The Krieger School Welcomes New Faculty

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Marina Bedran

Marina Bedran joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she was a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. Her research focuses on Latin American literature and visual culture from the 19th century to the present, with a concentration on Brazil. She holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University.


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Nichole Broderick

Nichole Broderick joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Institute for Systems Genomics at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that underlie animal-microbiome interactions. She holds a PhD in entomology and microbiology from the University of Wisconsin.


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Bryce Corrigan

Bryce Corrigan joins Johns Hopkins as a senior statistician and lecturer in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute. Prior to coming to Hopkins, he was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses on innovative methods for panel data analysis in complex datasets. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.


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Henry Farrell

Henry Farrell joins Johns Hopkins as a professor of international affairs at the School of Advanced International Studies and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute. Prior to coming to Hopkins, he was a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. His research focuses on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the internet, and international and comparative political economy. He holds a PhD in government from Georgetown University.


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Michelle Kosch 

Michelle Kosch joins Johns Hopkins as a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, she was a professor of philosophy at Cornell University. Her research focuses on Kant and post-Kantian European philosophy, especially German idealists, Kierkegaard, Foucault, and Beauvoir. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University.


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Adam Seth Levine

Adam Seth Levine joins Johns Hopkins as an associate professor of health policy and management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute. Prior to coming to Hopkins, he was an associate professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research focuses on the role of science in American life, particularly when scientists collaborate with civic and political leaders to address pressing public health, environmental, and other challenges. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.


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Karen ní Mheallaigh

Karen ní Mheallaigh joins Johns Hopkins as a professor in the Department of Classics. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she was a professor of classics at the University of Exeter in the UK. Her research focuses on ancient fiction and the world of the ancient scientific imagination, where fiction intersects with the technical—especially in the realms of astronomy and technology. She holds a PhD in classics from Trinity College, Dublin.


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Danielle Speller

Danielle Speller joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Maruyama Lab at Yale University’s Wright Laboratory. Her research focuses on understanding the nature of matter and mass through low-energy, cryogenic searches for physics beyond the standard model. She holds a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.


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John Yasuda

John Yasuda joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Prior to coming to Hopkins, he was an assistant professor in Chinese politics in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University. His research focuses on issues related to the authoritarian regulatory state, the political economy of development, and bureaucratic politics. He holds a PhD in political science from University of California, Berkeley.