Travis Miller received his PhD in psychology from the University of California–Riverside in 2020, where he studied personality and daily behavior. He will be teaching undergraduate courses in Experimental Psychology, Introductory Psychology, and Personality and Measurement.

Shengmin Yan has a broad background in liver diseases, with specific training and expertise in hepatotoxicity, fatty liver diseases, gut-liver interaction and laboratory medicine. Yan's research includes basic and translational research in obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD), alcoholic fatty liver diseases, drug-induced liver injury and environmental hepatotoxicity.

Sukari Ivester is an urban sociologist with broad interests in urban planning, the social determinants of health, the politics of resistance and urban history. Her recent work explores the social impacts of gentrification and displacement in Rio de Janeiro and the San Francisco Bay Area. Ivester’s current research includes urban planning for population loss in the gulf parishes, in addition to a comparative social history of urban slavery in New Orleans and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Stanislav “Stas” Moroz joined Tulane in 2020 as a clinical instructor with the Women’s Prison Project. Prior to joining Tulane, Moroz worked as a public defender with the Orleans Public Defenders for nearly six years, serving both as a member the trial division and the special litigation division. As a member of the trial division, Moroz represented thousands of clients on charges ranging from minor municipal violations to second-degree murder.

Sarah Michaels is a medical entomologist with a focus on vector-borne disease. Her background is in arbovirus surveillance, vector control, operational research and community outreach. Michaels gained experience in public health practice as an entomologist at the city of New Orleans Mosquito Control Board and an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Louisiana Office of Public Health. Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, she was active in the public health response to provide emergency infectious disease surveillance.

Simin Li joins A. B. Freeman School of Business from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where she earned her PhD in operations management in 2020. Her research interests lie in empirical service operations, focusing on addressing the operational challenges and innovations in service industries and how service providers could use wisely designed business models and service systems to induce preferable customer behaviors, and therefore manage demand and optimize revenue. Prior to pursing her doctoral studies, she worked as a data scientist at Microsoft.

Stefan Hock is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History. His research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of the History of Sexuality and has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.