Patricia Easton
Professor of Humanities
Research Interests: Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, History of Science
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 312 – Transdisciplinary Inquiry
TNDY 313 – Leadership Through Crisis
Marcus Weakley
Director, Center for Writing & Rhetoric
Clinical Assistant Professor, Transdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: Philosophy, Rhetoric, Writing (grant, journal, scientific)
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 303 – Rhetoric and Reasoning Across the Disciplines
TNDY 304 – Traversing the Transdisciplinary Imagination
TNDY 408Q – Grant Writing Across the Disciplines
Robert Klitgaard
University Professor
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, Economic Strategy, Institutional Reform, Corruption
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 331 – GenAI for Graduate Success
TNDY 409D – AI for Humanity: Technology, Ethics, and Society (with Itamar Shabtai)
TNDY 404O – Collaboration Across the Public-Private Divide
Bob’s latest, “Robert Klitgaard and ChatGPT”: Graduate School Meets Generative AI
Heather E. Campbell
Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy
Director, Division of Politics & Economics
Research Interests: Public Policy, Urban Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice
Course (Re)Design Institute, Transdisciplinary Studies Grant Recipient, 2025 – 2026
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 407V – Urban Studies
Kevin Wolfe
Assistant Professor of Religion
Horton Chair of Religion and Africana Studies
Research Interests: Religion and Critical Thought; Critical Philosophy of Race; Africana Religious and Political Thought; Religion, Ethics, and Politics; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion
Course (Re)Design Institute, Transdisciplinary Studies Grant Recipient, 2025 – 2026
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 408R – Religion and the Post-Colonial Imagination
TNDY 408D – Hip Hop, Reggae, and Religion: Music and the Religio-Political Imagination of the Black Atlantic
M. Gloria González-Morales
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for Academic & Faculty Excellence
Research Interests: Work Stress; Work-Life Issues; Workplace Victimization and Incivility; Relational Practices and Cultures; Diversity; Positive Organizational Interventions to Enhance Well-Being and Performance
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 330 – Team Leadership and Diversity
TNDY 440 – Inclusive Excellence
TNDY 408K – Over the Rainbow in Practice
Joshua Goode
Professor of Cultural Studies and History
Chair, History Department
Research Interests: Modern Spain, 19th- and 20th-century Europe, Genocide and Racial Thought, Museums and Commemoration, Memory
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 405A – Heritage, Culture and Managing the Past in the Old World and the New
TNDY 407N – Route 66
Itamar Shabtai
Clinical Full Professor
Director, Center for Information Systems and Technology
Research Interests: IT and Innovation; Healthcare Information Technology; Economics of Information Systems; Cyber Security and Innovative Technologies in Higher Education
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 409D – AI for Humanity: Technology, Ethics, and Society (with Robert Klitgaard)
Tammi J. Schneider
Danforth Professor of Religion
Research Interests: Ancient Near Eastern History, Literature, Archaeology, and Religion; Women in the Hebrew Bible
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 402Z – Akko: Public Archaeology, Conservation, Heritage
TNDY 407Q – The Epicness of Gilgamesh: Sex, Power, and Placement in the Art Collection of CGU
Wallace Chipidza
Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology
Research Interests: Dynamics of Social Networks; Quantum Computing and Applications; Internet Privacy; ICT4D
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 336 – Analysis of Social Networks
Gregory DeAngelo
Associate Professor of Economic Sciences
Director, Computational Justice Lab
Research Interests: Criminal Justice; Law; Applied Econometrics
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 408O – Critical Evaluation of California’s Criminal Justice System
TNDY 408B – Law and Economics: Theory and Practice
Bree Hemingway
Assistant Clinical Professor of Community and Global Health
Associate Director of the Master of Public Health Program
Co-director of the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine & Master of Public Health Dual Program
Research Interests: Program Evaluation, Health Disparities, and Public Health Workforce Development
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 408V – Community Organizing for Social Change
Daniel Ramírez
Associate Professor of Religion
Chair, Religion Department
Research Interests: American Religious History; Latin American Religious History; Religion, Migration, and Transnationalism; Religion in Borderlands; Contemporary Theories of Religion
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 366 – Migration, Religion and Globalization in America: E Pluribus Unum?
TNDY 407Y – Screening Religion: Film and Religious History
TNDY 408T – Religion, Music and Culture in the Americas
Jeremy Hunter
Associate Professor of Practice
Founding Director, Executive Mind Leadership Institute
Research Interests: Mindfulness; Self-Management; Executive Mind
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 407R – The Practice of Self-Management
TNDY 409A – The Power of Attention
Javier Rodríguez
Associate Professor
Field Chair for Policy
Field Chair for Research Methods
Research Interests: Public & Health Policy; Social Inequality; Quantitative Methods for Social Science Research
TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 407K – Transdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality
TNDY 408Y – Politics and Policy of Health Disparities
Andrew (Andy) Vosko
Associate Professor, Biomedical Science
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
- Degrees
PhD, Neuroscience, UCLA
BS, Biopsychology, University of Michigan
Andrew Vosko was the Associate Provost and Director of Transdisciplinary Studies (2017 – 2024), and currently serves as a member of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program Advisory Board (2025 – 2026).
My academic training and career have always bridged fields, and I am passionate about bridge-building across academic lines. As an undergraduate student, I studied Japanese classical literature alongside the biological nature of addiction; as a graduate student, I applied oscillation theory to the study of neural circuits for my dissertation; and as a medical science educator, I taught neuroanatomy through the lenses of philosophy and art. At CGU, I am excited to facilitate opportunities, tools and spaces for boundary-crossing and collaboration, serving as associate provost and director of the Transdisciplinary Studies program.
I came to transdisciplinary studies by way of “inter-professionalism”—a way of applying and integrating knowledge from diverse healthcare practitioners for improved, patient-centered care. As a basic scientist in medical education, I saw that integrating different knowledge domains, including across cognitive, situated, and embodied knowledges, was necessary for interprofessional success. Transdisciplinarity provides the theoretical basis and practical foundation for this kind of integration. At CGU, transdisciplinarity is in our DNA.
Past TNDY Course(s):
TNDY 407G – Integrating Arts and Sciences
TNDY 407T – Experiencing Sustainability: Experiments in the Transdisciplinary Collaboratory
TNDY 408F – Transdisciplinary Tools for Equity: Institutions, Organizations, and Systems