{"id":15817,"date":"2024-08-09T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/?p=15817"},"modified":"2024-10-01T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:00:17","slug":"new-2024-2025-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/blog\/2024\/08\/09\/new-2024-2025-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"New 2024-2025 faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Krieger School welcomes a talented group of new faculty members, each of whom brings scholarly accomplishments to our academic community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angie Bautista-Chavez<\/a>     <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a scholar of American politics, Angie Bautista-Chavez examines the politics of migration, borders, bureaucracy, race, and citizenship. She is interested in the dynamic interplay between states and racialized migrants\u2014at one level, how Latinx immigrants are regulated by and contend with the American state, and at another level, how the United States has expanded its regulatory reach beyond its borders. She is committed to creating more inclusive systems of knowledge production, as indicated by her research, teaching, and mentorship record. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maria Betto<\/a>  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Betto\u2019s research interests are in\u202fmicroeconomic theory, with a particular focus on topics related to information economics and decision theory. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gira Bhabha<\/a>    <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gira Bhabha’s research focuses on the structural mechanisms and cell biology of microbes and their interactions with hosts. The lab uses integrative approaches including X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, optical microscopy, biochemistry, microbiology, and cell biology techniques, to uncover the unique biology of eukaryotic and prokaryotic pathogens. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Alessandra Corsi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research Professor, William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alessandra Corsi\u2019s research focuses on multi-messenger time-domain astronomy, with emphasis on relativistic radio transients and gravitational wave physics.\u202fShe has vast experience with observations of astrophysical transients and follow-up of gravitational wave (GW) events and works on detection algorithms for GW data.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ross Doppelt<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Applied Economics (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross Doppelt teaches in the applied economics program, based out of the Washington, D.C., campus. As a macroeconomist, his primary research interests are labor markets and time series, and he has experience teaching classes in macro, micro, and econometrics. Doppelt has a PhD from New York University and a BA from the University of Chicago, both in economics. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Damian Ekiert<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Research Professor, Department of Biology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damian Ekiert is a microbiologist and biochemist whose research focuses on bacterial and parasite cell biology. He studies fundamental cellular and molecular processes ranging from lipid transport and virulence factors in bacteria, to invasion mechanisms in microsporidian parasites and the evolution of a minimal eukaryotic cell. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brahim El Guabli<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brahim El Guabli is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches a variety of topics in Tamazghan and Middle Eastern literatures from the lens of environmentalism, indigeneity, and multilingualism. His work engages issues of race and racism, deserts and Saharanism, joint authorship practices, translation and transitional justice, Jews in Amazigh and Arabic cultural production, and revitalization of Indigenous cultures. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Harris Feinsod<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research Professor, Department of English <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris Feinsod is a literary and cultural historian of the United States, Latin America, and the Atlantic world. He is the author of a literary history, The Poetry of the Americas: from Good Neighbors to Countercultures<\/em>, and the co-translator of Oliverio Girondo\u2019s Decals: Complete Early Poems<\/em>. His recent academic essays and public writings focus especially on port cities, and on maritime labor, environment, and culture under conditions of globalization. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kandyce Fernandez<\/a>  <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senior Lecturer, Non-Profit Management (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kandyce Fernandez\u2019s expertise in the nonprofit sector includes philanthropy and foundations, advocacy and the policy process, civic health and engagement and program evaluation. Her research addresses the interactions that take place among communities and organizations across sectors, with a focus on civic health in the nonprofit sector. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lauren Fusilier<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Fusilier\u2019s research interests include digital and multimodal pedagogy, the intersection of digital literacies and new media campus resources, and issues of institutional equity and accessibility, especially as they impact non-dominant student populations.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Gallup<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Gallup\u2019s research areas include the evolution and functional significance of yawning, sports and athletics in evolutionary perspective, and threat detection and group vigilance. He teaches courses in behavioral biology and provides advising and research mentoring to undergraduate students. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maia Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maia Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed\u2019s work takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation. Arguing against reparative modes of reading, she analyzes how literary portrayals of violence, destruction, and pain paradoxically elicit pleasurable affective and aesthetic experiences. Examining novels by established Latinx authors such as Junot D\u00edaz and Cristina Garc\u00eda as well as multiethnic writers such as Colson Whitehead and Sesshu Foster, Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed challenges definitions of what constitutes Latinx literature and notions of the speculative by dismantling generic boundaries and entrenched definitions of race, ethnicity, and nationhood. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nune Grigoryan<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator, Communication (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nune Grigoryan\u2019s research is focused on the intersection of media and democracy. Her scholarly work includes studies of media ethics and digital media use for political participation, as well as social media use for political dissent and political campaigns. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Grobe<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Research Professor, Department of English <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Grobe specializes in the entanglement of literature, performance, media, and technology in U.S. culture. Understanding “performance” as both a mode of artistic practice and a source of social knowledge, he has studied such topics as the history of “confessional performance” in American culture, the theatricality of U.S. electoral politics, and the role artists play in constructing new technologies (from the telegraph to AI) and in determining their cultural significance.\u202f\u202f   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David Guggenheim<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lecturer, Program Coordinator, Academic Advisor, Environmental Programs (Advanced Academic Programs) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Guggenheim is a marine scientist, conservation policy specialist, educator, award-winning author, ocean explorer and manned submersible pilot. He has worked in Cuba for more than 20 years, leading collaborative education, research and conservation efforts focused on coral reef ecosystems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Hale<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research Professor, Department of Cognitive Science <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Hale’s expertise lies in computational linguistics.\u202fHis research centers on language comprehension, asking questions such as how are we able to understand one another, just by hearing a sequence of words? He uses cognitive modeling, analyzing the human mind\/brain via computer simulation.\u202f <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Simon D. Halliday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n