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The Claremont Colleges are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States. They comprise five undergraduate colleges —Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI). All the members except KGI have adjoining campuses, together covering roughly 1 sq mi (2.6 km2).
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions.
Pitzer College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was founded in 1963 and is part of the Claremont Colleges. The college has a curricular emphasis on the social sciences, behavioral sciences, international programs, and media studies. Pitzer is known for its social justice culture and experimental pedagogical approach.
California State Polytechnic University Pomona, is a public polytechnic university in Pomona, California. It is the largest of the three polytechnic universities in the California State University system.
Alice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies, at the University of Southern California.
Susan O'Neal Stryker is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. She is a professor of Gender and Women's Studies, former director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona, and is currently on leave while holding an appointment as Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College. Stryker serves on the Advisory Council of METI and the Advisory Board of the Digital Transgender Archive. Stryker, who is a transgender woman, is the author of several books about LGBT history and culture. She is a leading scholar of transgender history.
Cecilia Ann Conrad is the CEO of Lever for Change, emeritus professor of economics at Pomona College, and a senior advisor to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She formerly served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Pomona College and previously oversaw the foundation's MacArthur Fellows and 100&Change programs as managing director. She holds a B.A. Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Her research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status.
Ami Elizabeth Radunskaya is an American mathematician and musician. She is a professor of mathematics at Pomona College, where she specializes in dynamical systems and the applications of mathematics to medicine, such as the use of cellular automata to model drug delivery. In 2016 she was elected as the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
Gina Gabrielle Starr is an American literary scholar, neuroscientist, and academic administrator who is the 10th president of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She is known for her work on 18th-century British literature and the neuroscience of aesthetics. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NSF ADVANCE award, and a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. From 2000 to 2017, she was on the faculty at New York University. In 2017, she became the first woman and first African-American president of Pomona College. Starr was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
The Pomona–Pitzer Sagehens are the joint varsity intercollegiate athletic programs for Pomona College and Pitzer College, two of the Claremont Colleges. It competes with 11 women's and 10 men's teams in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) of the NCAA Division III.
Eleanor P. Brown is an American economist. She is the James Irvine Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is a co-editor of the academic journal Review of Economics of the Household.
Janice A. Hudgings is an American physicist and educator whose research interests include optics and semiconductor devices. She is the Seeley W. Mudd Professor of Physics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Valorie D. Thomas is an American Africana studies scholar, consultant, and screenwriter. She was the Phebe Estelle Spalding Professor of English and Africana Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Marjorie L. Harth is an American art historian whose research interests include 19th-century French art and museum studies. She is an emeritus art history professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and was the director of the Pomona College Museum of Art from 1981 to 2004.
Jean Brosius Walton was an American academic administrator and women's studies scholar. She spent the bulk of her career at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Cherene Sherrard Johnson is an American scholar, whose research focuses on the representation of Black women in American literature and visual culture from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. She is the E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Erin M. Runions is an American religious studies scholar whose research focuses on the influence of the Bible on contemporary culture and politics. She is the Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature at Pomona College in Claremont, California., succeeding the late J. William Whedbee
Rachel N. Levin is an American neurobiologist and ornithologist who studies animal sexual behavior. She is the William A. Hilton Professor of Zoology at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Thomas A. Moore is an American theoretical astrophysicist. He is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Professor of Mathematics and Natural Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of the textbooks Six Ideas that Shaped Physics (2002) and A General Relativity Workbook (2009).
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