The Dartmouth Board of Trustees approved the promotions of faculty across the Arts and Sciences on June 13.
This year, seven faculty members were promoted to full professor, and 11 were promoted to associate professor and granted tenure.
“I am honored to congratulate these exemplary members of our Dartmouth community,” says Elizabeth F. Smith, dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences. “Tenure and promotion recognize the outstanding contributions each has made through their scholarship, teaching, and service. I look forward to seeing them continue to advance knowledge, empower students, and shape the future of their fields for years to come.”
Faculty at Dartmouth are evaluated for promotion and tenure in three areas through a rigorous evaluation process: research, teaching, and service. The faculty promotions take effect on July 1.
The following faculty were promoted to full professor:
George Edmondson, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Edmondson is a scholar of medieval literature and Middle English poetry and a contemporary writer on literary and political theory. He is the author of two books: The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson, which received a 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, and The Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt, which he co-authored with professor Klaus Mladek. Edmondson also co-edited a collection of essays, Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, with Mladek, and has published numerous articles and chapters in leading scholarly venues in his field.
Desirée Garcia, Professor of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies
Garcia is a film scholar whose research focuses on race, ethnicity, and gender in American cinema and popular culture. She is also an expert in videographic scholarship, using sounds and images from historical films to craft videos that offer new angles of inquiry. The author of three books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and videographic essays, her most recent book is The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American Film. She serves as chair of the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, and was selected by the Provost’s Office for the IVY+ Mellon Leadership Fellowship in 2023.
Udi Greenberg, Professor of History
Greenberg is a historian of modern Europe, focusing primarily on thought, politics, and gender in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of two books, many scholarly articles, and essays in venues such as The New Republic and Dissent. His new book from Harvard University Press, The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s–1970s, examines how and why the great falling out that pitted Protestants and Catholics in Europe against each other came to an abrupt end.
Erich Osterberg, Professor of Earth Sciences
Osterberg is a scientist who studies how Earth’s climate system and glaciers responded to natural climate changes in the past, and how they are responding to human-caused climate change today. He leads the Ice, Climate, and Environment Lab and specializes in collecting and analyzing ice cores from polar regions to study changing atmospheric conditions and air pollution. Osterberg has begun studying New England weather patterns, coupling this research with extensive community engagement to advance strategies for climate change resilience. He is also active in the scientific community through leadership in working groups assembled by the National Science Foundation.
Jonathan Smolin, Professor in the Middle Eastern Studies Program
Smolin is a scholar of Arabic literature and culture in the modern Middle East and North Africa, with particular interest in the intersections of politics and popular culture. He explores questions regarding authoritarianism, dissent, and democracy in the modern Arab world through popular fiction, television, magazines, advertising, and everyday forms of culture. The author of two books and numerous scholarly articles, Smolin has also translated five Arabic novels into English. His most recent book, The Politics of Melodrama: The Cultural and Political Lives of Ihsan Abdel Koudous and Gamal Abdel Nasser, offers the first scholarly examination of the popular writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous—and a new understanding of the making of the modern Middle East.
Craig Sutton, Professor of Mathematics
Sutton is a mathematician who explores the role of symmetry in Riemannian geometry and spectral geometry. For instance, he studies properties of (Laplace) eigenfunctions in the presence of Lie group actions, a line of inquiry that has connections to quantum mechanics. During the 2023-24 academic year, Sutton pursued his research as a member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been involved in numerous efforts to enhance residential liberal arts education and broaden participation in STEM. He served as the inaugural house professor of School House and is the faculty director of Dartmouth’s E.E. Just Program, which seeks to create a STEM ecosystem in which systematically excluded and racialized minorities thrive.
Erik van Erp, Professor of Mathematics
Van Erp is a theoretical mathematician who works in noncommutative geometry and index theory, with a particular interest in applications of noncommutative techniques to problems in classical analysis and topology. He models ways of thinking about space, and about the behavior of space-filling patterns that may be time dependent. His insights and advances have inspired new developments in the field by others.
The following faculty were promoted to associate professor, with tenure:
Richard Beaudoin, Associate Professor of Music
Beaudoin is a music theorist and composer who analyzes audio recordings, investigating the expressive rhythm of sounds made by the performer’s body, their instrument, and the recording medium itself. Alongside numerous scholarly articles, he has published a monograph, Sounds as They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings, with Oxford University Press. Beaudoin’s compositions have been commissioned, recorded, and performed by Boston Lyric Opera, Roomful of Teeth, Claire Chase, and the Kreutzer String Quartet. His next project will explore visualizations of microtiming, notating millisecond-level measurements of sound as it unfolds through time. In 2024, Beaudoin received Dartmouth’s Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Mia Costa, Associate Professor of Government
Costa is a social scientist who studies political representation, political behavior, and the politics of race and gender in the United States. Her research uses experimental and other statistical methods to examine how the traits and rhetoric of politicians influence American representative democracy. She has authored several articles in some of the top political science journals. Her first book, How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship, utilizes extensive surveys of both voters and elected officials to understand the prevalence of negative partisan language and how it fuels polarization in the U.S.
