Mélanie Lamotte received a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge in 2016, where she then became a junior research fellow. In 2017, she joined the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the Humanities Center of Stanford University as a postdoctoral Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in History. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian and the Africana Studies Program at Tulane. Lamotte is a historian of race, ethnicity and colonialism in the early modern period.

Mathias Kronlund joins the A. B. Freeman School of Business from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he served as an assistant professor. He will teach Financial Management at the Freeman School. Kronlund earned his PhD in finance and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research interests include corporate investments, payout policy, executive compensation, bond markets, credit ratings and mutual funds. His articles have been published in leading journals in the field, featured in major media outlets, and cited by both U.S.

Matt King joins the Murphy Institute as a faculty fellow for the academic year 2020-2021. He is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama–Birmingham, where he has taught since 2014. His academic journey began with a PhD from the University of Maryland in 2008, leading to appointments at Carleton College, Virginia Tech, St. Bonaventure University, and UCLA School of Law.

Mauricio Gonzalez has over 30 years of teaching, consulting and university administration experience working in Mexico for Tecnologico de Monterrey and in the United States for Tulane University. Gonzalez has taught courses in over 12 countries on three continents.

Anyi Ma teaches negotiations at the A. B. Freeman School of Business. She comes to Freeman from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where she earned her PhD in management. Her research concerns the topic of agency: Organizations often tell employees to take charge and assert themselves – or to be agentic – at work. She studies how agentic employees are perceived by others and the implications of these perceptions for gender and leadership.

Lin Zhu, professor of practice in the Department of Asian Studies at the School of Liberal Arts, earned her MA in applied linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is pursuing her PhD in second language studies at the University of Mississippi. Prior to coming to Tulane, she taught at the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Mississippi for six years, and she served as the resident director for the study abroad program at Ole Miss–Shanghai University.

Lisa Wade is a visiting scholar at Tulane University, officially joining the faculty in 2021 as an associate professor with appointments in sociology, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. Her research explores how gendered ideas about the body inform sexual attitudes and behaviors and sexuality-related discourse and policy. She is the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus and a forthcoming introductory text titled Terrible Magnificent Sociology.

Linda A. Shkreli holds a PhD in communication studies from Louisiana State University, with an area focus in performance studies. She specializes in stagecraft composition, performance pedagogy and consumer consciousness. Her teaching philosophies focus on creative empowerment, mental wellness and building classroom communities. Her current research interests include interdisciplinary oral history and designing performance-based strategies for the writing classroom.