The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences this semester welcomed 20 new scholars to its faculty. Their names, positions, departments, and fields of specialization are as follows:
- Shane Butler, professor, Classics: media history and theory; sensation, cognition, and aesthetics; rhetoric and poetics
- Michael Degani, assistant professor, Anthropology: sociocultural anthropology, infrastructure in post-socialist Tanzania
- Tamer El-Leithy, assistant professor, History: social/cultural history of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean, history of religious difference
- Mary Favret, professor, English: British Romanticism, late 18th- early 19th-century English literature, war studies, gender and genre, literature and violence
- Taekjip Ha, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor (with joint appointments in Medicine and Engineering), Biophysics: single-molecule biology and intracellular imaging; DNA transactions such as replication, recombination, and chromatin assembly
- Thomas Kempa, assistant professor, Chemistry: solid-state materials chemistry, experimental physical chemistry
- Hayang Kim, assistant professor, History: modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual history, human sciences, women and gender, disability studies
- John Kim, associate professor, Biology: regulation of post-embryonic and germline development, transposon silencing to preserve genome integrity, and oncogenic cell proliferation
- Sebastián Mazzuca, assistant professor, Political Science: state formation, regime change, and economic development
- Joris Mercelis, assistant professor, History of Science and Technology: business history, history of chemistry, plastics science
- Sara Miglietti, assistant professor, German and Romance Languages and Literatures: French and European Renaissance literature and thought, book history, the history of political thought, early modern France
- Andrew Miller, professor, English: Victorian studies, literary form and perspective, moral philosophy and psychology
- Andrew Motion (U.K. poet laureate 1999–2009), professor, Writing Seminars: poetry, biography, novels
- Sua Myong, associate professor, Biophysics: single molecule and single cell imaging
- Emily Riehl, assistant professor, Mathematics: category theory related to homotopy theory, model categories, weak factorization systems
- David Savitt, professor, Mathematics: algebraic number theory, Galois representations, modular forms, p-adic Hodge theory
- Sebastian Schmidt, assistant professor, Political Science: international relations, social theory, intellectual history, international security
- Joshua Smith, assistant professor, Classics: Greek language and literature, ancient scholarship, history of literary criticism
- Sara Thoi, assistant professor, Chemistry: coordination chemistry, materials synthesis, electron and ion transport, photochemistry, electrocatalysis
- Yi Wang, assistant professor, Mathematics: geometric analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations
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