New Faculty | Fall 2011
Welcoming a superb group of scholars
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is pleased to present the newest members of the faculty. They come to us with diverse backgrounds and vast knowledge in their fields: social movement communication, women and gender issues of the Middle East and North Africa, 20th century mass entertainment in Japan, and political philosophy. We are very fortunate to have these excellent scholars join the School community.
Sasha Costanza-ChockComparative Media Studies Sasha Costanza-Chock joins the MIT Faculty as Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and as co-PI of the Center for Civic Media. His work focuses on social movement communication, community based research and participatory design, media justice and communication rights, and digital inclusion. |
Lerna EkmekciogluHistory Lerna Ekmekcioglu received her undergraduate education at Bogazici University in Istanbul. She has a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University (2010). She specializes in women and gender issues in the Middle East and North Africa. |
Hiromu NagaharaHistory Hiromu Nagahara will join the MIT faculty this fall as Assistant Professor of History. A historian of modern Japan, his research explores the emergence of mass entertainment during the twentieth century, along with the critical discourse and regulatory regimes that surrounded it. |
Lucas StanczykPolitical Science Lucas Stanczyk will join the MIT faculty in the spring of 2012 as Assistant Professor of Political Science, after finishing his Ph.D. in Harvard’s Government Department. A political theorist by training, his research ranges across a variety of topics in political philosophy, constitutional and legal theory, and the history of moral and political thought. |
Teppei YamamotoPolitical Science Teppei Yamamoto is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He obtained a BA in Liberal Arts from the University of Tokyo (2006) and a M.A. (2008) and Ph.D. (2011) in Politics from Princeton University, where he received a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the year of 2010 to 2011. |