2018-19 New Faculty
Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Justin Clark
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: ethics, ancient philosophy, social and political philosophy
Mackenzie Cooley
Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Stanford University
Areas of expertise: history of science; early modern world; Colonial Latin America; environmental history; intellectual history; digital humanities; history of gender and sexuality; animal studies; genetics and history
Rhea Datta
Assistant Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Areas of expertise: gene regulation, patterning and morphogenesis, transcription factors and DNA-binding, regulatory DNA, developmental genetics, molecular biology, embryology, eye development
Susan Jarosi
Associate Professor of Art History
Ph.D., Duke University
Areas of expertise: art and visual culture since 1950; performance art; trauma studies; gender in visual studies; economic histories of the arts
Darren Strash
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Areas of expertise: algorithms and data structures, computational geometry, graph theory, and discrete mathematics
Aaron Strong
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University
Jesse Weiner
Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Areas of expertise: Latin epic poetry, didactic poetry, drama, reception studies
formerly a visiting assistant professor
Visiting Faculty Members
Manuel Barrantes
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Area of expertise: philosophy of science
Dylan McCarthy Blackston
Elihu Root Peace Fund Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Ph.D., University of Arizona
James Bloom
Visiting Associate Professor of Art History
Ph.D., Duke University
Chris Burwick
Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures (German)
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Todd Carmody
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Ph.D University of Pennsylvania
Lacey Carpenter
Visiting Instructor of Anthropology
M.A., University of Michigan
Areas of study: household archaeology, Latin America, Mesoamerica, increasing sociopolitical complexity, craft production, and public scholarship
Inés Corujo-Martín
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Areas of expertise: 18th-21st century Spanish literature and culture; transatlantic studies; women's and gender studies; visual and material culture studies; fashion studies
Maximiliano Ferro
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
M.F.A., Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
Susan Finque
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
Ph.D., University of Washington
Philip Friedrich
Visiting Instructor of Religious Studies
M.A., University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: social history of South Asian religions; Medieval and early modern South India and Sri Lanka; Theravada Buddhism; Epigraphy; Religion and trade; Theories of religion and politics
Reza Hadisi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Areas of expertise: Kant, epistemology, and ethics
Chris Kern
Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese)
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Areas of expertise: Heian-era literature, traditional Japanese poetry, commentary traditions, pop culture adaptations of classical literature
Jinwon Kim
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., City University of New York
Areas of expertise: urban sociology, globalization and transnationalism, migration, sociology of consumption, Asian American studies, race and ethnicity, and qualitative research methods
Amy Koenig
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: Roman imperial literature, the Greek and Roman novel, ancient medicine, Greek papyrology
Wesley Kramer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Clare Mullaney
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, disability studies, and material text/material culture studies
Kendra Murray
Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Areas of expertise: geochronology and geochemistry, sedimentology, tectonics
Roseann Pluretti
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Areas of expertise: media and society, social media, identity online, gender and media, journalism and credibility, and critical theories
Tyler Saxon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Colorado State University
Areas of expertise: gender in the economy, political economy of R&D, military spending
Stephen Schillinger
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Ph.D., University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Renaissance, drama, book history and history of early print and rhetoric
Franziska Schweiger
Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures (German)
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Branden Stone
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Danan Tsan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
M.Mus., Eastman School of Music
Areas of expertise: choral repertoire and conducting, music for women's ensembles, vocal pedagogy and vocal repertoire, solo performance, opera, musical theater, acting, songwriting and arranging
Chialan Sharon Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
Ph.D, University of Southern California
Areas of expertise: Chinese-language film and literature, postcolonial theories, and cultural studies
Jonah Yuen
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Areas of expertise: price dispersion, search models
Lecturers & Teaching Fellows
Amy Buchholz
Lecturer in Art
M.F.A., University of New York at Buffalo
William Schmitt-Brasseur
Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies
B.A., University of Nantes
Szu-Yun (Tiffany) Wang
Teaching Fellow in Chinese
B.Ed., Education University of Hong Kong