Get to know the Core Program team.
Senior Director of Advising
B.A., Lawrence University; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Edmond Johnson has provided campus-wide leadership in academic advising at Occidental College since 2015. In this capacity, he works closely with both students and faculty members to ensure that students have the guidance they need to make...
Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor, Core Program
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Brian Bartell studies the intersection of technology, aesthetics, politics, and race and social difference in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Visiting Professor, Core Program
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Alex Bolyanatz is a psychological anthropologist who investigates the evolutionary origins of morality and other human belief systems. He has conducted fieldwork among the Sursurunga people of Papua New Guinea since 1989.
Project SAFE Director and Survivor Advocate
Lizzy Denny (she/her/hers) is originally from Louisville, Kentucky but has lived in Los Angeles for the past 8 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Earlham College in Comparative Languages and Linguistics as well as Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. It was at Earlham that she...
Resident Assistant Professor, Core Program
Core Program
Jackie Elam's areas of specialization include death studies, critical theory, genre studies (esp. horror and sci-fi), film noir, 19th and 20th-century British literature, Los Angeles, and all things "Žižek."
Resident Associate Professor, Core Program
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Devin Fromm studies theories of modernization and the cultures of modernity, with a particular focus on detective fiction.
Coordinator, Book Arts Program
Jocelyn Webb Pedersen is a letterpress printer and book artist. She teaches courses in typography and hand-printed book production and offers co-curricular programs, events, and workshops.