New Ladder Faculty and Professors (2023-24)

Thursday, August 17, 2023

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 48 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2023-24 academic year.

Of the 48 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 36 joined the ladder this July, four more join in January, and eight will be here as visitors during the 2023-2024 academic year before joining the ladder faculty. The cohort of new arrivals spans all three FAS academic divisions: Humanities, Social Science, and Science.

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!

Download a poster featuring our new ladder colleagues

New Humanities Faculty
New Social Science Faculty
New Science Faculty


New Humanities Faculty

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

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)

Julian Posada

Assistant Professor of American Studies

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

Lisa Voigt

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Daniel Walden

Assistant Professor of Music

New Social Science Faculty

Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Max Cytrynbaum

Assistant Professor of Economics

Kevin DeLuca

Assistant Professor of 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)

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

Ilias Zadik

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

New Science Faculty

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

Sam Raskin

Professor of Mathematics

Malena Rice

Assistant Professor of Astronomy

Eric Slessarev

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Steven Tang

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Michelle Wong

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology