What excited Norman Valencia about joining CMC? A golden opportunity.
As a new tenure-track assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Modern Languages Department, Valencia will be working on ways to develop a Portuguese program. An estimated 230 million people speak Portuguese around the world, he told the Claremont Independent this year, “making it a truly global language.”
Valencia earned his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He joined the Claremont community from Bogota, Columbia, where he was the academic sub-director of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
In addition to Valencia, Sarah R. Sarzynski, a tenure-track assistant professor of history, also arrived at CMC this semester.
She earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Maryland, and previous to joining CMC was a professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. She speaks Portuguese and Spanish, and she has published extensively on the culture and social policy of Brazil.
These aren't the only faculty new in the classroom, however. According to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, CMC also welcomed a number of visiting faculty in the new academic year, including:
Guangliang (Gabriel) Chen
August Kleinzhaler
David Krumm
Kevin Moffett
Eric Yang
John Andrew Sinclair
Lauren Chan
Elise Ferree
Patrick Fleming
Robert Iafe
Robert Kojima
Jessica Malisch
Julia Massimelli
Paul Neremberg
Benson Ngo
Sarah Nichols
Matthew Powell
Nora Sullivan
Gretchen Stanton
Andrew Steele
William Christian
Elizabeth Evans
Thomas McHenry
Stephanie Muravchik
Saman Olfati
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