This fall Lafayette College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in Easton, Pennsylvania, has welcomed 11 new faculty members to campus. Three of the new faculty members are women.
Rachel Goshgarian is a new assistant professor of history. She was on the faculty at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, where she was a senior fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations. She holds a Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern studies from Harvard University.
Lauren J. Myers is an assistant professor of psychology at Lafayette. She was a visiting assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In 2008, she earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Pennsylvania State University.
Angelika Von Wahl is an associate professor of international affairs. She was an associate professor at San Francisco State University. A native of Germany, she holds a Ph.D. in political science from Free University Berlin
Dr. Hrycyna has served as dean of UC San Diego's School of Physical Sciences for the past three years. She is slated to become the university's next executive vice chancellor for academic affairs on January 1.
Dr. Albin is an associate professor of pediatrics and founding director of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's culinary medicine program, an initiative that aims to empower people to have a thriving relationship with the food they eat.
Dr. Borzewski has served as the interim provost of the Seminole campus and Health Education Center of St. Petersburg College in Florida for the past year. An alumna of the college, she has worked for St. Petersburg since 1999.
Since 2021, Dr. Raver has been serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She will begin her new duties at the University of Michigan on December 1.
Dr. Rhine comes to her new presidency with nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was president and chief executive officer of Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
The Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History to begin July 1, 2027. “Modern” is defined as 1895 to the present.
The University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of assistant professor of American Politics for an initial 4 year renewable term.
The Department of Economics at Michigan State University in East Lansing invites applications for a tenure-system Assistant Professor in microeconomic theory with an anticipated start date of August 16, 2027.
Princeton University is searching for a faculty member at the level of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the Program in Plasma Physics of its Department of Astrophysical Sciences, to begin in fall 2027.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for a full-time Research Associate for a three-year term starting in the 2026-2027 academic year.