New Ladder Faculty and Professors (2021-22)

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to welcome 35 new full-time ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Of the 35 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 26 joined the ladder this July, 4 more join in January, and 5 will hold visting appointments for 2021-2022, before joining the ladder faculty. They span all four FAS academic divisions: Humanities, Social Science, Science, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).
 

We invite you to read bios of our new ladder colleagues at the links below, and to join us in extending them a warm welcome to our community!


Humanities

Alvita Akiboh

Assistant Professor of History 

Fatima El-Tayeb

Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Hussein Fancy

Associate Professor of History 

Manon Garcia

Assistant Professor of Philosophy 

Scott Herring

Professor of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Jonathan-David MacKinley Howard

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English 

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Professor in the Practice, Theater and Performance Studies 

Elleza Kelley

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2021-2022) 

Regina Grace Kunzel

Professor of History and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Ernest Julius Mitchell

Assistant Professor of English and of Humanities 

Morgan Ng

Assistant Professor of History of Art 

Claire Roosien

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Braxton Deonte Shelley

Associate Professor of Music, of Sacred Music, and of Divinity 

Hannah Shepherd

Assistant Professor of History 

Dara Strolovitch

Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Erika Valdivieso

Assistant Professor of Classics 

Shane Patrick Vogel

Professor of African American Studies and of English 

Lindsay Wright

Assistant Professor of Music (Associate Research Scholar for 2021-2022) 

Kalindi Vora

Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Visiting Professor for 2021-2022)


Social Sciences

Julia Anne Leonard

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Salma Mousa

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Lucia Rubinelli

Assistant Professor of Political Science


Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science

Ian Abraham

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 

Yongshan Ding

Assistant Professor of Computer Science 

Vanessa Ezenwa

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 

Dionysis Kalogerias

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 

Mengxia Liu

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 

Binyam Mogessie

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Research Scientist for 2021-22) 

Ian Moult

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Amir Pahlavan

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 

Charalampos Papamanthou

Associate Professor of Computer Science 

Junliang Shen

Assistant Professor of Mathematics (Research Scientist for 2021-2022)

Charles Krug Smart

Professor of Mathematics 

Lu Wang

Professor of Mathematics 

Tianyu Zhu

Assistant Professor of Chemistry