New Faculty Joining the College of Arts and Sciences in 2023-24
Twenty new faculty members will begin teaching at Santa Clara University's College of Arts and Sciences this fall.
Beginning in Fall 2023, the College will be welcoming fifteen tenured or tenure track faculty, four lecturers, and a visiting professor to campus, bringing a wide array of expertise across ten of our departments. Seven of these faculty members make up the second cohort in our Race, Inequality, and Social Justice cluster hire. This cohort will meet twice per quarter to support their scholarly and creative work, discuss strategies for faculty success, build their on-campus networks, and connect to key resources on campus.
“After a long but fruitful hiring season, I am very excited to welcome these wonderful new faculty to the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Dean Daniel Press. “I am positive that they will bring diverse sets of knowledge and experiences to our students and make great contributions to our campus community.”
Join us in welcoming these faculty into the Bronco community!
New Full Professors
Venkatesh Srinivasan
Mathematics and Computer Science
Algorithms, data mining, and data privacy
Chris Tirres
Religious Studies - Buckley Visiting Chair in Latinx Theology
Latinx religious thought and practice, liberation theology, liberation philosophy, philosophical pragmatism, critical pedagogy, Latina feminism, and grassroots diplomacy
New Associate Professor
Aparajita Nanda
English
Postcolonial studies, African American literature through the lens of postcolonial theory, diaspora studies and South Asian literature, Inter-generational trauma studies, and Third world feminism
New Assistant Professors
Tiantian Chen
Mathematics and Computer Science
Combinatorial optimization, machine learning, social computing, and network optimization
Maia Dedrick
Anthropology
Archaeology, food systems and agricultural heritage, colonialism and environmental change, Yucatan peninsula, community-engaged research
Katie Dowse
Theatre and Dance
Costume design, character representation, costume technology, craftwork, 3D printing, digital rendering, and fabric manipulation
Vanessa Errisuriz
Public Health
Disparities in social determinants of obesity and related chronic disease among underserved populations; promotion of healthy development and lifestyles through diet, physical activity, and mental well-being; community-based participatory research methods; and implementation science
Chi-Yun Hsu
Mathematics and Computer Science (Hired 2022/23)
Number theory, p-adic modular forms, geometry of eigenvarieties, Galois deformations, and Iwasawa theory
Giselle Laiduc
Psychology
Micah Lattanner
Public Health
Structural stigma, interpersonal discrimination, and health; concealable stigmatized identities; interpersonal relationships and social belonging
Vivien Leung
Political Science
Race and ethnicity in politics, Asian American politics, political behavior, public opinion, immigration, surveys and experiments, and political psychology
Ray Li
Mathematics and Computer Science
Theoretical computer science, coding theory, fine grained complexity, approximation algorithms, combinatorics
William Rush
Environmental Studies and Sciences
Paleoclimate reconstructions, geochemistry, climate modeling, atmospheric rivers, and hydroclimate extremes
Daniel Summerhill
English
Poetry with expertise in race, inequality, and social justice, and creative nonfiction with an emphasis in cultural criticism, narrative, and Black tradition
Jose Villagrana
English
Early modern British and Spanish literature and religious culture, colonization and law, critical race studies, digital humanities, and accessibility
Shan Wu
Physics
Condensed matter experimentalist, Quantum materials, strongly correlated electrons, magnetism and superconductivity, spintronics, neutron, and X-ray scattering
New Lecturers
Will Dana
Mathematics and Computer Science
Representation theory of algebras and combinatorics of Coxeter groups
George Schaeffer
Mathematics and Computer Science
Computational and algebraic number theory, graph theory, and undergraduate research programs in mathematics
Shruthi Sridhar
Mathematics and Computer Science
Topology and knot theory, embeddings of smooth manifolds, and "knotted" objects in 4 dimensional space
Nathan Williams
Physics
Applications of quantum weak measurements