Friday, September 27, 2019 

Tamar Gendler 2019-20 orientation

Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 44 new ladder faculty who are joining us in the 2019-20 academic year, either in July 2019 or January 2020. 

These new faculty members span all four FAS academic divisions: 12 come to departments in the Humanities, 14 in Social Science, and 18 in Science or the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS). 

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. Please help us welcome our new colleagues!

New Humanities Faculty

New Social Science Faculty

New Science Faculty

New School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Faculty


New Humanities Faculty

Jinyi Chu 

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Roderick Ferguson 

Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Joanna Fiduccia

Assistant Professor of the History of Art

Greg Grandin

Professor of History

Samuel Hodgkin

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Cajetan Iheka

Associate Professor of English

Fatima Naqvi

Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Laura Nasrallah

Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation (Divinity School) and Professor of Religious Studies

Quincy Ngan

Assistant Professor of the History of Ar

Jessica Peritz

Assistant Professor in the Department of Music

Nicole Turner

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Odd Arne Westad

Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs

New Social Science Faculty

Orazio Attanasio 

Cowles Professor of Economics 

Eduardo Dávila

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Allison Harris 

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Sarah Khan

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Christina Kinane 

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Kaivan Munshi 

Professor of Economics 

Rourke O’Brien 

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

Rohini Pande 

Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics 

Robb Rutledge 

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Anna Sanktjohanser 

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Katja Seim 

Professor of Economics (FAS and School of Management) 

Philipp Strack 

Associate Professor of Economics 

Ilker Yildirim 

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Emma Zang 

Assistant Professor of Sociology

 

New Science Faculty

Franziska Bleichert 

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry 

Caitlin Davis

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Lilian Kabeche

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Richard Kenyon

Professor of Mathematics 

Ivan Loseu

Professor of Mathematics

Martha Muñoz

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sigrid Nachtergaele 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 

Andrew Neitzke

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Alison Sweeney

Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics 

Lidya Tarhan

Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics 

Jing Yan 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

New School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Faculty

Peijun Guo

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Anurag Khandelwal

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Theodore Kim

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Priya Panda

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Diana Qiu

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Robert Soulé

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Lin Zhong

Professor of Computer Science