Faculty First-Look (FFL) is an NYU initiative created to provide talented scholars, especially those underrepresented in the academy, with insight into what it takes to prepare for a future faculty career. Gifted scholars completing their PhD, EdD, or other relevant terminal degrees are invited to apply for programming at the following NYU Colleges and Schools: Arts & Science, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Stern School of Business. and Tandon School of Engineering.
Faculty First-Look Scholar Alumni

Farha Najah Hussain
Farha Najah Hussain (she/her), MSc(A), SLP, is a Rehabilitation Sciences PhD candidate. Prior to beginning full-time studies at NYU, Farha was a clinician in…

Liane Hypolite
Liane I. Hypolite is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She earned a BA in Sociology and Psychology…

Summer Jackson
Summer Jackson is an organizational ethnographer in the doctoral program at MIT Sloan School of Management, where she has been recognized as both a…

Yan Jiang
Yan Jiang is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Washington, Seattle. She received her PhD degree…

Natasha Johnson
Dr. Natasha C. Johnson is a personality psychologist and social work scholar whose research focuses on culturally relevant developmental processes that promote mental wellness…

Kimberly Jones
Dr. Kimberly V. Jones is a historian of Afro-America and the Afro-Atlantic World. She was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of…

Renata Jones
Renata Love Jones is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College specializing in language, literacy,…

Haripriya Kannan
Hello There! I am Haripriya (Hari), currently a 5 th year PhD candidate in Hybrid Nanomaterials Lab at NYU Tandon. I work on quantum…

Jacquelin Kataneksza
Jacquelin Kataneksza is a Zimbabwean doctoral candidate in Public and Urban Policy at the New School in New York. Her research focuses broadly on…

Christian Keeve
Christian Keeve is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Kentucky and a Woodson Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. They…

Hayejin Kim
PhD Candidate in Research in Occupational Therapy at New York University Hayejin Kim is a PhD candidate in Research in Occupational Therapy at New…

René Espinoza Kissell
René Espinoza Kissell is a PhD candidate in education policy at the University of California Berkeley specializing in the political economy of urban education,…