Meet the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Video profiles of FAS faculty, departments and programs, produced and directed by Micah Cormier.

Eight new FAS and SEAS Faculty members, in their own words


American Sign Language program

Yale’s ASL Program is offered by the department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).


Damon Clark

Neuroscientist Damon Clark seeks to understand how animals extract information from visual patterns in the natural world, how they make decisions based on that information, and what that can teach us about the mind.


Jason Crawford


Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio is re-defining what is a robot from the ground up. Working at the intersection of materials, manufacturing, and robotics, she is developing “soft robots” that can adapt their properties, morphology, and behavior for different tasks or environments.


Feisal Mohamed

Professor of English Feisal Mohamed explains how 17th Century literature can teach us about the present-day culture and politics.


Rohini Pande

Rohini Pande, economist and Director of the Yale Economic Growth Center, believes economists should consider notions of justice, not just efficiency. As part of a large study, she and her colleagues, along with researchers from the Inclusion Economics initiative, are currently surveying over 5,000 Indian women to better understand a major gender disparity in mobile phone use in the country and whether government policies might be needed to correct the imbalance.


Noah Planavsky

Yale geochemist Noah Planavsky and his lab are leading new efforts to understand the history — and future — of CO2 with major implications for our environment.


Carla Staver

Carla Staver’s research is going up in smoke – and that’s a good thing. The professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has started hundreds of fires – experimental ones – in African savannas to learn more about how they start and stop burning, and their impact on the environment. Savanna fires are the most common fires on earth and make a large contribution to the global carbon cycle, so a quantitative understanding of their behavior is more critical than ever.


Anna Zayaruznaya

What can music teach us about the past and about ourselves? Music historian Anna Zayaruznaya challenges students to “attend carefully” to things that sound strange.