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New Faculty

Nika Elder
Art history professor Nika Elder.

Brian Eric Anderson
• PhD physics, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Arizona
• BA and BS mathematics, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Rochester
• Quantum optics, quantum information, and atomic physics.

Asia Ferrin
• PhD and MA philosophy, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Washington
• BA philosophy, Westminster College
• Moral psychology, feminist philosophy, and ethics. How automatic, unconscious intuitions lead to good moral judgments. Additionally, systems of marginalization and oppression, with specific focus on implicit bias and microaggressions.

Valentina Aquila
• PhD meteorology, Ludwig-Maximilian Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Laurea physics, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Genoa
• Role of atmospheric aerosol in the climate system, in particular from volcanic eruptions, forest fires, and geoengineering.

Jeff Gill
• PhD government and statistics, American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• MBA, Georgetown Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BA mathematics, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of California, Los Angeles
• Ranging from political behavior and institutions to statistical computing, Bayesian inference, blood/circulation, cancer epidemiology and pediatric traumatic brain injury.

Orisanmi Burton
• PhD social anthropology, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MLIS library and information science, Long Island Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BA liberal arts, Hampshire College
• Race and racialization, crime and punishment, policing and security, social movements and prison abolition, urban studies, social geography, and critical theory.qualitative research methods, and participatory action research.

Emily Grossnickle Peterson
• PhD human development and quantitative methodology, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Maryland, College Park
• MA educational measurement and statistics, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Maryland, College Park
• BA psychology, Towson Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BM music performance, Towson Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• STEM education, equity, and learning.

Nika Elder
• PhD and MA art history, Princeton Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BA art history and studio art, Wellesley College
• American art, including African American art, the history of photography, and contemporary art, with a particular interest in the politics of art that looks distinctly apolitical.

Silvina Guidoni
• PhD and MS physics, Montana State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BS physics, Mar del Plata National Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Heliophysics, including space weather, with particular interest on the theoretical and computational modeling of solar eruptions and particle acceleration.

Ibram X. Kendi
• PhD and MA African American studies, Temple Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BS journalism and African American studies, Florida A&M Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• History of racism and anti-racism, global race relations, civil rights and black power, intellectual history.

Patricia Park
• MFA fiction, Boston Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BA English literature, Swarthmore College
• Author of novel Re Jane. Nonfiction published in the New York Times, Guardian, and Salon. At work on second novel focused on Korean diaspora in Argentina.

Jessica Leight
• PhD economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MPhil economics, Oxford Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• BA ethics, politics and economics, Yale Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Development economics and political economy, particularly rural institutions and structural transformation in the industrialization process, and decision-making around human capital investment and gender.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• PhD American literature, George Washington Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• AB African American studies, Harvard Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
• Creative writing (fiction, nonfiction), African American literature, con-
temporary American literature, historical fiction.

Manissa McCleave Maharawal
• PhD and MA anthropology, City Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of New York
• BA anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College
• Urban United States, social movements, post-occupy, gentrification, political subjectivity, race, policing, counter-mapping, oral history.

Alexander Zestos
• PhD chemistry, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Virginia
• BS and MS chemistry, College of William and Mary
• Development of analytical tools to answer complex questions in neuroscience, electrochemistry, microdialysis, drug abuse, dopamine.