2020-21 Incoming Faculty
Despite challenges associated with the current public health emergency, we had a very successful round of faculty recruitments for the general campus. The current list of new hires is below.
Stay tuned for updates as appointments in process are finalized.
Arts & Humanities
History
Nydia Pineda de Avila, Assistant Professor
Literature
Carol Arcos Herrera, Assistant Professor
Amanda Batarseh, Assistant Professor
Amy Sara Caroll, Associate Professor
Edward Kelting, Assistant Professor
Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor
Theatre & Dance
Christopher Kuhl, Assistant Professor
Music
Marcos Balter, Professor
Kamau Kenyatta, Teaching Professor
Visual Arts
Mehmet Akten, Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Mikio Aoi, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with HDSI)
Andreas Ernst, Assistant Professor
Claire Meaders, Assistant Teaching Professor
Keefe Reuther, Assistant Teaching Profesor
School of Global Policy & Strategy
David Fortunato, Associate Professor
Kyle Handley, Associate Professor
Morgan Levy, Assistant Professor
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Mikio Aoi, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Biological Sciences)
Mikhail Belkin, Professor
Stuart Geiger, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Communication)
Zhiting Hu, Assistant Professor
Arya Mazumdar, Associate Professor
Yusu Wang, Professor
Berk Ustun, Assistant Professor
Babak Salimi, Assistant Professor
Barna Saha, Associate Professor (Joint hire with Computer Science & Engineering)
Jacobs School of Engineering
Bioengineering
Brian Aguado, Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Nicholas Antipa, Assistant Professor
Mingu Kang, Assistant Professor
Karcher Morris, Teaching Professor
Florian Meyer, Assistant Professor (joint appt. with SIO)
Yuanyuan Shi, Assistant Professor
Yatish Turakhia, Assistant Professor
Yang Zheng, Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Tzu-Mao Li, Assistant Professor
Kristin Vaccaro, Assistant Professor
Rose Yu, Assistant Professor
Barna Saha, Associate Professor (Joint hire with HDSI)
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Sylvia Herbert, Assistant Professor
Paricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, Assistant Professor
Stephanie Lindsey, Assistant Professor
Vlado (Marko) Lubarda, Teaching Professor
Lisa Poulikakos, Assistant Professor
Aaron Rosengren, Assistant Professor
Lonnie Petersen, Assistant Professor
Nanoengineering
Zeinab Jahed, Assistant Professor
Physical Sciences
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fleur Ferguson, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Skaggs School of Pharmacy)
Shaowei Li, Assistant Professor
Nathaniel Romero, Assistant Professor
Johannes Schoenberg, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with Pharmacology)
Kimberly Schurmeier, Associate Teaching Professor
Julia Stauber, Assistant Professor
Math
Aaron Pollack, Assistant Professor
Xiaochuan Tian, Assistant Professor
Zhouli Xu, Assistant Professor
Physics
Mattia Serra, Assistant Professor
Jessica Arlett, Teaching Professor
Rady School of Management
Anya Samek, Associate Professor
Social Sciences
Cognitive Science
Jason Fleischer, Assistant Teaching Professor Deanna Greene, Assistant Professor
Communication
Stuart Geiger, Assistant Professor (joint appointment with HDSI)
Lillian Walkover, Teaching Professor (joint appointment with Global Health)
Economics
David Arnold, Assistant Teaching Professor
Juan Herreño, Assistant Professor
Denis Shiskin, Assistant Professor
Fabian Trottner, Assistant Professor
Emmanuel Vespa, Associate Professor
Steve Pak Yeung Wu, Assistant Professor
Education Studies
María José Aragón, Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies
Kianna Middleton, Assistant Professor
Global Health
Lillian Walkover, Assistant Teaching Professor (joint appointment with Communication)
Political Science
Michael Joseph, Assistant Professor
Zeynep Pamuk, Assistant Professor
Samuel Elgin, Assistant Professor
Psychology
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Assistant Professor
Nathaniel Chapman, Assistant Teaching Professor
Janna Dickenson, Assistant Teaching Professor
Sociology
Michel Estefan, Assistant Teaching Professor
Richard Pitt, Associate Professor
Urban Studies & Planning
Lawrence Frank, Professor
Amy Lerner, Teaching Professor
Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell, Teaching Professor
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio, Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Colleges
Seventh College
Jill Goldstein, Associate Teaching Professor