Faculty Fellows

Allison Anoll, Assistant Professor of Political Science

• How social context, connections, and norms affect political participation, especially among racial and ethnic minorities.

Megan Behringer, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

• Experimental evolution, environmental factors, genomic analysis and genetic variation

Panka Bencsik, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health & Society

• Health economics, crime economics, public economics, opioid crisis, mental health, gun violence, criminal justice system

Sophie Bjork-James, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

• Race and racism, evangelicalism, reproductive politics, white nationalism, hate crimes

Brandon Byrd, Assistant Professor of History

• History of the 19th and 20th century U.S. with specializations in African American History and the African Diaspora.

Ari Caramanica, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

• Archaeology, climate, irrigation in farming systems

Matt Congdon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

• Ethics, social philosophy, aesthetics

Lydia Conklin, Assistant Professor of English

• Fiction, graphic fiction, graphic memoir

Emmanuele Costa, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

• Early modern philosophy and metaphysics, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, Renaissance philosophy

Marcelo Disconzi, Assistant Professor of Math

• Geometric analysis, fluid dynamics, relativistic fluids, and mathematical physics

Rachel Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Health and mortality, demography, race, gender, and sexual orientation

Rebecca Epstein-Levi, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies

• Moral and textual implications of treating sex as one species of social interaction

Christy Erving, S Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow for the Study of Race, Racial Justice, or Social Justice in Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Medical sociology, mental health, health disparities, population health, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, immigration, and gender.

Raheleh Filsoofi, Assistant Professor of Art

• Synthesizing socio-political statements, ancient and contemporary media

Alexandre Frenette, Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Arts and culture, work and occupations, social inequality

Julie Gamble, Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies

• Urban mobility, gender mobility, Latinx urban environments, sustainable urban development

Rebeca Gamez Djovic, Assistant Professor in Anthropology

• Relational and comparative race and ethnicity, migration, education inequality

Patrick Greiner, Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Inequality emerging from social, political, and economic structures

Diana Heney, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

• Objectivity of ethical judgements, the nature of moral judgements, and ethical issues pertaining to mental illness

Didi Jackson, Assistant Professor of English

• Author and poet

Karan Jani, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy

• Black holes, general theory of relativity, gravitational wave detectors

Antonia Kaczkurkin, Assistant Professor of Psychology

• Neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to the etiology of internalizing disorders

Bohyeong Kim, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

• Critical media and cultural studies with a particular emphasis on Korea and East Asia

Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Assistant Professor of Physics

• Perturbative and non-perturbative quantum chromo dynamics, quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions, theoretical space-time structure of fundamental matter, machine learning to aid discovery physics in high energy

Amanda Lea, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

• Evolutionary biology, genomics, and human health research

Christopher Li, Assistant Professor of Economics

• Political economy, behavioral economics, political polarization, policy experimentation

Bianca Manago, Assistant Professor of Sociology

• Inequalities in health, race, gender, and sexuality

Michelle Marcus, Assistant Professor of Economics

• Environment, health disparities, public policy

Adeana McNicholl, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

• Buddhism, the relationship between religion and the body and embodied identities

Lin Meng, Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Global change ecology, urban ecology, phenology, remote sensing

Lars Plate, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

• Networks of protein interactions that drive the function of healthy cells that provide insights into what causes disease.

Sarah Quincy, Assistant Professor of Economics

• Macroeconomics, economic history, finance

Raisa Rexer, Assistant Professor of French

• 19th century French literature and the early history of photography.

Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Assistant Professor of History

• Urban history, material culture, built forms, museums and public history, and politics of kinship and belonging.

Larry Rolen, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

• Number theory, particularly so-called harmonic Maass forms and modular-type functions.

Jessie Runnoe, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

• Quasar central engines, long-term variability, and unification; the host-AGN connection; low-frequency gravitational waves, and supermassive black hole binaries.

Mark Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

• Asian American studies, the Philippines, human rights, social movements, labor and migration, gambling

Akshya Saxena, Assistant Professor of English

• 20th and 21st century Anglophone world literature, film, and media, with a focus on South Asia.

Bradley Smith, Cornelius Vanderbilt Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science

• Studies questions at the intersection of international conflict and international cooperation, specifically military cooperation in the international system.

Simone Stirner, Assistant Professor of German Studies

• Poetry and poetics, memory studies, and German/Hebrew literature

Marie Suver, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

• Neuroscience, behavior, sensory and motor systems, electrophysiology

Stephen Taylor, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

• Gravitational wave astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, statistical inference, black holes, neutron stars, and pulsar timing arrays.

Ann Tate, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

• Temporal and evolutionary dynamics of host-microbe, the immune system, and its function.

Alexandre Tiriac, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

• Neural circuits, specifically visual, somatosensory, proprioceptive, and motor circuits

Steven Townsend, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

• Human milk science and the synthesis of carbohydrates.

Rebecca VanDiver, Assistant Professor of Art History

• African American art

Allison Walker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

• Chemical biology, computational chemistry, machine learning

Guojun Wang, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

• Late imperial Chinese literature.

Katherine Wen, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health & Society

• Health economics, health services, policy analysis, vaccine policy

Matthew Worsnick, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture

• Architectural history, design studies, curation, urbanism

John Yang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

• Enzyme catalysis, protein engineering, physical organic chemistry

We Jung Yi, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

• Comparative Asian studies, translation theory, film and media studies, gender criticism, and histories of violence in the Pacific Rim

Erin York, Assistant Professor of Political Science

• How governing autocratic institutions influence political outcomes; legislative institutions and opposition participation

James Zainaldin, Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies

• Latin linguistics, Greek and Roman philosophy, Roman agriculture, Greco-Roman and Chinese comparative studies

Meng Zhang, Assistant Professor of History

• Late imperial and modern China, economic and environmental transformation, transnational connections