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College of Arts and Science welcomes 31 esteemed new faculty in fall 2024

Posted by on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 in News Story.

Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science is honored to welcome for the fall 2024 academic term 31 new faculty members, adding to our growing community of accomplished and groundbreaking researchers and teachers.

“We are thrilled that these leading scholars will be contributing to the college’s robust academic community,” said Timothy P. McNamara, Ginny and Conner Searcy Dean of the College of Arts and Science. “As accomplished scholars and teachers across a wide range of fields, they will help us to enhance our teaching, expand our research, and advance our understanding of the world around us.”

The new faculty members span nearly 20 departments and programs and join more than 600 faculty colleagues in the College of Arts and Science.

We are pleased to welcome:Individual headshots of each new faculty member.

Amal al-Wahish, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Experimental condensed matter physics and neutron scattering.

Husile Bai, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Atmospheric dynamics, climate dynamics and variability, and cryosphere-atmosphere interactions.

Joe Bandy, Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Sociology. Formation of transnational coalitions between social movement organizations due to global economic and environmental changes.

Nicolas Bonneton, Assistant Professor of Economics. Adverse effects of informational and search frictions in decentralized markets and institutions.

Kristin Boyce, Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Philosophy. History of early analytic philosophy, Wittgenstein, and aesthetics, specifically the philosophy of literature, dance, and film.

Madeline Brandt, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Studying combinatorial algebraic geometry by developing computational tools.

Hannah Chalman, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Theatre. Costume designer, costume technician, and makeup artist; worked as assistant costume designer on Paradise Square, Othello, and Admissions.

Sasha Crawford-Holland, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Arts. Examining the relationship between media technologies, violence, and social justice, with an emphasis on environmental issues.

Darren Creutz, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics. Ergodic theory, lattices in lie groups, subshifts, mixing properties, and word complexity.

Amy Crockett, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics. Intersection of education, peace, and economics; application of political economy principles to education and peace issues.

Gerard Domènech-Arumí, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. Intersection of labor, public and urban economics, specifically how location shapes an individual.

Maxwell Dosser, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies. Speculative fiction, fandoms, and reactionary rhetoric.

Sarah Dunham, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Art. How design contributes to the public realm, and human capacity to imagine a world beyond capitalism.

Kirill Evdokimov, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics. Game theory with applications in economics and politics, collective choice, bargaining, and institutions.

Talia Fernos, Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics. Discrete infinite countable groups, specifically their actions on nonpositively curved spaces and associated boundaries.

Eliav Grossman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Jewish Studies. Jews and Judaism from the late antiquity and early Middle Ages, specifically rabbinic literature.

Michelle Grundy, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Biological Sciences. Leading admissions processes, developing professional development programming for graduate and undergraduate students.

Yucong Hao, Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. Global connectivity, postcolonial engagement, and racial imagination in modern Chinese literature and media.

Federica Izzo, Assistant Professor of Political Science. Studying the impact of electoral incentives on politicians’ actions using game theory.

Matthew Joseph, Mellon Assistant Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies. Twentieth-century U.S. racial, cultural, and urban history, Black Atlantic music.

Haein Kang, Assistant Professor of Art. Artistic application of brain-computer interfaces.

Jamie Leddin, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Business Studies. Impact of a disposition of gratitude on work outcomes.

Mallory Molina, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Expansion of black holes and their host galaxies over cosmic time through black hole and star formation.

Alexander Morales, Mellon Assistant Professor of Communication of Science and Technology. Enlightenment rhetoric, specifically science communication, global and comparative rhetoric, scientific inquiry, and skepticism.

Matthew O’Keefe, Assistant Professor of Economics. Industrial organization, specifically wastewater management and financial transmission rights.

Kristin Rose, Senior Lecturer, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Ecofeminism, environmental humanities, and narrative and novel theory.

Jesús Ruiz, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Caribbean Studies, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX). Histories of the Caribbean, Afro-Latin America, and Colonial and Revolutionary Haiti.

Sam Sehayek, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics. Investigation of topological, geometric, and combinatorial objects, specifically polytopes.

Katherine Shepard, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy. Massive stars, rapidly rotating stars, and binary stars utilizing spectroscopy and interferometry.

Brandon Underwood, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese philosophy, specifically 20th century continental thought.

Reem Zaiour, Assistant Professor of Economics. Immigration and crime, specifically migrant integration, violence on communities, and international migration.

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