Arts & Sciences Celebrates New Faculty for the 2024-2025 Year

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences officially welcomed 64 new faculty members last week with an Aug. 26 Nau Hall reception featuring remarks by Christa Acampora, the Buckner W. Clay Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of French Alison Levine. 

The new faculty have joined colleagues in 30 different A&S departments and programs this academic year. These new arrivals include assistant professors and recent Ph.D. graduates who have already displayed the research and teaching talents that have established them as up-and-coming stars of their chosen disciplines. They also include acclaimed scholars and artists recognized as groundbreaking leaders of their fields before accepting some of the University of Virginia’s most prestigious endowed professorships.

Their areas of specialization include neuroscience, the responses of forests and other ecosystems to climate change, U.S. foreign relations history, populism and the politics of borders and human migration, Jewish and Middle Eastern history and the history of Israel/Palestine, Slavic languages, the history of 20th century decolonial movements in Southern Africa, music composition and technology, proof-based mathematics, the social and epidemiological dynamics of contagious diseases and behavioral economics, and particle physics and the properties of the Higgs boson particle and dark matter.

You can learn more about our new A&S faculty colleagues here.