Weinberg College welcomes new faculty members for 2021-2022 academic year
October 31, 2021
Weinberg College welcomes 38 new faculty members.
The new faculty include:
- Diego Arispe-Bazán, Department of Anthropology
- Dotun Ayobade, Department of African American Studies
- Vilna Bashi, Department of Sociology
- Jennifer Brace, Department of Molecular Biosciences
- Frederico Bugni, Department of Economics
- Antawan Byrd, Department of Art History
- Jeffrey Coleman, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Thadeus Dowad, Department of Art History
- Brendan Fernandes, Department of Art, Theory, and Practice
- Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Department of African American Studies
- Walker Hanlon, Department of Economics
- Eli Kean, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Shana Kelley, Department of Chemistry
- Dahye Kim, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Arvind Krishna, Department of Statistics
- Erin Leddon, Department of Linguistics
- Yuchen Liu, Department of Mathematics
- Christian Malapit, Department of Chemistry
- Liz McCabe, Chicago Field Studies
- Sidonia McKenzie, Department of Economics
- Elvia Mendoza, Department of Latina and Latino Studies
- Almaz Mesghina, Department of Psychology
- Adam Miller, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Elvira Mulyukova, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Peter Mwangi, Department of African American Studies
- Rana Raddawi, Middle East and North African Studies Program
- Luciana Sanga, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Ted Sargent, Department of Chemistry
- Danielle Sass, Department of Statistics
- Gus Schrader, Department of Mathematics
- Charif Shanahan, Department of English
- Maxim Sinitsyn, Department of Economics
- Jenna Smith, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Dayne Swearer, Department of Chemistry
- Silvia Vannutelli, Department of Economics
- Jeong Eun Annabel We, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Nina Wieda, Chicago Field Studies
- Xiaoyu Zhang, Department of Chemistry
Read more about the new Weinberg College faculty here.
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