Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Jameson Mitrovich '24 is a senior at CMC studying Government. He is the managing editor of the Claremont Independent.

Nate Weisberg '24 is a senior at CMC studying Government and Legal Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of the CMC Forum.

Ben Lauren PZ '25 is a junior at Pitzer College studying English and Media Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of The Student Life.

John J. Pitney Jr., is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Politics at CMC. Among his extensive list of accomplishments and advisees at CMC, he has been teaching the "Politics of Journalism" course for many years. 

This Athenaeum program is co-sponsored by the Dreier Roundtable at CMC.

Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. His areas of expertise include China, comparative politics, the Pacific Rim, U.S./Asia relations, and U.S./China relations. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2019, he was the Library of Congress Chair on U.S.-China Relations. Prior to joining Claremont McKenna College in 2009, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served as its director of the China Program from 2003 to 2008. He is the author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press,1994), China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006), and China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay (Harvard University Press, 2016).

Professor Pei's Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at CMC.