Welcoming new FAS faculty 2025-26
This message welcomes more than 60 new ladder and multiyear instructional faculty who join the FAS this academic year and provides links to their biographies.
It is my great pleasure to begin the new academic year with a note of welcome to the newest members of the FAS faculty. A total of 63 new ladder and multiyear instructional colleagues will join the FAS during 2025-26. Thirty-four new ladder faculty arrive in New Haven this year: 29 have joined us for the start of the fall semester, and 5 more join in January. We also welcome 4 newly-appointed Professors in the Practice and 25 colleagues newly appointed to multiyear instructional positions. I hope you will join me in welcoming our colleagues to the FAS community. You will find them listed below, by division. You can also read profiles of new ladder faculty and professors and of our new full-time multiyear instructional colleagues on the FAS website.
New Humanities Faculty
Among our new colleagues in the Humanities are experts in languages, film, and art; scholars of music and performance; and colleagues in cross-disciplinary Black Studies:
Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Peter Cole
Professor in the Practice of Jewish Studies
Moeko Fujii
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
Joe Glynias
Assistant Professor of History
Stefania Herrera León
Lector in Spanish and Portuguese
Destin Jenkins
Associate Professor with Tenure of History and of Black Studies
Karoline Kiefel
Lector in Germanic Languages and Literatures
Mayte López
Senior Lector I in Spanish and Portuguese
Joan Lubin
Assistant Professor of English
Julia Millán Gómez
Lector in Spanish and Portuguese
Charalampos Minasidis
Lecturer in Hellenic Studies, MacMillan Center
Yuki Sakomura
Lector in East Asian Languages and Literatures
Marta Sanvido
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Sarah Stillman
Professor in the Practice of English
Jeanine Tesori
Professor in the Practice of Music and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
James Uden
Professor of Classics
Dawn Upshaw
Professor in the Practice of Music
Shiva Sai Ram Urella
Lector in Telugu, MacMillan Center
Justin Willson
Assistant Professor of History of Art
Yoshitaka Yamamoto
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Nancy Yousef
Professor of English
Louward Allen Zubiri
Lector in Filipino, MacMillan Center
New Social Science Faculty
In the Social Sciences, we welcome a cohort that includes economists, sociologists, psychologists, and statisticians, and experts in linguistics and politics:
Athulya Aravind
Associate Professor on Term of Linguistics
Adam Auerbach
Associate Professor with Tenure of Political Science
Leah Boustan
Professor of Economics
Yuejie Chi
Professor Statistics and Data Science
Cody Cook
Assistant Professor of Economics
Janet Currie
Professor of Economics
Randolph Helfrich
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Piphal Heng
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Navin Kartik
Professor of Economics
David J. Knight
Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Black Studies
Maria Kogelnik
Lecturer in Economics
Max Lewis
Lecturer in Political Science
Shuangping Li
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Victoria Marone
Assistant Professor of Economics
Angela Y. McClean
Lecturer in Sociology
Mellissa Meisels
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Marius Ring
Lecturer in Economics
Nazmul Sultan
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Johan Ugander
Associate Professor with Tenure of Statistics and Data Science
j. Siguru Wahutu
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Lauren Whitehurst
Assistant Professor of Psychology and of Black Studies
Xiang Zhou
Professor of Statistics and Data Science
New Science Faculty
Among our new colleagues in the sciences are mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and evolutionary biologists:
Ghazia Abbas
Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Timothy Ablondi
Lecturer in Mathematics
Eric Arsenault
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Christian Cammarota
Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Robert Cieri
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Gregory Craven
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Cruz Godar
Lecturer in Mathematics
Damanveer Singh Grewal
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Peter Harrington
Lecturer in Mathematics
Michail Louvaris
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Gilles Mordant
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Calder Morton-Ferguson
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Catherine Pomposi
Lecturer in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Charles Reid
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Laura Seaberg
Lecturer in Mathematics
Rebeccah Warmack
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Freya Wencker
Lecturer in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Xinrui Zhao
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
I hope that you will join me in welcoming our new colleagues!
With best wishes for the coming year,
Steven
Steven Wilkinson
Dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yale University