New faculty join a long tradition of inquiry
Like the scholarship they produce, University of Chicago faculty are diverse, provocative, and dynamic. We proudly welcome these newest members of our community. The following members joined the University of Chicago faculty in calendar year 2022 (through January 1, 2023).

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Message from the Provost
We are excited to welcome to the University of Chicago new faculty members, who join our distinctive academic culture. Our institution is defined by rigorous inquiry and a deep commitment to free expression. Through their scholarship and ambition, our new faculty reflect the best traditions of the University while bringing unique insights and approaches to our community of scholars.
The intellectual vibrancy of the University is fundamentally driven by the quality of the faculty we recruit and retain. We strive to provide an environment and culture where new faculty can thrive, discover new insights and solutions, shape and define fields, and inspire generations of students.
We are committed to supporting our new faculty as they bring their talent, intellect, and ideas to the University in pursuit of deeper knowledge. Please join me in thanking them for the contributions they are already making and will continue to bring to our collective undertaking.
Ka Yee C. Lee
Provost
The University of Chicago
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Ania Aizman
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College
Rahaf Alkhateb
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Mark Anderson
Paul and Allene Russell Professor
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs
Dean, Division of the Biological Sciences
Dean, Pritzker School of Medicine
Marielena Bachier-Rodriguez
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Francesca Bastianello
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Brett Beaulieu-Jones
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Mark Belkin
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Ran Blekhman
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Marco Bonilla
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Ryan Boudreau
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Joseph Bruch
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College
Darren Bryan
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Sofia Buenaventura
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Christopher Campos
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Timothy Carll
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Sridevi Challa
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ronny Chan
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Gregory S. Chasson
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Dennis Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Tenzin Choden
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Anthony Christiano
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Arielle Cimeno
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Betsy Cliff
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College
Richard Cockerill
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Marlene Cohen
Professor
Department of Neurobiology and the College
Kimberly Cole
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Axel R. Concepcion
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the College
Courtney Cripps
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Michael Czapka
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Adam Davidson
Assistant Professor
Law School
Sergio Delgado Moya
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College
Karri DiPetrillo
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and the College
Monica Do
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and the College
Kristin Donnelly
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Lindsey Eastman
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mary Kate Erdman
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Jessica Felgenhauer
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Leah Fox
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
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Chiara Galli
Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Human Development and the College
Madhusudan Ganigara
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
William Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Yangfeifei Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Jacob Goldin
Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law
Law School
Aaron Gottlieb
Assistant Professor
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Pauline Goul
Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College
Ameera Haamid
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Keisuke Harigaya
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and the College
Paula Harper
Assistant Professor
Department of Music and the College
Cassandra Hayne
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the College
Vasyl Hereha
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Martin D. Herman
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Po-Chun Hsu
Assistant Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Anders Humlum
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Irfan Hussain
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
Walid Hussain
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Mubina Isani
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Matthew Jacobs
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Aaron Jakes
Assistant Professor
Department of History and the College
Aiyah Jandali
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
Elizabeth Jerison
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, James Franck Institute, and the College
Kevin Johnson
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
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Anthony Kaldellis
Professor
Department of Classics and the College
Alex Kale
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and the College
Saara Kaviany
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Shabaana Khader
Bernard and Betty Roizman Professor
Department of Microbiology and the College
Chair, Department of Microbiology
Abid Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Aly A. Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and the College
David D. Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Erika Kirgios
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Ervin Kocjancic
Professor
Department of Surgery
Mark Korpics
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Charlotte Kvasnovsky
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Gregory Lane
Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy
Adam Lee
Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Lawrence Lo
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
Carolina López-Ruiz
Professor
Divinity School, Department of Classics, and the College
Guido Lorenzoni
Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Economics
Chicago Booth
M
Darya Mailhiot
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Akhil Mathew
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and the College
Jana Matuszak
Assistant Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Nina Mbadiwe
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Michael McCartin
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Laura McGuinn
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and the College
Hillary McLaren
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Augusta McMahon
Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College
C. Maxwell Medert
Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Ilayna Mehrtens
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Joseph B. Meleca
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Y. Shirley Meng
Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Darcey Merritt
Professor
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Teresa Montoya
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and the College
Olga (Olya) Morozova
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College
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Vanessa Ng
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Jasmine Nirody
Assistant Professor
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the College
Sharmilee M. Nyenhuis
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Medicine
Dena Oaklander
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Zainab Obaidi
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Shigehiro Oishi
Marshall Field IV Professor
Department of Psychology and the College
Andrea Olivas
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Rebeca Ortiz Worthington
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Cecilia Palombo
Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College
Joshua Pan
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Mikin V. Patel
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
Angelica Perez-Gutierrez
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Melissa Pessin
Professor
Department of Pathology
Sean P. Polster
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Kirill Ponomarev
Assistant Professor
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College
Stephen Pophal
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Patricia Posey
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and the College
Sebastian Pott
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Ashish Premkumar
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kavita Renduchintala
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Jana Richards
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Claudio Rivera
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Katherine Rivlin
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mee-Ju Ro
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature and the College
Adriana Robertson
Donald N. Pritzker Professor
Law School
Evan Rose
Neubauer Assistant Professor
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College
Mélissa Roy
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Elisa Rubbo
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Douglas Rybar
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
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Vishnu Samara
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Aaron Schein
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and the College
Simon Schwörer
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Kaitlin Seibert
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Ted Skolarus
Professor
Department of Surgery
Jeremy Slivnick
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Stephanie Smith
Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth
Mehrnoush Soroush
Assistant Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Brady Still
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Jack W. Szostak
University Professor
Department of Chemistry and the College
Elaine Tanhehco
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
Caroline Thomas
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Zhen Tian
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Jasmin Tiro
Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College
Daniel Tobes
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Melissa Tjota
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Kristin Trela
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
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Aarti Venkat
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Ada Weinstock
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College
Ashley Wolf
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Haifeng Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and the College
Elizabeth Zavala
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Linda Zhao
Neubauer Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and the College
David Zemmour
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and the College
Patricia Zuccaro
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine