New Faculty 2022

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

Rahaf Alkhateb

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

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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

Marielena Bachier-Rodriguez

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Francesca Bastianello

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

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Brett Beaulieu-Jones

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College

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Mark Belkin

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Ran Blekhman

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine

Marco Bonilla

Marco Bonilla

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

Ryan Boudreau

Ryan Boudreau

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Joseph Bruch

Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College

Darren Bryan

Darren Bryan

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

Sofia Buenaventura

Sofia Buenaventura

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Christopher Campos

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

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Timothy Carll

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

Sridevi Challa

Sridevi Challa

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Ronny Chan

Ronny Chan

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Gregory S. Chasson

Gregory S. Chasson

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

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Dennis Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

Tenzin Choden

Tenzin Choden

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Anthony Christiano

Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine

Arielle Cimeno

Arielle Cimeno

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Betsy Cliff

Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College

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Richard Cockerill

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

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Marlene Cohen

Professor
Department of Neurobiology and the College

Kimberly Cole

Kimberly Cole

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

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Axel R. Concepcion

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the College

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Courtney Cripps

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Michael Czapka

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Adam Davidson

Assistant Professor
Law School

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Sergio Delgado Moya

Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College

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Karri DiPetrillo

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and the College

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Monica Do

Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and the College

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Kristin Donnelly

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

Lindsey Eastman

Lindsey Eastman

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Mary Kate Erdman

Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine

Jessica Felgenhauer

Jessica Felgenhauer

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

Leah Fox

Leah Fox

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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Chiara Galli

Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Human Development and the College

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Madhusudan Ganigara

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

William Gao

William Gao

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

Yangfeifei Gao

Yangfeifei Gao

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

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Jacob Goldin

Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law
Law School

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Aaron Gottlieb

Assistant Professor
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

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Pauline Goul

Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the College

Ameera Haamid

Ameera Haamid

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Keisuke Harigaya

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and the College

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Paula Harper

Assistant Professor
Department of Music and the College

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Cassandra Hayne

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the College

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Vasyl Hereha

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

Martin D. Herman

Martin D. Herman

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery

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Po-Chun Hsu

Assistant Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

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Anders Humlum

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

Irfan Hussain

Irfan Hussain

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology

Walid Hussain

Walid Hussain

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Mubina Isani

Mubina Isani

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Matthew Jacobs

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

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Aaron Jakes

Assistant Professor
Department of History and the College

Aiyah Jandali

Aiyah Jandali

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology

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Elizabeth Jerison

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, James Franck Institute, and the College

Kevin Johnson

Kevin Johnson

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Anthony Kaldellis

Professor
Department of Classics and the College

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Alex Kale

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and the College

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Saara Kaviany

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Shabaana Khader

Shabaana Khader

Bernard and Betty Roizman Professor
Department of Microbiology and the College
Chair, Department of Microbiology

Abid Khan

Abid Khan

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Aly A. Khan

Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and the College

David D. Kim

David D. Kim

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College

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Erika Kirgios

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

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Ervin Kocjancic

Professor
Department of Surgery

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Mark Korpics

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology

Charlotte Kvasnovsky

Charlotte Kvasnovsky

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Gregory Lane

Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy

Adam Lee

Adam Lee

Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine

Lawrence Lo

Lawrence Lo

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology

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Carolina López-Ruiz

Professor
Divinity School, Department of Classics, and the College

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Guido Lorenzoni

Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Economics
Chicago Booth

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Darya Mailhiot

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Akhil Mathew

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and the College

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Jana Matuszak

Assistant Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College

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Nina Mbadiwe

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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Michael McCartin

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Laura McGuinn

Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and the College

Hillary McLaren

Hillary McLaren

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Augusta McMahon

Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College

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C. Maxwell Medert

Assistant Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Ilayna Mehrtens

Ilayna Mehrtens

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Joseph B. Meleca

Joseph B. Meleca

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Y. Shirley Meng

Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

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Darcey Merritt

Professor
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

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Teresa Montoya

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology and the College

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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

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Jasmine Nirody

Assistant Professor
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the College

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Sharmilee M. Nyenhuis

Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Medicine

Dena Oaklander

Dena Oaklander

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Zainab Obaidi

Zainab Obaidi

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Shigehiro Oishi

Marshall Field IV Professor
Department of Psychology and the College

Andrea Olivas

Andrea Olivas

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

Rebeca Ortiz Worthington

Rebeca Ortiz Worthington

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Cecilia Palombo

Assistant Professor
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the College

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Joshua Pan

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Mikin V. Patel

Mikin V. Patel

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology

Angelica Perez-Gutierrez

Angelica Perez-Gutierrez

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Melissa Pessin

Professor
Department of Pathology

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Sean P. Polster

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery

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Kirill Ponomarev

Assistant Professor
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College

Stephen Pophal

Stephen Pophal

Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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Patricia Posey

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and the College

Sebastian Pott

Sebastian Pott

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College

Sebastian Pott

Ashish Premkumar

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Kavita Renduchintala

Kavita Renduchintala

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Jana Richards

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Claudio Rivera

Claudio Rivera

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Katherine Rivlin

Katherine Rivlin

Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Mee-Ju Ro

Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature and the College

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Adriana Robertson

Donald N. Pritzker Professor
Law School

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Evan Rose

Neubauer Assistant Professor
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the College

Mélissa Roy

Mélissa Roy

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery

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Elisa Rubbo

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

Douglas Rybar

Douglas Rybar

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

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Vishnu Samara

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

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Aaron Schein

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and the College

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Simon Schwörer

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College

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Kaitlin Seibert

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology

Ted Skolarus

Ted Skolarus

Professor
Department of Surgery

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Jeremy Slivnick

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Stephanie Smith

Assistant Professor
Chicago Booth

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Mehrnoush Soroush

Assistant Professor
Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College

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Brady Still

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

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Jack W. Szostak

University Professor
Department of Chemistry and the College

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Elaine Tanhehco

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology

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Caroline Thomas

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

Zhen Tian

Zhen Tian

Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology

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Jasmin Tiro

Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences and the College

Daniel Tobes

Daniel Tobes

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

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Melissa Tjota

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology

Kristin Trela

Kristin Trela

Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care

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Aarti Venkat

Aarti Venkat

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Ada Weinstock

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine and the College

Ashley Wolf

Ashley Wolf

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

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Haifeng Xu

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and the College

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Elizabeth Zavala

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine

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Linda Zhao

Neubauer Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and the College

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David Zemmour

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology and the College

Patricia Zuccaro

Patricia Zuccaro

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine