UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
NEW STANDING FACULTY MEMBERS
AY 2007 - 2008
Stefania Benini, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, studies Medieval and 20th-century Italian literature, Italian film and literary theory. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford.
Jeffrey Bode, Associate Professor of Chemistry, specializes in synthetic organic and bioorganic chemistry. He comes to Penn from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received his Doctor of Natural Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Philippe Bourgois, Richard Perry University Professor, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology in SAS and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health in the School of Medicine. He studies medical and urban anthropology, with interests in substance abuse and violence in urban settings. Bourgois comes to Penn from the University of California, San Francisco and received his Ph.D. from Stanford.
Cynthia Damon, Professor of Classical Studies, has research interests in Latin literature, Roman cultural history and Roman historiography. She comes to Penn from Amherst College and received her Ph.D. from Stanford.
Angela Duckworth, Assistant Professor of Psychology, studies positive psychology, with a special interest in how individual traits predict achievement. She received her Ph.D. from Penn.
David Eng, Professor of English, does work on American and Asian American literature and film, race and gender studies and queer theory. He comes to Penn from Rutgers and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeffrey Green, Assistant Professor of Political Science (as of January 2008), studies political theory, with special interests in democratic and constitutional theory. He will receive his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Michael Horowitz, Assistant Professor of Political Science, specializes in international relations, with a focus on security studies and statistical analysis of international conflict. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Eric Jarosinski, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, has research interests in modern German literature and culture, mass media studies and architectural theory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Douglas Jerolmack, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, studies physical sedimentology, with a special interest in the sediment-fluid interface. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Philipp Kircher, Assistant Professor of Economics, does research on microeconomic theory, labor economics, monetary economics and search theory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn.
Joachim Krieger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, studies partial differential equations, mathematical physics, harmonic analysis and differential geometry. He comes to Penn from Harvard and received his Ph.D. from Princeton.
Julie Legate, Assistant Professor of Linguistics (as of January 2008), does research on syntax and morphology, syntactic theory and language acquisition. She comes to Penn from Cornell and received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matthew Levendusky, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is a scholar of American politics, with special interests in public opinion, political parties and congressional voting behavior. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford.
Javier Medina, Assistant Professor of Psychology (as of January 2008), studies behavioral neuroscience, with a focus on learning and memory, neural coding and sensory-motor integration. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas.
Isabel Muzzio, Assistant Professor of Psychology (as of January 2008), studies behavioral neuroscience, with special interests in the neural basis of learning and memory, and spatial navigation. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers.
Deven Patel, Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies, has research interests in Sanskrit language and literature and South Asian intellectual, literary and cultural history. He comes to Penn from Seton Hall University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Joshua Plotkin, Assistant Professor of Biology, studies molecular population genetics and mathematical modeling, with a special interest in pathogen evolution. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton.
Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor, is based in the Department of Criminology in SAS and the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. His research interests include the neurobiological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior. He received his Ph.D. from York University and comes to Penn from the University of Southern California.
Annette Yoshiko Reed, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, is a scholar of early Christianity, Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, and biblical studies. She comes to Penn from McMaster University and received her Ph.D. from Princeton.
Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor of English, has research interests in Victorian and Modernist studies, copyright and intellectual property, and postcolonial literature and theory. He comes to Penn from Pomona College and received his Ph.D. from Stanford.
Salamishah Tillet, Assistant Professor of English, studies 19th and 20th-century African American literature, with a current interest in contemporary African American representations of antebellum slavery. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard.
Xiaojue Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema, and comparative literature. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia.