Friday, September 28, 2018 

In 2018-19, we welcome an extraordinary set of new colleagues to the FAS. This year’s incoming cohort comprises 46 ladder faculty members, starting either in July 2018 or January 2019, and spanning all four FAS academic divisions: Humanities, Social Science, Science, and the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS). In particular, 16 of them come to departments in the humanities, 19 of them to departments in the social sciences, and 11 to departments in either the sciences or engineering. An additional 3 belong to cross-divisional departments: American Studies; African American Studies; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

Photos and bios for each new faculty member may be accessed through the menu on this page, or by clicking/tapping on the images of the documents below. Each one of them will bring diversity and expertise to their respective departments and programs. Please join us in warmly welcoming our outstanding new colleagues!

New Humanities Faculty

New Social Science Faculty

New Science Faculty 

New School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Faculty


New Humanities Faculty

Anastasia Eccles

Assistant Professor of English

David Engerman

Professor of History

Cécile Fromont

Associate Professor of History of Art

Alanna Hickey

Assistant Professor of English

Subhashini Kaligotla

Assistant Professor of History of Art

Hwansoo Kim

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Pamela Lee

Professor of History of Art

Lisa Lowe

Professor of American Studies

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Professor of English

Laurie Paul

Professor of Philosophy

Mark Peterson

Professor of History

Carolyn Roberts

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History

Evren Savci

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

Christophe Schuwey

Assistant Professor of French

Emily Thornbury

Associate Professor of English

Jane Tylus

Professor of Italian

New Social Science Faculty

Sarah Bush

Associate Professor of Political Science

Elisa Celis

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Veneeta Dayal

Professor of Linguistics

Zhou Fan

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Maria Gendron

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Marina Halac

Professor of Economics

John Eric Humphries

Assistant Professor of Economics

Joshua Kalla

Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Statistics and Data Science

Roy Lederman

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Isabela Mares

Professor of Political Science

Alka Menon

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Elizabeth Nugent

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Cormac O’Dea

Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science

Giulia Oskian

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Gerard Padró i Miquel

Professor of Economics and Political Science

Tyler Pratt

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Emily Sellars

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Jessica Thompson

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Natalie Weber

Assistant Professor of Linguistics

New Science Faculty

Jeffrey Brock

Professor of Mathematrics

Larry Gladney

Professor of Physics

Yifeng Liu

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Juan Lora

Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Wilhelm Schlag

Professor of Mathematics

Kai Zhang

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

New School of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty

Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Yang Cai

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

John Fortner

Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Marynel Vázquez

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Nisheeth Vishnoi

Professor of Computer Science