New Ladder Faculty 2020-2021

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to welcome 30 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2020-2021 academic year. 

Incoming FAS faculty members span all of the FAS divisions: 10 will join Humanities departments, 11 will join us in the Social Sciences, and 9 join departments in the Division of Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science. Of these, 27 joined the FAS rolls in July 2020; 3 of our 9 new colleagues in Science and SEAS will join us in January 2021. Of the 30 ladder faculty who joined or will join the FAS in 2020-21, 12 are tenured and 18 are untenured. 

We invite you to read bios of our new 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 Faculty


New Humanities Faculty 

Sunil Amrith 

Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History 

Lauren Benton 

Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law 

Marcel Elias 

Assistant Professor of English 

Supriya Gandhi 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Elizabeth Hinton 

Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, and Professor of Law 

Benedito Machava 

Assistant Professor of History 

Nadine Moeller 

Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

Feisal Mohamed

Professor of English 

Jesús Velasco 

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese 

Nana Osei Quarshie 

Assistant Professor of History  

New Social Science Faculty 

Melissa Ferguson 

Professor of Psychology 

Phillip Atiba Goff 

Professor of African American Studies and Psychology 

Charles Hodgson 

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Daniel Karell 

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

Yukiko Koga 

Associate Professor of Anthropology 

Egor Lazarev 

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Samuel McDougle 

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Robb Rutledge 

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Kenneth Scheve 

Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs 

Jasjeet Sekhon 

Professor of Political Science and Statistics and Data Science 

Serena Tucci 

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

New Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Faculty

Eduardo da Silva Neto 

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Anna C. Gilbert 

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Data Science 

Yu He 

Assistant Professor of Applied Physics 

Stacy Malaker 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry 

Michael O’Donnell 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 

C. Brandon Ogbunu 

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 

Shruti Puri 

Assistant Professor of Applied Physics 

John Schotland 

Professor of Mathematics 

Andre Wibisono 

Assistant Professor of Computer Science