Penn Arts & Sciences appointed 20 new members of the faculty for the 2020–2021 academic year. These include three at the rank of full professor: Jared Farmer, Professor of History; Yoichiro Mori, Calabi-Simons Professor of Mathematics and Biology; and Karen Tani, Seaman Family University Professor.
Other appointments to named professorships are Sonal Khullar, W. Norman Brown Associate Professor; Tyshawn Sorey, Presidential Assistant Professor of Music; and Tariq Thachil, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India. Thachil is also Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India.
Other new faculty are:
Michael Arcaro, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Abdulhamit Arvas, Assistant Professor of English
Martin Claassen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Natacha Diels, Assistant Professor of Music
Wayne Gao, Assistant Professor of Economics
Joachim Hubmer, Assistant Professor of Economics
Kevin He, Assistant Professor of Economics
Nicole Holliday, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Arnold Mathijssen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Yumeng Ou, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Xin Sun, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Elly Truit, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Corlett Wood, Assistant Professor of Biology
Chenshu Zhou, Assistant Professor of History of Art (January 2021)
