Carnegie Mellon University
August 26, 2019

Dietrich College Welcomes 17 New Faculty

By Stefanie Johndrow

From research to pedagogy, new frontiers are constantly met by professors and postdoctoral researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. This fall, 17 new faces are joining the Dietrich College’s world-class faculty.

Ignacio Arana, Assistant Teaching Professor
Institute for Politics and Strategy

Koel Banerjee, Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar of English
Department of English

Zach Branson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Susan Buchman, Special Faculty in Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Philipp Burckhardt, Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Katharine Burns, Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages

Ebenezer Concepcion, Presidential Postdoc in Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages

Jose Estrada, Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages

Eugene Katsevich, Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Whitney Laemmil, Assistant Professor of History
Department of History

Bonnie Nozari, Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Department of Psychology

Anthony Pratcher II, Postdoctoral Fellow for Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy
Department of History

Matthew A. Smith, Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Xuran Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Yuting Wei, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Department of Statistics and Data Science

Dan Yurovsky, Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology
Department of Psychology

Hanshu Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow in Decision Making and Human Factors and Psychology
Department of Social and Decision Sciences

A previous version of this story omitted the Department of Psychology's Bonnie Nozari and Dan Yurovsky.