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
Jonet Artis
Jonet Artis is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Maryland College Park. She earned…
Victoria Asbury
Victoria Asbury is a PhD candidate in sociology at Harvard University. She is a cultural sociologist who engages innovative methods to provide empirical knowledge…
Rachel Brooks Atkins
Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance. She earned a PhD from The New…
Sakaria Auelua-Toomey
Sakaria Laisene Auelua-Toomey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before starting his professorship, Sai…
Miguel A. Avalos
PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Miguel A. Avalos (he/they) is a PhD candidate in the…
Alexandra Aylward
Dr. Alexandra Aylward is an assistant professor in the Department of Education at Montana State University, Bozeman. In May of 2018, she completed a…
Anneleise Azua
Anneleise Azua is a PhD candidate in the American Studies department, as well as a graduate portfolio student in the Latino Studies Department at…
Cassandra Baldwin
Cassandra L. Baldwin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches courses on physiological psychology, research methods, and…
Maricela Bañuelos
Maricela Bañuelos is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of California (UC) Irvine with an emphasis in Chicano Latino studies. She received her…
Fabian Barch
Fabian is a first year postdoctoral research associate in the University at Buffalo’s Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology in the Graduate School…
Andwatta Barnes
Andwatta Barnes is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan’s School of Education, Educational Studies program specializing in Teaching and Teaching Education. Andwatta…
Jahir Antonio Batista Andrade
I was born and raised in Santiago, Panama and I majored in Chemistry at the University of Panama, becoming the first college graduate in…