Kirk Bansak, Assistant Professor: Political Science
PhD, Stanford University
Research interests: Causal inference, Political economy, Public opinion, Refugee resettlement, Algorithmic decision-making.
Website: https://www.kirkbansak.com
Elora Shehabuddin, Professor: Global Studies & Gender and Women's Studies
PhD, Princeton University
Research interests: Muslim women's activism; transnational feminism; South Asia; Islam and politics; political economy of gender.
Nano Barahona, Assistant Professor: Economics
PhD, Stanford University
Research interests: Industrial Organization and Public Economics.
Website: https://hbaraho.github.io/
Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor: Anthropology
PhD, Northwestern University
Research interests: Intergenerational trauma, culture & mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, stress physiology, epigenetics, developmental origins of health & disease, biocultural anthropology, racial justice, critical and decolonial approaches to biological anthropology.
Keanan Joyner, Assistant Professor: Psychology
PhD, Florida State University
Research interests: Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Electroencephalogram (EEG), Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA).
William Thompson, Assistant Professor: Psychology
PhD, University of Edinburgh
Research interests: problem-solving, reasoning, semantics, social technologies, and cultural evolution. Science, Survey Methodology.
Federico Echenique, Professor: Economics
PhD, UC Berkeley
Research interests: I am an economic theorist, with interests in the matcing and market design, the algorithmic economics (an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science and economics), and revealed preference theory.
Hidetaka Hirota, Associate Professor: History
PhD, Boston College
Research interests: United States history; immigration; law and policy; transnational history; global migration.
Stephanie Zonszein, Assistant Professor: Political Science
PhD, New York University
Research interests: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Politics, Political Behavior, Causal Inference.
Website: http://stephaniezonszein.com/
Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey, Assistant Professor: Economics
PhD, Northwestern University
Research interests: Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Allocation mechanisms, coordination in markets, discrimination Groups.
Ussama Makdisi, Professor: History
PhD, Princeton University
Research interests: Middle East.
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, Associate Professor: Sociology
PhD, Brown University
Research interests: Race/ethnicity; Latinx identity and politics; the sociology of knowledge and culture; Du Boisian Sociology; and qualitative methods.
Rebekah Ramsay, Assistant Professor: History
PhD, Emory University
Research interests: Soviet history, Central Asian history, law and empire, race and gender, 20th-century internationalism, oral histories and archives.
Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor: Political Science
PhD, Harvard
Research interests: Race, politics and statistical methods.
Lorena Oropeza, Professor: Ethnic Studies
PhD, Cornell University
Research Interests: Chicanx history, history of U.S. foreign relations, gender, social movements, and historicizing DEIBJ.
Micah Khater, Assistant Professor: African American Studies
PhD, Yale University
Research interests: Black feminist studies, Carceral studies, Disability studies, Histories of the US South, and Fugitivity.