The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Brett Hyde, Ph.D., joins the department of philosophy in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor, with a joint appointment in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program. Hyde earned a B.A. in linguistics from Washington and Lee University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Rutgers University in 2001. Since 1999, he has been a lecturer in linguistics at Washington University. Hyde’s area of specialization is phonology, and he has particular interests in metrical structure in optimality theory. He convened a workshop on linguistic variation to be held in November of this year.
Zohar Nussinov, Ph.D., joins the department of physics in Arts & Sciences as an assistant professor. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. Nussinov comes to Washington University from a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Lab following earlier work at the Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics in the Netherlands. His research interests include strongly correlated electronic and spin systems, single spin dynamics, glasses, topological order, and statistical mechanics.
Mona Lena Krook, Ph.D., joins the department of political science in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Women and Gender Studies Program. She earned a Ph.D. in political science in 2004, an M.A. in political science in 2001 and a B.A. in 1997, all from Columbia University. Her research explores the global diffusion of gender quotas, the normative dimensions of quota reform and the broader significance of quota policies to existing political processes, including links between the descriptive and substantive representation of women.
Frank Lovett, Ph.D., joins the department of political science in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2004, and prior to coming to Washington University, he held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. His primary research concerns the role of freedom and domination in developing theories of justice, equality, and the rule of law. He teaches courses in political theory.