Dear College Faculty and Staff,

I am happy to finally announce the newest additions to our incredible faculty. These teacher-scholars will be officially joining us on September 1 after a long but fruitful hiring season.

We have 15 tenure track faculty and two assistant teaching professors joining our ranks across 13 departments. Nine faculty make up the third cohort in our Race, Inequality and Social Justice cluster hire. Representing Anthropology, Art and Art History, Biology, English (3), Philosophy, and Religious Studies (2), this year’s cluster hire will join 14 faculty from the previous two cluster hires as they continue to create community through their cohorts.

Please join me in welcoming these wonderful new colleagues as they transition to Santa Clara!

Sincerely,

Daniel

New Associate Professor

Evan Gawlik
Mathematics and Computer Science

Numerical analysis, finite element methods, numerical linear algebra, discrete differential geometry

New Assistant Professors

Jeffrey Burkholder
Modern Languages and Literatures

French literature and philosophy, with research interests in aesthetics, romanticism, and ecology

Supurna Dasgupta
English

Postcolonial Literature and Theory, South Asian Culture and History, Gender and Sexuality, Critical Caste and Global Studies

Jeannette Estruth
History

History of twentieth and twenty-first century United States, history of social movements, the technology industry, and economic culture in the United States.

Desiree Forsythe
Biology

Biology and STEM Education, Critical theories including critical race theory, critical white studies, and queer theory, Disrupting systems of oppression in STEM, qualitative methodologist

Robin Grotjahn
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Computational Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Density Functional Theory (DFT), modern hybrid density functionals, photochemistry and photocatalysis, time-dependent DFT, non-adiabatic molecular dynamics, spin-orbit coupling, triplet states, phosphorescence

Nicholas Hayes-Mota
Religious Studies

Social ethics, political ethics, public theology, Catholic theology, democratic theory and practice, community organizing, faith-based social movements

Heather Kenyon
Theatre and Dance

Set Design, Scenic Painting, Prop Design and Construction, Hand and Computer Drafting, 3D Model Making, 3D Printing

Temptaous Mckoy
English

Black Technical and Professional Communication, Cultural Rhetorics, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Gaurika Mehta
Religious Studies

Religion, race, and caste in South Asia, the Caribbean, and North America; Migration, diaspora, and labor; Climate change and critical geography; Ethnography and film

Julia Morales
Anthropology

Michelle Rivers
Psychology

Cognition, education, self-regulated learning, STEM learning, study strategies, memory, metacognition, and creativity.

Maggie Wander
Art and Art History

Visual and material cultures of Oceania, Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, colonial studies, climate justice, contemporary art, museums and critical cultural heritage

Christine Wieseler
Philosophy

Biomedical ethics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of disability, phenomenology, Existentialism, medical humanities, and feminist pedagogy

Jessica Young
English

Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Literature and Critical Theory, Cultural Memory and Trauma Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Globalization, Gentrification, Culture Wars and Academia

New Assistant Teaching Professors

Jordan Cohen
Classics

Hellenistic history, Greco-Roman medicine, slavery in the ancient world, science and technology in the ancient world

Maricela Portillo Loayza
Modern Languages and Literatures

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