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Meet Mount Holyoke’s newest faculty for 2025

Mount Holyoke College’s newest faculty are ready to engage across boundaries and beyond borders.

The newest additions to Mount Holyoke College’s world-class faculty are at the leading edge of change. They know that connectivity is key to solving our communities’ most complex problems, today and in the future. Their research interests range from justice-centered education to Africa’s environmental history and the development of the serotonin system.

Get to know these outstanding scholars and educators.

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Arnav Adhikari, English. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Arnav Adhikari

Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins Mount Holyoke College’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.

Ishmael N. Annang, History. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Ishmael Annang

Ishmael Annang, Mount Holyoke College’s new assistant professor of history, has a passion for African history that flows from his experiences growing up in Ghana.

Marco Avilés, Spanish. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Marco Avilés

Marco Avilés, incoming assistant professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College, hopes to introduce students to the optimism in Indigenous literature as he takes on his family’s proud tradition of teaching.

Nicole Brown, Classics and Italian. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Nicole Brown

The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.

Whitney Kite, Art History. 2025

Whitney Adana Kite

Whitney Adana Kite, Mount Holyoke College’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.

Sidita Kushi, Politics. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Sidita Kushi

A childhood growing up in the Balkans sparked the current research of Sidita Kushi, the new assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, on why some conflicts inspire humanitarian military interventions, and some do not.

Douglas Roossien, Biological Sciences. Photo by Max Wilhelm, 2025.

Douglas Roossien

Working closely with students in his laboratory, Douglas Roossien, Mount Holyoke College’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.

Kushya Sugarman

Kushya Sugarman

Kushya Sugarman brings nearly two decades of classroom experience, a passion for justice and award-winning research to the Department of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.

Anne Taylor

Anne Taylor

Anne Taylor, incoming assistant professor of sociology at Mount Holyoke College, blends history, pop culture, religion and audience theory to explore meaning-making and social repair.

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