Faculty
Leaders in Research and Education
The faculty members within the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences are the heart of our College and the departments within it. Our faculty make up an energetic and passionate community, a critical mass of engaged teachers and scholars who believe that UC Riverside and CHASS are the place to be.
About Our Faculty
Learn more about the people who make up UCR’s faculty and learn what drives them to be members of this diverse, supportive intellectual community.
- Check out profiles of some of the faculty members who call CHASS home.
- Our faculty members say what they think makes CHASS a great college.
- CHASS Faculty release dozens of books a year that detail their research in diverse areas. View a list of CHASS faculty books.
- CHASS Faculty Awards and Fellowships: AAU Status, Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Awards, Honors and Prizes.
- CHASS Faculty Elected Fellows and Honorary Degrees.
The CHASS Mentoring Program
The CHASS Mentoring Program pairs junior faculty members with their senior peers, helping newcomers acclimate to life at UCR
The Patricia McSweeny McCauley Chair in Teaching Excellence
Encouraging research on excellence in teaching, the McCauley Chair holder receives a $5,000 stipend and gives an annual lecture on aspects of teaching and presents the CHASS Seminar for freshmen and sophomores.
- Search our Faculty Directory
- UCR Academic Calendar
- UCR General Catalog
- Schedule of Classes
- CHASS Intranet
- Website Development and Maintenance
The CHASS Employment page lists all full-time and lecturer positions available in the college. UCR Office of Academic Personnel oversees the hiring of faculty. Job postings can be found on the respective department’s Web sites as well as on the Southern California Higher Education Research Consortium (SoCalHERC) Web site.
Scenes from a Classroom
Scenes from a Classroom allows you to have a brief but intimate look at a class being offered by a department within CHASS, then to go behind the scenes with the instructor and learn what drives the instructor and motivates the students.
Featured instructors include Roger Ransom of history, Peter Graham of philosophy, Juan Felipe Hererra of creative writing and Wendy Rogers of dance.
Scenes from a Classroom
Meet some of the best and brightest students who have studied within CHASS with Minds Alive.
These students capture the essence of the student body at UCR: ambitious, committed and curious individuals who took chances and aspire to achieve at a high academic level.
