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JOSH BRINLEE Assistant Professor of Art Memphis College of Art, M.F.A. 2-D design, drawing, color theory, digital manipulation & appropriation, ideas of originality, authorship, identity, self & ownership in the digital age
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THE HUMANITIES VALERIO CAPPOZZO Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Indiana University, Ph.D. Italian poetry of the 20th century, the influence of Islamic dream, divinatory sciences on early Italian poetry
ZACHARY KAGAN GUTHRIE Assistant Professor of History Princeton University, Ph.D. Modern southern Africa, focusing on central Mozambique
DANIEL NOVAK Associate Professor of English Princeton University, Ph.D. 19th century British literature, visual theory & critical theory, history of sexuality, photography & film
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JESSICA WILKERSON Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D. U.S. Southern history, women’s history
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M AT H E M AT I C S , P H Y S I C A L , A N D N AT U R A L S C I E NC E S KEVIN BEACH Assistant Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Condensed matter theory, computational physics
ERIK HOM
WILLIAM RESETARITS Professor of Biology and Doherty Chair in Freshwater Biology Duke University, Ph.D. Community, behavioral & evolutionary ecology in freshwater systems, experimental design & analysis
Assistant Professor of Biology
DAVITA WATKINS
University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. Synthetic ecology, symbiosis & mutualism, experimental evolution, microbiology, genomics & metabolism, image processing
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
JONAH JURSS
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D. Inorganic chemistry, particularly solar energy conversion, artificial photosynthesis, surface attachment, proton-coupled electron transfer, electron transfer at interfaces, molecular-level organization
SAMUEL LISI Assistant Professor of Mathematics Courant Institute at New York University, Ph.D. Symplectic topology & dynamical systems, specifically Hamiltonian systems, Floer homology, pseudoholomorphic curves
University of Memphis, Ph.D. Organic chemistry, specifically the design & synthesis of small molecules for materials applications
Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. Graph theory, combinatorics
SOCIAL SCIENCES CHENG CHENG Assistant Professor of Economics Texas A&M, Ph.D. Health economics, public economics, labor economics
JOHN GARDNER
Assistant Professor of Economics
Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. Applied microeconomics, labor economics, applied econometrics
JODY HOLLAND Assistant Professor of Public Policy Leadership Mississippi State University, Ph.D. Public administration, food policy, nonprofit organization
ELICIA LAIR Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Massachusetts, Ph.D. Social cognition, affect & emotion, information processing styles
AMY MCDOWELL Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. Sociology of religion, culture, gender & sexuality, qualitative methods
CATARINA PASSIDOMO Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Southern Studies University of Georgia, Ph.D. Food sovereignty, environmental sustainability, placemaking, humanenvironment interactions, critical race studies, urban geography, critical ethnography
JAMES THOMAS Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Missouri, Ph.D. Social inequalities, histories of race and racism, critical race theory, affect and embodiment, phenomenologies of power