Aseema Sinha

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

Aseema Sinha, Wagener Family Professor of Comparative Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow, published a chapter in the book, International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics,edited by T. V. Paul, Anders Wivel, and Kai He (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Chiu-Yen Kao

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

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.

Gabriel Cook

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

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.

Nicholas Buccola

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

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.

Tamara Venit-Shelton

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

Tamara Venit-Shelton, Professor of History, published the book, 1905: Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show on the Prairie des Filtres (Éditions Midi-Pyrénéennes,2025)co-authored with American-studies specialist Emmanuelle Perez-Tisserant. The book recounts the famous American cowboy’s venture through Toulouse, France, along with his troupe of 800 men and women, many of them Native Americans, and their influence on the city’s culture and heritage. 

Steven Zhou

Malia.Whitenack@ClaremontMcKenna.edu

Steven Zhou, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, received multiple awards for his dissertation on shared leadership using computational modeling. For his outstanding contribution to the field of leadership, Zhou was honored with the 2025 Alvah H. Chapman Jr.