Seven New Women Faculty Members in the Humanities at Yale University

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has announced that there are seven new women faculty members in humanities disciplines this fall.

Rizvana Bradley is an assistant professor of African American studies and an assistant professor of film and media studies. She was a visiting fellow in the department of the history of art at University College London. Born in Kenya, Dr. Bradley is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She holds a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Deborah Coen is a professor of history at Yale. Before coming to Yale, she taught for 10 years in the history department at Barnard College and was director of research clusters for the Columbia Center for Science and Society. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Professor Coen is a graduate of Havard University, where she majored in physics. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge in England and a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University.

Aimee Meredith Cox is a new associate professor of African American studies and an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Previously, she had taught at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Dr. Cox is the author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2015). Dr. Cox is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in anthropology. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan.

Naomi Levine is a new assistant professor of English. For the past three academic years she has been a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her research focuses on the history of poetry. Dr. Levine is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she majored in English literature. She holds a master’s degree from McGill University in Montreal and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Elise Morrison was hired as an assistant professor in theater studies. She was an assistant professor of performance studies at Texas A&M University and previously served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale. Dr. Morrison is the author of Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2016). She is a graduate of the University of Oregon and holds a Ph.D. in theater and performance studies from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Eda Pepi is a new assistant professor in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality studies program at Yale. Dr. Pepi is at work on her first book, Marital States: Ethnicity and Gendered Citizenship in Jordan. Dr. Pepi is 2006 graduate of Harvard University. After working at the Social Science Research Council for several years, she earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University.

Ana Ramos-Zayas is a professor with a joint appointment in American studies, Ethnicity, Race & Migration, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies. Before joining the faculty at Yale, Dr. Ramos-Zayas taught at Rutgers University and the City University of New York. She is the author of Street Therapists: Affect, Race, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Professor Ramos-Zayas is a graduate of Yale University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.