2024-25 Faculty Highlights

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

  • Samer Al-Saber, Theatre Department
  • Hesham Aly, Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation Department
  • Christina Athanasouli, Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Duncan Clark, Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Kevin Cruz Amaya, Latina/o Studies Program
  • Hongdeng Gao, History Department
  • Bumsoo Kim, Economics Department
  • Anna Neufeld, Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Betül Pamuk, Physics Department

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

  • Atiya Husain, Africana Studies Department
  • Brian Murphy, American Studies Program
  • Mejdulene Shomali, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Armond Towns, Africana Studies Department

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

  • Daniel Barowy, Computer Science Department
  • Mari Binnie, Art Department
  • Xizhen Cai, Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Gregory Casey, Economics Department
  • Amal Eqeiq, Arabic Studies Department
  • Galen Jackson, Political Science Department
  • Katharine Jensen, Physics Department
  • Murad Mumtaz, Art Department
  • Anna Plantinga, Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Bob Rawle, Chemistry Department
  • Saadia Yacoob, Religion Department

Three faculty members have been promoted to full professorships:

  • Phoebe Cohen, Geosciences Department
  • Laura Ephraim, Political Science Department
  • Pamela Jakiela, Economics Department

Nine faculty members have received new named chair positions:

  • Jessica Chapman, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History
  • Justin Crowe, Kennedy Professor of Leadership Studies and Political Science
  • Kathryn Kent, J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence
  • Gregory Mitchell, Dennis Meenan ’54 Third Century Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Anthropology/Sociology
  • Bojana Mladenovic, Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of Philosophy
  • Darel Paul, The Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Political Science
  • Cheryl Shanks, Robert G. Scott ’68 Professor of Political Science
  • Mihai Stoiciu, Class of 2012 Professor of Mathematics
  • Jason Josephson Storm, Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion