Fall 2016 the FlameTHE MAGAZINE OF CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY

LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS Psychology alumna Jean Maria Arrigo dedicated 10 years of her life to exposing the American Psychological Association’s secret ties to US military interrogation efforts MAKE A GIFT TO THE ANNUAL FUND TODAY the Flame Claremont Graduate University THE MAGAZINE OF CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY fellowships play an important role Fall 2016 The Flame is published by in ensuring our students reach their Claremont Graduate University’s Office of Marketing and Communications educational goals, and annual giving 165 East 10th Street Claremont, CA 91711 from our alumni and friends is a ©2016 Claremont Graduate University major contributor. Here are some of VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT our students who have benefitted Ernie Iseminger ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS from the CGU Annual Fund. Max Benavidez EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Andrea Gutierrez “I am truly grateful for the support that EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ADVANCEMENT COMMUNICATIONS CGU has given me. This fellowship has Nicholas Owchar provided me with the ability to focus MANAGING EDITOR on developing my career.” Roberto C. Hernandez Irene Wang, MBA and MA DESIGNER Shari Fournier-O’Leary in Management DIRECTOR, DESIGN SERVICES Gina Pirtle I received fellowship offers from other ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, INTEGRATED MARKETING “ Alfie Christiansen schools. But the amount of my fellowship ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS from CGU was the biggest one, and Sheila Lefor I think that is one of my proudest DISTRIBUTION MANAGER moments.” Mandy Bennett Akihiro Toyoda, MBA PHOTOGRAPHERS Carlos Puma John Valenzuela If I didn’t have the fellowship, there is William Vasta “ Tom Zasadzinski no way I would have been able to study for a PhD. I am very grateful for this DIRECTOR, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT Rachel Jimenez opportunity. ” Claremont Graduate University, founded in 1925, focuses Claudia Caceres, PhD in Geographic exclusively on graduate-level study. It is a member of Information Systems The Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent educational institutions.

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COVER STORY 17 20 A global scholarly event this past summer LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS celebrated CGU’s ties to one of Christianity’s oldest branches. Alumna Jean Maria Arrigo exposed how the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists was secretly 4 FROM THE EDITOR 24 conspiring with the US military. Professor Andrew Marx analyzes NASA 5EWS N satellite imagery to help detect human rights 10 T HE BIG PICTURE FEATURES violations around the world. 29 P HOTO GALLERY 30ACULTY F 12 26 Matthew and Roberta Jenkins have proudly Trader Joe’s former president Doug Rauch 36LUMNI A served as two of the university’s strongest launches a nonprofit grocery store to tackle supporters for nearly 30 years. 42 CALENDAR hunger and food waste. 43 CARRYING THE FLAME 14 28 Alumnus Mark Howard publishes the Student leaders from the School first-ever translation of a music theory of Community and Global Health plotted masterwork. an international course to their education. 16 Doctoral student Lori Clock helps schoolchildren cultivate life skills in her “Resilience Garden.”

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 3 FROM THE EDITOR

n warm days in July, people wear light clothing because of the weather, ...YOU’LL FIND STORIES OF right? O HOW OUR FACULTY AND Not if you’re a Coptic monk. This summer, the sight of these monks, STUDENTS ARE WORKING who belong to one of the oldest branches of Christianity, walking on our campus ON PROJECTS THAT HAVE (featured in this issue of the Flame) in their A REAL, MEANINGFUL familiar garments—robes, embroidered bonnets—served as a visual reminder that IMPACT ON THE WORLD. CGU is connected to so many diverse fields of knowledge and study. This issue of the Flame celebrates many of she tells us in our exclusive interview. “People these relationships and connections. keep talking about courage. That’s not it. It’s In these pages, along with coverage of this grunt work, OK?” year’s 11th International Congress of Coptic Yes, but it’s also more than just “grunt Studies, you’ll find stories of how our faculty work”—behind her work is a deep hunger for and students are working on projects that have social justice that infuses so many of CGU’s a real, meaningful impact on the world. programs and disciplines. Among them, there’s CISAT Professor We hope you enjoy this issue. We hope Andrew Marx, who has found a way to you find special pleasure in realizing, as you address human rights abuses using satellite flip through these pages, that this magazine technology; there’s Deborah Rugg, a former is more than a collection of extraordinary UN evaluation official, who will run our new stories: it is a picture of your community. CGU NYC-based evaluation center and coordinate is your home. our students’ work with UN agencies and delegates around the world on sustainable Roberto C. Hernandez development; and much more. Managing Editor Our cover story, about Jean Maria Arrigo, Nicholas Owchar looks at the psychology alumna’s long ordeal— Executive Director, Advancement Communications and eventual vindication— after blowing the whistle on the American Psychological Association’s collusion with the Department of Defense on military interrogation efforts. Media outlets around the world honored Arrigo. The Guardian (at right) even headlined her as “a national hero,” but Arrigo doesn’t feel that way about what she did. “The whole business of bravery—you can forget that,”

p.4 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY NEWS San Bernardino County Supervisor JANICE RUTHERFORD and university leaders welcome new students

A JOYFUL JOURNEY Some 300 new master’s and doctoral students were welcomed into the ranks of Claremont Graduate University’s community during this year’s new-student orientation ceremony held Aug. 28 in the Bridges Hall of Music (“Little Bridges”). “We don’t just read about the world,” said Provost and Executive Vice President Jacob Adams, describing how the CGU experience differs from other institutions, “we go out into the field.” While Adams exhorted students to uphold the scholarly ideal and celebrate their entrance into a vast “partnership of scholars,” Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services Keynote speaker, alumna, and San Ber- Patricia Easton oversaw the “Ignite the Flame” nardino County Supervisor Janice Ruther- CGU FALL 2016 ceremony—in which students attach a pin ford (MA, Politics and Policy, 1993) expressed with the university’s flame emblem to one sympathy for any student feeling anxiety over another—and described the support services 488 the unknown. NEW STUDENTS available to them. In her own career, she explained, facing Other speakers included University uncertainty has meant confronting many dif- President Robert Schult, Dean of Students 58% ferent, unexpected circumstances every day, FEMALE Chris Bass, Dean of Student Services Lisa “from weeds to flood control to terrorism.” Flores Griffith, and Director of Career She encouraged students not to avoid discom- STATES Development Christine Kelly. 26 fort, but to embrace it during their graduate REPRESENTED journeys. “This is a safe place to explore ideas. 28% INTERNATIONAL This is as safe as it gets,” she said. “But it STATES can be uncomfortable. If you think it should be comfortable or easy, you’re in the wrong This infographic for fall 2016 place. This is a joyful journey where you get to shows the diversity of CGU’s incoming students. grow and expand and learn new things. That requires discomfort. That’s OK. Make yourself uncomfortable.”

Janice Rutherford

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 5 NEWS New evaluation center opens in New York City; former UN and CDC official Deborah Rugg will align the center with the needs of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

ties and find placements in UN agencies and possibly with various missions as they seek to advance the SDGs in their home countries. “Deborah comes to us at a time when the need for global evaluation efforts couldn’t be greater,” said Stewart Donaldson, who heads CGU’s evaluation efforts as the dean of the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evalua- tion, and the School of Community and Global Health. “When you consider her career at the UN and CDC, you realize she has the perfect background to lead us in this new endeavor.”

THE KEY WORD IS “APPLIED” (L-R) Deborah Rugg with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. CGU REALLY COULDN’T What good is knowledge that (Image courtesy of UN Photo/Evan Schneider) BE BETTER-POSITIONED doesn’t get used? More than 20 THAN IT IS NOW university alumni participated in “The Next Wave: Effect- STOP AND FRISK: Doctoral student Deborah Rugg, a former United Nations and Linda Perkins ing Change Through Applied Roger Chin, who is studying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Women’s Studies,” a conference held Oct. 14 in political science and information official focused on effective approaches to global Albrecht Auditorium. The conference celebrat- systems, has been honored by the HIV prevention and sustainable development, is ed the pioneering program’s 15th anniversary Network of Schools of Public Policy, leading CGU’s new evaluation center in New York and featured keynote remarks by alumna Affairs, and Administration with City. Rugg plans to develop the new center’s work Sarah Smith Orr (EMBA, 1993; PhD, Education, the Pi Alpha Alpha Best Doctoral in response to the evaluation needs of the UN’s 2016), a social entrepreneur and leadership Student Manuscript Award. Chin Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the expert. As AWS Director Linda Perkins and researched the NYPD’s use of the evaluation leadership training that UN delegates, Founding Director Jean Schroedel remind- controversial stop-and-frisk policy staff, national governments, and others will ed the audience, the focus on learning that and authored “The Unexplored require as they prepare to deploy SDG strategies is applied—through an intensive internship Gender Dynamics of the Stop-and- around the world. Frisk Policy from a Quantitative and component—has equipped the program’s many “There is a major sea change taking place Spatial Perspective,” a study of how alumni with the necessary tools to enter many in attitudes towards evaluation, and CGU real- the NYPD used this policy between different professions. ly couldn’t be better-positioned than it is now,” 2003 and 2014. Based on the data, Rugg said. “The university is poised to take a Chin found that gender—along with real leadership role, and I’m very pleased to BEST IN THE WEST race and ethnicity—is a significant lead this effort. We have an opportunity to The university’s Public Policy factor in police use of this tactic. produce real change. We’re in an exciting and Program moved into the top strategic era for a new kind of thinking about 15 master’s programs west of evaluation. Evaluators can help guide the pro- the Rockies, according to the cess and contribute the evidence about what Heather Campbell report “Best Graduate Schools is and isn’t working. They can play a catalytic for Public Affairs” published by U.S. News & role in achieving these new global goals.” World Report earlier this year. The university Rugg praised CGU for establishing an eval- established its program in 1951—well ahead of uation presence on the East Coast, and she en- many peer programs in public policy nation- visions the Claremont Evaluation Center-NY wide. Heather Campbell, who specializes in as providing students with critical opportuni- urban environmental policy—especially envi- ties to learn the ways of diplomatic communi- ronmental justice—chairs the program.

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GAME ON as part of Drucker Day 2016. The theme of this SHIFTING POLITICS: For 52 The Drucker School announced a unique new year’s Drucker Day was “Drucker Leadership years, Utah voters have solidly supported the Republican Party’s opportunity this fall for a transdisciplinary Arc: Managing Self to Society.” Behar, who presidential candidates, but in student team to work with mentors from top was introduced by Drucker Professor Jeremy the closing weeks of this year’s game companies on designing an interactive Hunter, focused on “Mindfulness and Leader- campaign that streak was in peril. game over the course of the upcoming spring ship” as it pertains to self, while other speak- As of the printing of this magazine, semester. The project serves as the inaugural ers—including Drucker faculty and alumni Republican nominee Donald Trump activity of the Claremont Game Lab. “We are John Janclaes (MAM, 2003) and Bridgette Bell was closely tied with Democratic (EMBA, 2010)—addressed organizational and delighted to launch this innovative lab as it nominee Hillary Clinton in Utah, societal implications. represents a unique opportunity for students and CNN International talked to to work with top game experts,” said the Patrick Mason, the Howard W. Henry Y. Huang Dean of the Drucker School BAKER HONORED Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies, Tom Horan. Game mentors include Drucker Trustee Don Baker was hon- about this dramatic shift in voter alumnus Rick Arons (MBA, 1996), executive ored for his support of the support. “To see the possibility of vice president of The Pokemon Company In- arts in Los Angeles during Utah going to the Democrats,” he ternational; and George “Skaff” Elias, who was this fall’s Latino Theater said, “was almost unthinkable at the senior vice president at Wizards of The Coast Company’s 10th Annual beginning of this election cycle.” and brand manager of Magic: The Gathering. Gala. A member of CGU’s Board for more than 14 years and the chair of ALSO IN THE MEDIA: Along the university’s School of Arts and Humanities CHAPTER AND VERSE with Mason, other faculty media Board of Advisors, Baker has also served on 2016 Kingsley Tufts appearances this fall include a the Los Angeles Theatre Center Board and as Poetry Award winner fresh assessment by School of and poet Ross Gay chair of the California Art Club. Other gala Arts and Humanities’ Eric Bulson (see below) brought honorees included state Senator Kevin de of Fredric Jameson and his classic his joyful poetry to Leon, Sony Pictures’ John Naveira, and Center work on postmodernism in the Claremont in October Theater Group’s Diane Rodriguez. Represent- Times Literary Supplement; a for a weeklong resi- ing CGU at the event were Patricia Easton, vice recent study by Division of Politics dency that included several events open to the president for student and enrollment services; and Economics’ Jean Schroedel public, including readings at the Claremont Li- Ernie Iseminger, vice president for advance- and doctoral students Roger Chin brary and at the university’s new CGU | DTLA ment; and Tammi Schneider, professor of and Lily Rowen on police killings space at The Reef building in Los Angeles, a religion and former dean of the School of Arts of Native Americans in In These poetry workshop at the dA Center for the Arts and Humanities. Times; and Paul Zak, the director of in Pomona, and a launch party for the new CGU’s Center for Neuroeconomic issue of Foothill: a journal of poetry at CGU’s MALDONADO GIFT Studies, who helped the news team at CBS Sacramento answer East and Peggy Phelps Galleries. Trustee Ernie Maldonado (for more on the question, “Does smell have an Maldonado’s election, see next page) and his impact on human chemistry and TRACING THE ‘ARC’ family recently honored the university with a attraction?” Hundreds of attend- $330,000 gift to establish the Maldonado Fami- ees gathered in early ly Endowed Leadership Fund. The fund’s focus November to listen to on leadership is aligned with the principles that keynote remarks by Maldonado, an alumnus and longtime support- Howard Behar, former er of CGU’s students and faculty, has applied president of Starbucks for organizational success in both private and (L-R) Jeremy Hunter and Howard Behar Coffee International, public business communities.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 7 NEWS President’s welcome message sounds optimistic note; new trustees join the Board

With the opening of the new academic NEW ARRIVALS President Schult’s NEW TRUSTEES The four new season, University welcome message also emphasizes creating members elected this year are: more resources for students and faculty, Mark Chapin Johnson: A President Robert which is being supported by new members prominent figure in entre- Schult shared in the Offices of Advancement and Student preneurial and philanthrop- great news about and Enrollment Services. This new personnel ic circles, Johnson studied includes: Ernie Iseminger, vice president of CGU “trending in the political science at CGU advancement, who previously served in the right direction.” (MA, Politics and Policy, same role at Claremont McKenna College 2009; PhD, 2012); he also Here is a recap of (CMC) and closed its $635-million Campaign completed a BA in social sciences from Chap- the latest critical for Claremont McKenna; Max Benavidez, man University in 2005. Currently Mark serves developments: associate vice president of strategic commu- as a member of Chapman’s faculty and board of nications, who also previously served CMC as trustees and as a board member and overseer of its communications and public affairs chief; Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His Carolyn Stirling, assistant vice president for service also includes several affiliations with enrollment, who led recruitment, admissions, the University of California, Irvine, and a post and enrollment at the University of Southern as the former chair of Chapman’s Institute for California’s Rossier School of Education; Tim the Study of Media and Public Interest at the Council, dean of admissions, who previously Dodge College of Media Arts. In addition to his served as director of admissions and outreach academic distinctions, Mark has been the entre- for the University of San Diego’s School of preneurial force behind the creation of several Leadership and Education Sciences; and Ariel major businesses, including Eastland Securities Carpenter, assistant director of international Corporation and Chapin Specialty Healthcare. admissions, who previously served as the Drucker School’s admissions coordinator. Ernie Maldonado: An active supporter and alumnus of CGU, Maldonado (PhD, GIVING Several projects and initiatives Criminal Justice, 1983) has are in the planning stages, as well as enhanced devoted his career to public work on two of CGU’s key philanthropic legs, service, including 10 years as the Blaisdell Society and The Colleagues. a US Air Force intelligence Recent gifts include a grant from Itad, a UK- specialist, 30 years as a member of the Los An- based monitoring and evaluation consulting geles County Sheriff’s Department and, overlap- firm focused on international development, to ping, three decades as an adjunct professor at fund scholarships for international students local universities. He completed his undergrad- interested in the Claremont Evaluation Cen- uate studies in public management and public ter’s summer workshop series, and a gift from administration at Pepperdine University. At trustee Ernie Maldonado and his wife Mary to CGU, he has served on the Advisory Board of the establish a leadership fund. Division of Politics and Economics, and, with his wife Mary, he recently established the Ernest M. and Mary J. Maldonado Endowed Leadership Fund at CGU. “CGU has been part of my life for more than three decades,” he said. “I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to join the board at this very important moment in our history.”

