Friday, August 5, 2022 

2022 2023 new faculty header

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to welcome 40 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2022-2023 academic year. 

Of the 40 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 31 joined the ladder this July and 4 more join in January. An additional 5 hold appointments as Postdoctoral Associates or Research Scientists for the 2022-23 academic year and will join the ladder faculty on July 1, 2023. The cohort of new arrivals spans all three FAS academic divisions: Humanities, Social Science, and Science. 

We invite you to read bios of our new ladder colleagues at the links below, and to join us in extending them a warm welcome to our community! 

Download a poster featuring our new ladder colleagues 

New Humanities Faculty

New Social Science Faculty 

New Science Faculty 


New Humanities Faculty 

Tarren Andrews 

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23) 

Serena Bassi 

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies 

Marlene Daut 

Professor of African American Studies and of French 

Erica Edwards 

Professor of African American Studies and of English 

Alessandro Giammei 

Assistant Professor of Italian Studies 

Leigh-Anna Hidalgo

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 

Hiʻilei Hobart 

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 

Lily Hu 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy 

Nicholas Jones

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese 

Sonam Kachru 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies 

Elleza Kelley 

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English 

Ameera Nimjee 

Assistant Professor of Music 

Vanessa Ogle

Associate Professor of History 

Julian Posada 

Assistant Professor of American Studies (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23) 

Amanda Reid 

Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies 

Sophie Schweiger 

Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures 

Nari Shelekpayev 

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Madiha Tahir

Assistant Professor of American Studies (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23) 

Rosa van Hensbergen 

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures 

Deborah Vargas 

Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Kalindi Vora 

Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Lindsay Wright 

Assistant Professor of Music 

Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Assistant Professor of History 

New Social Science Faculty 

Lauren Bergquist 

Assistant Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs 

Max Cytrynbaum 

Assistant Professor of Economics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23) 

Jennifer Gandhi 

Professor of Political Science and of Global Affairs 

Yagmur Karakaya 

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

Amit Khandelwal 

Dong-Soo Hahn Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs 

Shiro Kuriwaki 

Assitant Professor of Political Science 

Adam Meirowitz 

Professor of Political Science 

Christopher Neilson 

Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs 

Zhuoran Yang 

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science 

New Science Faculty 

Amymarie Bartholomew 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

 Charles Brown, II 

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Jenn Coughlan 

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 

Allison Didychuk 

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry 

Sebastian Hurtado 

Professor of Mathematics 

Binyam Mogessie 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 

Jacob Musser 

Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 

Malena Rice 

Assistant Professor of Astronomy (Research Scientist for 2022-23)

Jordan Wostbrock

Assistant Professor of Astronomy