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
Keri Rodgers
Keri L. Rodgers earned her BA in Spanish from Cornell University and began her career as a New York City Teaching Fellow in the…
Silvia Rodriguez-Vega
Silvia Rodriguez-Vega is a Ford Foundation Scholar and Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is a PhD…
Michael Reyes Salas
Michael Reyes Salas is a PhD Candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature, with a portfolio in African Diaspora Studies, at the University of…
Dialika Sall
Dialika Sall is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Rice University and incoming tenure-track professor of Sociology at Lehman College-City University of New York…
Rose Salseda
Rose G. Salseda is a Ford Fellow and a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her interests in…
Berenice Sánchez
Berenice Sánchez is a PhD candidate at Indiana University (IU) in the department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. She is a first-generation college…
Jasmine Sanders
Jasmine Sanders is a sociology PhD student at UC Berkeley. Her research centers issues of equity and access with a focus on organizational inequality,…
Stephen Santa-Ramirez
Dr. Stephen Santa-Ramirez (he, him, his) is currently an Assistant Professor of Higher Education within the Graduate School of Education at the University at…
Tyrone Jesse Sgambati
Tyrone Jesse Sgambati is a PhD candidate in psychology at UC Berkeley. He completed his BS at the University of Michigan, where he studied…
Nirupika Sharma
Nirupika Sharma is a PhD candidate in social-personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Born and raised in Queens, New York, Nirupika holds…
Alicia Sheares
Alicia Sheares is a doctoral student at UC Berkeley where her research centers on race and ethnicity, immigration, inequality, and work and organizations. Her…
Steven Sherwood
Steven (Hank) Sherwood is a fourth-year, part-time doctoral candidate in the Sociology of Education program at NYU Steinhardt. He works full-time as the Associate…