Welcoming new FAS faculty

September 5, 2023

[Summary: This message welcomes the 61 new ladder and multi-year instructional faculty who join the FAS this academic year and provides links to their biographies.]

To: All FAS faculty and staff
Cc:  FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, GSAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office, OPAC, President’s Office, Provost’s Office, University Cabinet

Dear colleagues:

It is my great pleasure to begin the new academic year with a note of welcome to the newest members of the FAS faculty. A total of 61 new ladder and multi-year instructional colleagues will join the FAS during 2023-24, bringing the FAS/SEAS ladder faculty headcount to a record size of 721. Forty-eight new ladder faculty arrive in New Haven this year: 36 have joined us for the start of the fall semester, four more join in January, and eight will be here as visitors during the 2023-2024 academic year before joining the ladder faculty. We also welcome 13 faculty members newly appointed to multi-year instructional positions. I hope you will join me in welcoming these extraordinary colleagues to the FAS community. You will find them listed below, by division. You can also read profiles of new ladder faculty and professors and of our new full-time multi-year instructional colleagues on the FAS website.

New Humanities Faculty

Among our new colleagues in the Humanities are experts in languages, writing, and literature; scholars of music and performance; and colleagues in cross-disciplinary programs such as Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and African American Studies:

Giulia Accornero

Assistant Professor of Music (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Santiago Acosta

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Nana Adusei-Poku

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and in the History of Art

Tarren Andrews

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 

Dominique Brancher

Professor of French

Malina Buturović

Assistant Professor of Classics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Allison Caplan

Assistant Professor in the History of Art

Maura Dykstra

Assistant Professor of History

Alexander Ekserdjian

Assistant Professor of Classics and in the History of Art (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Omnia El Shakry

Professor of History

Kyunghee Eo

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Devin Fitzgerald

Lecturer in History

Kaiama Glover

Professor of African American Studies

Amara Lakhous

Professor in the Practice of Italian Studies

Jacob McNulty

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Joseph Miranda

Assistant Professor of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Saori Nozaki

Lector in East Asian Languages and Literatures

Julian Posada

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Lucía Rubio

Senior Lector I in Spanish and Portuguese

Nicole Sheriko

Assistant Professor of English

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

Assistant Professor of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Madiha Tahir

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Todne Thomas

Associate Professor with Tenure of Religious Studies and of Divinity

Olha Tytarenko

Senior Lector I in Slavic Languages and Literatures

Lisa Voigt

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Daniel Walden

Assistant Professor of Music

New Social Science Faculty

In the Social Sciences, we welcome a cohort that includes economists, sociologists, and statisticians, and experts in linguistics and global politics:

Jaime Arellano-Bover

Lecturer in Economics and Management

Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Max Cytrynbaum

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Patrick Del Percio

Lector in Linguistics

Kevin DeLuca

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Kevin Elliott

Lecturer in Political Science

Ángel Escamilla García

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Mayara Felix

Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Luciano Floridi

Professor in the Practice in Cognitive Science

Joel Flynn

Assistant Professor of Economics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Edwin Ko

Lecturer in Linguistics

Lu Lu

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Zongming Ma

Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Tom McCoy

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Wendy Berry Mendes

Professor of Psychology

Kia Nobre

Professor of Psychology

Nicholas Sambanis

Professor of Political Science

Ramina Sotoudeh

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Winnie van Dijk

Assistant Professor of Economics

llias Zadik

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

New Science Faculty

Among our new colleagues in the sciences are mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers, biologists, and ecologists:

Tamunonye Cheetham-West

Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Earl Bellinger

Assistant Professor of Astronomy

Matthew Eisaman

Associate Professor with Tenure of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Laura Havener

Assistant Professor of Physics

Christopher Lynn

Assistant Professor of Physics

Chiara Mingarelli

Assistant Professor of Physics

Surya Raghavendran

Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Sam Raskin

Professor of Mathematics

Malena Rice

Assistant Professor of Astronomy 

Maria Siskaki

Lecturer in Mathematics

Eric Slessarev

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Steven Tang

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ka Ho Wong

Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Michelle Wong

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jordan Wostbrock

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Andrew Yarmola

Lecturer in Mathematics

I hope that you will join me in welcoming this spectacular group of new colleagues to our community!

With warmest wishes for the coming academic year,

Tamar

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science