2019-20 New Faculty
Tenure-Track Faculty Members
Mo Alloush
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Areas of expertise: development, urban, and behavioral economics and applied econometrics
Naser Al Madi
Instructor of Computer Science
Ph.D., Kent State University
Areas of expertise: human-computer interaction, eye-tracking, semantic computing, human-oriented software engineering
Clark Bowman
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of expertise: uncertainty quantification, probabilistic modeling and simulation, mathematical biology, and high-performance computing
Ryan Carter
Assistant Professor of Music
Ph.D., New York University
Areas of expertise: acoustic and electro-acoustic composition, post-tonal analysis, audio programming, algorithmic composition, and mobile platform development of audio applications
Pritha Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Purdue University
Areas of expertise: macroeconomics, monetary policy, macroeconometrics
Jason Cieply
Assistant Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Stanford University
Areas of expertise: Soviet and post-Soviet society and culture, film, performance, popular music, contemporary poetry, affect, narrative theory, media, Russian political thought, post-socialism
Usman Hamid
Instructor of Asian Studies
M.A., McGill University
Areas of expertise: History of Islam in South Asia, specializing in Sultanate and Mughal India; Muslim devotional traditions, material culture, and gender and sexuality; history of pre-modern Iran and Persian culture
Michael Welsh
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Areas of expertise: biochemistry and chemical biology
Jeanne Willcoxon
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Areas of expertise: feminist performance, performance theory, theatre for social change, and acting
Visiting Faculty Members
Mairin Augustine
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Areas of expertise: social, emotional, and self-regulatory development; infant and child temperament; parent-child relationships
Jonas Brodin
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Areas of expertise: democratic theory, radical politics, health policy, migration, the politics of space, and varieties of capitalism
Priya Chandrasekaran
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Areas of expertise: environmental, agrarian and climate justice; ethnography; intersections of race, class and gender; cultivated biodiversity; the politics of food; mountain environments in South Asia and Latin America; globalization from below; philosophies of human/nature
Megan Dean
Chauncey Truax Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Georgetown University
Areas of expertise: bioethics, feminist philosophy, 20th-century European philosophy, philosophy of food
Dannah Dennis
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Rebecca Dyer
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Yale University
Debra Freas
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Areas of expertise: Latin poetry and the ancient novel, gender, genre
Adam Giannelli
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Ph.D., University of Utah
Areas of expertise: creative writing; poetry and poetics; creative nonfiction; translation; disability studies
David Jacobs
Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Chitra Jogani
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Areas of expertise: causal inference, development economics, environmental economics
Ruth Lo
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of expertise: modern and contemporary architecture, history of urbanism, architecture and politics, environmental humanities, food studies
Heather MacArthur
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Areas of expertise: psychology of gender/feminist psychology, stereotyping and prejudice, masculinity studies, feminist history and theory, and effects of subtle bias
Francis MacDonnell
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: history of intelligence, diplomatic history, World War II, Civil War, American History and Hollywood
Theo Mazumdar
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas of expertise: the use of social digital media in politics, American politics and political communication, digital and public diplomacy of nation-states, strategic communication processes
Anne Richard
Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs
M.A., University of Chicago
Megan Marshall Smith
Visiting Instructor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Areas of expertise: computational physics, black holes, and astrophysical plasmas
Stina Soderling
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Areas of expertise: rural queer studies, feminist pedagogies and methodologies, land tenure and land justice in the U.S.
Katarzyna Stempniak
Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Duke University
Mahala Stewart
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of expertise: gender, race, class inequalities; family; education; feminist theory; qualitative methods
Emiko Stock
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of expertise: visual and multimodal anthropology, historical anthropology, digital anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, Muslim societies
Ubaldo Valli
Lecturer in Music (Violin)
B.Mus., Ithaca College
Yen Vu
Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of expertise: Colonial and intellectual history in France and Vietnam, 20th century Francophone literature, travel and diaspora narratives, Postcolonial theory and the politics of language
Chenyu Wang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Areas of expertise: service-learning and volunteerism, international development and education, comparative education, critical pedagogy in global context; race and education in the American South, race theory
Lecturers & Teaching Fellows
Taylor Clock
Lecturer in Art
M.F.A., Syracuse University
Emma Flacard
Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies
M.A., Sorbonne-Nouvelle University
Areas of expertise: Black musical culture and political activism in the U.S. (1950s-70s)
Tural Sadigov
Lecturer in Statistics
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Areas of expertise: statistics/probability, partial differential equations, determining forms
Michael Shapiro '71
Lecturer in Art History
Ph.D., Harvard University
John Shea
Lecturer in Art
M.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Areas of expertise: sculpture and ceramics
Han-Hsin Sung
Teaching Fellow in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
M.Ed., Hong Kong University