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Assistant Professor, Architecture, Fall 2022 | Seth Denizen is a researcher and design practitioner trained in landscape architecture, evolutionary biology, and human geography. His published work is multidisciplinary, addressing art, design, soil science, urban geography, and the politics of climate change. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Scapegoat Journal: Architecture | […]

Associate Professor, Law, Fall 2023 | Sheldon A. Evans focuses his teaching and scholarship on criminal sentencing, punishment theory, and its intersection with immigration policies. He earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Southern California, his JD from the University of Chicago Law School, and served as a federal law clerk on […]

Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Fall 2021 | G’Ra Asim, a writer and musician, is the author of Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother (Beacon Press). He has served as a writing director at the African American Policy Forum and a graduate teaching fellow in Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. His […]

Associate Professor, Sociology, Fall 2021 | Zakiya Luna is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at WashU. Her research, teaching and community work focus on social movements, reproduction, human rights and intersectionality. She has published multiple peer-reviewed articles and chapters and secured multiple grants including from the National Science Foundation. Her […]

Assistant Professor, Musicology, Fall 2023 | Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit will join WashU as Assistant Professor of Musicology in Fall 2023. His innovative research in the emerging field of global music history examines musical and intellectual exchanges between Europe’s colonial powers and the empire of Siam (present-day Thailand) in the decades around 1900. Parkorn has been awarded […]

Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fall 2023 | Allison S. Reed’s work connects Black Feminist Studies with Disability & Mad Studies. She aims to help Black Feminist Studies more actively grapple with everyday lived experiences of madness, sickness, and disability as neglected categories within the intersectionality discourse, particularly in the domain of political […]

Assistant Professor, Education and African and African American Studies, Fall 2023 | Nichols Lodato’s mixed methods research examines how shock events (e.g., the Great Recession, COVID-19) impact identity development and education outcomes among diverse adolescents and young adults. In her study of the effects of shocks, which have had enduring negative impact on African American […]

Assistant Professor, Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Fall 2023 | Mona Kareem (she/they) holds a PhD in comparative literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research focuses on literary cultures of race, class, and gender in the Global South, with a focus on Afro-Asian encounters in the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf […]

Assistant Professor, African and American Studies, Fall 2023 | Themba is a scholar of African and Afro-diasporic literature and global black thought, focusing on the intersections between the histories of blackness and the politics of memory in the postcolonial world. His doctoral project looks at the significance of the SS Mendi shipwreck, the Herero and […]

Director of Strategic Projects and Operations Renée is the director of strategic projects and operations, supporting the work portfolio of the associate provost for institutional effectiveness. In this role, Renée provides planning, leadership, and management of high-impact initiatives aligning with the development of the WashU’s institutional effectiveness strategy. Renée works closely with cross-functional teams to optimize operational […]

PhD candidate in Imaging Science | School Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: big data, fMRI, depression, psychological events.

PhD candidate in Molecular Microbiology | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: multi-drug resistant pathogens and synthetic biology. 

PhD candidate in Geochemistry | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: experimental Petrology, trace elements partition behaviors, and lunar magmatic processes.

PhD candidate in Sociology | Entering year: 2020 | Research interests: immigration, colonialism, refugee integration, race/ethnicity, inequality.

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering year 2018 | Research interests: visual processing in retinal circuits using functional and anatomical microscopy.

PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: respiratory viruses, host immune response, and fluorescent microscopy.

PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2019 | Research Interests: critical electrochemical kinetics in solid-state electrolytes for energy storage systems.

PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering | Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: optical resonators, machine learning applied to data analysis and integrated photonics.

PhD candidate in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | School Entering Year: 2019 | Research interests: global-scale PM2.5 estimation using model, satellite, and measurement data.

PhD candidate in English Literature | School Entering Year: 2020 | Research interests: documentary poetics and film, race and gender studies, intermediality, and visual culture.