Rachel Feldman, Associate Professor of Religion
Feldman is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in Judaism, messianic movements, digital and transnational religion, contemporary Israel/Palestine, and gender studies. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters and co-edited a scholarly volume, Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank. Her first book, Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age, won the AJS Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award in 2023. To support her next book project, The Joy Clinic: Breslov Hasidism and the Theo-Politics of Healing, she received a fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and a Faculty Research Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Patrick Glauthier, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics
Glauthier is a scholar of ancient Greek and Roman literature and intellectual history, who specializes in the origins and development of scientific writing at Rome and the experience of the sublime. His first book, The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna, charts the role of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. Glauthier has also authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters, and co-edited a collected volume, The Sublime Under Empire. His next book will explore the history and socio-political functions of catasterism narratives in the Roman world.
Robert Hill, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Hill is a scientist who works in cellular neurobiology. He is a leader in the field of myelin biology and has developed new methods for characterizing the structures and mechanisms associated with the growth, organization, and death of myelin. He helped create the Integrative Neuroscience Program at Dartmouth, received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award, and leads the Hill Lab. In the lab, Hill and his students study the multicellular interactions between neurons and glia in the brain to understand how these cells behave in developmental and neurodegenerative contexts, including multiple sclerosis, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Yoonsang Lee, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Lee is a mathematician who uses fundamental mathematical tools and computational methods to model extremely complex real-world phenomena. His research focuses on applied mathematics and computational issues in predication and uncertainty quantification of complex high-dimensional systems. He is particularly interested in robust and efficient computational methods to combine numerical prediction models with data, which are scalable for big data and high-dimensional systems. With grant support from the Office of Naval Research’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives program, he is currently working on sea ice modeling and data assimilation.
Katherine Nautiyal, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Nautiyal is a behavioral neuroscientist whose research focuses on the role of serotonin in a variety of neural mechanisms and animal behaviors. Specifically, she studies how serotonin modulates the neural circuits underlying impulsive and aggressive behavior. In this research, Nautiyal leverages the tools of gene expression, optical methods, and various biosensing techniques to track neural response in mouse models. She leads the Nautiyal Lab, where she and her students study how serotonin modulates neural circuits that subserve reward-related behaviors, especially those dysregulated in psychiatric conditions that include impulsive and depressive phenotypes.
Golnar Nikpour, Associate Professor of History
Nikpour is a scholar of modern Iranian political and intellectual history, with a particular interest in the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. Her work sits at the intersection of intellectual, political, and social history. She has written and published on subjects ranging from the Iranian penal system to the Iranian Revolution, and the material culture that emerged in the United States following the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979. Nikpour’s book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran, traces the history of the Iranian penal system from the mid-1800s to the present, exploring the evolution of Iran’s criminal legal system, criminology, politics, and even architecture.
Jorge Quintana Navarrete, Associate Professor of Spanish
Quintana Navarrete is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century Mexican culture focusing on the intersection of history of science, art, and political thought. His first book, Biocosmism: Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico, illuminates the utopian themes explored by scientists, artists, and philosophers of the time. He has also authored numerous scholarly articles and chapters, and co-translated El otro lado de lo popular, a Spanish edition of Gareth Williams’s English-language scholarly book, The Other Side of Popular. Quintana Navarrete has been recognized with early-career accolades, including the Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship for his next book project.
Viola Störmer, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Störmer is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human perception, attention, and memory—specifically the fundamental principles of selective attention, how attention shapes perception, and the capacity and structure of visual working memory. She also investigates what role attention plays in connecting across sensory modalities to form multimodal objects. Störmer’s research methods include psychophysics, experimental psychology, and functional neuroimaging, with a particular focus on electroencephalography. She leads the BrainStörmer Lab.
Soroush Vosoughi, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Vosoughi is a computer scientist whose research interests are at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, network science, and social media analytics. He uses network modeling and large language models to study connections between linguistic and social behaviour in online communities, as well as to elucidate how generative artificial intelligence and machine learning map onto mechanisms of human cognition. Vosoughi leads the Minds, Machine, and Society group in the Department of Computer Science, where he and his students delve into the intricacies of large language models to better understand and mitigate their anti-social tendencies and to increase their transparency and trustworthiness.