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
Endia Hayes
Endia Hayes is the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctorate fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her work investigates the…
Anna Hidalgo
Anna Hidalgo is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research specializations include culture, gender, sexuality, race, and transnational…
Gerald Higginbotham
Gerald (he/him) is currently a doctoral candidate in Psychology (Social area) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born and raised in St. Louis,…
Alexis Holloway
Alexis Ligon Holloway is a Cultural Anthropology PhD candidate and Dean’s Graduate Fellow at Duke University. She earned her undergraduate degree from Amherst College,…
Darrell Hooker
Darrell Hooker is a PhD student in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Houston; he holds a BA in political…
Nia Hulse
Nia E. Hulse is an EdD candidate in the Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University. She is also a 2018-2020…
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…
Lisa Je
As a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lisa Je combines molecular dynamics and topological data analysis to create simulations that could speed…
Jane Y. Jeong
Jane Y. Jeong (she/her) is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research…
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…