PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With research and teaching expertise in fields ranging from brain science and data science to Africana studies, epidemiology and engineering, 53 new professors and lecturers will join the Brown University faculty in the 2018-19 academic year.
“Faculty are central to Brown’s core educational mission,” said Brown University Provost Richard M. Locke. “They are responsible for engaging in research and discovery across disciplines, finding solutions to pressing societal issues, and for designing innovative approaches to teaching and learning that prepare students to make a difference in the world. I’m enthusiastic about the exceptional scholars who are joining the Brown community this year and look forward to supporting their work in classrooms, laboratories and in the community.”
VIDEO: Brown welcomes 53 new faculty members (by Stephen Crocker)
The new professors, associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers and research and teaching faculty members will serve in a wide variety of academic departments. The full listing, with links for more information about each faculty member, follows below:
Humanities and Social Sciences
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Associate Professor of American Studies and English
Lisa Biggs
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Kelly Dobson
Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Jae Hee Han
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Laird Hunt
Professor of Literary Arts
Liwei Jiao
Lecturer in East Asian Studies
Leila Lehnen
Associate Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Susanna Loeb
Professor of Education and International and Public Affairs
Kevin Quashie
Professor of English
Dixa Ramirez
Assistant Professor of American Studies and English
Emily Rauscher
Assistant Professor of Sociology
RaMell Ross
Assistant Professor of Visual Art (effective January 2019)
Mark Seto
Director of the Brown University Orchestra and Senior Lecturer in Music
Mark Steinbach
Senior Lecturer of Music
Lulei Su
Lecturer in East Asian Studies
Neil Thakral
Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Life and Physical Sciences
Stephen Bach
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Yuri Basilevs
E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering
Alexander Evans
Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Roman Feiman
Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Andrey Gromov
Assistant Professor of Physics (effective January 2019)
Jia Li
Assistant Professor of Physics (effective January 2019)
Charles Morton
Lecturer in Chemistry
Tim Nelson
Assistant Professor of Computer Science (Research)
Ellie Pavlick
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Vikas Srivastava
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Kory Stiffler
Assistant Professor of Physics (Research)
Eric Victor
Lecturer in Chemistry
Samuel Watson
Lecturer in the Data Science Initiative
Biology and Medicine
See a complete list of new Biology and Medicine faculty, including clinical appointments.
Marco de Cecco
Instructor in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research)
Carsten Eickhoff
Assistant Professor of Medical Science
Iuliana Ene
Assistant Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (Research)
Alexander Fleischmann
Provost's Associate Professor of Brain Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Hamish Fraser
Associate Professor of Medical Science
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Blanche Ip
Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology (Research)
Stephanie Jones
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
George Lisi
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Matthew Nassar
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (effective January 2019)
Kathaleen O'Connor-Giles
Provost's Associate Professor of Brain Science, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Brandon Ogbunugafor
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nathalie Oulhen
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (Research)
Rachel Soemedi
Instructor in Medical Science (Research)
Daniel Spade
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Public Health
Jasjit Ahluwalia
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Medicine
Angela Bengtson
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (effective January 2019)
Nina Joyce
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Whitney Mills
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research)
Patience Moyo
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Jennifer Nazareno
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Jennifer Pellowski
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Ian Saldanha
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice