty members to the rank of
full professor. In addition, three faculty members were
granted tenure and elevated to associate professor. The
appointments were effective July 1, 2005.
As a group, Pomona’s faculty is known for their commitment
to great teaching, accessibility to students and their
ongoing involvement in research, writing and creative
expression. Pomona students and faculty frequently meet
outside the classroom, in laboratories where they may be
working on joint research projects, at the campus café or in
the dining halls for lunch and in informal department
meetings.
Lisa Beckett, Suzanne Chavez-Silverman, Thomas Flaherty,
Richard Hazlett, J. Kirkland Reynolds, Adolfo Rumbos, Pamela
Smith and Miguel Tinker Salas were promoted to the rank of
full professor. Alfred Kwok, Valorie Thomas and Gary Wilder
were elevated to associate professor.
Lisa Beckett, the physical education coordinator and
senior woman administrator at Pomona, has been promoted to
professor of physical education. A member of the faculty
since 1987, she coached the combined Pomona-Pitzer women’s
tennis team until 1998. She teaches tennis, table tennis,
racquets and in the faculty/staff fitness program. In
addition, Beckett serves on the NCAA West Regional Advisory
Committee, the ITA Awards Committee, and the ITA Ranking
Committee. She earned her M.S. Washington State University
and B.A. from Sonoma State University, where she was named
Female Athlete of the Year in 1979. She also holds
professional teaching certificates from the U.S.
Professional Tennis Association.
Suzanne G. Chávez Silverman joined the faculty in
1989 and was promoted to professor of romance languages and
literatures. She teaches courses in Spanish, Introduction to
Literary Analysis, Survey of Spanish American Literature,
Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature
and Culture, Women as Sign and Subject in Contemporary
Latina/o and Latin American Literature, Tropicalization:
Transcultural Representations of Latinidad, and El deseo de
la palabra: Poetry or Death. She is the author of the
bilingual literary memoir, Killer Crónicas: Bilingual
Memories (University of Wisconsin Press), released in
late 2004 to much acclaim. She received her Ph.D. from the
University of California, Davis, M.A. from Harvard
University and B.A. from the University of California,
Irvine.
Thomas E. Flaherty, a member of the faculty since
1989, was promoted to professor of music. The director of
Pomona’s Electronic Studio, he teaches Music Theory,
Composition and Electronic Music Studio. A highly regarded
composer, his music has been published by Margun Music, Inc.
and American Composers Editions and has been performed
throughout Europe and North America. He has recorded on the
Klavier, Bridge, SEAMUS, Capstone, and Advance labels. He
earned his D.M.A. the University of Southern California, M.M.
from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook and B.A. from Brandeis University.
Richard W. Hazlett, the Stephen M. Pauley M.D. '62
Professor of Environmental Studies and coordinator of the
Environmental Analysis Program, was elevated to professor of
geology. He joined the faculty in 1987 and is a two-time
winner of the College’s Wig Distinguished Professorship
Award for Excellence in Teaching. He currently teaches
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Introduction to
Environmental Studies, Strategic Natural Resources, and Land
Use and Abuse. His most recent books include Joshua Tree
National Park Geology (With D.D. Trent, 2002) and
Roadside Geology of Hawaii, (With D. Hyndman, 1996).
Hazlett received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern
California, M.A. from Dartmouth College and B.A. from
Occidental College.
Alfred Kwok has been promoted to associate professor
of physics and astronomy and granted tenure. A member of the
faculty since 2000, he teaches General Physics, Atomic and
Nuclear Physics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Advanced
Physics Lab. His research focuses on biophotonics,
microresonators/whispering gallery modes and laser
spectroscopy nonlinear optics. His articles have appeared in
a number of professional journals. Kwok earned his Ph.D.
from Yale University and B.A. from the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
J. Kirkland Reynolds, a member of the faculty since
1989, has been elevated to professor of physical education.
As coach of the women’s track and field/cross country team
since coming to Pomona, he has twice been selected as the
NCAA III West Region Track and Field Coach of the Year and
as SCIAC Coach of the Year seven times in cross country and
track and field. He is also a correspondent for Track and
Field News magazine. Reynolds also teaches activity
classes in jogging/running, weight training, wallyball,
ultimate Frisbee and wellness education. He received his
M.S. from Claremont Graduate University and B.S. from Lewis
& Clark College.
Adolfo J. Rumbos, a member of the college since 1991,
has been promoted to professor of mathematics. He teaches
Numbers, Equations, and Formal Reasoning; Introduction to
Analysis; Differential Equations and Modeling; Topics in
Applied Analysis; and a senior research seminar. His
exceptional teaching has been recognized with the College’s
Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in
Teaching, an Outstanding Faculty of Color Award and
recognition as an Irvine Distinguished Faculty Fellow. In
his research, he focuses on the field of nonlinear analysis
and its applications to boundary value problems for
differential equations, most recently in the field of
archeology. Rumbos earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and both a B.S. and
B.A. from Humboldt State University.
Pamela H. Smith, the Edwin F. and Margaret Hahn
Professor in the Social Sciences, has been elevated to
professor of history. The former chair of the Science,
Technology and Society (STS) Program has been a member of
the faculty since 1990. She teaches The Making of Modern
Europe; Power and Authority: Culture and the Noble Court;
Public Women, Private Lives; Alchemists, Magicians,
Scientists; and a seminar in the STS Program. In her
research, Smith focuses on the history of the scientific
revolution. She is the author of The Body of the Artisan:
Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004)
and The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the
Holy Roman Empire (1994). Smith received her Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from the University of
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Valorie D. Thomas, a member of the faculty since
1998, was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor
English and Black Studies. She teaches Introduction to
African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic
Tradition, Film and Literature of the African Diaspora, Toni
Morrison, Contemporary Native American Literature,
Introduction to Literary Interpretation, Topics in
20th-Century African American Literature, and Introduction
to Screenwriting: Framing the Margins. A recipient of
Pomona’s Irvine Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, Thomas
is the writer, co-producer and co-director of the film
Homeland, which was recognized by the National Black
Filmmakers' Programming Consortium as 1989’s Best Short
Feature. Thomas earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., from
University of California, Berkeley; and M.F.A. from the
University of California, Los Angeles.
Miguel Tinker Salas, the Arango Professor in Latin
American History, has been promoted to professor of History
and Chicano Studies. A member of the faculty since 1993, he
teaches Latin America Before Independence (Colonial Latin
America), Latin America Since Independence, Social and
Economic History of South America, Identity and Culture in
Latin America, The Mexico-United States Border, and Social
Movements in Mexico. The author of Under the Shadow of
the Eagles, The Border and the Transformation of Sonora
During the Porfiriato (1997), Tinker Salas has focused
much of his recent research on Venezuela, its politics, the
country’s oil culture and the relationship between the U.S.
and Venezuela. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of California, San Diego.
Gary M. Wilder, a member of the faculty since 1998,
has been granted tenure and elevated to associate professor
of history. He teaches Modern Europe: Since 1789, European
Social Thought, Race and Racism in Modern Europe, Europe
from the Periphery: Imperial Projects and Colonial
Societies, Postcolonial France, and Topics in Modern Europe.
He is currently completing a book entitled The French
Imperial Nation-State: Negritude, Colonial Humanism, and
Interwar Political Rationality. Wilder received his M.A.
and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and B.A. from
Cornell University.
Pomona College, founded in 1887, is one of the nation's
premier liberal arts college. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information about the college, visit the Pomona College
Website at www.pomona.edu.
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