Meet Mount Holyoke’s newest faculty 2024

Mount Holyoke College’s newest faculty are redefining what’s possible in their fields as they join their colleagues in preparing students to lead boldly in an ever-changing world.

Research interests of Mount Holyoke’s newest faculty range from the continued political, economic and social relevance of American and African American literature to the fundamental structure of the universe to the biogeographic patterns of North American plants.

Get to know these outstanding scholars and educators.

New faculty

Studying how far we can go to understand the fundamental structure of the universe is just one of the ways Mount Holyoke College Assistant Professor of Physics Supraja Balasubramanian aims to expand the boundaries of our knowledge.

Mustapha Braimah has more than two decades of international experience and artistic accomplishment as an artist-scholar from Ghana.

Anisha Chadha is a medical anthropologist who uses the tools and practices, as well as the methods, of sociocultural anthropology to study topics of health, medicine and illness.

From prime numbers to integers, Tori Day brings a love for number theory to the mathematics department at Mount Holyoke College.

Chloe Pak Drummond is a botanist and evolutionary biologist. She works with students to answer integrated evolutionary questions using field-based, molecular and bioinformatic techniques.

Lisa Haber-Thomson is an architectural historian with a background in design. With an interdisciplinary approach, she explores the intersecting relationships between law, territory and architecture.

From thoughts of designing video games to the impact of AI and machine learning technologies, new faculty member Tony Liu brings a passion for the computer sciences to Mount Holyoke College.

Alex Moskowitz teaches early and nineteenth-century American and African American literature.

Jennifer Paulhus is driven to showcase mathematics in a way that can make students enjoy the subject, even if they have never liked it.

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