[Summary: This message welcomes the 52 new ladder and multi-year instructional faculty who join the FAS this academic year and provides links to their biographies.]
To: All FAS faculty and staff
Cc: SEAS faculty, FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, GSAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office, SEAS Dean’s Office, OPAC, President’s Office, Provost’s Office, University Cabinet
Dear colleagues:
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 52 new ladder and multi-year instructional colleagues will join us during 2022-23. 40 new ladder faculty arrive in New Haven this year: 31 joined the ladder this July, four more join in January, and five will be here as visitors during the 2022-2023 academic year before joining the ladder faculty. We also welcome 12 faculty members newly appointed to multi-year instructional positions. I hope you will join me in welcoming these extraordinary colleagues to the FAS community. You will find them listed below, by division. You can also read profiles of new ladder faculty and professors here and of our new multi-year instructional colleagues here.
Additional colleagues have joined our neighboring school, the School of Engineering & Applied Science. You can learn more about them here.
New Humanities Faculty
Among our new colleagues in the Humanities are philosophers and historians; experts in languages, writing, and literature; scholars of music and performance; and colleagues in programs such as Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, whose work crosses disciplines:
Tarren Andrews
Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23)
Mansi Bajaj
Lector in Hindi, MacMillan Center
Serena Bassi
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Sayan Bhattacharyya
Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in Humanities
Marlene Daut
Professor of African American Studies and of French
Erica Edwards
Professor of African American Studies and of English
Alessandro Giammei
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Alexander Gil
Senior Lecturer II, Spanish and Portuguese
Peter Grund
Senior Lecturer in English and in Divinity
Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
Hiʻilei Hobart
Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
Lily Hu
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Nicholas Jones
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Sonam Kachru
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Elleza Kelley
Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English
Jorge Alejandro Méndez-Seijas
Senior Lector II in Spanish and Portuguese
Jane Mikkelson
Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in Comparative Literature and in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Ameera Nimjee
Assistant Professor of Music
Vanessa Ogle
Associate Professor of History
Julian Posada
Assistant Professor of American Studies (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23)
Amanda Reid
Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
Sophie Schweiger
Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Nari Shelekpayev
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Madiha Tahir
Assistant Professor of American Studies (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23)
Rosa van Hensbergen
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Deb Vargas
Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kalindi Vora
Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Noelia Sánchez Walker
Lector in Spanish and Portuguese
Lindsay Wright
Assistant Professor of Music
Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Assistant Professor of History
New Social Science Faculty
In the Social Sciences, we welcome a cohort that includes economists, sociologists, and statisticians, and experts in linguistics and global politics:
Lauren Bergquist
Assistant Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs
Max Cytrynbaum
Assistant Professor of Economics (Postdoctoral Associate for 2022-23)
Andrew Fisher
Lector in American Sign Language, Linguistics
Jennifer Gandhi
Professor of Political Science and of Global Affairs
Yagmur Karakaya
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Amit Khandelwal
Dong-Soo Hahn Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs
Shiro Kuriwaki
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Alex Manning
Lecturer and Research Scholar in Sociology
Adam Meirowitz
Professor of Political Science
Christopher Neilson
Professor of Economics and of Global Affairs
Zhuoran Yang
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
New Science Faculty
Among our new colleagues in the sciences are mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers; biologists, ecologists, and chemists:
C. J. Argue
Lecturer in Mathematics
Amymarie Bartholomew
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Charles Brown, II
Assistant Professor of Physics
Jenn Coughlan
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Allison Didychuk
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Sebastian Hurtado
Professor of Mathematics
Giuseppe Martone
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Binyam Mogessie
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Jacob Musser
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Malena Rice
Assistant Professor of Astronomy (Research Scientist for 2022-23)
Hanwen Zhang
Gibbs Assistant Professor of Mathematics
I hope that you will join me in welcoming this spectacular group of new colleagues to our community!
With warmest wishes for the coming academic year,
Tamar
Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science