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Art, the La Jolla Museum of Contem- MICHAEL porary Art, and Artists Space in New BREWSTER York City, among others, as well as sites in Australia, Canada, Holland, Michael Laila Pence: A nationally Austria, and Italy. His works are part Brewster, recognized financial planner, of the permanent collections of the a longtime Pence has been honored with San Diego Museum of Contemporary CGU art top rankings in several leading Art, the Orange County Museum professor and financial publications. She of Art, MOCA Los Angeles, and the alumnus who is president and co-founder Guggenheim Museum in New York coined the (with her husband Dryden City. Three of his sound installations term “acous- Pence) of Pence Wealth Management, a registered are on permanent public display in tic sculpture” in 1970 to describe his investment advisory firm. Pence studied economics the Villa Panza in Varese, Italy. lifelong passion for creating with at the University of California, Los Angeles, and He started teaching at CGU in sound, passed away June 19, 2016. received her certified financial planner designa- 1973, and last held the position of “His originality was that he tion from the College for Financial Planning. She is professor emeritus. Brewster was treated sound sculpturally,” CGU an accredited investment fiduciary and insurance the longest-serving faculty member art professor David Pagel said. and variable annuity licensee, as well as a licensed in the Art Department. In 2010, he “He made sound waves—impulses real estate broker. She brings to the board a deep was selected as the first recipient of moving through the air that we can’t understanding of service and a background of rela- the Roland Reiss Endowed Chair in see, but which are really powerful, tionship-building and client trust that will make Art, a five-year position established physical forces—even more physical. her a discerning steward of the university. Her in honor of former Art Department In Michael’s art, you really experi- election as a CGU trustee marks her first trustee Chair Roland Reiss. enced sound in all its full-bodied, post at the graduate education level. In 2012, Brewster was among wraparound, immersive power.” John Pritzlaff III: An alumnus the seven influential, extraordinary Brewster (MFA, 1970) was a of CMC, Pritzlaff is a leading Southern California artists who widely respected artist in Califor- executive in the racing were interviewed for In Their nia, nationally, and internationally, industry and a member of a Own Words: Oral Histories of CGU who spent nearly 50 years pushing family well known in Arizona Art, an oral history exhibition. the perceptual boundaries of the and national politics. A “Michael’s intensity and sculptural experience. recipient of a bachelor’s degree passion for art was the source of “Sculpture, in its most expanded in 1976 from CMC in international economics, his outstanding contributions as a sense, is the mode of experience that Pritzlaff also holds a Master of Management teacher,” Reiss said. “He is held as a I find truest,” Brewster wrote in his in international finance from the American major mentor and deeply engaging 1998 essay on sound sculpture “Where, Graduate School of International Management instructor with great respect and There or Here.” “Sculpture should be (Thunderbird). He divides his energies as CEO reverence by hundreds of former a category of Experience, not a just a of Libra Sport and Radical Texas, two companies graduate students.” category of physical objects for us to focused on prototype development and sales in ‘stand back and behold.’” the racing car industry. He is a former member For some exhibitions, Brewster BILL EVERHART of CMC’s board of trustees. As a CMC student, would position speakers to immerse CGU Interim President, 2004-2005 Pritzlaff studied management at CGU with Peter visitors with cascading waves of Treasurer and Senior Vice President Drucker, who arrived here in the early 1970s. sound that would “hit you in the gut,” for Finance and Administration, “Studying with Peter Drucker and seeing that we Pagel said. 1999-2004 and 2005-2007 have such an amazing graduate school was one of Brewster’s work has been the best experiences of my Claremont years,” he exhibited at the Whitney Museum RICHARD MOORE said. “I can still remember sitting in the classroom of American Art, the Orange County with him, and I am thrilled to see it come full (PhD, Economics, 1965) Museum of Art, the Santa Monica School of Educational Studies Board circle now. It’s an honor to join this board, which Museum of Art, MOCA Los Angeles, of Visitors is one of the finest in The Claremont Colleges.” the Los Angeles County Museum of CGU Board of Trustees

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 9 THE BIG PICTURE

Photo by Kyle L. Poirier, courtesy of Kelowna Art Gallery

p.10 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Deborah Koenker (MFA, 1985) recently showcased a new workers from Mexico hired annually to harvest the Okanagan installation at the Kelowna Art Gallery in British Columbia, Valley’s fruit orchards, vineyards, and plant nurseries. Koenker Canada. The work, entitled “Deborah Koenker: Grapes and said her installation is meant to honor and celebrate the hard Tortillas,” focuses on the 2,000 temporary agricultural work and personal sacrifices of these migrant workers.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 11 Philanthropists Matthew and Roberta Jenkins cultivated 30 years of giving and sharing History of Helping

In 1886—more than two physically, in my mind—the way County, and were written up in decades after the Civil War the neighbors would explain his the local newspaper. ended—16-year-old John values to me; his hard work, his But it was never just about Wesley Jenkins was beaten up honesty, his integrity—I knew financial success. by the Klan. He was abducted, that he was the kind of person I The couple built more than tossed into a train, and later wanted to be.” two-dozen homes for their left to die by the side of railroad This emphasis on hard farm workers. Amelia and her tracks miles away from his work, discipline, and setting daughters would drive a truck Mississippi home. goals remains strong for loaded up with food into the But he survived. Nursed Matthew and his wife Roberta. fields at lunchtime to help back to health by Greek Through their leadership their workers. immigrants that found his and philanthropy, they have “We did so much for people,” near-lifeless body, Jenkins later proudly served as two of CGU’s Matthew Jenkins recalled. “One bought 40 acres from them and strongest supporters for nearly day, I asked my mom, ‘Why do started a new life in Alabama. 30 years. we do so much for other people?’ John Wesley Jenkins became a She looked at me and said, ‘I prosperous farmer, a respected Great Plans hope one day you will under- community member, and a The 40-acre turpentine farm stand.’ That’s all she said.” proud husband and father of John Wesley Jenkins purchased When John Wesley Jenkins 10 children. expanded into a thriving 1,052- passed away in 1935, Amelia A sudden heart attack acre enterprise. He was one was pregnant with their tenth struck him down at age 62. But of the first to use tractors and and last child, a daughter. Not- Matthew Jenkins served as a his wife, Amelia, and children— other modern farming methods. withstanding, the family farm CGU trustee from 1989 to 2006; including then-2-year-old The farm was also equipped continued to thrive. All the Roberta Jenkins served on the with a distillation plant to School of Educational Studies’ Matthew Jenkins—were left children pitched in—their par- Board of Advisors for 20 years. with his legacy. convert pine tree rosin into ents never believed in excuses. (Photo courtesy of Matthew and “I always thought I knew turpentine and a sugar cane “You always wanted to Roberta Jenkins) my dad, and all the things that processing operation. carry your part of the load,” I was told about how much he John and Amelia Jenkins’ Matthew said. “My brothers was respected by everybody,” bountiful harvests of sweet and sisters would compete all said Matthew Jenkins, 82. “So, potato and other crops were the time. We’d compete to see although he was not present, some of the biggest in Baldwin who could pick the most pota-

p.12 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Matthew and Roberta Jenkins provided funds to help launch the Claremont Long Beach Math Collaborative, which provides math education for underserved students. This photo shows high school student who participated in the collaborative in 2011.

“Education is holistic. It’s not just what’s between two book covers.” toes. We’d compete to see who Tuskegee—also created a suc- Long Beach Math Collaborative, founded last year by then-SES would be the best.” cessful real estate and property a partnership between CGU, doctoral student (now alumna) By the time Ebony pub- management company. Harvey Mudd College, and the Calista Kelly. Kelly said she was lished an article on the farm in He is currently in the third Long Beach Unified School Dis- inspired by the couple, particu- 1953, the magazine described phase of his career: university trict to provide math education larly Matthew’s commitment to them as “Alabama’s Richest philanthropy. for underserved communities, education. Farm Family.” especially African American “Something valuable he After considering remain- Holistic high school students. They re- talked about was the value ing at the farm—an option his Education main involved, serving as speak- that knowledge has because mother discouraged—Matthew The Jenkinses have supported ers, recruiting African American it is something others cannot decided to attend Tuskegee education for decades. leaders to serve as role models, take from you,” she said. “They University, where three of his They established the and encouraging community cannot take away your educa- siblings were already attending. Matthew and Roberta Jenkins members to contribute. tion and your drive and will to He chose to study veterinary Family Foundation in 1984, “Education is holistic. succeed.” medicine because his brothers which provides scholarships It’s not just what’s between Currently, Matthew Jenkins told him it was the university’s for African American students, two book covers,” Matthew is finalizing his autobiography, most difficult subject. including those at CGU. Jenkins said. to be published later this year. “I always liked a challenge,” In the 1980s, then-CGU The Jenkinses also created Titled Positive Possibilities: My he said. President John D. Maguire, a a charitable trust that provides Game Plan for Success, the book After receiving a doctoral civil rights activist and former fellowship support to African will detail the experiences and degree in veterinary medicine colleague of Martin Luther American students enrolled lessons that have propelled him in 1957, Jenkins conducted King, Jr., approached Jenkins in doctoral and master’s over the years. research and later established and asked him to serve on the programs at the Drucker Sharing success remains a a rabies eradication program in board of trustees. He ended School. Drucker’s Jenkins lesson deeply ingrained in his Greenland while serving in the up serving on the board from Courtyard is named for them. lifeblood. US Air Force. He established a 1989 to 2006. Starting in 1995, We Give, “That’s who we are, we successful veterinary practice Roberta Jenkins served on the help other people,” he said. in California and sold it in the School of Educational Studies’ We Share “We give, we share. It’s part late 1970s to pursue other career Board of Advisors for 20 years. More recently, the Jenkinses of my heritage.” interests such as the import-ex- The Jenkinses also provided were the largest contributors to port business and banking. He funds to launch the Claremont CGU’s Black Scholars Award, and Roberta—they had met at

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 13 NOTE WORTHY MARK HOWARD PUBLISHES FIRST TRANSLATION OF MUSIC THEORIST JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU’S MASTERWORK

When Jean-Philippe Rameau published his practice and theory and Rameau’s “crowning Code for the practice of music (Code de musique achievement.” pratique) in 1760, the treatise became the “The Code truly reveals how Rameau put eighteenth-century composer’s crowning his ideas into practice; how he was able to achievement. It was the culmination of Ra- realize his vision across many different areas meau’s vision: a universal theory of music set of music such as keyboard technique, vocal out as a systematic “book of laws.” The Code technique, accompaniment, harmony, com- came to be considered one of the most author- position, and even the most basic of musical itative writings on music produced during the fundamentals,” said Howard, a musicologist, eighteenth century. keyboardist, the reviews editor for peer-re- But it was never translated. The original— viewed journal Performance Practice Review, Mark Howard and only—edition in French stood for nearly and adjunct professor of music at CGU. 250 years. Informed by the scientific developments That is, until Mark Howard made it the of his time—he was known as the “Isaac New- Mark’s book is extremely focus of his dissertation and subsequent book. ton of Music”—Rameau early in his career important because it The Claremont Graduate University argued that any music theory must be articu- “contains the only English alumnus (MA, Music, 2007; PhD, Music, lated and understood through a mathematical translation of one of the 2011) recently published Decoding Rameau: framework, a framework derived from an most important theoretical Music as the Sovereign Science (Libreria interconnected set of axioms, definitions, and works by one of the most Musicale Italiana, 2016), a long-overdue theorems, for example. significant and influential English translation and analysis of the But music reigned supreme in Rameau’s Baroque composer’s magnum opus and its worldview. French musical figures in accompanying essay, New Reflections on the “I think the Code’s most game-changing, music history. Sonorous Principle (Nouvelles réflexions sur most revolutionary, and most controversial le principe sonore). Howard’s book reaffirms idea was that music stands on its own as a dis- ROBERT ZAPPULLA,” CHAIR OF CGU’S the Code’s status as an essential guide to cipline, as a science, as a form of expression, MUSIC DEPARTMENT mid-eighteenth-century French musical as a medium of expression,” Howard said.

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362314_Flame_Fall2016_r2.indd 14 11/28/16 10:32 AM Portrait of Jean-Philippe Rameau by Jacques-André-Joseph Aved. Image in the public domain.

