Welcoming Our New Faculty - September 2023 Newsletter

Dear School of Liberal Arts Community,

Now that classes are launched and the fall semester is underway, I want to welcome you to a new academic year and share some of the exciting developments across the School of Liberal Arts. As I begin my sixth year at Tulane—and my second term as dean—one of our most notable achievements has been the growth of our world-class faculty.

In the past five years, we have hired 83 tenure-line and professor of practice faculty—the permanent faculty who make meaningful discoveries in their fields and who give Tulane students an educational experience that has lifelong impact.

We have professors joining us from some of the most eminent universities around the nation and abroad, drawn by a sense of excitement and our strategy for leadership. Our Political Science department alone welcomes four new tenure-track faculty (one jointly appointed in the Murphy Institute). The English and Spanish & Portuguese departments joined forces to recruit Zorimar Rivera Montes, our first faculty member in Latinx literature and culture.

Meanwhile, the Economics department collaborated with our Environmental Studies program to hire Felipe Gómez Trejos, our inaugural environmental economist. We also hired our first two full-time faculty in American Sign Language—an area of explosive growth and student interest.

Read the full welcome message from Dean Edwards.