The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome 47 new ladder faculty members who will join us during the 2024-25 academic year. 

Of the 47 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 43 joined the ladder this July, two more join in January, and two will be here as visitors during the 2024-2025 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!

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New Humanities Faculty

New Social Science Faculty

New Science Faculty


New Humanities Faculty

Giulia Accornero

Assistant Professor of Music

Neta Alexander

Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies

Alison Bechdel

Professor in the Practice of English and in Film and Media Studies

Tyler Brooke-Wilson

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Malina Buturović

Assistant Professor of Classics

Timothy Clarke 

Associate Professor with Tenure of Philosophy

Claudia Dumitru

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Alexander Ekserdjian

Assistant Professor of Classics and in the History of Art

Robert Gooding-Williams

Professor of Philosophy

Sarit Gribetz Kattan

Associate Professor with Tenure of Religious Studies

Benedek Kruchió

Assistant Professor of Classics

Olivia Lott

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Jane Mikkelson

Assistant Professor of Humanities

Joseph Issac Miranda

Assistant Professor of English

Gana Ndiaye

Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Catalina Ospina Jiménez

Assistant Professor in the History of Art

Laura Robson 

Professor of History and Global Affairs

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

Assistant Professor of English

Alexandra T. Vazquez

Professor of Theater and Performance Studies

Aurélie Vialette

Associate Professor with Tenure of Spanish and Portuguese

Heather Webb

Professor of Italian Studies

Alden Young

Associate Professor with Tenure of History and Global Affairs

 

New Social Science Faculty

Simon Charlow

Associate Professor with Tenure of Linguistics

Sinho Chewi 

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Timothy Christensen

Professor of Economics

Cody Cook

Assistant Professor of Economics  (Postdoctoral Associate for 2024-25) 

Mayara Felix

Assistant Professor of Economics and Global Affairs

Joel Flynn

Assistant Professor of Economics

Yuan Hsiao

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Melody Huang

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Statistics and Data Science

Soyoung Lee

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Elliot Lipnowski

Associate Professor with Tenure of Economics

Charles McClean

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Mellissa Meisels

Assistant Professor of Data Science (Postdoctoral Associate for 2024-25) 

Theodor Misiakiewicz

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Omar Montasser

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Noam Reich

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Pascual Restrepo

Associate Professor with Tenure of Economics 

Christen Smith

Associate Professor with Tenure of African American Studies and Anthropology

Shirley Wang 

Assistant Professor in Psychology

 

New Science Faculty

Alex Cantó-Pastor 

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Martina Dal Bello

Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ailong Ke

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Konrad Lehnert

Professor of Physics

Harry McNamara

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Kirstin Meyer

Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Elizabeth Yankovsky

Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences