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Kushya Sugarman brings nearly two decades of classroom experience, a passion for justice and award-winning research to the Department of Psychology and Education at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ.
The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.
Working closely with students in his laboratory, Douglas Roossien, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.
Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.
Whitney Adana Kite, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.
Marco Avilés, incoming assistant professor of Spanish at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, hopes to introduce students to the optimism in Indigenous literature as he takes on his family’s proud tradition of teaching.
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s newest faculty are ready to engage across boundaries and beyond borders.
Anne Taylor, incoming assistant professor of sociology at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, blends history, pop culture, religion and audience theory to explore meaning-making and social repair.
Ishmael Annang, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s new assistant professor of history, has a passion for African history that flows from his experiences growing up in Ghana.
A childhood growing up in the Balkans sparked the current research of Sidita Kushi, the new assistant professor of politics at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, on why some conflicts inspire humanitarian military interventions, and some do not.