CMC Faculty Affiliates
Heather Antecol, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Antecol is the Director of the Berger Institute and the Boswell Associate Professor of Economics. She has published papers on various aspects of labor economics, including youth outcomes, immigration, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the U.S. military and federal government. Recent work includes the decision to “opt-out” of the labor market and elder care.
William Ascher, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Ascher is Donald C. McKenna Prof. of Government and Economics with interests in public policy and political science. He is working on a report for the UN Research Institute for Social Development on the record of Indonesia in channeling resource wealth into such social programs as health care and education. He is also working on a series of articles about the policy failures in the Philippines to provide food security and nutrition to low-income families.
Audrey Bilger, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Bilger is Associate Prof. of Literature who focuses on 18th-Century Humor & Satire and Early Women Writers.
David Bjerk, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Bjerk is Assistant Prof. of Economics. His research focuses on crime and the criminal justice system, as well as issues of race and gender in the labor market
Lisa Cody, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Cody is a cultural historian of Britain and France with a research focus on gender, family, medicine and the professions in 18th-century Britain. She is particularly interested in how women have combined their identities as family members with larger aspirations in a period and place in which few women were able to have "professional" identities.
Diane Halpern, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Halpern is Prof. of Psychology with interests in research on work and family. Recent work includes studies of the effects of California’s paid leave insurance, how flexible work policies affect stress and health, and a school-to-work project for low-performing high school students.
Wei-Chin Hwang, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Hwang is Assistant Prof. of Psychology at CMC and is interested in acculturation and family issues.
Tomoe Kanaya, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Kanaya is a developmental psychologist with interest in educational and social policy oriented research. She is currently working on a research project examining story-telling memory in bilingual and monolingual children. The purpose of this study is to determine if the relationship between mothers' narration style and children memory development is the same for bilingual children (who experience delays in language development during early childhood) compared to monolingual children. Findings from this research will have immediate implications for bilingual educational policies.
Amy Kind, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Kind is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy.
Nita Kumar, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Kumar is in the history department and studies families and education in India.
Frederick R. Lynch, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Lynch is in the government department and specializes in workforce diversity management, organization of health care, inequality and public policy, political and social movements, juvenile delinquency and public policy.
Serkan Ozbeklik, Ph.D.
Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Ozbeklik is Assistant Prof. of Economics with interest in labor economic and applied econometrics.
CMC Faculty Summer Grants
The Berger Institute faculty summer research grants support and encourage faculty summer research on projects related to issues of work and family. Berger Institute faculty summer research grants will include a limited number of awards in the amount of $4,000 each with additional funding for student research assistants of $3,000 each. Student research assistants should be employed in meaningful and valuable roles in the research agenda.
The awarded faculty members are required to provide a short report of their summer scholarly activities at the beginning of the fall semester, submit a 500-1000 word article of their summer scholarly activity to be published in the Berger Institute Newsletter in the spring semester (the newsletter article may be written by the faculty fellow or in collaboration with the student research assistant), and the completed research paper will also become a part of the Berger Institute Working Paper series posted on the Berger Institute website.