“Rameau argued that musicians and thinkers theoretical works by one of the most should focus on music, not just mathematics. significant and influential French musical Mathematics is just an abstract tool for rep- figures in music history,” said Robert resenting the properties and relationships of Zappulla, who wrote the foreword to things and actions. Music, on the other hand, Decoding Rameau. Zappulla is associate reveals its own power through its medium, professor in and chair of CGU’s Music that is sound.” Department and the Fred W. Smith and Grace Rameau’s reputation was first established Hobson Smith Chair in Music. “His extensive, with the 1722 publication of his Treatise on somewhat interdisciplinary commentary Harmony (Traité de l’harmonie). In it, he pro- lends important historical context and is posed a number of universal harmonic princi- extremely thoughtful and incisive.” ples that were so influential they continue to Howard taught CGU classes on be used in Western music instruction today. Rameau in 2014 and 2016, respectively, and Mark Howard’s book reaffirms Jean-Philippe Four years before he died, Rameau published he traveled with Zappulla to Milan, Italy, Rameau’s Code for the the Code as a systematic compilation of in 2015 to present a paper at a conference practice of music’s status as rigorous laws that borrow the language and devoted to the theorist’s influence on 1960s an essential guide to mid- grammar of legal codes. and 1970s musicians. eighteenth-century French It wasn’t until 2007 that Howard, as a CGU “My time at CGU was very influential musical practice and theory. student, discovered it had never been translat- on me,” he said. “Both Professors Zappulla ed since its 1760 publication. His translation and Nancy van Deusen believed in me and and the accompanying commentary he wrote influenced me in countless ways. And that served as Howard’s 2011 dissertation. He is reflected in the book: attention to detail, re-translated it into more idiomatic English to writing carefully, thinking creatively, think- make its 2016 book format more accessible. ing about the background to Rameau’s ideas; I “Mark’s book is extremely important wanted to leave no stone unturned. The Code because it contains the only English challenged me in these ways and was there- translation of one of the most important fore the perfect topic for me.”

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 15 “ It teaches them responsibility, It teaches them delayed gratification. It teaches them teamwork.”

Inside her fifth-grade class- “Clock has taught them how room, Lori Clock teaches her to develop these key skills, and students about math, language they become even more engaged arts, and other subjects. But in school as a result,” Paik said. outside, among snapdragons, Clock’s dissertation focuses monarch butterflies, and on resilience—the ability to vegetables, they learn some- “bounce back” from challeng- thing different, but equally as es—and how it can be fostered important. in school-age children. And they get their hands For the nearly 200 students dirty—literally—doing it. who have come through the Clock, a PhD student in the garden, there have been plenty School of Educational Studies of challenges: What is the (SES), created a “Resiliency best type of fertilizer to use? Garden” for students at the What types of plants comple- La Mirada elementary school ment each other when grown where she has taught for the together? What vegetables take past 30 years. The lush space nutrients out of the soil—and helps both students who are which ones put them back? at-risk or exhibit leadership Students learn how to turn and potential to grow critical amend soil, determine water- social-emotional skills ing needs, and identify insect through gardening. pests and how to deal with “It teaches them responsi- them without using pesticides, bility,” Clock said. “It teaches among other tasks. them delayed gratification. It “This is not your typical FRUITS teaches them teamwork.” school garden,” Clock said. Social-emotional skills And in many cases, garden- (sometimes called “soft skills”) ing leads to positive changes. OF are noncognitive and help One autistic student who individuals manage emotional harbored a fascination with responses, build healthy rela- insects and was often teased tionships, and develop other became the garden’s resident THEIR capacities that help them suc- expert on pests and non-toxic, ceed. Research connects these non-lethal ways to get rid of skills with improved classroom them. And the teasing stopped. LABOR engagement and academic Another student who had outcomes, said Susan Paik, difficulty making friends and Lori Clock’s an SES associate professor speaking in public ended up serving on Clock’s dissertation entering a storytelling contest “Resilience Garden” committee. and going to science camp. The students of Garden- Similar examples abound. helps schoolchildren hill Elementary School are “Lori is a fantastic teacher, learning patience, discipline, and she has absolutely made a cultivate life skills self-awareness, and how to get difference for these children,” along with others, she said. Paik said.

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Image of a Coptic text primarily containing liturgical readings from the New Testament of Jonah’s Fast and the first four weeks of Lent. From the collection of Claremont Graduate University’s Institute of Antiquity and Christianity, on loan from Special Collections, Claremont Colleges Library. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Claremont Colleges Library)

OU T OF Why is the study of Coptic heritage deeply connected to CGU? This past summer, a major scholarly event celebrated the university’s rich ties to one of EGYPT Christianity’s oldest branches.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 17 MEETING OF MINDS: The 11th Congress filled 7,470 the lecture rooms of the Burkle Building for a week of exciting discussion on the Coptic past, present, MILES and future. That’s the approximate distance between Alexandria, Egypt, and Claremont, California. As great as that distance seems, a strong thread runs between the two places, and has connected them for more than 50 years. Since the 1960s, Egypt’s Coptic heritage has enjoyed a second home at Claremont Graduate University—a special relationship celebrated this past summer during the 11th International Congress of Coptic Studies. “It is through a great partnership like this one that academic study flourishes and human development progresses,” said Ambassador Lamia Mekhemar, Consul General of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on the opening day of the July 25-30 event. “CGU has always been a solid partner in the preservation of our Ancient Tradition cultural heritage.” The term “Copts” generally refers to those identifying them- A major scholarly event occurring—like the Olympics—every selves as the Christians of Egypt. According to tradition, the four years at a chosen university reputed in Coptic studies, Coptic Church originates in the teachings of Saint Mark, who the congress gathers nearly 300 scholars from 24 countries brought Christianity to Egypt during the reign of Nero in the and six continents for a week of panels and discussions on the first century. latest scholarly findings. Topics spanned the spectrum, from As historical upheaval and change challenged Christianity Coptic architecture and iconography to the impact of digital in that region, the faith and its cultural heritage managed to technology on the study of ancient manuscripts, hierarchy survive and thrive unbroken in Egypt for 20 centuries. That and leadership in the Coptic Church today, early Egyptian remarkable endurance record is more than just a source of monasticism, and the Coptic diaspora. pride for the Copts—the institutions, art, architecture, music, Metropolitan Serapion of the Los Angeles Coptic Orthodox and writings produced during these centuries provide us with Diocese and CGU President Robert W. Schult were among precious insights into the ancient world and the interaction (and the participants. frequent collision) of creeds and cultures as empires rose and fell. CGU co-hosted the congress with the St. Shenouda the That region was also the location of a major discovery, in Archimandrite Coptic Society under the auspices of the 1945, of the papyri manuscripts known as the Nag Hammadi International Association for Coptic Studies. Critical to codices. The cache of Gnostic manuscripts was unearthed near preparations for the event were the university’s own Tammi the town of Nag Hammadi (about 50 miles north of the city Schneider, then-dean of the School of Arts and Humanities of Luxor), but its transmission to the world was prevented for and professor of religion; faculty members Gawdat Gabra and many years. Scholars who might have created a richer, fuller Sallama Shaker; 11th Congress Secretary Hany Takla; and S. picture of early Christianity with this material had no other Michael Saad, chair of the CGU Coptic Studies Council and choice but to wait for two decades. managing editor of CGU’s Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia. Enter CGU’s James Robinson. The last time the congress convened on American soil was in 1992 in Washington, DC. Hub of Coptic Studies “Having the congress here on our campus marks a won- The founding director of CGU’s Institute for Antiquity and derful milestone for us, a reality that surpasses our dreams,” Christianity, Robinson played a critical role in translating and explained Saad. “Our university enjoys a long, fruitful relation- publishing these works of early Christianity—which include the ship with the members and leadership of the Coptic Church.” Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of the Egyptians—and making them available to scholars worldwide.

p.18 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OPENING DAY: Congress organizers and speakers included (from left) Professor Stephen Emmel, Professor Gawdat Gabra, Congress Secretary Hany Takla, Egyptian Consul General Lamia Mekhemar, Metropolitan Serapion, then-School of Arts and Humanities Dean Tammi Schneider, Coptic Association President Jacques van der Vliet, Professor Sallama Shaker, CGU President Robert Schult, and Professor S. Michael Saad.

On the heels of Robinson’s groundbreaking work, our univer- • Coptic heritage entered the digital age with the online sity’s profile as a hub of Coptic studies flourished: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia. • CGU has grown into a center for translating and publishing • In fall 2015, the university welcomed a visit by His Holiness ancient Coptic manuscripts dating to Robinson’s establishment Tawadros the Second, Pope of the Coptic Church, upon the of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project. opening of a Coptic school at the Claremont School of Theology. • One of the first textbooks for learning Coptic grammar was The congress was accompanied by The Legacy of Christian Egypt, produced in Claremont. an exhibit of ancient papyri and other manuscripts at the university’s • CGU has offered courses in Coptic studies since the 1970s. East and Peggy Phelps Galleries that was sponsored by CGU, the St. Shenouda Society, and Washington, DC’s Museum of the Bible.

This 1974 photograph shows James Robinson at the entrance of a pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections, Claremont Colleges Library) JAMES ROBINSON’S LEGACY

An emeritus professor of New Testament who first joined the described Robinson’s generosity. He told a story of how he once Claremont School of Theology in 1958 and moved over to CGU in wrote to Robinson about his interest in the Gnostic manuscripts. 1964, James Robinson played a central role in illuminating early Not long after he sent his letter, a bulky package arrived on his Christianity and, in particular, breaking a 20-year monopoly on the doorstep. Not only had Robinson promptly answered him, he had Nag Hammadi collection that kept these ancient works out of sight. sent along copies of the Nag Hammadi texts to Emmel—a humble The prominent scholar died in March 2016. He was 91. graduate student at the time—to examine! Emmel went on to Despite his passing, Robinson’s presence was still felt during study with Robinson and serve as his research assistant in Egypt. the congress—in panel discussions about the Nag Hammadi The gesture demonstrates not only Robinson’s generosity but effort as well as in “James M. Robinson and the Nag Hammadi also his commitment to scholarly knowledge that is sometimes Codices,” part of The Legacy of Christian Egypt. This exhibit kept away from public view. honored Robinson’s tirelessness, his many roles—as writer, In his own books—The Nag Hammadi Story and The Secrets of translator, archaeologist, explorer, negotiator—and his prodigious Judas—Robinson chronicled the circumstances that stalled the contributions to the study of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, the public appearance of the texts he studied as well as his characteristic historical Jesus, the Sayings Gospel Q, and more. disdain for profit over knowledge, writing that “what has gone on in Similar tributes were given during a reception in Robinson’s honor. this money-making venture is not a pleasant story—about how all this Professor Stephen Emmel, a former CGU student who is a has been sprung upon us, the reading and viewing public—and you professor of Coptology at the University of Münster in Germany, have a right to know what has gone on.”

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 19 p.20 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS IT TOOK 10 YEARS, BUT PSYCHOLOGY ALUMNA JEAN MARIA ARRIGO EXPOSED THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’S SECRET TIES TO US MILITARY INTERROGATIONS

BY ROBERTO C. HERNANDEZ

When social psychologist and oral historian Jean Maria Arrigo rights and social psychology, moral practices and the work of sat down for the first meeting, things seemed odd. There national security operatives. weren’t any notepads. No minutes were taken. When she wasn’t teaching, Arrigo meditated in a cabin near There wasn’t an agenda. the mountain community of Alpine in east San Diego County. And everything was done in absolute secrecy. During this period, human rights issues captured her attention. In 2005, the CGU alumna (MA, Psychology, 1995; PhD, In winter 1985-86, she participated in the International Psychology, 1999) was asked to participate in an American March for Peace in Central America, successfully avoiding the Psychological Association (APA) task force to recommend attention of the Contras in Nicaragua. She also spent July 1986 ethical guidelines for psychologists’ consultations to national with Peace Brigades International as a shield for indigenous security interrogations. human rights advocates in Guatemala. The process of adopting a final report was irregular—its Like other US citizens, Arrigo became aware of the CIA’s contents seemed predetermined. Arrigo would later learn that a complicity in the torture of dissidents, labor organizers, and task force meeting participant who dominated the proceedings others considered threats to US-backed Latin American had a major conflict of interest. Other so-called “observers” had governments and dictators. their own agendas. She began to suspect something was going “When I heard about my country indirectly torturing on behind the scenes. people—we were supporting the death squads and all that—it Something was. really hit something in me,” she said. Despite attempts to discredit her, an independent A BIG DEAL investigation—and the APA itself—eventually confirmed At a conference of the International Society of Traumatic Arrigo’s warnings: The senior leadership of the largest scientific Stress Studies, Arrigo heard prominent social psychologist and professional organization of psychologists had colluded and Holocaust survivor Ervin Staub speak about the social with the Department of Defense to legitimize psychologists’ conditions, culture, psychology, and other elements that lead to consultations to interrogations and conditions of detention, genocide and mass killings, as well as bystander behavior and making it easier for military and defense-contract psychologists passivity in the face of such violence. to “participate in abusive interrogations of foreign detainees.” Applied Social Psychology, a textbook written by then-CGU THE PURSUIT OF PEACE Professor Stuart Oskamp (currently professor emeritus), also Arrigo spent 11 years teaching mathematics—she has a master’s opened her eyes. Oskamp would later serve as a co-chair for degree in that subject—at various San Diego universities and Arrigo’s dissertation. colleges. But as the daughter of a US Army Quartermaster Corps At CGU, she specialized in ecological psychology under officer who had facilitated undercover operations, she has also Alan Wicker, enjoyed advanced statistics courses with Dale cultivated a scholarly interest in the intersection of human Berger (who retired in fall 2015), studied philosophy of science

