Faculty Accolades

Nicholas Buccola

Professor of Government Nicholas Buccola, also the Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism & Ethics at CMC, published One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal (Princeton University Press, 2025). The book examines the clash between Arizona Senator and former GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and civil rights trailblazer Martin Luther King Jr. on the meaning of freedom, how their opposing viewpoints still divide American politics, and what lessons can be learned from their lives and mutual antagonism. Buccola spoke about his book at CMC’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on October 7, 2025. In addition, The New York Times included One Man’s Freedom in a list of books that “explore the promises and pitfalls of the U.S. economy.”

Henri Cole

Henri Cole, the Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Literature, published a poetry collection, “The Other Love,” which was named to the National Book Critics Circle’s 2025 Longlist for Poetry. In addition, an essay that Cole published in The Paris Review was named as one of 2025’s best by Longreads.

In October, Cole appeared as a guest on The New Yorker’s Poetry Podcast, hosted by Kevin Young, the magazine’s poetry editor. He read “Vita Nova,” by Louise Glück, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and his own poem “Figs,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2022 and in A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker, 1925-2025 in 2025.  

Gabriel Cook

Gabriel Cook, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, earned a grant from the Mental Research Institute. With grant funding, Cook will explore the intersection of transactional memory and prospective memory within married couples, investigating how partners share and manage delayed intentions in daily life.

Mark Costanzo

Mark Costanzo, Professor of Psychological Science, published the fifth edition of Forensic and Legal Psychology (Macmillan Learning, pub.), co-authored with Daniel Krauss, Crown Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow. 

Wendy de los Reyes

Wendy de los Reyes, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science and Director of the AMPLIFY Lab (Advocacy, Mentorship, and Participatory research with Latine Immigrant Families and Youth) published two articles. The first, “Building Young Civic Leaders: How CLTI (Children’s Leadership Training Institute) Empowers Children to Change Their Communities,” was published by the NYU Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation and explores the key approaches that CLTI employs to nurture civic-minded children. The second, “Anti-racist methodological approaches to ethnic-racial identity (ERI) and critical consciousness (CC) scholarship,” was developed with multiple collaborators and published in the Journal of School Psychology. de los Reyes and collaborators examine past and modern methodologies in ERI and CC work, how they are and may be theoretically founded, and how to best advance anti-racist research methodologies. 

Jennifer Feitosa

Jennifer Feitosa, Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Director of METRICS Lab, recently published an article, “Adapt, endure, succeed: profiling extreme teams” in Team Performance Management. Feitosa and her research colleagues examined the internal dynamics of extreme teams (e.g., firefighters, space explorers, surgical teams), identified key team configurations, and explored methodological insights for studying such teams, out of which three profiles emerged—agile experts, cohesive mainstays, and structured flex crews—providing guidance for future researchers and practitioners working with extreme teams and a clearer understanding how they function and function best.

Rachel Fenning

Under the leadership of Rachel Fenning, Professor of Psychological Science and Director of the Claremont Autism Center, the Center has been granted official status as a regional center vendor for social-skills services for clients ages 6-21. “This is a huge milestone for us and will enhance our ability to support children and families in our local community,” Fenning said. The Claremont Autism Center (CAC) is a clinical, research, and training program dedicated to promoting well-being in autistic individuals and their families. CMC students engage in clinical training and experiential learning through the CAC, with opportunities to work with clients, conduct research, and publish and present academic papers. 

Chiu-Yen Kao

Chiu-Yen Kao, Keck Foundation Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science, received a new research grant from the National Science Foundation’s Computational Mathematics Program to develop and analyze new computational methods for solving extremal eigenvalue problems.

Daniel Krauss

Published within a few weeks of each other, Daniel Krauss, Crown Professor of Psychology and George R. Roberts Fellow, has co-authored two new books and a journal article. The first, Forensic and Legal Psychology, fifth edition (Macmillan Learning, pub.), was co-authored with Mark Costanzo, CMC Professor of Psychological Science. Next, published by Oxford University Press, Krauss co-authored Forensic Mental Health Practice and the Law: A Primer for Clinicians, Researchers, and Consultants. Finally, Krauss’s co-authored article, “Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary,” was published in the journal American Psychologist.

James Kreines

James Kreines, the Edward S. Gould Professor of Philosophy published Hegel and Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Part of the Elements in the Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel series, Hegel and Spinoza examines Hegel’s engagement with Spinoza’s metaphysics in three parts: employs Hegel’s reading to highlight the strengths of Spinoza’s metaphysical monism; defends Hegel’s critique that Spinoza’s system ultimately dissolves all finitude into an undifferentiated abyss; and applies these insights to interpret Hegel’s Logic, clarifying how its ambitious claims rest on explanatory reasons rather than mere assumption unpacking.