Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed professorships have a personal and lasting impact.
G. Sayeed Choudury
Mr. Choudhury, who holds the Hodson Directorship in Digital Research, was appointed associate director of the Sheridan Libraries digital programs in 2003.
Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.
Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.
Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.
Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
PETER ACHINSTEIN, Ph.D., is a Krieger-Eisenhower professor of philosophy. He specializes in philosophy of science and has interests in the history of science as well. In addition to numerous articles and reviews in these fields, he is the author of Concepts of Science (1968), Law and Explanation (1971), The Nature of Explanation (1983), and Particles and…
YINGYAO HU, Ph.D., is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics and chair of the economics department at Johns Hopkins University where he has worked as a professor of economics since 2007. Before joining Hopkins, Dr. Hu was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin for four…
YUEN YUEN ANG, Ph.D., is the Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University. She is the first named professor at the Center for Economy & Society and a faculty member at the SNF Agora Institute and Department of Political Science. Ang is a cross-disciplinary scholar of political…
DAWN TEELE, Ph.D., is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research interests include women and politics specifically related the causes and consequences of voting rights reform; candidate socialization, recruitment, and election; incumbency and gender; democratization and economic development; methodology and field experiments. Teele has won several…
LEAH WRIGHT RIGUEUR is the SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of History. A trained political historian, her scholarship and expertise include 20th-centuryUnited States political and social history; modern African American history, race, democracy, and American political institutions; the modern American presidency and presidential elections; civil rights and social movements; and…
ANDREW J. PERRIN, Ph.D., is SNF Agora Professor and Chair of Sociology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is a cultural and political sociologist working on issues of democracy, including civic engagement, effects of higher education, and public deliberation. His research explores what people need to know, do, and be…
LILLIANA MASON, Ph.D., is an SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor of Political Science. She is co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press, 2018).…
AMY BINDER, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology and comes to Johns Hopkins from the University of California San Diego. She studies education from a political, organizational, and cultural perspective. In 2002, she wrote Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools; this book, published by Princeton University Press, won…
NICOLE BAUMGARTH, DVM, PhD, is the inaugural Peetz Family Professor in the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and the inaugural director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research…
JIOU WANG, PhD, MD, is the inaugural Walder Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In his research, Dr. Wang seeks to understand what controls the birth and death of a protein and how the shape and…
KEEVE NACHMAN, PhD, MHS, is the Robert S. Lawrence Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a member of the leadership of the Center for a Livable Future (CLF), he is an internationally known expert in cutting edge-research…
JEFFERSON DOYLE, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.S., specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and genetic eye diseases. His focus is on pediatric and juvenile forms of cataracts, glaucoma, anterior segment dysgenesis, and ectopia lentis. His genetics interests include Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders, complex inherited forms of strabismus in both children and…
