The Center for Faculty Advancement (CFA) supports the Faculty Cluster Initiative as part of its mission to foster both individual scholars and the academic community at large by enhancing research and teaching excellence within NYU, and by promoting public engagement with the world outside of NYU.
Our current clusters and recruited faculty are listed below.
Anti-Racism, Social Justice, & Public Health
Adolfo Cuevas, Assistant Professor, Social & Behavior Sciences, School of Global Public Health
Saba Rouhani, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Global Public Health
Black Diaspora Cultural Studies
Monique Bedasse, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts & Science (Fall 2023)
Emilie Boone, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, College of Arts & Science
Clifton Boyd, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts & Science
Audrey Celestine, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts & Science
Madina Thiam, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Arts & Science
Delio Vasquez, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study (Fall 2024)
Black Diaspora Literary Studies
Andrea Adomako, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts & Science
Isabel Bradley, Assistant Professor, Department of French, College of Arts & Science
Honey Crawford, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts & Science
Paul Edwards, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts & Science
Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, College of Arts & Science
Fred Moten, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, College of Arts & Science
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, College of Arts & Science
Bridging Systems Toward Equitable Solutions for Youth: Education, Mental Health, and Child Welfare
Sireen Irshied, Assistant Professor, Silver School of Social Work
Building STEM for the Public Good: Cultivating Openness in the Sciences
Hebah Emara, Assistant Curator, Dibner Library, Division of Libraries
Amanda He, Library Associate, Dibner Library, Division of Libraries
Maria Mejia, Assistant Curator, Department of Scholarly Communication and Information Policy, Division of Libraries
Centering Underrrepresented Voices: Anti-Racist Practices in Libraries and Archives
Gabriela Garcia, Assistant Curator, Undergraduate Services, Division of Libraries
Chelsea Gizzi, Assistant Curator, Knowledge Access, Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services, Division of Libraries
Kristen Owens, Assistant Curator, Department of Arts, Performance, and Humanistic Inquiry, Division of Libraries
Roxane Pickens, Assistant Curator, Department of Community Engagement, Division of Libraries
Creating a Just Society: Equity and Belonging
Lauren Mims, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Mike Hoa Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Shamari Reid, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Health and Scientific Literacy, Openness, and Equity
Brynne Campbell-Rice, Assistant Curator, Department of Health, Education, and Human Development, Division of Libraries
Nicole Helregel, Assistant Curator, Department of Science Research Services, Division of Libraries
Stacy Torian, Assistant Curator, Department of Health, Education, and Human Development, Division of Libraries
Health Engineering
Irene de Lazaro del Rey, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering
Rose Faghih, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering
David Truong, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering
Erdem Varol, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering
Minds, Brains, and Machines
SueYeon Chung, Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, College of Arts and Science
Grace Lindsay, Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science
Native American & Indigenous Studies
Ashley Agbasoga, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Lou Cornum, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, College of Arts & Science
Jacob Floyd, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
Eve Tuck, Professor of Native Indigenous Studies, Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Race, Identity, and Inequality
Rahsaan Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, College of Arts and Science (Spring 2023)
Ravaris Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts & Science
Domingo Morel, Associate Professor, Department of Politcal Science, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (Spring 2023)
Bryant Moy, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, College of Arts & Science
Gaetan Nandong, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, College of Arts & Science
Representation in the Arts
Florence Barrau-Adams, Assistant Arts Professor, Department of Undergraduate Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts
Sean Fader, Assistant Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts
Michael Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
MJ Kaufman, Assistant Arts Professor, Department of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts
August Luhrs, Assistant Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts
Kristen Wright, Assistant Professor, Department of Undergraduate Drama, Tisch School of the Arts
Andre Zachery, Assistant Arts Professor, Department of Dance, Tisch School of the Arts
The Politics of Space: Data, the City, and Structures of Inequality
Dawn Cadogan, Assistant Curator, Department of Health, Education, and Human Development, Division of Libraries
Talya Cooper, Research Curation Librarian
Zehong Liu, Metadata Librarian for Science & Geospatial Data
Jiebei Luo, Assistant Curator, Department of Business, Economics, and Entrepreneurship, Division of Libraries
Transforming Ecologies in Urban Environments
Kristin Winchell, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Science
Yi Yin, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, College of Arts & Science
Transformative Humanities for All: Building and Sharing the Cultural Record
Rye Gentleman, Assistant Curator, Department of Arts, Performance, and Humanistic Inquiry, Division of Libraries
Anabel Gutierrez, Assistant Curator, Division of Libraries