
New Ladder Faculty (2020-2021)
The Yale Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to welcome 30 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Incoming FAS faculty members span all of the FAS divisions: 10 will join Humanities departments, 11 will join us in the Social Sciences, and 9 join departments in the Division of Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science. Of these, 27 joined the FAS rolls in July 2020; 3 of our 9 new colleagues in Science and SEAS will join us in January 2021. Of the 30 ladder faculty who joined or will join the FAS in 2020-21, 12 are tenured and 18 are untenured.
We invite you to read bios of our new colleagues at the links below, and to join us in extending them a warm welcome to our community!
- New Humanities Faculty
- New Social Science Faculty
- New Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty
New Humanities Faculty
Sunil Amrith
Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History
Lauren Benton
Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law
Marcel Elias
Assistant Professor of English
Supriya Gandhi
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Elizabeth Hinton
Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, and Professor of Law
Benedito Machava
Assistant Professor of History
Nadine Moeller
Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Feisal Mohamed
Professor of English
Jesús Velasco
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Nana Osei Quarshie
Assistant Professor of History
New Social Science Faculty
Melissa Ferguson
Professor of Psychology
Phillip Atiba Goff
Professor of African American Studies and Psychology
Charles Hodgson
Assistant Professor of Economics
Daniel Karell
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Yukiko Koga
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Egor Lazarev
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Samuel McDougle
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Robb Rutledge
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Kenneth Scheve
Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Jasjeet Sekhon
Professor of Political Science and Statistics and Data Science
Serena Tucci
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
New Science and SEAS Faculty
Eduardo da Silva Neto
Assistant Professor of Physics
Anna C. Gilbert
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Data Science
Yu He
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
Stacy Malaker
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Michael O’Donnell
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
C. Brandon Ogbunu
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Shruti Puri
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics