University of Pennsylvania New Standing Faculty Members
AY 2008 - 2009
Carolyn Abbate, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music. History of music, with a focus on opera; other current interests include film music and sound technology. Ph.D. from Princeton University.
James Aguirre, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Astrophysics, with an emphasis on submillimeter galaxies, mass assembly and galaxy evolution. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Paul Cobb, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Medieval Middle Eastern social and cultural history, with special interests in early Islam and the Crusades. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Flavio Cunha, Assistant Professor of Economics. Labor economics, human capital investment, development economics, and econometrics. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
André Dombrowski, Assistant Professor of History of Art. Nineteenth-century European art and architecture, with special interests in art and material culture of France, Germany and Britain. Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Joshua Esty, Associate Professor of English. Twentieth-century British, Irish and postcolonial literature; Modernism; the Victorian novel. Ph.D. from Duke University.
Chenoa Flippen, Assistant Professor of Sociology. Racial and ethnic stratification, urban poverty, and aging and the life-course among minority populations. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor (joint appointment between Departments of Mathematics in SAS and Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science). Topological methods with applications to dynamical systems, robotics and sensor networks. Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Geoffrey Goodwin, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Social psychology, with special interests in higher level cognition, reasoning and moral cognition. Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Sarah Gordon, Professor of History (joint appointment as Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, Law School). Religion in American political life; separation of church and state; Mormonism. Ph.D. from Princeton University and J.D. from Yale University.
Andrea Goulet, Associate Professor of Romance Languages. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, science and literature, detective fiction, and nouveau roman. Ph.D. from Yale University.
Brian Gregory, Assistant Professor of Biology (as of January 2009). Genomics, with an emphasis on the role of RNA silencing in hormone signaling. Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Philip Gressman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Harmonic analysis, geometric combinatorics and geometric analysis. Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Kathryn Hellerstein, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures.Yiddish literature, with a special interest in women’s poetry; Jewish studies. Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Joseph Kable, Assistant Professor of Psychology. Social psychology, in particular the neural and psychological mechanisms of decision-making. Ph.D. from Penn.
Justin Khoury, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (as of January 2009). Cosmology and particle physics, with a special interest in dark matter. Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Jaesok Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Cultural anthropology, with a focus on transnational capitalism and labor migration in China and Korea. Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Joshua Klein, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Experimental particle physics, with a special interest in solar neutrinos. Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Annette Lareau, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. Sociology of education; ethnography of race and class. Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Elliott Lipeles, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. High energy physics, with a special interest in electroweak symmetry breaking. Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.
Qingmin Liu, Assistant Professor of Economics. Microeconomic theory, dynamic games and epistemic foundations of game theory. Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Andrea Nicoara, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Several complex variables, CR geometry and algebraic geometry. Ph.D. from Princeton.
Emilio Parrado, Associate Professor of Sociology. Demography, with an emphasis on international migration and Hispanic immigrant adaptation. Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
James Petersson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Chemical biology, with a special interest in conformational changes in neuronal signaling proteins. Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology.
Lauren Ristvet, Robert H. Dyson Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Department of Anthropology. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern history and archaeology. Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
Natasa Sesum, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Geometric analysis, complex geometry, and partial differential equations, with a special interest in geometric evolution equations. Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jessica Stanton, Assistant Professor of Political Science. International relations, with a current focus on how combatants in civil wars employ violence. Ph.D. expected from Columbia University.
Alan Stocker, Assistant Professor of Psychology (as of April 2009). Perception, with a special interest in neuroinformatics and computational models of visual perception. Doctor of Natural Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Robert Strain, Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Partial differential equations, mathematical physics, fluid dynamics, and gas dynamics. Ph.D. from Brown University.
Mark Trodden, Professor of Physics and Astronomy (as of January 2009). Cosmology and theoretical particle physics. Ph.D. from Brown University.
Rupa Viswanath, Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies. Religious history of modern South India, with a special interest in the intersection of caste, state and missionaries. Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Alex Weisiger, Assistant Professor of Political Science. International relations, with an interest in war initiation and termination. Ph.D. from Columbia University.