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 21 with Joel Smith and Alfred Louch, published two papers with Arrigo appealed to two former army counterintelligence cognitive psychologist Kathy Pezdek, and gravitated to moral professionals, David DeBatto and Lawrence Rockwood, in philosopher Charles Young as her other dissertation co-chair. 2007 to review the task force proceedings. Six out of the nine Arrigo’s master’s thesis was a content analysis of author bias voting task force members, for example, worked for or had deep in the presentation of multiple personality in 84 introductory ties to military and intelligence agencies directly connected to college psychology textbooks. Her doctoral dissertation (“Sins interrogations at Guantánamo and elsewhere. Some task force and Salvations in Clandestine Scientific Research: A Social members were in chains of command accused of torturing or Psychological and Epistemological Inquiry”) and subsequent abusing foreign detainees. An APA director—who had been writings investigated the relationship between epistemology selected to serve as a task force “observer”—was married to and ethics of military and political intelligence, through the the lead behavioral science consultation team psychologist eyes of intelligence professionals. supporting interrogation operations at Guantánamo. “I didn’t know what to do,” Arrigo said. “I just started The task force successfully resisted efforts to align the PENS studying psychology, figuring that something would turn up.” report’s definition of torture with Geneva Conventions standards, She began interviewing intelligence professionals and instead opting for the permissive US legal criteria. And when the weapons developers about their moral concerns, and later report was adopted (with Arrigo’s reluctant accord), it was done collaborated with musician John Crigler (her husband) to create during a hurried “emergency” session of the APA board of direc- theater performances based on their oral histories. Arrigo tors that bypassed the association’s governing body. brought together psychologists, ethicists, and intelligence The counterintelligence consultants Arrigo had spoken professionals for various projects, including the 2000 CGU Pilot with independently assessed the task force to be part of a Workshop on the Ethics of Political and Military Intelligence secretly coordinated and predetermined effort to support Bush for Insiders and Outsiders. administration interrogation interests, as well as APA senior She established two archival collections, the Oral History leadership’s desire to strengthen its relationship with the Series on the Ethics of Intelligence and Weapons Development at Department of Defense. the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, and the Intelligence “In fact, we hardly did any deliberations,” Arrigo recalled. Ethics Collection at Stanford University the following year. “It was mainly wordsmith-ing and talking about other stuff. In 2005, Arrigo was invited to serve on the APA’s There was only one vote and that was on confidentiality. What Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National people said happened there is not what happened, OK?” Security (PENS). Arrigo documented and made copies of all records. She “I didn’t even think it was a big deal,” she recalled. “I began taking steps to establish an archive, but stopped short— thought we were all going to go there and talk about something Arrigo had agreed to keep task force business confidential. So as obvious as moral guidelines for playground bullying.” she consulted an old mentor: CGU’s Charles Young. But it was a big deal. Young told Arrigo, ‘“People have led you into a promise, and “SECRETLY COORDINATED” they lied to get you there, so the promise isn’t binding,’” Arrigo The 10-member task force was asked to formulate ethical said, recalling his advice. guidelines for psychologists in a post-9/11 setting. It was She decided to go public. established in the wake of a 2004 New York Times article COLLUSION CONFIRMED detailing the physically and psychologically coercive During the APA’s 2007 convention in San Francisco, for interrogations that took place at US detention facilities, example, Arrigo showcased her discoveries in a presentation describing how the “handling of prisoners detained and on ethics and interrogations. Journalist Amy Goodman interrogated at Guantánamo amounted to torture.” videotaped the presentation and broadcast it on the Once the guidelines were defined, they would be drafted Democracy Now! news program. into a final report that, once adopted, would inform the APA’s Around this time, Arrigo joined with colleagues Trudy ethics code and policies, creating the framework for how the US Bond, Roy Eidelson, Brad Olson, Steven Reisner, Stephen Soldz, government, the country’s largest employer of psychologists, and Bryant Welch to develop a swift-response team of APA can deploy psychologists. dissidents, the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology. Without this But from the very first meeting, something was askew. vigorous team of researchers and operatives, Arrigo says her Arrigo noticed there was no agenda and no minutes were revelations would have come to nothing. taken—standard protocol for APA meetings. Certain APA officials sought to discredit Arrigo. One—a for- “When we got to the meeting—this was strange—the mer APA president who was heavily involved in the task force’s chair had a piece of paper, but we didn’t have any copies,” she proceedings—sought to cast doubt on Arrigo’s claims by alleging recalled. “There was a boardroom table, but there was nothing that a “troubled upbringing,” and the purported suicide of her on the table. Nothing. Nobody had anything.” father (alive and well at the time) were affecting her judgment.

p.22 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY “THAT’S LIKE BELIEVING THAT WHEN THE RUSSIANS SHOT DOWN GARY POWERS’ SPY PLANE IN 1960 THAT THE US GAVE UP ESPIONAGE.” JEAN MARIA ARRIGO

In 2010, Arrigo collaborated with archivist Bruce Montgom- ery to establish the APA PENS Debate Collection at the Univer- sity of Colorado Boulder as archival support for “historical accu- racy and institutional transparency in the relationship between American psychology and national security.” Spurred by the coalition and New York Times investigative Jean Maria Arrigo (Photo courtesy of Jean Maria Arrigo) journalist James Risen, the APA finally hired a former federal prosecutor to independently investigate the matter. In July 2015—10 years after the task force was initially convened— and persistence in advocating for ethical behavior among her former Assistant US Attorney David Hoffman released a fellow psychologists and the importance of international human massive report that determined “there clearly was collusion rights standards and against torture.” between key APA officials who were acting on behalf of APA An article in the Guardian characterized Arrigo as a and key [Department of Defense] officials.” “national hero.” Arrigo and the dissidents had been right all along. But “hero” is not the word Arrigo uses. A BLEAK CHAPTER LIGHT ON THE DARKNESS “The evidence establishes that the composition of the PENS “The whole business of bravery—you can forget that,” she said Task Force, the key ethical statements in the task force report, during a March 2016 interview at her Irvine home. “People keep and many related APA public statements and policy positions talking about courage. That’s not it. It’s grunt work, OK?” were the result of close and confidential collaboration with Arrigo’s former CGU professors hold Arrigo in high regard. certain Defense Department officials before, during, and after “In graduate school and thereafter, Jean Maria Arrigo has the task force met,” the Hoffman report stated. been an impeccable researcher devoted to exploring critically The report continued: “Even though APA officials insisted at important issues of social justice,” CGU’s Kathy Pezdek said. the time, and for years after, that all their actions were based on Professor Emeritus Stuart Oskamp echoed this praise. independent ethics and policy judgments about how to provide “Jean Maria was certainly one of the most dedicated, appropriate ethical guidance for psychologists who worked hard-working, and persistent graduate students that the CGU in this area, we found that this was not the case. Instead, key Psychology Department ever had,” he said. “She came to APA officials were operating in close, confidential coordination Claremont with deep ethical convictions and a single-minded with key Defense Department officials to set up a task force concern for bringing social psychology to bear on mending and produce an outcome that would please [the Department of many kinds of human rights abuses.” Defense], and to produce ethical guidelines that were the same Her old mentor said he was “honored to have worked with as, or not more restrictive than, that department’s guidelines for her.” interrogation activities.” “For the 20 years or so that I have known her, Jean Maria The organization that had questioned—and attacked—Arrigo Arrigo has worked with intelligence and vigor to shine light on made an about-face, calling the ordeal a “bleak chapter.” the darkness,” CGU’s Charles Young said. In the wake of the scandal, the APA’s ethics chief of 15 years Was Arrigo ever tempted to just look the other way? was ousted and other senior APA staff members, including “No. There was never that moment. I OK’d that document,” the CEO and deputy CEO, retired early without admission of she explained. “I was a party to this because I was made wrongdoing. The association made new recommendations, guilty. I had to stick it out.” including evaluating existing conflict-of-interest policies and Despite recent changes, Arrigo isn’t convinced that the increasing the organization’s engagement with human rights infrastructure and social networks that facilitated the PENS activities. Last year, the APA banned psychologists from any debacle are gone and that similar ethical lapses won’t arise again. involvement in national-security interrogations. “That’s like believing that when the Russians shot down In 2015, Arrigo was awarded the Scientific Freedom and Gary Powers’ spy plane in 1960 that the US gave up espionage,” Responsibility Award from the American Association for the she said. Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of her “courage

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 23 Darfur photo courtesy of the UN Mission in Sudan/Stuart Price

PROFESSOR ANDREW MARX EYES IN USES SATELLITE IMAGERY TO HELP STOP HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS THE SKIES ACROSS THE GLOBE

With the help of NASA satellites were destroyed in the Darfur region of these villages are destroyed with no orbiting more than 400 miles above the western Sudan. survivors, the international community Earth, Andrew Marx works to reduce This research suggests a cost- never knows and perpetrators aren’t human suffering. effective, early-warning system capable being held responsible.” An assistant professor in CGU’s of assisting humanitarian efforts in Center for Information Systems and stopping—and preventing—human FOREIGN AFFAIRS Technology, Marx teaches students a rights violations in the most inaccessible Marx’s interests have often intersected new method he developed of using sat- regions of the globe. with international affairs and humani- ellite imagery to more effectively detect “The goal of my research is to shed tarian interests. mass killings, genocidal attacks, and light into the darkest corners of the He has a PhD in geographical sciences war crimes in far-flung countries. His world—remote villages in conflict from the University of Maryland and a technique has been able to successfully areas that are at risk for human master’s degree in urban planning from document thousands of villages that rights violations,” Marx said. “When the University of California, Berkeley. A 1997 graduate of the US Air Force

p.24 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY This image shows the area in Darfur that Andrew Marx (see below) studied. It depicts the 2,666 villages destroyed and the 11 Landsat satellite footprints that covered the region from 2002 to 2008. (Image courtesy of Andrew Marx)

MARX’S METHODOLOGY COULD FACILITATE NEAR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF LARGE AREAS AT RISK FOR MASS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Academy, Marx’s first assignment His theory was correct. NASA imagery offers several included participation in 1999’s Operation Using approximately 650 medi- advantages. The images are free and Allied Force, NATO airstrikes that sought um-resolution Landsat images, Marx publicly available through the US to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Marx documented 2,666 villages that were Geologic Survey, often within 24 hours later served as a foreign affairs analyst for destroyed in the Darfur region of Sudan of when they are taken. Commercial the US Department of State from 2006 to between 2002 and 2008. Rebel groups satellite images offer better resolution, February 2015. and the Sudanese government have but they cover less territory and only In 2013, he was a visiting fellow at been fighting since 2003, resulting in capture images after a violation has the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s the deaths of thousands of civilians, the been reported. NASA images, however, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention burning of thousands of villages, and a are constantly capturing images of of Genocide in Washington, DC. As a major humanitarian crisis. large areas. fellow, Marx looked at existing methods Marx’s research also revealed Consequently, Marx’s methodology that human rights organizations more specific and accurate patterns could facilitate near real-time moni- employed when utilizing satellite of violence than were previously toring of large areas at-risk for mass imagery to verify reports of mass documented. For example, by human rights violations and allow faster human rights violations. combining geographic information response times by authorities. But the current practice is fraught with timestamp data, he was able to Marx has now expanded that with problems. Organizations often determine which specific rebel groups research to other countries. In Syria, a must first receive an unconfirmed were most likely responsible for certain country that’s been crippled by a brutal report of a violation taken place in a attacks during periods of ceasefires. He civil war since 2011, Marx documented particular area. Next, they follow up was also able to track destroyed villages the use of “barrel-bombs” and other by ordering expensive high-resolution on a roughly biweekly instead of an large-scale, indiscriminate weapons commercial satellite imagery, and annual basis, which is more typical. used against residential neighborhoods then hire a specially trained analyst to “Dr. Marx is developing an exciting in Damascus and Aleppo. interpret the images that may confirm tool for obtaining actionable evidence “Our goal is to provide research that the initial reports. This practice is of when and where attacks are target- empowers international organizations considered reactive and costly. ing civilian populations,” Simon-Skjodt and governments to detect, prosecute, Marx looked for a better way. Center Director Cameron Hudson said. and ultimately prevent the worst human rights violations,” he said. “We want to AN EXCITING TOOL NO DARK CORNERS ensure that there are no dark corners Marx theorized that the destruction of The detection of human rights of the world left where these violations villages by burning—a tactic employed in violations is important because it can occur undetected and unpunished.” some mass atrocity situations—altered the provides the verification that is often landscape, changing the way it reflected needed by governments and non- electromagnetic radiation, such as solar governmental organizations before they energy. He proposed that NASA satellites take action, such as prosecuting the were capable of detecting these changes. perpetrators of these crimes.

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) FOOD FOR THOUGHT CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CLAREMONT p.26 Drucker alumnus and former Trader Joe’s the food you should be eating.” you be should food the afford you—unfortunately—can’t strapped, you’re economically “When said. sive,” Rauch - expen are nutrients and cheap are calories unhealthy—menus. largely convenient—but cheap, restaurants’ food fast with compete to intended are focus nutritional and pricing The store’s budget-friendly date. by” “sell their nearing products as well as food, blemished cosmetically and excess their of who suppliers donate anetwork through prices. atdiscounted meals to-eat ready- and groceries nutritious sells 2015 that June in he launched area Boston the in store grocery Table, anonprofit Daily once with 1994) (EMBA, alumnus of Management School Drucker poor. working of the reach the beyond often are meals Healthy wasted. is of food Lots things: afew Rauch Doug taught decades three more than for business grocery the Working in to hunger waste and solution one up RAUCH serves DOUG chief “Due to the nature of food systems, systems, of food nature the to “Due sourced is Table’s inventory Daily Joe’s president ofThe Trader former and is tackling both problems at problems both tackling is they purchase every year, wasting nearly $165 nearly year, wasting every purchase they food of the percent 40 away throw Americans determined that areport issued organization, environmental anonprofit (NRDC), Council of nutrients.” It’s ashortage of calories. ashortage instances, most in not, is “It said. world,” of the Rauch developingparts other of Agriculture. Department US the from on data 2013 based example, for or stealing, scavenging to resorting without lives healthy active, support to food nutritious enough access to unable households in live they meaning insecure,” “food are America. in waste food and hunger of levels high illustrated that statistics by 2008. in he retired Table idea after Daily on his working started Rauch chain. national acclaimed and apopular into retailer specialty California-based Southern asmall from grow retailer helping the 14 president, as last the Joe’s worked Trader for 31 for Rauch years, NUTRIENTS OF SHORTAGE In 2012, the Natural Resources Defense Defense Resources Natural the 2012, In issue. pressing another is Food waste in it is like not is America in “Hunger households American 17 million More than struck he was said executive The business

Doug Rauch was influenced by Peter Drucker’s insistence that businesses be accountable to society and should operate responsibly and ethically. (Photo courtesy of PRNewsFoto/Specialty Food Association)

billion. Also, unsold but perfectly edible items nearing ripeness—such as banan- Meals are prepared to be low in sugar and food accounts for a big part of that waste. as—or closing in on their sell-by dates, salt and high in fiber, for example. “Clearly, the hope is this becomes such as milk and eggs. “We are, by far, the healthiest gro- part of one of the arrows in the quiver All this food is “perfectly good and cery store, in my opinion, in America,” that we in America can use to get our nutritious,” Rauch said. Rauch said. arms around and tackle this pernicious Daily Table’s inventory includes problem of food insecurity, this perni- eggs, milk, bread, fresh produce, canned A FORCE FOR GOOD cious problem of wasted food,” Rauch fruits and vegetables, and breakfast Rauch said he was influenced by the said. “We look at the Daily Table as one cereal. A dozen eggs has sold for $1.99 writings of Peter F. Drucker. Trader of the solutions.” cents, while bananas have been priced Joe’s founder Joe Coulombe would often at 29 cents per pound. A loaf of organic pass around Drucker’s op-ed columns PERFECTLY GOOD whole-grain bread has sold for $1.49. published in the Wall Street Journal AND NUTRITIOUS because “he had a great affinity for “Best by” and similar dates on per- THE HEALTHIEST [Drucker’s] thinking.” ishable foods are part of the problem, GROCERY STORE While a Drucker student, Rauch Rauch and others said. Daily Table utilizes some of its stock to said he gained a deeper understanding In a 2013 report, the NRDC and the prepare and sell meals at fast-food pric- of the similarities—and differences Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic es to assist those with little time to cook. —between for-profit businesses and concluded that such dates are confus- A hearty entree of Salisbury steak nonprofit organizations. ing and prompt consumers to throw and brown rice, for example, has sold for But he was also influenced by Peter perfectly good food away. The dates are $2.99. Tubs of curry broccoli soup have F. Drucker’s insistence that businesses intended for use by retailers to rotate been priced at $1.29. be accountable to society and should their stock and not as indicators of food Rauch sought to ensure that the meals operate responsibly and ethically. quality or safety. are as nutritious as possible. Menus were “Being a force for good—all these Daily Table keeps prices low by designed with input from nutritionists and things were both ingrained and sourcing from donations and excess experts from Harvard University’s School reinforced while I was at the Drucker stock, as well as suppliers who provide of Public Health and other institutions. School,” Rauch said.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 27 EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY School of Community and Global Health students expand their learning experiences in Taiwan

