Dietrich College Welcomes New Faculty in 2023

By Marissa Pekular

Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes 31 new faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, research associates and special lecturers to the campus community. These scholars bring a wealth of knowledge, expertise and innovative thinking to various areas of study across the college.

Daniel Ames, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Jessica Balguy, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Modern Languages
Lukas Bolte, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Franziska Broker, postdoctoral research associate in the Neuroscience Institute
Kirk Brown, researcher in the Department of Psychology
Justin Canfil, assistant professor in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Erin Carbone, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Andrea Comiskey, lecturer in the Department of English
Emilia Ezrina, lecturer in the Department of Psychology
Maria Ferreira, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Kiyono Fujinaga-Gordon, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Modern Languages
Sarah Hae-In Idzik, assistant professor in the Department of English
Eun Hye Park, postdoctoral research associate in the Neuroscience Institute
Shihong Huang, teaching professor in Information Systems
Naama Ilany-Tzur, assistant teaching professor in Information Systems
Zsuzsanna Kocsis, visiting assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute
Carl Kubler, assistant professor in the Department of History
Audrey Kurth Cronin, Trustees Professor of Security and Technology and director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Phoebe Lam, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology
Hanzhang Liu, visiting fellow in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Atesede Makonnen, assistant professor in the Department of English
Gonzalo Mena, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science
Krzysztof Mierzewski, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy
Haeun Moon, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Statistics & Data Science
Xaq Pitkow, associate professor in the Neuroscience Institute
Joshua Schwartz, assistant professor in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology
Manasvini Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Seth Strickland, lecturer in the Department of English
Weijing Tang, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science
Vibha Viswanathan, visiting assistant professor in the Neuroscience Institute
Mark Wessel, part-time principal lecturer in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences