New faculty join FAS
Thirty new ladder faculty members join the FAS for the 2025–26 academic year, including 20 pre-tenure faculty. Ten arrive with tenure, bringing exceptional experience to the FAS. Twenty-one new members of the instructional faculty are also joining the FAS on full-time, multi-year appointments, as well as two professors in the practice.
This cohort of new faculty works in disciplines ranging from political science to statistics and data science, applied mathematics to molecular biology, history to religious studies, and beyond.
Junior faculty honored for outstanding research
The FAS has awarded prizes to three junior faculty members for their excellent scholarship. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, assistant professor of English, received the Samuel ’60 and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Prize for her book, Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire. In it, she examines commonplace writing from colonial South Asia to challenge our ideas about reading.
Samuel McDougle, assistant professor of psychology, and Junliang Shen, associate professor of mathematics, were each awarded the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize, which honors faculty in the social or natural sciences. McDougle was recognized for his groundbreaking work at the interface of cognition and action, which is reshaping the field’s understanding of motor behaviors. Shen was recognized for his innovative research, which uses tools from algebraic geometry to solve questions and conjectures rooted in topology, geometry, and mathematical physics.
Political scientist oversees new tool measuring US economic shifts
Jacob Hacker ’00PhD, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, will oversee a critical new tool arriving at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. In 2023, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences released CORE Score, a tool providing county-level snapshots of how Americans experience economic security, health, and political efficacy. Hacker, who led the development of the tool’s ability to measure Americans’ participation in democracy, feels the new metrics are a better way to understand how inequality shapes political outcomes across the US.
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