Students enrolled in the School of Community in an MBA/MPH program; Jacklyn Samano and Global Health (SCGH) study pressing pub- and Muquxi La, both in an MPH program; and lic health issues from a variety of perspectives Shanna Livermore and Juanita Preciado (MPH, and disciplines. They learn how promoting 2016), both in a DrPH (Doctorate in Public health innovations and practices has a tre- Health) program. Preciado was association mendous impact on individuals, families, and president at the time. communities here and abroad. Tseng earned a medical and chemistry degree For six SCGH students, such an educational from Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan, journey propelled them nearly 7,000 miles and had a network of contacts in that country. away to Taiwan. Over the course of 10 days this During the trip, they visited the Mennonite past May, group members—led by then-SCGH Social Welfare Foundation, which, through Student Association leaders—visited hospitals, Taiwan’s national health insurance system, pro- health centers, and other organizations to vides meals to qualified residents through a dis- study that country’s healthcare system as well tribution system that includes partnerships with as share their knowledge. an FDA-approved company, local food markets, “We thought a global experience would really and volunteers that deliver meals to aboriginal add depth to what we learned,” said Yen-Shih communities. Students also toured Kaohsiung’s Tseng, who served as association vice president Municipal Hospital and its Telehealth-Care Cen- during the trip and is currently enrolled in an ter, which monitors and assists elderly patients, MBA/MPH dual-degree program. especially after being discharged. Though encouraged and supported by “It was truly an eye-opening experience,” SCGH faculty, fundraising and preparations for Preciado said. “We had the opportunity to the trip were student-run. apply many of the concepts we learned in our The SCGH Global Health Trip included Tseng, courses. It was an experience that we all the team leader; Lily Chacon, also enrolled truly appreciated.”

(L-R) Muquxi La, Juanita Preciado, unidentified female medical professional, Yen-Shih Tseng, Lily Chacon, Jacklyn Samano, and Shanna Livermore. Photos by Shanna Livermore

p.28 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY KEEPING IT ‘ZEAL’ Thirteen CGU students spent an intense week in New Zealand this summer as part of the Drucker School of Management’s latest Global Immersion course. The trip was designed to demonstrate how New Zealand’s export-driven economy thrives in a highly global yet entre- preneurial environment, covering topics such as supply chain management, healthcare, technology, and innovation. The students— from Drucker, the School of Community and Global Health, and the School of Social Science, Policy, and Evaluation—took part in company site visits, cultural excursions, and field trips, including a stop at the Hobbit village film set fromThe Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Photos © copyright 2016 Dallas Pickering

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DAVID AMICO (Arts and American Dream at Panda Restaurant Group” Humanities) held an exhibit of in Share, Don’t Take the Lead! paintings called Hard Places at PETER BOYER (Arts and the Ace Gallery in Beverly Humanities) conducted three Hills, Calif. performances for multi-plati- JOHN ANGUS (Mathematical num recording artist Josh Sciences) published “A new Groban, as part of Groban’s Stages tour, in joint model of recurrent event Austin, Houston, and Dallas, Texas. Boyer’s MEET THE FACULTY data with the additive hazards composition Silver Fanfare was chosen as the model for the terminal event time” with opening piece of the Hollywood Bowl’s JOANNA POBLETE former PhD student Xiaoyu Che in Metrika season for the second consecutive year, and School of Arts and Humanities, International Journal for Theoretical and was performed by the Hollywood Bowl History Department Education: PhD, History; University of Applied Statistics. Orchestra on a program that featured rock band Steely Dan, for a sold-out audience of California, Los Angeles MICHELLE BLIGH (Social over 17,000. Boyer’s work Ellis Island: The Science, Policy, and Evaluation) What are your research interests and how Dream of America was chosen as the served as co-founder and did you get interested in these fields? centerpiece of the Pacific Symphony’s My research interests center around US fed- academic director of the annual American Composers Festival, and it eral relations with territories and possessions, NEOMA Business School Center for will receive four performances at the Renée such as Hawaii, the Philippines, American Leadership and Effective Organizations and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Samoa, and Puerto Rico. I examine the impact (CLEO) in Paris, Rouen, and Reims, France. conducted by Carl St. Clair, in April 2017. that occupying an in-between political legal She is currently the associate editor of the Performances of Boyer’s compositions status as neither full-fledged citizens nor journal Leadership and co-edited Followership included New Beginnings with the Houston independent foreigners has on the daily lives in Action: Cases and Commentaries with R. Symphony and Buffalo Philharmonic of these colonized groups, such as ocean use, Koonce, M. Hurwitz, and M.C. Carsten. Bligh Orchestra; Ellis Island: The Dream of labor, and migration. published: “Following Authentically: A Case America with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Can you name and describe a scholar, of Proactive Followership” with R.K. Rodgers Fort Collins Symphony, and Signature mentor, or individual who had a powerful in Followership in Action: Cases and Commen- Symphony of Tulsa; Rolling River (Sketches influence on you and your work? taries; “Exploring Compelling Contexts on “Shenandoah”) with the Cincinnati Pops Dr. Wendy Ho at the Department of Asian through Paradox, Tension, and New Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute American Studies at the University of Califor- Approaches to Leadership” in Monographs in Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Youth nia, Davis, was my first woman-of-color facul- Leadership and Management; “Antecedents of Orchestra of New York at Carnegie ty role model who provided amazing teaching, Shared Leadership: Empowering Leadership Hall; Three Olympians with the Juilliard great service to the students, and outstanding and Interdependence” with M. Fausing, T. School Pre-College String Ensemble; Cele- mentorship during my undergraduate career. Jønsson, and J. Lewandowski in Leadership & bration Overture with the Waco Symphony Susan Mann at UC Davis’ Department of Organization Development Journal; “The Orchestra; and Silver Fanfare with the History also inspired me as an undergraduate Actor-Partner Interdependence Model: A Maryland Symphony Orchestra on the to pursue my PhD in history and work on un- Method for Studying Trust in Dyadic Antietam National Battlefield. Boyer’s Cele- conventional research topics through strong Relationships” with D.L. Ferrin and J.C. and supportive mentorship. bration Overture was performed by the Kohles in Handbook of Research Methods on Kansas City Symphony for the annual Why did you choose to come to CGU? Trust; “Absence Makes the Errors Go Longer: “Symphony in the Flint Hills,” which was the I really admired the History Department’s How Leaders Inhibit Learning from Errors” subject of a television documentary historical and contemporary emphasis on oral with Q. Yan and Kohles in Journal of produced and broadcast by KSHB, the history as a research tool and training of stu- Psychology (Zeitschrift für Psychologie); Kansas City NBC affiliate. Boyer served as dents not only for teaching jobs, but also the “Followership and Follower-Centered assistant conductor for The Lord of the Rings: practical application of skills in public and pri- Approaches” in Emerging Approaches to The Fellowship of the Ring Live in Con- vate sectors. I was also attracted to the ability Leadership; “Exploring the ‘Flip Side’ of the cert (CAMI Music) with the Seattle to teach what I research on a regular basis. Coin: Do Authentic Leaders Need Authentic Symphony at Benaroya Hall. Boyer contrib- Followers?” with Rodgers in Followership; uted orchestrations (orchestral arrange- “Comparing Leaders across Context, Culture, ments) to scores for five Hollywood and Time: Content Analysis of Leader-Fol- films: Finding Dory (Disney-Pixar), for lower Communications” with Kohles in composer Thomas Newman; The Hunger Leadership; and “Shared Leadership in a High Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Lionsgate), The Growth Environment: Realizing the Huntsman: Winter’s War (Universal), and the

p.30 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY forthcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to for 2015-2016. Dalferth gave several keynote ment”) at the United Nations Sustainable Find Them (Warner Bros.), all for composer lectures as well: “Self-Alienation: Self, Development Goals Summer Academy in James Newton Howard; and Wake- Finitude and Estrangement” at Copenhagen Bonn, Germany. She moderated two panel field (Mockingbird Pictures) for composer University; “Sinnloses Leiden und die discussions at the Marketing to Women Aaron Zigman. Boyer’s recordings of his Hoffnung auf Gott” at the University of conference in New York: “Marketing to compositions with London orchestras have Münster; “Gut für uns. Gemeinwohl und Millennial Women” and “Marketing to continued to receive numerous broadcasts Menschenwürde” at Colloque Castelli, Rome; Global Women.” Darroch also gave a each quarter on classical radio stations, “On Distinctions,” presidential address, at presentation (“The Marketing Revolution, including SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s SPR conference in San Antonio; “Protest and How We Climb Aboard”) to the Symphony Hall channel, Classical KUSC, against Death: Faith, Hope, and Love,” at Marketing Association of Credit Unions. Cincinnati’s WGUC, New England Public CGU; “A Relaxed View of Metaphys- STEWART DONALDSON Radio, and many others. ics: Theological Reflections on Neo-Aristo- (Social Science, Policy, and telian Thomism and the Theological Legacy KENDALL COTTON BRONK Evaluation; Community and of Thomas Aquinas” at the School of Theolo- (Social Science, Policy, and Global Health) is immediate gy in Oslo, Norway; “What Philosophers of Evaluation) won a Fulbright past president of the American Evaluation Religion Say They Should be Doing” in award to research the role of Association (AEA), served on the Interna- Dubrovnik, Croatia; and “Die Illusion der global economic and political events on the tional Positive Psychology Association Board, Unmittelbarkeit: Über einen missverstan- development of young people’s purposes in served as series co-editor, with Jennifer C. denen Modus der Lebenswelt” at Zadar life. She will be researching this in Greece, Greene, of the Evaluation and Society Book University in Croatia. Dalferth’s recently which has been caught up in a number of Series, and was invited to serve on the editori- published papers include: “Gotteserfahrung” significant international events over the past al board of the International Journal of in Gott neu vertrauen, EKD Das Magazin few years (e.g. Grexit threat, austerity Applied Positive Psychology in 2016. He zum Reformationsjubiläum; “On Distinc- measures, Syrian refugees streaming through published Evaluation for an Equitable Society tions” in International Journal for Philosophy and camping out in the country, repeated with Robert Picciotto; an article on “Theories and Religion; “Beten – ein Reden des Herzens terrorist attacks in nearby Turkey, etc.). in Evaluation: Reducing Confusion and mit Gott” in Brennpunkt Gemeinde; “Verste- Encouraging Debate” with Frans Leeuw in INGOLF DALFERTH (Arts and hen als Orientierungspraxis. Eine herme- Evaluation: The International Journal of Humanities) published: neutische Skizze” in Zur Philosophie der Theory, Research, & Practice; a chapter on Creatures of Possibility: The Orientierung Festschrift für Werner “Visions for Using Evaluation to Develop Theological Basis of Human Stegmaier by Andrea Bertino, Ekaterina more Equitable Societies” with CGU student Freedom; Hoffnung (Grundthemen der Poljakova, and Andreas Rupschus (eds.); Scott Donaldson; and completed an Philosophie); Radical Theology: An Essay on “From the Grammar of ‘Hope’ to the evaluation of the Canadian Evaluation Faith and Theology in the Twenty-First Practice of Hope” in Hope by Dalferth and Society Credentialed Evaluator Designation Century; Crucified and Resurrected: M.A. Bloch (eds.); “Ein Reden des Herzens Program with CGU evaluation Professor Restructuring the Grammar of Christology; mit Gott” in Beten als verleiblichtes Verstehen. Leslie Fierro and several CGU students. Hope with M.A. Block (ed.) from the Neue Zugänge zu einer Hermeneutik des Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Gebets by Dalferth and S. Peng-Keller (eds.); DAVID DREW (Educational Religion, Conference 2014; and Beten als “. . . in God only one infinite act can be Studies) is collaborating with verleiblichtes Verstehen. Neue Zugänge zu thought . . .: The Ambiguity of Divine Massachusetts Institute of einer Hermeneutik des Gebets with S. Agency and the Diversity of Evil” in Technology Professor Louis Peng-Keller (ed.). Dalferth chaired or European Journal for Philosophy of Religion; Bucciarelli, on a feasibility study, funded by co-chaired several conferences: Reforma- “Gemeinsam hoffen. Grundlinien einer the National Science Foundation, of their tion and Secularisation at Humboldt menschlichen Orientierungsweise” in Die proposal to integrate engineering education University in Berlin; Love and Justice, 37th Kunst des Hoffens: Kranksein zwischen with the liberal arts. A special double issue of Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference Erschütterung und Neuorientierung by the journal Engineering Studies focused on at CGU; Annual Conference of the Society Giovanni Maio (ed.); and “Transzendenz und their proposal and featured responses by a for Philosophy of Religion in San Antonio, Immanenz als theologische Orientierungsbe- number of scholars to their ideas. Drew, Texas; Religionsphilosophie heute in griffe” in Hermeneutik der Transzendenz by Bucciarelli, and CGU PhD student Jessica Dubrovnik, Croatia; Prayer and Spiritual Dalferth, P. Bühler, and A. Hunziker (eds.). Perez presented “Envisioning the Future of Care in Zurich; and Reconsidering the Undergraduate STEM Education” at a JENNY DARROCH (Drucker) Existential: the Aesthetic, the Ethical, the national conference. Drew was also invited gave a presentation (“Policies Religious, SKC Annual Conference 2016 in to speak on this topic at the annual meeting and structures that foster Copenhagen. He also served as president of of the American Society for Engineering engagement, innovation, and the Society for Philosophy of Religion (SPR) Education at the Tallinn University in entrepreneurship for sustainable develop-

