Thursday, August 17, 2023 

The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 48 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2023-24 academic year.

 Of the 48 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 36 joined the ladder this July, four more join in January, and eight will be here as visitors during the 2023-2024 academic year before joining the ladder faculty. 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 

Giulia Accornero

Assistant Professor of Music (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24)

Santiago Acosta

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese 

Nana Adusei-Poku 

Assistant Professor of African American Studies and in the History of Art 

Tarren Andrews 

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 

Dominique Brancher 

Professor of French 

Malina Buturović

Assistant Professor of Classics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Allison Caplan 

Assistant Professor in the History of Art 

Maura Dykstra 

Assistant Professor of History 

Alexander Ekserdjian 

Assistant Professor of Classics and in the History of Art (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Omnia El Shakry 

Professor of History

Kyunghee Eo 

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures 

Kaiama Glover

Professor of African American Studies 

Amara Lakhous

Professor in the Practice of Italian Studies 

Jacob McNulty

Assistant Professor of Philosophy 

Joseph Miranda 

Assistant Professor of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Julian Posada 

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Nicole Sheriko 

Assistant Professor of English 

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

Assistant Professor of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Madiha Tahir

Assistant Professor of American Studies 

Todne Thomas 

Associate Professor with Tenure of Religious Studies and of Divinity 

Lisa Voigt 

Professor of Spanish and Portuguese 

Daniel Walden

Assistant Professor of Music 

New Social Science Faculty 

Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti 

Assistant Professor of Psychology 

Max Cytrynbaum 

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Kevin DeLuca 

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Ángel A. Escamilla García 

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

Mayara Felix 

Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Luciano Floridi

Professor in the Practice in Cognitive Science 

Joel Flynn

Assistant Professor of Economics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2023-24) 

Lu Lu 

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science 

Zongming Ma 

Professor of Statistics and Data Science 

Tom McCoy 

Assistant Professor of Linguistics 

Wendy Berry Mendes 

Professor of Psychology 

Kia Nobre

Professor of Psychology 

Nicholas Sambanis 

Professor of Political Science 

Ramina Sotoudeh 

Assistant Professor of Sociology 

Winnie van Dijk 

Assistant Professor of Economics 

Ilias Zadik 

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science 

New Science Faculty 

Earl Bellinger 

Assistant Professor of Astronomy 

Matthew Eisaman 

Associate Professor with Tenure of Earth and Planetary Sciences 

Laura Havener

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Christopher Lynn 

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Chiara Mingarelli 

Assistant Professor of Physics 

Sam Raskin

Professor of Mathematics 

Malena Rice 

Assistant Professor of Astronomy 

Eric Slessarev 

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 

Steven Tang

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry 

Michelle Wong 

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology