New Faculty

The Following New Faculty Began Appointments At The College Effective July 1, 2018.

Arianne Bazilio, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Chemistry
B.S., Chemical and Biological Engineering, New York University
M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation: “The Role of Manganese Oxide in the Formation of Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water Treatment”
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Clayton Byers, Assistant Professor of Engineering
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University
M.A., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Dissertation: “Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Similarity Solutions in Turbulent Flows”

Hasan Cömert, Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Economics, Middle East Technical University
M.S., Economics, Middle East Technical University
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dissertation: “Financial Evolution and the Declining Effectiveness of U.S. Monetary Policy since the 1980s”

Julie C. Gamble, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
B.A., History and Gender Studies, Northwestern University
M.C.P., City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: “Visioning a Transit City: Citizen Participation and Transit Planning in Quito, Ecuador”
Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration and Demography, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania

Gabriel F. Hornung ’07, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., Religion, Trinity College
M.A., Biblical Studies, Yale Divinity School
Ph.D., Hebrew Bible, Harvard University
Dissertation: “The Nature and Import of the Relationship between the Story of Joseph in Genesis and the Book of Esther”

Peter K. Kyle Jr., Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance
B.A., Dance and German Area Studies, Kenyon College
M.F.A., Dance, University of Washington

Lina Ma, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
B.S., Mathematics, Peking University
M.S., Computational Finance, Purdue University
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Purdue University
Dissertation: “Efficient Spectral Methods for Partial Differential Equations in Spherical Domain” 

Gerardo Ruiz Sánchez, Assistant Professor of Economics
B.S., Applied Mathematics and Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
M.A., Economic Theory, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Ph.D., Economics, Yale University
Dissertation: “Essays in the Industrial Organization of the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Exchanges”