The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Amitay Alter joins Olin Business School as assistant professor of economics. Alter graduated magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University and is expecting a doctorate from Stanford University in 2010. Before joining Washington University, Alter was a fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include industrial organization and organizational economics.
Pannill Camp, Ph.D., joins the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of drama. He earned a doctorate in theater and performance studies from Brown University and last year was a postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Center at Harvard University. His research examines theater architecture reform and spectatorship in 18th-century France. Camp’s dissertation won the Joukowsky Family Foundation’s Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities at Brown University in 2009, and his articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and “Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre,” published by Amsterdam University Press.
Sonia Lee, Ph.D., joins the Department of History in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor of 20th-century African-American history. She earned a doctorate from Harvard University and held a postdoctoral position at Swarthmore College. Her research focuses on the civil rights struggles that black Americans and Puerto Ricans forged in New York City in the postwar era. She looks at how Puerto Ricans’ political engagement with black Americans impacted the formation of their racial and ethnic identities and how the War on Poverty and the growing literature of the “culture of poverty” catapulted an alliance between blacks and Puerto Ricans as it led both of them to combat poverty and racism by creating community control movements within their schools and neighborhoods.
Ting Wang, Ph.D., joins the Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a doctorate in computational biology in 2006 from Washington University. He was a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before returning to WUSTL. His research focuses on understanding the gene regulatory networks, including investigating their organization, the evolutionary forces that shape them, and their role in human pathology. He develops algorithms for identifying regulatory motifs and modules and analytical and visualization methodologies to integrate genomic and epigenomic data.