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Estonia. He served on the board of the for Personality and Social Psychology Career Vistamar School, the advisory panel for the Contribution Award committee, and a national Professional Science Master’s member of the Society of Experimental Social Program, and the advisory panel for the Psychology FABBS Foundation Early Career Connective Leadership Institute. In Impact Award committee. Hogg gave an addition, he serves on the external advisory invited address at the Group Processes and board for an international collaboration, the Intergroup Relations pre-conference of the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Society for Personality and Social Psychology MEET THE FACULTY Transients Happen (GROWTH) project led 17th annual convention in San Diego. He gave DINA C. MARAMBA by the California Institute of Technology, the keynote address at the Annual Psychology School of Educational Studies which links telescopes and observatories Student Honors Conference at the University Education: PhD, Education, Claremont around the planet to follow and study of Alberta, and ran a graduate seminar and Graduate University transient astronomical events, like workshop on “Extremism in society: The role near-Earth asteroids. Drew continues to of identity uncertainty.” Hogg also visited the What are your research interests and how work with a consortium of colleges and European School of Management and did you get interested in these fields? My research focuses on equity, diversity, and universities, along with other alliances, in Technology (ESMT) in Berlin to give a public social justice issues within the context of higher Louisiana to broaden participation in lecture on “Uncertainty and Extremism,” education. This includes examining the influ- undergraduate STEM education. moderated by Der Tagesspiegel, and gave the “Uncertainty and populist leadership” ences of educational institutions (minority-serv- JOSHUA GOODE (Arts and keynote address at the 2016 annual ESMT ing institutions and predominantly white insti- Humanities) was an invited organizational behavior conference. He also tutions) and campus climates on access and speaker at the Colegio de delivered colloquia addresses at the Rotman success among students of color, underserved, México’s Raza y Política en and first-generation college students. With my School of Management, University of Iberoamérica international conference and over 10 years of experience as a student a†airs Toronto; the Aston Business School in presented his paper “La raza como teoría professional, I am also interested in the theory Birmingham, England; and Sapienza - Uni- viajante: discursos antropológicos a dos lados and practice of higher education institutions versità di Roma, Italy. Hogg also published del atlántico en los principios del siglo XX.” as they relate to creating more conducive and several refereed journal articles and several Goode published “The Genius of Columbus inclusive learning environments. book chapters: “Constructive leadership and the Mixture of Races: How the Rhetoric across groups: How leaders can combat Can you name and describe a scholar, of Fusion defined Spanish Decolonization in prejudice and conflict between subgroups” in mentor, or individual who had a powerful Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-Century Advances in Group Processes; “Revoking a influence on you and your work? Spain” in Empire’s End: Transnational I don’t have one particular scholar or mentor leader’s ‘license to fail’: Downgrading Connections in the Hispanic World by Akiko who had a powerful influence on my work and evaluations of prototypical in-group leaders Tsuchiya and William Acree (eds.). He spoke me. Instead, I have had a team of mentors, following an intergroup failure” in Journal of at “The Futures of History Conference” at scholars, and peers throughout the years and Applied Social Psychology with D.E. Rast III, the University of California, Los Angeles, on in the present who graciously decided to invest J.D. Hackett, and A. Alabastro; “You are a panel devoted to the changing job market their time, provide advice, and give a part of either for us or against us: When are for PhDs in history and the humanities. themselves in helping me succeed and influence ambivalent in-group members sanctioned?” Goode also gave a paper entitled “Spain’s my work. They all have taught me important les- in Social Influence with D.N. Somlo and W.D. Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis sons, but the most valuable was that of staying Crano; “Yes, we can: Physical activity and true to myself, especially with issues and topics Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, group identification among healthy adults” in I am passionate about. They often emphasized or the Wonderful Horrible Life of Otto Journal of Applied Social Psychology with F. that authenticity will keep me grounded. Skorzeny” at the Council of European Grant and Crano; “Motivating citizens to Studies Annual Conference in Philadelphia. Why did you choose to come to CGU? participate in public policy-making: Identifi- As an alumna of the joint doctoral program MICHAEL HOGG (Social cation, trust and cost-benefit analyses” in between CGU and San Diego State Universi- Science, Policy, and Evaluation) Journal of Social and Political Psychology with ty, I had a positive experience as a graduate was appointed associate editor M. Antonini, L. Mannetti, B. Barbieri, and student. As a professor, I now have a unique of the journal The Leadership J.A. Wagoner; “To belong or not to belong: opportunity to help guide dedicated doctoral Quarterly and senior editor for the Oxford Some self-conceptual and behavioral students to finish successfully in their program. Research Encyclopedia of Psychology – Social consequences of identity uncertainty” in I chose CGU not only for its excellent national Psychology. He also served as a member of the Revista de Psicología Social / International reputation, but also because of the committed Society for the Psychological Study of Social Journal of Social Psychology; “Social psycholo- faculty who truly care about students. I wanted Issues Otto Klineberg Intergroup Relations gy of group processes” with M. Matelski in to be part of that team of dedicated scholars. Award committee, a member of the Society The International Encyclopedia of the Social

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362314_Flame_Fall2016_r2.indd 32 11/28/16 10:38 AM and Behavioral Sciences by J.D. Wright (ed.); research award. The CMES software is the in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary “Social psychology of gangs: An intergroup first phase of an ICT4D research project that Journal. She gave two lectures at Plymouth communication perspective” with D.J. Woo, aims at building capacity for continuing Village in Redlands, Calif., on “Emily H. Giles, and L. Goldman in The Handbook of medical education for low-income countries. Dickinson, Her Life and Work,” and “Emily Gangs by S.H. Decker and D.C. Pyrooz (eds.); Li spent the 2016 spring break in Haiti on an Dickinson, ‘Forever is Composed of Nows.” “Vicarious hypocrisy: Bolstering attitudes on-going ICT4D project that helps develop She was also the moderator and panelist for and taking action after exposure to a computer literacy for young Haitians. Li “The Many Voices of Poetry” at the hypocritical in-group member” in Journal of published two journal articles: “A Snail Shell American Writing Programs Convention in Experimental Social Psychology with E.S. Process Model for Knowledge Discovery via Los Angeles, and a panelist for “Building Focella, J. Stone, N.C. Fernandez, and J. Data Analytics” in Decision Support Systems the Poetry Community – A Panel in Honor Cooper; “Reaching Across the DMZ: Identity and “Ontology-based data mining model of Wendy Martin, Director of the Tufts Uncertainty and Reunification on the Korean management for self-service knowledge Poetry Awards, 2010-2015” at CGU. She was Peninsula” in Political Psychology with J. Jung discovery” in Information Systems Frontiers. the chair of a panel on “Emily Dickinson and H.S. Choi; “Uncertainty and group and Others,” at the American Literature DAVID LUIS-BROWN (Arts identification: Moderation by warmth and Association Conference in San Francisco. and Humanities) published competence as cues to inclusion and identity Martin is founding editor of the jour- “The Transnational Imaginar- validation” in Self and Identity with J.A. nal Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary ies of Chicano/a Studies and Wagoner; “Social identity theory” in Under- Journal, which published issues 1-4 in Hemispheric Studies: Polycentric and standing peace and conflict through social volume 45 in spring 2016. As director of the Centrifugal Methodologies” in Bridges, identity theory: Contemporary global perspec- Arts Club at the University of California, Borders, Breaks: History, Narrative, & tives by S. McKeown, R. Haji, and N. Ferguson Berkeley, Martin organized and introduced Nation in Twenty-First century Chicana/o (eds.); and “Alliances, bridges and adversity – it three lectures. She also served as the Amer- Literary Criticism by Yolanda Padilla and has to be fun” with D. Abrams in Collaboration ican Studies MA Program evaluator during Bill Orchard (eds.). He also published a in psychological science: Behind the scenes by a Pepperdine University site visit. review of No God But Gain: The Untold R.L. Zweigenhaft and E. Borgida (eds.). Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe ANDREW MARX (Information HENRY KRIPPS (Arts and Doctrine, and the Making of the United Systems and Technology) Humanities), currently on States by Stephen Chambers in American published “Detecting Urban sabbatical, published “The too Literary History Online Reviews. Destruction in Syria: A realistic Cut: Overconformity Landsat-Based Approach” in Remote TOM LUSCHEI (Educational in Blue Velvet” in the collection Cinematic Sensing Applications: Society and Environ- Studies) served as a Fulbright Cuts edited by Sheila Kunkle and “Un- ment, and presented it at the annual specialist and visiting scholar speakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis American Associations of Geographers in at the Universidad de San of Culture” in the journal Psychoanalysis, San Francisco. He also published a Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Culture and Society. Kripps served as conference paper, “The Power of Social he taught a graduate-level course and gave president of the Los Angeles branch of the Media in Supporting Warehouse Location several invited talks. He published articles International Lacanian Forum, and as a Decisions for Online Retailers Using GIS,” in the Comparative Education Review (with board member for the Association for with current CGU students Husam Lahza Loris Fagioli), the Phi Delta Kappan (with Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He and Yaser Alhasawi in the Proceedings of Laura Vega), and the International Review was also a founding member of the central the 22nd Americas Conference on Informa- of Education. He also presented research at committee of a new association, LACK, tion Systems in San Diego. the annual meetings of the American which, under the auspices of the National Educational Research Association (with PATRICK MASON (Arts and Endowment for the Humanities, held its Charlina Gozali) and the Comparative and Humanities) published two inaugural conference at Colorado College International Education Society (with books, as editor of Directions in Colorado Springs, Colo. Michelle Soto-Peña). for Mormon Studies in the 21st YAN LI (Information Systems Century and co-editor of Out of Obscurity: WENDY MARTIN (Arts and and Technology), along with Mormonism since 1945. He also published the Humanities) published two CGU Center for Information book chapters “Ezra Taft Benson and books: American Women Systems and Technology Modern (Book of) Mormon Conservatism” in Writers, with CGU alumna students Sarbartha SJB Rana and Haoran Out of Obscurity; and “Violent and Nonviolent Sharone Williams, and The Gilded Age and Yu, spent a week in Nepal testing their Religious Militancy” in The Oxford Handbook Progressive Era, with Cecelia Tichi. She Continuing Medical Education on a Stick on Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. He also published a book review of “The Social (CMES) software during a trip supported by delivered public lectures in Seattle, Washing- Sex: A History of Female Friendship” by a CGU Fletcher Jones Foundation faculty ton; and Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah. He Marilyn Yalom and Teresa Donovan Brown

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was also featured or cited in media outlets and “Religion and Challenges of Globaliza- including the Wall Street Journal, The tion,” a plenary address at the International Guardian, the Associated Press, Salt Lake Conference on New Religions, Daejin Tribune, and KUER (Salt Lake City). Most University in the Republic of Korea. importantly, he and his wife welcomed a new DAVID PAGEL (Arts and baby daughter, Willa Hope Mason. Humanities) organized four ANSELM K. MIN (Arts and exhibitions: “Unfinished Humanities) published several Business: Paintings from the MEET THE FACULTY books and articles: Korean Reli- 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric NICOLE MORENO GATTO gions in Relation: Buddhism, Fischl, and David Salle” at the Parrish Art School of Community and Global Health Confucianism, Christianity, (ed.); “Toward a Museum in Water Mill, New York; “Some Education: PhD, Epidemiology, University Dialectical, Trinitarian Ontology of Americans,” “Some More,” and “Intricate of Southern California; MPH, University of Relation: Overcoming Abstract Formalism Designs” by CGU alumna Christine Salama California, Los Angeles in Theology and Philosophy” in Rationali- (MFA 2013) at CGU. He wrote two What is a good book you would recommend taet in Gespraech by Markus Muehling and monographs, on CGU alumnus Asad to someone who was considering a degree Martin Wendte (eds.); “A Relational Faulwell (MFA, 2008) and Robert in your field? Approach to the Study of Korean Religions” Zakanitch; and six catalog essays, on CGU Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill is a and “Between Tradition and Globalization: alumnus Justin Bowers (MFA 2010), classic, as is The Hot Zone by Richard Pres- Korean Christianity at a Crossroads,” both Antonio Adriano Puleo, Elizabeth Patter- ton. These are both books about infectious in Korean Religions in Relation: Buddhism, son, Hung Liu, Markus Linnenbrink, and disease, which is what people generally think Confucianism, Christianity by Min (ed.); Mark Dean Veca. Pagel also wrote the of when we say “epidemiology.” Other good “The Role of Religions in the Dialectic of foreword to an artist’s book by CGU alumna books that I would recommend are: Silent Public Space in Asia” in Interactive Trang Le (MFA, 2006); lectured in Hong Spring by Rachel Carson, an early documenta- Pluralism in Asia. Religious Life and Public Kong, Palm Springs, and Claremont; wrote tion of the environmental eŠects of pesticide Space by Simone Sinn and Tong Wing Sze 44 art reviews for the Los Angeles Times, use on human and animal health. Anything by (eds.); “Panikkar’s Radical Trinitarianism: and wrote the wall labels for seven new Oliver Sacks for brain-behavior relationships. Reflections on Panikkar’s Transformation works at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, which is a reminder about doing our best work of the Christian Trinity into Cosmothean- Texas, where the Dallas Cowboys play. drism” in CIRPIT Review; “Ricoeur’s in the time that we have to do it. QIDI PENG (Mathematical Critical Philosophy of History and Sciences) published “Estima- Drawing on some of your own experiences, Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness: tion of the pointwise Hölder what advice would you give CGU students that Some Hegelian Responses” in Hermeneutics you did not get when you were in grad school? exponent of hidden multifrac- and the Philosophy of Religion: The Legacy of I have to borrow from [Lake Wobegon Days tional Brownian motion using wavelet Paul Ricoeur by Ingolf Dalferth and author and A Prairie Home Companion cre- coefficients” and “A representation theorem Marlene Block (eds.); “Why Only an ator] Garrison Keillor here who advises, “Be for smooth Brownian martingales,” both Immutable God Can Love, Relate, and well, do good work, and keep in touch.” This with Sixian Jin and CGU Professor Henry Suffer,” in Christian Philosophy of Religion: speaks to my philosophy of taking care of our Schellhorn in Statistical Inference for Essays in Honor of Stephen T. Davis by Colin physical health as well as our mental health; Stochastic Processes. working hard and doing work that makes Ruloff (ed.); and “Complementary Roles of ALLON PERCUS (Mathematical a positive contribution; and being a good Religious Studies and Religious Traditions Sciences) was promoted to full person who others will want to hear from even in the Age of Globalization” in Studies in after your work together is done. Religion. Min also organized a national professor. He published “Faith, Hope, and Love Today” conference “Multiclass semi-supervised Why did you choose to come to CGU? at CGU with eight distinguished theolo- learning on graphs using Ginzburg-Landau I was immediately impressed by the collegial gians. He presented “Transcendence and functional minimization” in Advances in environment, which is important to me in my Intelligent Systems and Computing with C. career and which I believe supports productive Solidarity: Conditions of Faith, Hope, and Garcia-Cardona and A. Flenner and work. I have an opportunity here to continue to Love Today” at that conference. Min also “Partitioning networks with node attributes develop and grow a doctoral program in public presented two other papers: “The Challenge by compressing information flow” in health. I was also struck by the beauty of the of Peace and Unification on the Korean Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from campus with all of its trees, which provides an Peninsula and the Responses of Religions,” environment conducive to scholarship. Now a plenary address at the spring 2016 Data with L.M. Smith, L. Zhu, and K. that I am at CGU, I have been impressed by the meeting of the Korean Religious Studies Lerman. Percus also has two mathematics level of student engagement. Association, Sookmyung Women’s clinic contracts with Southern California University, Seoul in the Republic of Korea; Edison: Topological Optimization of

