Fresh Faces

A statistics student might tell you that 17.6 percent of the new LAS faculty works in the Department of Mathematics. An English major might describe the literary significance of the number two in regards to the two new faculty members in the Department of English. The fact that the Department of Philosophy added one new faculty member might prompt a philosophy major to remind us that early Greeks didn’t consider one a number.

Whichever way you look at, the College of LAS added 17 talented faculty members from a wide range of disciplines. They are listed below, categorized by department.

Astronomy

• Neal Dalal, Assistant Professor (PhD, UC-San Diego)

Chemical Sciences

• Prashant Jain, Assistant Professor (PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Communication

• Jennifer Kam, Assistant Professor (PhD, Penn State University)

Economics

• Martin Perry, Professor (PhD, Stanford University)

English

• Manisha Basu, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
• Andrew Gaedtke, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)

History

• Robert Morrissey, Assistant Professor (PhD, Yale University)

Latina/Latino Studies

• Mireya Loza, Assistant Professor (PhD, Brown University)

Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics

• Antony Augoustakis, Associate Professor (PhD, Brown University)
• Dov Weiss, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Chicago)

Mathematics

• Pierre Albin, Assistant Professor (PhD, Stanford University)
• Yuliy Baryshnikov, Professor (MSc, MIIT, Moscow)
• Kay Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor (PhD, UC-Berkeley)

Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Rachel Smith-Bolton, Assistant Professor (PhD, Stanford University)

Philosophy

• Jonathan Livengood, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

Sociology

• Monica McDermott, Associate Professor (PhD, Harvard University)
• Rebecca Sandefur, Assistant Professor (PhD, University of Chicago)