Faculty
TCLA’s outstanding faculty includes graduates from the nation’s top universities.
Our faculty have advanced degrees in the fields they teach and years of experience in their respective fields, many with appointments at other colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area.
SHAHRAM BAKHTIARI
M.D., Tehran Azad University, Iran
ANDREW BRAGIN
B.A., Brandeis University
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
LL.M., New York University
IRINA BRAGIN
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
AARON BROWNSTEIN
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California
NIAZ COHEN
B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK
Ph.D. DIC, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
CAROLINE DIAZ
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., Cal State University, Long Beach
HOWARD FORMAN
B.S., Pennsylvania State University
M.B.A, George Washington University
Ph.D., Temple University
DAVID GADISH
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Guelph, Canada
BRUCE GORMAN
B.S., California State University, Los Angeles
MORGAN HAKIMI
M.S., Ph.D. California School of Professional Psychology
M.B.A., Touro University Worldwide
DANIEL MARGOLIS
B.S., University of Southern California
M.Sc., London School of Economics
J.D., Yale Law School
JACOB NEWMAN
B.A., Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences, Newark, NJ
M.A., Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D., New York University, New York, NY
ADELE RAUCH
B.A., Brooklyn College, New York
M.Ed., California State University, Bakersfield
TAMAR ROTHENBERG
B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University
M.S., California State University, Los Angeles
ZORICA SCURIC
B.S., University of Belgrade, School of Biology, former Yugoslavia
M.S., University of Belgrade, School of Biology, former Yugoslavia
Ph.D., University of Belgrade, School of Biology, Serbia
ELI SHOFF
B.S., Yeshiva Gedolah of Waterbury, CT
Ordained by R. Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Chief Justice of Jerusalem Supreme Court
Ordained by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Aish Hatorah Jerusalem
AVI STEWART
M.S., Johns Hopkins University
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SHIRLEY TRAUM
B.S., M.S., University of Southern California
