2023-24 Faculty Highlights

Eleven faculty members will begin their appointments as assistant professors this academic year:

  • Ben Augenbraun, Chemistry Department
  • Charlotte Barkan, Biology Department
  • Trenton Barnes, Art Department
  • Caitlyn Bowman-Cornelius, Biology Department
  • Elizabeth Elmi, Music Department
  • Alex Flores, Psychology Department
  • Masashi Harada, Department of Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Caitlin Hegarty, Economics Department
  • Ziliang Liu, Art Department
  • Peter Ogunniran, German and Russian Department
  • Felipe Soza, Classics Department

Two faculty members have been appointed as associate professors with tenure:

  • Rit Premnath, Art Department
  • Burak Uras, Economics Department

Eleven faculty members have been promoted to the position of associate professor with tenure:

  • Alexander Bevilacqua, History Department
  • Nicole Brown, Classics Department
  • Pei-Wen Chen, Biology Department
  • Brahim El Guabli, Arabic Studies Department
  • Man He, Department of Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Bill Jannen, Computer Science Department
  • Laura Martin, Environmental Studies Program
  • Sarah Olsen, Classics Department
  • Ben Snyder, Anthropology and Sociology
  • Mason Williams, Leadership Studies Program
  • Ricardo Wilson II, English Department

Five faculty members have been promoted to full professorships:

  • Sarah Allen, Comparative Literature Program
  • Rashida Braggs, Africana Studies
  • Nicolas Howe, Environmental Studies Program
  • Gregory Mitchell, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Catherine Stroud, Psychology Department

One faculty member has been promoted to the senior rank at the Williams-Mystic program:

  • Tim Pusack, Associate Professor, Marine Ecology

Nine faculty members have received new named chair positions:

  • Edan Dekel, Garfield Professor of Ancient Languages
  • Roger Kittleson, John J. Gibson Professor of History
  • Sara LaLumia, David A. Wells Professor of Economics
  • Steven Nafziger, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr. ’41 Professor of Economics
  • Christopher Nugent, John W. Chandler Professor of Chinese
  • Katarzyna Pieprzak, Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature
  • Neil Roberts, John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Africana Studies
  • Janneke van de Stadt, Joseph L. Rice III 1954 Professor of Russian
  • Li Yu, Herbert H. Lehman Professor of Chinese