Welcoming new FAS faculty (September 23, 2021)

[Summary: This message welcomes the 55 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: FAS Steering, FAS Dean’s Office, GSAS Dean’s Office, Yale College Dean’s Office, OPAC, President’s Office, Provost’s Office

Dear FAS faculty and staff: 

As we begin a new academic year, I am delighted to introduce you to the newest members of the FAS faculty. A total of 55 new ladder and multi-year instructional colleagues will join us this academic year.  Of the 35 new ladder faculty and professors who have joined us in New Haven this year, 26 joined the ladder this July, four more join in January, and five will be here as visitors during the 2021-2022 academic year before joining the ladder faculty. We also welcome 20 faculty members newly-appointed to multi-year instructional positions. I hope you will join me in welcoming these extraordinary colleagues to the Yale 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. 

New Humanities Faculty

In the Humanities division, we welcome a wide range of new colleagues: among them are classicists and historians, musicologists and philosophers, and scholars and teachers of language, and new colleagues in our programs in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; African American Studies; Ethnicity, Race and Migration; and Theater and Performance Studies: 

• Alvita Akiboh, Assistant Professor of History 
• Igor DeSouza, Lecturer in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
• Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
• Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History 
• Manon Garcia, Assistant Professor of Philosophy 
• Scott Herring, Professor of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
• Jonathan-David MacKinley Howard, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English 
• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Professor in the Practice, Theater and Performance Studies 
• Elleza Kelley, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of English (Postdoctoral Associate for 2021-2022) 
• Regina Grace Kunzel, Professor of History and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
• Ernest Julius Mitchell, Assistant Professor of English and of Humanities 
• Randa Muhammed, Senior Lector in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 
• Morgan Ng, Assistant Professor of History of Art 
• James Patterson, Senior Lecturer in Classics 
• Claire Roosien, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
• Braxton Deonte Shelley, Associate Professor of Music, of Sacred Music, and of Divinity 
• Hannah Shepherd, Assistant Professor of History 
• Dara Strolovitch, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 
• Erika Valdivieso, Assistant Professor of Classics 
• Shane Patrick Vogel, Professor of African American Studies and of English 
• Lindsay Wright, Assistant Professor of Music (Associate Research Scholar for 2021-2022) 
• Lingxin Zhang, Lector in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 
• Kalindi Vora, Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Visiting Professor for 2021-2022) 

New Social Science Faculty

Our new Social Science colleagues include ladder faculty in Psychology and Political Science, and two lectors in American Sign Language who join the department of Linguistics: 

• Frances Conlin-Luippold, Lector in Linguistics (American Sign Language) 
• Julia Anne Leonard, Assistant Professor of Psychology 
• Salma Mousa, Assistant Professor of Political Science 
• Lucia Rubinelli, Assistant Professor of Political Science 
• Julia Silvestri, Lector in Linguistics (American Sign Language) 

New Science and School of Engineering and Applied Science Faculty

In the Science Division and in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, we welcome mathematicians and ecologists, physicists and chemists, mechanical and electrical engineers, and computer scientists: 

• Ian Abraham, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 
• Mihai Alboiu, Lecturer in Mathematics 
• Pablo Boixeda Alvarez, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Meghan Anderson, Lecturer in Mathematics 
• Yongshan Ding, Assistant Professor of Computer Science 
• Daniel Douglas, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Vanessa Ezenwa, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
• James Farre, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Eric Geiger, Lecturer in Mathematics 
• Abinand Gopal, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Erik Hiltunen, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Su Ji Hong, Lecturer in Mathematics 
• Dionysis Kalogerias, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 
• Yakov Kononov, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Or Landesberg, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Jay Lim, Lecturer in Computer Science 
• Mengxia Liu, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 
• Binyam Mogessie,Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (Research Scientist for 2021-22) 
• Ian Moult, Assistant Professor of Physics 
• Kevin O’Neill, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Amir Pahlavan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 
• Charalampos Papamanthou, Associate Professor of Computer Science 
• Jiewon Park, Gibbs Assistant Professor, Mathematics 
• Junliang Shen, Assistant Professor of Mathematics (Research Scientist for 2021-2022)
• Charles Krug Smart, Professor of Mathematics 
• Lu Wang, Professor of Mathematics 
• Tianyu Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry 

 It is a joy to welcome this accomplished group of colleagues to our community! 
 
With warmest wishes, 
 
Tamar
 

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science