2021-22 New Faculty

B.A., Effat University; M.A., Cornell University; M.A., King Saud University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of expertise: 19th & 20th Century Arabic literature, Medieval Arabic travel writing and the Medieval Maqama, genre, translation, and Postcolonial studies

B.A., University of Alberta; M.A., Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris; Ph.D., Stanford University

B.A., Berea College; Ph.D., University of Georgia
Areas of expertise: quantum chemistry, astrochemistry, Titan atmosphere, exoplanet atmospheres, and Venus sulfur chemistry

B.A., Università di Bologna; M.A., University of Exeter; Ph.D., Warwick University
Areas of Expertise: 20th and 21st Century Italian literature, queer studies, gender and sexuality in modern Italy, cultural studies and Italian cultural history, Italian critical theory and Italian thought, and translation studies and translation history

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music; M.A., D.M.A., Columbia University
Areas of expertise: computer music composition, studio recording, interactive sound and video, algorithmic music composition, spectral and transcription-based music, and multimedia collaboration

B.A., Hamilton College; Ph.D., Syracuse University
Areas of expertise: social philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of law

B.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Areas of expertise: scattering theory, and resonance and decaying state phenomenon

B.A., University of California, Berkeley; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: 19th- and 20th-century German and Italian literature, literature and music, literary criticism, and literary translation

B.A., University of Rochester; M.P.A., University of Pittsburgh

B.A., University of Puerto Rico, Carolina; M.A., University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Areas of expertise: Spanish and general linguistics

B.A., Skidmore College; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Areas of expertise: macroeconomics, monetary economics, and macro-finance

B.A., Texas Christian University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: environmental, energy, and behavioral economics and applied econometrics

B.Sc., McMaster University; M.Sc., St Anne’s College, University of Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: intellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia, history of medicine, and Islam in South Asia

B.A., University of Salamanca; M.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Areas of expertise: Medieval Iberian literatures and cultures, cross-cultural exchanges, Medieval travel writing, Alfonso X of Castile, and early modern Spanish travel and autobiography

B.A., Southwestern University; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of expertise: literature of early and medieval China, manuscript and print culture of premodern China and Central Asia, the materiality of reading and writing, particularly in pre-print literary cultures, history of the reception of premodern Chinese literature and the Confucian classics in the modern period, ritual theory, and technology and media studies

B.F.A., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; M.F.A., University of Texas, Austin
Areas of expertise: art, photography, and video

B.A., Aix-Marseille University; M.A., Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Area of expertise: French studies

B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: democratic theory, modern political thought, and politics of technology

B.A., Wabash College; M.S., Miami University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of expertise: climate change, invasive species, novel ecosystems, plant-animal interactions, and seed predation

B.A., Tunghai University

B.A., M.A., Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Areas of expertise: contemporary Spain, Fascism, Francoism, and Spanish Civil War

B.A., University of Arkansas; M.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Areas of expertise: global political economy, decolonial, Postcolonial, and transnational feminisms, and international human rights law

B.A., Queens College; Ph.D., University of Alabama

B.L.S., Salem State University; M.A., Ph.D., SUNY Albany
Areas of expertise: ethics and moral psychology

B.A., National University of Taiwan

B.A., Yale University; M.St., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: Roman imperial literature, the Greek and Roman novel, ancient medicine, and Greek papyrology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., York University

B.A., M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of expertise: zooarchaeology, environmental archaeology, increasing social complexity, archaeology of southwest Asia, and archaeology of the South Caucasus

B.A., Binghamton University; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of expertise: literary realism, ethics, political and social history of Germany, and documentary literature

B.I.D., M.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of expertise: food system, regenerative agriculture, soil health science, plant nutrition, climate-smart farming, reclamation agriculture for underserved communities, community engagement, food business, entrepreneurship, and food safety

B.A., Tehran University; M.A., Ph.D., Syracuse University
Areas of expertise: comparative politics, political theory, Middle East politics, and international security

B.S., Calvin College; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Areas of expertise: biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, enzymology, and natural product biosynthesis

B.A., Loyola University of Chicago; M.S., Eisenhower School, National Defense University; M.A., Xavier University; Ph.D., Auburn University

B.A., M.A., Universidad Central de Venezuela; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
Areas of expertise: philosophy of love and sex, feminist philosophy, medical ethics, and aesthetics

B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.S., Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine; Ph.D., West Virginia University

B.A., Universidad Mayor de San Simón; M.A., Bowling Green State University; M.Sc., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Areas of expertise: 20th and 21st Century Latin American literature and cultural studies, Subaltern studies, and Testimonio in Hispanic Literature

B.M., Jacksonville University; M.M., CUNY, Brooklyn College; Ph.D., CUNY, The Graduate Center
Areas of expertise: women composers; Modernism; American music of the 19th and 20th centuries; reception history; race, gender, social class, and music; and opera and the Enlightenment

B.A., University of Delhi; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University; M.A., University of Leicester; Ph.D., Florida State University
Areas of expertise: history of the novel, the political novel, the transnational novel, fiction, nonfiction, emergency narratives, and literary suspense

B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University; M.F.A., NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., Indiana University

B.S., Utica College

B.A., Michigan Technological University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
Areas of expertise: economics of education, marriage/family economics, and labor economics

M.A., Syracuse University

B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., University of Washington; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Areas of expertise: women’s, gender and sexuality studies, gender scholarship, feminist theory, interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, African studies, public policy, memory studies, and global health

B.A., Kanda University of International Studies

B.A., McGill University; M.A., Tufts University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: Medieval and early modern art in Northern Europe, Scandinavian studies, economics and trade, religious iconography, and history and methods of art history

B.S., Messiah (College) University

B.S., University of Colombo; M.S., Baylor University; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Areas of expertise: theoretical high energy physics, physics education research