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362314_Flame_Fall2016_r2.indd 34 11/28/16 10:39 AM Reliability Volatility in Power Distribution “Accelerating leadership development Pre-Clearance in Indian Country” with Networks and Predicting and Minimizing building on theory, research and readi- Joey Torres and Andrea Walters at the Volatility in Power Outages. ness” with B.J. Avolio and “A longitudinal Policy History Conference at Vanderbilt study of leader identity: The predictive University. She traveled with seven LINDA PERKINS (Educational role of learning goal orientation” with politics and policy students (Robert Studies, Arts and Humanities) CGU Students E. Middleton and Walker at Saporito, David Edlefsen, Joseph Lake, was the co-sponsor and the Academy of Management (AOM) in Troy Mikanovich, Laura Brantley, Amy facilitator of the premier of the Anaheim, California; “Developing leaders Nantkes, and Kristen Almaraz) to Nevada documentary Black Women in Medicine, through evidence-based practice: and South Dakota to research registration held at the Music box Theater in Beverly Challenges and questions” at the AOM in and voting barriers that make it harder for Hills. She was elected to the History Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; “On Native Americans to vote. As part of a Council of the California African American purpose: Leader self-development” with Pew-funded project, Schroedel worked Museum in Los Angeles. Perkins was an Walker at the Western Academy of with CGU student Joe Dietrich to prepare invited speaker at the University of Nevada, Management in Portland, Oregon; and briefing books on states’ registration and Las Vegas. She is currently an advisory “Psychological capital for leader develop- voting laws, surveying more than 1,400 committee member for the Oxford/London ment: Antecedents and outcomes” with Native Americans. Symposia, and is a member of the Ms. CGU students T. Pitichat, A. Kea-Ed- Magazine Board of Scholars, Re:Gender TOM WILLETT (Social Science, wards, Middleton and S. Norman at the (formerly the National Council for Policy, and Evaluation) International Leadership Association in Research on Women), the selection published “Capital Flow Atlanta. This last presentation was committee for Dissertation Year, Postdoc- Surges as Bubbles: Behavioral awarded the Best Leadership Develop- toral Fellowships and Summer Fellowships Finance and McKinnon’s Over-borrowing ment Track submission. of the American Association of University Syndrome Extended” with CGU alumnus Women, and the selection committee for HENRY SCHELLHORN Levan Efrmidze and John Rutledge in Dissertation Year Fellowships for the (Mathematical Studies) Singapore Economic Review. He also American Educational Research Associa- published “Estimation of the published “Capital Surges and Credit tion. Perkins also published “Bound to Pointwise Holder Exponent of Booms: How Tight Is the Connection?” Them by Sorrow: African American Multifractional Brownian Motion Using with CGU alumna Puspa Amri and CGU Women, Higher Education and Collective Wavelet Coefficients” in Statistical student Greg Richey in Open Economies Advancement, in the Journal of African Inference for Stochastic Processes with Review. Willett organized two sessions on American History. She presented “The Sixian Jin and Qidi Peng; “A Representa- international finance at the annual Academy as Precious Space in an Age of tion Theorem for Expectations of Func- meetings of the Western Economics Adjuncts, Decreased Funding, Careerism, tionals of Brownian Motion” in Stochastics; Association in Portland, Oregon. He spoke and Social/Religious Tensions” at the and “Fractional Hida-Malliavin Deriva- in the Republic of Korea on the problem of National Women’s Studies Association in tives, and Series Representations of international capital flow surges and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, both as as Fractional Conditional Expectations” in reversals to a major international confer- moderator and discussant. Perkins was an Communications on Stochastic Analysis. ence on global financial stability organized invited book panel discussant on Geraldine by the Korean Ministry of Finance as part JEAN SCHROEDEL (Social Clifford’s Those Good Gertrudes: A Social of the preparation for the next meeting of Science, Policy, and Evaluation) History of Women Teachers at the History the Group of Twenty. Willett also present- co-authored with CGU of Education Society Conference in St. ed a paper on “Do Financial Crises alumna Ivy Cargile and Louis, Missouri. Discipline Future Credit Growth?” with Jennifer Merolla “Intersectionality and CGU alumni Eric Chiu and Amri and BECKY REICHARD (Social Latino/a Candidate Evaluations” in Latinas dissertation student Greg Richey at the Science, Policy, and Evaluation) in American Politics: Changing and annual meetings of the American Political published an edited volume, Embracing Political Tradition by Sharon Science Association in Philadelphia. Leader developmental Navarro, Samantha Hernandez, and Leslie readiness, in New Directions in Leadership Navarro (eds.). Schroedel made two HIDEKI YAMAWAKI (Drucker) Series. She co-authored two chapters: “In conference presentations: “Whose Lives was appointed as Global Guest pursuit: Mastering leadership through Matter: The Media’s Failure to Cover Police Professor at the Graduate leader developmental readiness” with CGU Use of Lethal Force Against Native School of Media and Gover- student D.O. Walker and “Context matters: Americans” with Roger Chin and Lily nance at Keio University SFC from April to Support for leader developmental readi- Rowen at the Western Social Science September 2016. He spent his sabbatical at ness” with S.E. Thompson. Reichard also Association meetings in Reno, Nevada; and Keio to work on his forthcoming book on made several conference presentations: “Political Conflicts Over Section 5 Design and Competitive Strategy.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 35 ALUMNI From the Director of Alumni Engagement

A TIME OF EXCITING CHANGES AND ADDED VALUE FOR OUR ALUMNI Rachel Jimenez A new academic year has started, and in 2017 there will be many additions to the Office of Reach out to Jake today at jake.campbell@cgu. Alumni Engagement to add value for you, our edu. Building a thriving alumni association that beloved CGU alumni. adds value to the CGU community well after First of all, I would like to formally introduce graduation is one of our most important goals. ERNIE ISEMINGER, our new vice president of To help us to achieve this, some of the new ad- Advancement. Having raised over $1 billion in ditions in 2017 include creating an alumni board his career so far, Ernie is a force to be reckoned with the assistance of dedicated, two-time alum- with. Ernie started as a vice president of advance- nus MUSTAFA MIRZA (MA, Government, 1979; ment at the young age of 35 and has feverishly MBA 1980), who will facilitate the mission of fundraised ever since. Just last year, he was the alumni association—and help us to increase honored on the list of “6 people to watch in 2015” alumni engagement. We will also launch a new by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. While Ernie is website, e-newsletter, and a mentoring program IMPORTANT: update your con- committed to raising money to further advance for both students and alumni to tap into the pow- tact information by going to Claremont Graduate University, what I admire erful network that exists at CGU. Finally, we will cgu.edu/alumniupdate most about him is his genuine care for people. facilitate powerful relationships with exclusive so that you will know all about Ernie and I will be partnering closely to create an events and unique experiences that you will not the new additions and alumni alumni community that will be one of your most find anywhere else. benefits as we launch them valuable professional resources. We want to put IMPORTANT: Update your contact during the year. Claremont Graduate University on the map. information by going to cgu.edu/alumniupdate Next, I would like to introduce myself as the so that you will know all about the new addi- new director of alumni engagement. Previously, tions and alumni benefits as we launch them I worked as the assistant director of alumni re- during the year. You will also want to mention lations for the Drucker School of Management, these changes at your alma mater to your fellow and I am happy to announce that my position alumni who may have lost touch with us. Please is being taken over by CGU alumna SHAHEEN keep us posted about your accomplishments by IN MEMORIAM PLUNIER (EMBA, 2016), who brings to her new sending an email to [email protected], and keep role an entrepreneurial background and a large us in mind when you meet with people who are Max Elder (Certificate in Advanced network in the creative industries that are sure interested in an advanced degree. Why? Because Management, 1985) to benefit the Drucker community. Shaheen can our greatest referral source has always been our be reached at [email protected]. alumni, and the strength of your degree lies in Russell Hubbard (MA, History, 1968; I would also like to introduce JAKE the hands of future classes. PhD, Education, 1972) CAMPBELL (MA, Politics and Policy, 2015), who It is time for you to get involved with the has recently been promoted to senior assistant alumni community! Please reach out to me

David E. Ingersoll director of admissions and veteran outreach. directly at [email protected] to join a (PhD, Government, 1964) As a second-generation alumnus, and a veteran committee, share ideas, and provide feedback Frederick Meeker himself, he brings his passion for veterans’ af- so that we can build an incredible future for (PhD, Psychology, 1972) fairs to his role, and he will work in partnership Claremont Graduate University. Rebecca Tomasini with Alumni Engagement to create program- I look forward to working with you. ming and value-added services for veteran and (MA, Teacher Education, 2004) Sincerely, non-veteran students. If you’re a member of the CGU veteran community and are passionate Rachel Jimenez about alumni affairs, we want you to re-connect, Director of Alumni Engagement provide feedback, and tell us your sea stories. Claremont Graduate University

p.36 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ASK AN ALUM LUIS G. GIRALDO (PhD, Education, 2016) shares his experiences and insights.

LUIS G. GIRALDO currently serves as Santa IT MUST HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO LEAVE Barbara City College’s director of equity, HOMEBOY TO FINISH YOUR DISSERTATION. diversity, and cultural competency. Prior to YOU MENTIONED MISSING THE DAILY MORNING MEETING, WHEN STAFF GATHERS this, our School of Educational Studies (SES) TO HEAR THE AGENDA, SHARE SUCCESSES, alumnus worked for nearly a decade at the Los AND PREVIEW UPCOMING EVENTS. Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, the largest Making that decision was difficult because I rehabilitation community serving ex-gang knew there was a lot that I was not going to be members and the formerly incarcerated. Giral- able to continue to do. [The morning meeting] do said his experiences at Homeboy included is a great way to start the day. Everything many roles and all were life changing, going that happens is amazing; the connection, Luis G. Giraldo far beyond the training and social services the revalidation of the work that we do. It’s the organization provides to clients seeking to checking in with individuals. It’s checking in reconnect to their true selves and heal from with ourselves—and I didn’t have that every “ WE CHANGE past trauma. He remains in contact with the morning. I’d wake up and have to write and nonprofit organization and continues to regard complete my dissertation. I really missed that, THE WAY WE former colleagues as friends and family. His and miss that to this day. But I also know that SEE PEOPLE, time at CGU was also illuminating. Informed we have to extend and grow in ways that—not by his experiences, Giraldo’s doctoral research to forget our community—but make us ask how AND WITH- examined the higher educational experiences of can I now be of service to our community from marginalized and disadvantaged populations, a different angle? No matter what, I am part of IN THAT, WE particularly focused on men and women who the Homeboy family. were previously incarcerated and/or were CHANGE THE WHAT WERE YOUR DOCTORAL involved in gangs. He won two SES honors, the STUDIES LIKE? WAY WE SEE Excellence in the Study of Higher Education The chair of my dissertation committee, Award in 2012 and the Winifred Hausam - OURSELVES.” Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, was really instrumental Helen Fisk Award in 2014. in this whole process. She really supported my CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR work. She told me that the research that I was TIME AT HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES doing really mattered, that it was changing FROM 2007 TO 2015? communities; that it was really affecting policy One of the key things that I learned here at and the way research was done. Her encour- Homeboy Industries is that this is a place agement and support gave me the momentum of healing, of family, of profound mutuality to complete my studies at CGU. I always tell where we all matter and share our life with people I’m grateful that I went to CGU and one another as we stand against demonizing made that decision because it was what I people and “otherizing” one another. We use needed. When other students tell me, ‘I’m the word “kinship” a lot; of being one with thinking about going into doctoral studies,’ the people. For me it encompasses all that, but it main thing I tell them is to do their research. also encompasses a way of life that includes Find a program that’s going to fit and works us to change the way we see one another in for you so you can be sure that when life gets this world. We change the way we see people, in the way and topples you down a little, you and within that, we change the way we see don’t fall apart. And CGU was that for me. ourselves, healing mutually and building It was what I needed at the time, and I’m lifelong community along the way. grateful for CGU.

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 37 FLAMES OF LOVE Hundreds of CGU alumni stoked their romance while students

Some things you don’t forget. Like the day WHILE THE DATA ISN’T you’re using lab space at Pitzer College and your wife—who’s in grad school with you—pops PERFECT, WE CAN COUNT over between classes and says, “Guess what? I’m pregnant!” Or when you’re the student 628 PEOPLE RIGHT NOW body president of the Drucker School Student WHO ARE MARRIED TO Association, and you end up marrying your vice president. These things happen, and at CGU, it A FELLOW CGUer, seems they happen more than you think. While the data isn’t perfect, we can count 628 people WHICH EQUALS 314 right now who are married to a fellow CGUer, COUPLES ON RECORD. which equals 314 couples on record. Some start- ed out as friends in classes, while others were dating before moving together to Claremont. Drucker School Student Association—she as But either way, their love was stoked—at least to president, he as vice president. some degree—by being mutual Flames. Their mutual enrollment at Drucker meant “a lot” of group projects and overlapping classes in the Burkle Family Building. They worked well together, she says, and they were Sarah Braun and Edward Tsai f it wasn’t for the Drucker School, I met as Drucker School classmates wouldn’t have met my husband, who best friends. And then somewhat suddenly, in 2007, and got married seven “II love so much, and who makes me things turned romantic. And Braun—you can years later. who I am,” attorney and alumna Sarah Braun definitely hear her blushing—remembers the (Photo courtesy of Sarah Braun) (MBA, 2009) says of her marriage to fellow moment it did. “I was so confused, being my alumnus Edward Tsai (MBA, 2009). Braun, typical self,” she says with a laugh. “I was a decorated student even as an undergrad at worried it would ruin our friendship, which I Barnard College, was the first graduate of really valued.” Their first serious discussion Drucker’s joint Juris Doctor/MBA program about the relationship happened just blocks with Southwestern Law School. During her from campus, over coffee at café Le Pain second year at CGU, she was named Student of Quotidien. the Year, and in 2012, she graduated cum laude When asked how dating affected the rest from Southwestern. of their time at CGU, Braun says Tsai provided But let’s rewind to that first glimpse of Tsai, a lot of support. They were both involved her future husband. Because it starts at the ear- on campus, “extremely social,” and driven. liest point in their CGU education: 2007 student Still, she says, “I specifically made sure I was orientation. Braun, then 25, had been living in working with different people . . . We both Argentina and was already in a relationship. wanted to wait and finish more grad school And Tsai, who was 26 and living in San Fran- before we settled down.” cisco, was dating someone, too. They chatted She pauses. “The words ‘settle down’ are still casually at orientation—no sparks, just friendly scary to me,” Braun adds, gently laughing again. banter. “Never in my life did I think he’d be the Braun and Tsai waited seven years after one I would marry,” is how Braun classifies meeting at CGU to marry in 2014. Tsai went on their initial encounter. A semester later though, to earn a second master’s degree with honors things were moving in a different direction. from UCLA’s School of Public Health, and is Both of their long-distance relationships were now the director of strategy for the Center for over, and together they were co-leading the Personalized Medicine at Children’s Hospital,

