FATTAHI, ABI (Persian speaking)
Professor, Mathematics
Phone: (562) 907-4807
(Speaks Persian)
* Computers * Mathematics
Dr. Fattahi has published a number of articles on group theory, and has tested and
reviewed a variety of mathematical publications and software programs. He also developed a
HyperCard program for course recordkeeping and grading for teachers, and has taught a
variety of programming courses at Whittier College. The second edition of his book, Maple
V Calculus Labs, was published by Brooks/Cole in 1996. He is a member of the American
Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America.
Dr. Fattahi earned a B.S. in mathematics from Tehran University, and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
FORMAN, DEBORAH L.
Professor, Law
Director, Center for Children's Rights
Phone: (714) 444-4141, ext. 238
* Families * Law
Forman was in private practice and has served as a law clerk with the U.S. Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Her subjects include family law and torts. She
was associate editor of the Stanford Law Review. She is the
author of Every Parent's Guide to the Law (Harcourt, 1996). Forman holds a B.A. from Brown
University and a J.D. from Stanford University.
FOSS, HOWARD W.
Professor, Law
Phone: (714)444-4141, ext. 223
* Business * Law
Foss has served as corporate bank counsel and associate dean of Whittier Law School. He is
the author of Introduction to Commercial Law: Problems, Cases and Materials. His
subjects include business planning, commercial transactions and contracts.
He holds a B.A.
from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where he
was associate editor of the California Law Review.
FROMMER, GAIL
Professor, Law
Phone: (714) 444-4141, ext. 210
Community Property * Employment Discrimination * Employment Law * Labor Law
* Wills and
Trusts
Frommer's subjects include employment law and discrimination, labor law, community
property, and wills, trusts, and community property cases. She has written articles about
labor and employment law, premarital agreements, and wills and trusts.
She earned a B.S.
from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
FUNK
SUSNIR, ANDREA
Director, Legal Writing Program
Phone: (714) 444-4141, ext. 225
* Law * Writing
Susnir served as law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of
California, and has also been in private practice.
She received a bachelor's degree from
California State University at Long Beach, and her J.D. from the University of California
at Los Angeles.
FURMAN-ADAMS, WENDY
Professor, English
* Gender Issues * Literature
In addition to courses within her areas of particular expertise-Medieval literature,
Renaissance literature and literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century-Dr.
Furman-Adams has taught courses in such diverse areas as critical theory, literature of
the Bible, and East Asian literature. She has produced a number of articles,
reviews and conference papers in two major areas of interest: English Nativity poetry from
about 900 to 1750, and Milton studies, with particular emphasis on gender and the visual
arts. She has co-edited two books, Renaissance Rereadings: Intertext and Context
and Riven Unities: Authority and Experience, Self and Other in Milton's Poetry, and
is currently working on a critical biography of Mary Groom, a twentieth-century
illustrator and feminist interpreter of Paradise Lost.
Dr. Furman-Adams received a B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, an M.A.
from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern
California.
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