UCLA-AAUP Chapter Officers
The following faculty members serve on the Executive Board of the UCLA Chapter of the AAUP.
President
David Teplow (Neurology)
dteplow@ucla.edu
Dave Teplow is a Professor of Neurology in the David Geffen School of Medicine, Director of the Biopolymer Laboratory, and a member of the faculties of the Molecular Biology and Brain Research Institutes. Professor Teplow was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Washington, Seattle, and the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. From 1991-2005, Professor Teplow was in the Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, where his laboratory sought to understand the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease and led to his receipt of the 2003 Turken Lectureship in Alzheimer’s Disease at UCLA. Professor Teplow was a founding editor of the Journal of Molecular Neuroscience and of Current Chemical Biology. He is a member of numerous national and international scientific advisory and editorial boards, including those of the National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the Yemeni Journal of Science. In addition to his focus on the pathogenesis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, Professor Teplow’s interests include the philosophy of science and the neuropsychological bases of creativity. Professor Teplow is committed to the protection of academic freedom and the supremacy of science (from L. scientia, “knowledge”) and its methods as the basis for the academic dialectic.
Vice-President
Scott Bartchy (History / Religion)
bartchy@history.ucla.edu
S. Scott Bartchy is Professor of the History of Religions in the Department of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA. Professor Bartchy earned his Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1963 and his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University in 1971, majoring in New Testament Studies, Christian Origins and Early Judaism. Before coming to UCLA in 1981, he taught in the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tuebingen, Germany and directed the Institut zur Erforschung des Unchristentums there. His first book, First-Century Slavery and the Interpretation of 1 Corinthians, first published in 1973 has been republished in 1985 and 2003 and is now regarded as a classic in the field. He served as the president of the American Academy of Religion, Western Region in 1998-99 and has chaired national committees in his professional organizations. He is a Fellow of the Context Group. Bartchy’s research focuses on the social, political, economic, and gender-forming consequences of religious beliefs and behaviors, particularly on why first-century Jews and Gentiles became Christians and how they then dealt with the dominant cultural values of their world, such as honor, patriarchy, kinship, patronage, ethnicity, and the violence that increasingly characterized life in the Roman Empire. He is currently finishing a book with the title Call No Man Father: the Rejection of Patriarchal Authority and Creation of a Society of Siblings in Early Christianity, a study in the shifts in power relations and rejection of domination and violence in the movement begun by Jesus of Nazareth and continued until the Emperor Constantine reintroduced those traditional values into Christendom.
Secretary
Susanne Lohmann (Political Science/Human Complex Systems)
lohmann@ucla.edu
Susanne Lohmann is professor of political science and public policy; director of the Center for Governance; and founding faculty member of the Interdepartmental Degree Program on Human Complex Systems at UCLA. Professor Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in 1986-89; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 1989-90, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University in 1991-92; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California in 1996; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1998-99; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000-01. Professor Lohmann has published in leading political science and economics journals on collective action and central banking. Her current research interests include the political economy of universities and higher education; applied and experimental ethics and governance; and social complexity and computational social science. She is currently completing a book titled How Universities Think: The Hidden Work of a Complex Institution.
Treasurer
Phil Bonacich (Sociology)
bonacich@soc.ucla.edu
Phillip Bonacich is a retired Professor of Sociology who maintains an
active research program on power in social networks. He is also a
participant in the Program on Human Complex Systems.