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
