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
Tanishia Williams
Specializing in urban politics at the intersection of race, gender, and class, Tanishia Lavette Williams is currently obtaining a PhD from the Public and…
Henry Willis
Henry A. Willis, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, originally from Jackson, Mississippi, and he received his PhD from the Clinical Psychology program at the…
Greg Wilson
Greg Wilson, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a fourth-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is…
Yi-jung Wu
PhD Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, with a doctoral minor in Educational Psychology Yi-jung Wu is a PhD candidate in Educational Leadership…
Jordan Wylie
Dr. Jordan Wylie is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. She earned her PhD in Psychology from…
Ellen Yeats
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan I was not one of those students who knew in elementary school that I should pursue…
Cheryl Yin
Cheryl Yin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carleton College in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. A linguistic anthropologist with expertise in…
Xi Yu
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Lab I’ve always loved mathematics, but I enjoyed it most when it was applied…
Pamela Zabala Ortiz
Dr. Pamela Zabala Ortiz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She is a sociologist of race and migration, and her research…
Luis Zambrano-Cruzatty
Dr. Zambrano-Cruzatty is an early career assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine. He focuses on geotechnical engineering with…
Zihan Zhang
Zihan Zhang is a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on tensor-based modeling, analysis, and control for high-dimensional streaming…
Xiang Zhou
Dr. Xiang Zhou is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology from the Department of Educational Studies in the College of Education at Purdue University…