Wednesday, September 22, 2021 

Instructional Faculty 2021-2022

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to welcome 23 new full-time multi-year instructional faculty members who will join us as during the 2021-2022 academic year. 

The 2021-2022 incoming cohort of full-time multi-year instructional faculty comprises 10 Lecturers, 4 Lectors, and 9 Gibbs Assistant Professors. 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 instructional 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 (SEAS) Faculty


New Humanities Faculty

Ximena López Carrillo 

Lecturer in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 

Igor DeSouza 

Lecturer in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Randa Muhammed 

Senior Lector in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

James Patterson 

Senior Lecturer in Classics 

Lingxin Zhang 

Lector Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

New Social Science Faculty

Frances Conlin-Luippold 

Lector in Linguistics (American Sign Language) 

Jane Lynch 

Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Anthropology 

Julia Silvestri 

Lector in Linguistics (American Sign Language)

New Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty

Mihai Alboiu 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Pablo Boixeda Alvarez 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Meghan Anderson 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Daniel Douglas 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

James Farre 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Eric Geiger 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Abinand Gopal 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Erik Hiltunen 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Su Ji Hong 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Yakov Kononov 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Or Landesberg 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Jay Lim 

Lecturer in Computer Science 

Joshua Moyer 

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 

Kevin O’Neill 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 

Jiewon Park 

Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics