New Faculty for 2017–18

Fall/Winter 2017

Penn Arts and Sciences has appointed 30 new members to its standing faculty for the 2017-2018 academic year.


The School is pleased to welcome:

Juan Pablo Atal, Assistant Professor of Economics

Katie Barott, Assistant Professor of Biology

Mia Bay, Professor of History (as of January 1, 2018)

Ashley Brock, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Margo Crawford, Professor of English

Stephanie Dick, Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science

Ivan Drpić, Associate Professor of History of Art

Marc Flandreau, Howard Marks Professor of Economic History and Professor of History

Amit Gandhi, Professor of Economics (as of January 1, 2018)

Kristen Ghodsee, Professor of Russian and East European Studies

Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research and Professor of Chemistry

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Jay Gottfried, Arthur H. Rubenstein University Professor of Psychology and Neurology

Gregory Goulding, Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies

Sarah Gronningsater, Assistant Professor of History 

Emily Hammer, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

Jonathan Heckman, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Morgan Hoke, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Annie Liang, Assistant Professor of Economics

Megan Matthews, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Marcia Norton, Associate Professor of History

Aurelie Ouss, Assistant Professor of Criminology

Ileana Perez-Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History

Donovan Schaefer, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Kathryn Schuler, Assistant Professor of Linguistics

Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor of English

Dagmawi Woubshet, Associate Professor of English

Bo Zhen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (as of January 1, 2018)