The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 18 new full-time multi-year instructional faculty members who will join us during the 2023-24 academic year and to congratulate two current instructional faculty newly appointed to multi-year appointments.

The 2024-25 incoming cohort of full-time multi-year instructional faculty comprises 7 in the lecturer ranks, 5 in the lector ranks, and 8 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 

Pierpaolo Antonello

Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies

Elaine Ayers 

Lecturer in the History of Science, Medicine and Public Health 

Gojko Barjamovic 

Senior Lecturer 1 in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures 

Ramla Bédoui 

Lector in French

Marie-Helene Bertino

Lecturer in English

Mariana Centanin Bertho

Lector in Spanish and Portuguese

Kevin Ennis 

Lector in Spanish and Portuguese 

Boo Kyung Jung 

Senior Lector I in East Asian Languages and Literatures 

Rachel Watson 

Lector in French 

New Social Science Faculty 

Federico Brandmayr 

Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology 

New Science Faculty

Sarah Days-Merrill 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Samuel DeHority 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Bailey Heath 

Lecturer in Mathematics 

Ron Mor 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Nicholas Ovenhouse 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Eduardo Reyes 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Ruoyu Wang 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Tanqi Wang 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Catherine Wolfram 

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics 

Hanwen Zhang

Gibbs Assistant Professor in Mathematics