New Faculty 2008-09

New ladder-rank faculty who have joined the campus this fall or will do so during the 2008-09 academic year are listed here by division.*

Arts

Caetlin Benson-Allott, acting assistant professor, film and digital media

Irene Lusztig, assistant professor, film and digital media

Boreth Ly, assistant professor, history of art and visual culture

Engineering

Mark Akeson, professor, biomolecular engineering

Qi Gong, assistant professor, applied mathematics and statistics

Jacob Rosen, associate professor, computer engineering

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, assistant professor, computer science

Humanities

Neda Atanasoski, assistant professor, feminist studies

Andrew Bivens, assistant professor, literature

Adrian Brasoveanu, assistant professor, linguistics

Nathaniel Deutsch, professor, literature

Gregory O'Malley, assistant professor, history

Shigeko Okamoto, professor, languages

Matthew Wagers, assistant professor, linguistics

Eve Zyzik, assistant professor, languages

Physical & Biological Sciences

Needhi Bhalla, assistant professor, molecular, cell, and

developmental biology

Samit Dasgupta, assistant professor, mathematics

Auston Kilpatrick, assistant professor, ecology and evolutionary

biology

Mark Krumholz, assistant professor, astronomy and astrophysics

Jeremy Sanford, assistant professor, molecular, cell, and

developmental biology

Alexander Sher, assistant professor, physics

Sharon Stammerjohn, assistant professor, ocean sciences

Michael Stone, assistant professor, chemistry and biochemistry

Victoria Stone, assistant professor, environmental toxicology

Social Sciences

Cynthia Cruz, assistant professor, education

Mayanthi Fernando, assistant professor, anthropology

Shannon Gleeson, assistant professor, Latin American and Latino

studies

Shelly Grabe, assistant professor, psychology

Flora Lu, assistant professor, Latin American and Latino

studies

Hector Perla, assistant professor, Latin American and Latino

studies

Benjamin Read, assistant professor, politics

Aaronette White, associate professor, psychology

Matthew Wolf-Meyer, assistant professor, anthropology




*Source: UCSC Academic Human Resources