p.38 CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Los Angeles. After passing the California Bar Prull packed his bags and asked his sweet- and working with a law firm in Los Angeles heart to follow him to Claremont. They rented for a couple of years, Braun now works as a an apartment off campus, and by his second business development and coaching consultant year at CGU, Hopkins, too, had been accepted for other lawyers. She also joined the Drucker to continue her own studies in education. School Board of Advisors, and is a champion of While bumping into your love on campus the joint program with Southwestern. might test a relationship in certain, delicate And while each has launched their own ways, it also clearly can enrich it. “I don’t successful career, their marriage was rooted know if attending CGU together made our at CGU, which means a shared love for each relationship stronger,” Prull says. “But gradu- other and their alma mater. ate school definitely gave us structure, and it “We always joke about how we met, more than filled our days. Many days, we were because there are so many things I’d thought both doing our own thing, and then we’d come of doing,” Braun says. “Drucker was kind of back together in the evenings and compare a last-minute decision.” As for leading the notes. So I suppose graduate school did bring student body together, she says Tsai still teases us closer by making our conversations more her. “Ed says nothing has changed since I was interesting.” the president, and he was the VP. He says, Between classes, they ate at the café now ‘You’re the boss—I still report to you.’ ” known as Hagelbarger’s, and sat in the nearby Williams S. Rosecrans Memorial Court. In 1994, a year after Prull earned his master’s he story of Matthew Prull (MA, Psy- degree, he and Hopkins married in the Mar- chology, 1993; PhD, Psychology, 1997), garet Fowler Garden at neighboring Scripps Ta professor of psychology at Whitman College. Prull then stayed on at CGU for his College, and elementary school teacher Vanessa doctoral degree, and the closer he got to his Hopkins, presents the same happy ending, dissertation, the more time he spent working but its beginning actually precedes CGU. in a lab at Pitzer College, just a quick walk The two were undergrads at San Jose State east of campus. On one of those days, Hopkins University when they started dating in 1990. stopped by. She was pregnant, she said. Emily A year later, Prull was accepted into CGU’s was born in 1996; Rachel followed in 2001. cognitive psychology program out of what is Technically, Vanessa Prull isn’t a CGU Matthew Prull and Vanessa Hopkins now known as the Division of Behavioral and grad. When Prull was offered a post-doctoral started dating in 1990, prior to Organizational Sciences (DBOS). His research scholar role at Stanford University, she put coming to CGU, but the relationship interests in memory were piqued by the her master’s on hold—and then again, after continued to thrive here as Matthew work that CGU psychology Professor Kathy the birth of her girls. She’s since finished her pursued psychology degrees and Pezdek—a cognitive psychologist specializing degree elsewhere, but Prull says she considers Vanessa continued her studies in the study of eyewitness memory—was doing herself a CGU alumna, through and through. in education. in that area. Like Sarah and Ed, Matthew and Vanessa’s (Photo courtesy of Matthew Prull) And then there was CGU’s irresistible shared education became synonymous with atmosphere during a campus tour, right their love story. down—he says—to the “natural and casual “We both had great experiences,” Prull interactions between students and faculty. I says. “Challenging, but great. Graduate School thought the whole environment was highly provided an excellent foundation for both of conducive to learning, and I felt very comfort- our careers. If I could do it over again, I would able there. Those were big draws for me.” do so in a heartbeat.”

THE FLAME | FALL 2016 P. 39 ALUMNOTES

MAX BENAVIDEZ (PhD, on monetary policy to assist the Reserve by the California Hispanic Chambers of Education, 2011) has received a Bank of India. Commerce. The first Latina to reach an executive level at the utility, Orozco-Mejia Fulbright grant to study KYLA HANSEN (MFA, 2012) has joined the vi- was recognized for being one of the higher education in France. sual and performing arts division of Glendale highest-ranking Latinas at a Fortune He also joined CGU as associate vice Community College, where she is teaching 500 company. president of strategic communications. 3-D design and sculpture fundamentals. TARA PRESCOTT (PhD, YVONNE BERUMEN (MA, DEBORAH L. HARRINGTON English, 2010), a volunteer Education, 2005) has been (MBA, 1997), who formerly exhibit diver at Long Beach’s named vice president for admis- served as chief operating Aquarium of the Pacific and a sion and financial aid at Pitzer officer/senior vice president lecturer in writing programs and faculty in College. She is 1997 alumna of that college. and director, business development for residence at the University of California, HANS BRATTSKAR (PhD, Janes Capital Partners, has joined Los Angeles (UCLA), presented “Hike International Relations, 1987) Newport Beach-based First Bank’s Wealth Your Own Hike,” a TEDx talk organized by left his position as Norway’s Management Group as vice president and UCLA earlier this year. deputy minister of foreign wealth advisor. ERIC RETZLAFF (MA, affairs last fall to take on a new ambassa- SHAYDA KAFAI (PhD, Cultural Executive Management, 1994), dorship and is spending the current Studies, 2014), a professor in the who previously served as academic year as a special adviser to the Ethnic Studies Department at managing director of United Nations Development Programme California State Polytechnic RightSource Distributors, has joined on Sustainable Development, Climate and University, Pomona, presented “The Shopoff Realty Investments as senior vice Indigenous Peoples Issues. He is a senior Language of Madness,” a TEDx talk president and national sales manager. fellow at New York University and holds a organized by that university earlier this year. similar position at Harvard University. FERNANDO RODRÍGUEZ-VALLS HILARY LACONTE (MA, (MA, Teacher Education, 2003; JOHN BRUNS (MBA, 1991), Education, 1989), a three-term PhD, Education, 2007), associate who directed sales and member of the Claremont professor at the College of operations in Asia for Boeing Unified School District Board Education at California State University, for many years, has been of Education, has been named 2016 Fullerton, co-published “Developing named president of Boeing China. Alumna of the Year by CGU’s Teacher Teaching-Specific Spanish Competencies in TAWNI CRANZ (EMBA, 2011), Education Program. Bilingual Teacher Education: Toward a Cultur- chief talent officer for Netflix, THOMAS MANLEY (MA, Asian ally, Linguistically, and Professionally Relevant has been named as one of this Studies, 1979; PhD, Education, Approach” in Multicultural Perspectives. year’s Class of 2016 Influential 2002), who previously served DEVON TSUNO (MFA, 2005), Leaders by the Association to Advance as a Pitzer College professor assistant professor of art and Collegiate Schools of Business. and as president of Pacific Northwest design at California State ELIZABETH GAHAN (MFA, College of Art, has been selected to serve University, Dominguez Hills, 2008) was the featured artist at as president of Antioch College in Yellow opened his exhibit Los Angeles River at Santa Edmonds, Washington-based Springs, Ohio. Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery. Zinc Art + Object this fall with MICHELLE MARTÍNEZ (MA, English, 2011) FRANCISCO J. VALLE (PhD, her exhibit BOOM: from wonder to whiplash. is currently a PhD student at the Universi- Management, 2015), president of LINA GERIGUIS (PhD, English, ty of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and new Valle Consulting, delivered the 2011) has been awarded this media editor at American Literary History. presentation “Using Big Data year’s Edith Wharton Society PATRICK MONROE (EMBA, and Language Services to Leverage U.S. Prize for A Beginning Scholar 2005), president of the Rose Multi-Cultural Demographic Changes” at the for her essay “‘Rich in Pathological Hills Company, has joined the Connect. Communicate. Care. On Demand Instances: Disability in the Early Reception board of directors of Whitti- Health: The New Medicine symposium held Theory of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome.” er-based PIH Health. earlier this year in Las Vegas. CHETAN GHATE (PhD, GINA OROZCO-MEJIA LEON WOOD, JR. (PhD, Economics, 1999) was profiled (EMBA, 2013), vice president of Education, 2012) received the in the Indian business news gas operations for Southern 2016 Religious Leader Award publication Mint for serving California Gas Company, has by the South Coast Interfaith as part of a five-member expert committee been honored as a Latina Corporate Pillar Council in March.

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THE ROUTLEDGE departure for America. In the process of years since its establishment in 1961, the Los INTRODUCTION TO recalling his long journey to freedom in the Angeles County Museum of Art on Wilshire AMERICAN WOMEN middle of the twentieth century, Jurison has given the Southland a cultural identity WRITERS gives us, says historian Toomas Hiio in an as home to the western United States’ Routledge advance review, “a gripping account of Eu- largest museum of art. Former Los Angeles Wendy Martin and ropean history of the 1930-40s through the Times writer Muchnic traces LACMA’s Sharone Williams prism of a young man’s life experience.” origins and incredible growth, drawing on (PhD, English, 2013) her reportorial chops and plenty of archival research and interviews. The museum’s CGU Professor Martin and alumna Williams rise has been built upon a glittering list of have produced a powerful challenge to the KNOWING, SEEING, patrons and the equally glittering works perspective that American literary tradi- BEING: JONATHAN they’ve added to LACMA’s collections. tion, with some exceptions, has been largely EDWARDS, EMILY Such growth seems hardly at an end for created by men. Most people, the authors DICKINSON, the museum, which is why Muchnic wisely write, easily recall the names of Hemingway, MARIANNE MOORE, includes the words “so far” in the title of Melville, Twain, and Steinbeck as great AND THE AMERICAN this important chronicle of cultural history. American writers, but it’s a struggle to come TYPOLOGICAL up with a similar list of women. Why? Some TRADITION mention Edith Wharton or Emily Dickinson, but “a shockingly low number of the people University of Massachusetts Press ALDOUS HUXLEY’S we’ve surveyed informally,” Martin and Wil- Jennifer L. Leader (PhD, English, 2003) HANDS: HIS QUEST FOR PERCEPTION liams add, “ … have heard of Nobel laureate The names Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry AND THE ORIGIN Toni Morrison….” But as this expansive, es- David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and others AND RETURN OF sential survey reminds us, American women are forever linked in American literary PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE “have been writing and sharing their writing history, and Leader offers us another group Prometheus Books with others in significant numbers for nearly also linked though less well-known. In Allene Symons four hundred years.” her fascinating new book, she traces the (MA, Religion, 1970) through line connecting fiery Protestant preacher Jonathan Edwards with poets For Symons, the preeminent English Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore. For philosopher and Brave New World author Leader, this trio represents another tradition will always be “Aldous.” She has good reason THE LAST TRAIN in American literature. In her close readings for being on a first-name basis with Huxley; FROM ESTONIA: of their work, each figure emerges in fresh, as she tells us in this book—a deft blending of A MEMOIR unexpected light. Her interpretations of memoir with literary sleuthing—her father Kumi Press Edwards, Dickinson, and Moore defy the was a friend of Huxley’s and belonged to Jaak Jurison (EMBA, caricatures that have clung to them—in the “weekly salons at the Huxleys’ home in 1983; PhD, Executive Edwards’ case, for example, Leader gives Hollywood” that involved “séances and age- Management, 1986) us not the terrifying messenger of divine regression hypnosis” and much more. Her World War II turned generations of chil- punishment, but a caring, socially conscious father’s “hand project”—he photographed dren into mythic heroes—displaced from thinker whose views resonate in the later hundreds of human hands in the hope their homes and families, forced to make luminous works of Dickinson and Moore. of using them to develop a science of epic journeys into the unknown to save predicting mental health—attracted Huxley, their lives. That happened to Jurison, who and the two became friends. The genesis of tells the story of how, as a young boy, his LACMA SO FAR: Symons’ book was her discovery of a photo life changed forever after the Soviet Army’s PORTRAIT OF A of Huxley’s hands in the materials left occupation of Estonia in 1940. A professor MUSEUM IN THE behind after her father’s death; that photo emeritus of Fordham University, Jurison MAKING propelled Symons on an intriguing journey recounts the loss of his father to a Siberian Huntington Library Press that weaves together Huxley’s years in prison, his heartbreaking struggle to keep Suzanne Muchnic Los Angeles, the unlikely connections alive amidst the clash of the armies of Hit- (Suzanne Ely) (MFA 1963) he made with her father, and the work ler and Stalin, his experience of exile and Huxley did as a pioneering experimenter in Who says Southern California is the land displaced persons camps, and his eventual consciousness. only of movie stars and palm trees? In the

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an inclusive, welcoming space to all seven Adriana di Bartolo served campuses. di Bartolo’s accomplishments Claremont students as a include implementing LGBTQ ally trainings for faculty, staff, and students across all seven social justice educator campuses; ensuring that resident advisors, mentors, proctors, and others who interact and leader with first-year students receive gender and sexuality training as well as ally training; and developing plans for each campus on School of Educational Studies (SES) alumni how to serve and support students who Adriana di Bartolo, who distinguished are transitioning from one gender identity herself as a social justice educator and leader to another. across The Claremont Colleges, is now Vassar di Bartolo became the QRC’s coordinator in College’s dean of students. 2009 before becoming its director in 2011. She di Bartolo (MA, Applied Women’s Studies, took on the role of associate dean of students 2008; PhD, Education, 2013) previously served for wellness and personal success at Pomona as director of the Queer Resource Center College in January 2016, having served as (QRC) of The Claremont Colleges and Gender interim associate dean of students in spring and Sexuality Resources. In spring 2016, 2015. Last year, she assumed responsibility “The best and brightest and she held the role of acting associate dean of for Gender and Sexuality Resources, which most amazing people have students for wellness and personal success for includes Pomona College’s Women’s Union and gone through CGU,” said Pomona College. Wellness Room. Adriana di Bartolo. “I felt like She led efforts to develop the QRC from She praised classmates and CGU faculty I was surrounded by greatness a space solely serving Pomona College to its members, including Professors Linda Perkins, every day.” (Photo courtesy of Adriana di Bartolo) current status as a comprehensive center David Drew, and Will Perez; then-SES Dean serving all seven institutions, including CGU. Scott Thomas; Daryl Smith and Lourdes “This center did not exist as it does today Arguelles, who have retired since di Bartolo when I first started, and I think that is a huge graduated; and Margaret Grogan, who left success,” she said. “I didn’t do it alone. I had CGU in 2015 to serve as a dean and professor the opportunity to spearhead it, but so many at Chapman University. students, faculty, and staff were involved. To “The best and brightest and most amazing build a center that serves seven campuses— people have gone through CGU,” she said. very distinct campuses—that’s huge! We are “I felt like I was surrounded by greatness the only center in the country that serves in every day.” this capacity.” The QRC serves lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and allied communities, as well as others who face marginalization based on their gender and sexual identity. The center provides support, advocacy, resources, leadership development, and

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