New faculty join FAS
This year, the FAS welcomes 25 new ladder faculty members—scholars whose work spans algebraic geometry and number theory, the African diaspora in the Atlantic world, and the science of cognition and disease in human brain networks—including a MacArthur ‘genius’ Fellow and a winner of the Bancroft prize for history.
Eighteen of these scholars are pre-tenure faculty, and seven arrive with tenure, bringing both fresh perspectives and exceptional experience to the FAS. In addition, eight new members of the instructional faculty are beginning full-time, multiyear appointments.
Together, this cohort of new faculty strengthens FAS across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Their appointments speak to the excellence and ambition of Yale’s academic community and to the impact these faculty are poised to make in their fields and in the classroom in the years ahead.
Junior faculty honored
The FAS awarded prizes to three junior faculty members for their excellent scholarship.
Alessandro Giammei, assistant professor of Italian studies, received the Samuel ’60 and Ronnie ’72 Heyman Prize in recognition of his book, Ariosto in the Machine Age. In it, he deftly traces the genealogy of Italian modernism, moving agilely across periods and genres to offer a model for the field of reception studies.
There were two recipients of the Arthur Greer Memorial Prize. Cormac O’Dea (’18postdoc) was recognized for his research on public economics and household finance, which examined how retirement and tax policies quietly steer the choices families make about working, saving, and passing wealth on. Chiara Mingarelli was recognized for her work launching a new area of research in gravitational waves. Mingarelli helps turn the galaxy into a giant gravitational-wave detector, using precise measurements of millisecond pulsars to catch ripples in spacetime from supermassive black hole pairs, revealing a new way to study the hidden, slow-motion dynamics of the universe.
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