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
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
A Rossier Dean’s Fellow in the Urban Education Policy PhD program at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, Liane Hypolite is…
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
Natasha Johnson is a PhD candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Social Work and Psychology at the University of Michigan. She earned her…
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly V. Jones is a graduate candidate at Rice University. Her research focuses on histories of the Afro-Atlantic world, the gendered identities of Black…
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…