Friday, August 18, 2023 

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 13 new full-time multi-year instructional faculty members who will join us during the 2023-24 academic year. 

The 2023-24 incoming cohort of full-time multi-year instructional faculty comprises 6 in the lecturer ranks, 4 in the lector ranks, and 3 Gibbs Assistant Professors. They span all three FAS academic divisions: Humanities, Social Science, and Science. 

We invite you to read biographies 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 Faculty 


New Humanities Faculty 

Devin Fitzgerald

Lecturer in History 

Saori Nozaki

Lector in East Asian Languages and Literatures 

Lucía Rubio 

Senior Lector I in Spanish and Portuguese 

Olha Tytarenko

Senior Lector I in Slavic Languages and Literatures 

New Social Science Faculty 

Jaime Arellano-Bover

Lecturer in Economics and Management 

Patrick Del Percio 

Lector in Linguistics 

Kevin Elliott

Lecturer in Political Science 

Edwin Ko 

Lecturer in Linguistics 

New Science Faculty

Tamunonye Cheetham-West 

Assistant Professor of Mathematics 

Surya Raghavendran 

Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics 

Maria Siskaki

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Ka Ho Wong

Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics 

Andrew Yarmola

Lecturer in Mathematics