Welcome New Faculty!

As faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, our new colleagues will be the teachers and mentors of tomorrow’s leaders. As scholars, they will advance creativity and knowledge that inspires our imagination and changes the world’s understanding of nature, humanity, and culture.  Please welcome these outstanding individuals!

AY 2025-26 New Faculty 

• Jazmen Moore, assistant professor, Africana Studies
• Jarrett Drake, assistant professor, Africana Studies
• Karina Beras, lecturer (PRODIG fellow), Africana Studies
• Anastasia Iorga, lecturer, Anthropology
• Darcey Evans, assistant professor, Anthropology 
• Sreeparna Sarka, lecturer, Asian and Asian American Studies
• Andrew Falkowski, assistant professor, Art
• Jenny (Kwan Yee) Tang, lecturer (PRODIG Fellow), Art
• Vick Quezada, assistant professor, Art
• Courtney Leonard, assistant professor, Art
• Noureddine Hamamouch, lecturer, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Viswanathan Chandrasekaran, assistant professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Julia Rogers, assistant professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
• Jill Alty, assistant professor, Chemistry 
• David Eskor Johnson, assistant professor, Creative Writing, Film, and TV
• Dawnie Walton, assistant professor, Creative Writing, Film, and TV 
• Scott Burkhardt, lecturer, Creative Writing, Film, and TV
• Timothy O'Connor, lecturer, Creative Writing, Film and TV  
• Allison Fairbrother, lecturer, Creative Writing, Film and TV 
• Jordanna Sprayberry, associate professor, Ecology and Evolution
• Jonathan Becker, assistant professor, Economics
• Lorenz Ekerdt, assistant professor, Economics
• Yolanda Mackey, assistant professor, English
• Chelsea Osademe, lecturer, English 
• Guleed Ali, assistant professor, Geosciences
• Valeria Meiller, assistant professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature 
• Sebastian Lopez Vergara, assistant professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature 
• Riga Shakya, assistant professor, History 
• Nurlan Kabdylkhak, assistant professor, History 
• Mark Chambers, assistant professor, History and Africana Studies 
• Gerard Keubeung, assistant professor, Languages and Cultural Studies 
• Katerina Tetzloff, assistant professor, Linguistics
• Sandy Abu el Adas, assistant professor, Linguistics 
• Kuan-Wen Chen, lecturer, Mathematics 
• Karim Shikh Khalil, lecturer, Mathematics 
• Roxy Coss, assistant professor, Music 
• Amalia Napoli, lecturer, Neurobiology and Behavior 
• Maximilian Tegtmeyer, assistant professor, Philosophy
• Darla Migan, lecturer, Philosophy 
• Ross Corliss, lecturer, Physics and Astronomy 
• Gillian Winters, lecturer, Physics and Astronomy
• Raymond Blackwell, assistant professor, Physics and Astronomy
• Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, professor, Political Science 
• Wei Zhong, assistant professor, Political Science 
• Serena Clark, lecturer, Political Science 
• Candice Alfano, professor, Psychology 
• Lu Dong, assistant professor, Psychology 
• Julian Burger, assistant professor, Psychology 
• Sahil Luthra, assistant professor, Psychology
• Cameron Jones, assistant professor, Psychology 
• Jenna Palladino, assistant professor, Psychology 
• Tori Pena, lecturer, Psychology 
• Jennifer Bowers, lecturer, Psychology 
• Ola Mohamed Ali, assistant professor, Psychology 
• Rebecca Pearce, lecturer, Undergraduate Biology 
• Mai Fahmy, lecturer, Undergraduate Biology
• Jen McConnel, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric 
• Kristie Schlauraff, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric 
• Sarah Hakimzadeh, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric 
• Hui Wang, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric 
• Donna Downing, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric 
• Michael Benjamin, lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric