In January, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences welcomed 12 new ladder faculty members: Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Yang Cai, Elisa Celis, Veneeta Dayal, John Fortner, Larry Gladney, Joshua Kalla, Juan Lora, Lisa Lowe, Jessica Thompson, Nisheeth Vishnoi, and Kai Zhang.
Our newest colleagues span the following departments and programs: American Studies, Anthropology, Linguistics, Political Science, Statistics and Data Science, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Geology and Geophysics, Physics, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Computer Science. And they also span our ladder ranks: some of them are recent PhDs beginning their first professorial jobs; others are longstanding academic leaders who have served as department chairs, institute directors, and divisional deans at their previous institutions. They also have something in common: we have invited them to join in our community because they excel as scholars and as teachers. Each of them displays the promise or achievement of standing among the foremost leaders in the world in a broad field of knowledge, and each of them shows a deep commitment to excellence in teaching, mentoring, and citizenship. They will learn from one another and we will learn from them.
They join a group of 50 other new faculty who began their FAS roles in the fall, for a total of 62 new full-time multi-year FAS faculty in 2018-19. This group includes 46 ladder faculty (34 joined in the fall, the remaining 12 arrived in January) and 16 full-time multi-year instructional and term faculty (all of whom joined us in the fall).
Photos and bios of these new FAS colleagues can be found on our pages for our 2018-19 incoming ladder faculty and instructional and research faculty. These include 27 faculty who joined us on the tenure track (as assistant or associate professors) and 19 who joined us with tenure (as associate with tenure or full professors). We also welcomed 7 Gibbs Assistant Professors in our mathematics department and 9 new full-time multi-year lecturers and lectors. Among our new ladder colleagues, 16 hail from departments in the humanities, 19 from departments in the social sciences, and 11 from departments in the sciences and engineering. All in, our 62 new colleagues belong to 26 departments and programs. These 62 new colleagues join a group of more than 800 FAS colleagues in the ladder and full-time multi-year instructional and research ranks whose areas of research and teaching span some 50 departments and programs across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and engineering. All of us look forward to welcoming these new faculty to our community.