FAS Welcomes 63 New Faculty for 2025–26 Academic Year
This year, Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomed 63 outstanding new faculty across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Louward Allen Zubiri, Lector in Filipino (left), and Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History and Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Every year, Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences hires dozens of exceptional scholars in academic departments across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. For the 2025–26 academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomed 63 new faculty. 34 are new ladder faculty, four are newly appointed Professors in the Practice, and 25 are instructional faculty members newly appointed to full-time, multi-year positions.
On August 20th, many of our new FAS faculty joined us for New Faculty Orientation in Yale’s iconic Humanities Quadrangle.
Of the new ladder faculty, 11 are in the humanities, 19 in the social sciences, and four in the sciences. The multi-year instructional faculty comprise fourteen in the lecturer ranks, seven in the lector ranks, and five Gibbs Assistant Professors.
For the second year in a row, campus celebrity Handsome Dan made an appearance at the Humanities Triangle to greet the new faculty as they arrived. Prepped with his camera-ready smile, Handsome Dan gave attendees a warm welcome before they entered the student lounge of the Humanities Quadrangle and joined the Yale community.
Throughout the afternoon, new faculty learned about mentoring, teaching, and faculty appointments at Yale from a wide range of FAS colleagues.
Panelists included Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis and Dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Lynn Cooley, who spoke about resources for teaching on campus. Steven Wilkinson, Dean of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, moderated the conversation.
Jennifer Frederick, the Executive Director of Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, also moderated a panel about how faculty can support and mentor their students and connect them to on-campus resources. Panelists included Sarah Demers, Professor of Physics; John Hall, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics; Grace Kao, IBM Professor of Sociology and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Cormac O’Dea, Assistant Professor of Economics; and Nana Quarshie, Assistant Professor of History and of Anthropology.
Faculty also heard more about the university’s research and teaching centers during from the directors of the Center for Civic Thought; the Data Intensive Social Science Center; the Center for Language Study; the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; the Peabody Museum and Marsh Botanical Garden; the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture; the Tobin Center for Economic Policy; the Whitney Humanities Center; and the Wu Tsai Institute.
Thank you to all the panelists, staff, and faculty that made New Faculty Orientation such a success.
To all new FAS faculty: Welcome to Yale!
Faculty of Arts and Sciences New Faculty Orientation: 2025–26
j. Siguru Wahutu, Assistant Professor of Sociology (left), and David J. Knight, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Steve Berry, Sterling Professor of Economics and Director of the Tobin Center (center), with Janet Currie, Professor of Economics (left), and Mellissa Meisels, Assistant Professor of Political Science. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Steven Wilkinson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Nilekani Professor of Political Science. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Damanveer Grewal, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences (left), speaks with Shuangping Li, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Bryan Garsten, Professor of Humanities and of Political Science and Director of Yale’s Center for Civic Thought (left), with Nazmul Sultan, Assistant Professor of Political Science. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Karoline Kiefel, Lector in Germanic Languages and Literatures, with Yale mascot Handsome Dan. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
From left: Pericles Lewis, Dean of Yale College; Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Steven Wilkinson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)
Moeko Fujii, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, with Handsome Dan. (Photo credit: Abiba Biao)