Meet Mount Holyoke’s Newest Faculty for 2026
Mount Holyoke College welcomes a new group of scholars and educators whose curiosity and innovative approaches are expanding the possibilities of teaching and research.
Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Mount Holyoke College welcomes a new group of scholars and educators whose curiosity and innovative approaches are expanding the possibilities of teaching and research.
Pujita Guha examines how Indigenous communities claim their environments amid rapid climate change.
Corrine Yap’s mathematics classrooms are shaped by the mentors, collaboration and support she found on her own educational journey.
Madeline Fanton examines the ways in which we idealize the past as a means of identity and collective action.
Xuân Pham uses art to explore identity, displacement, vulnerability and the hope of collective understanding.
Liora Mael focuses her research on the battle to protect and conserve art in an age of climate change and increased danger.
Stacy Kim models dwarf galaxies to learn more about dark matter, the mysterious celestial substance that “literally holds us all together.”
Meg Graham MacLean explores the lifecycle of the natural materials around us in the pursuit of thoughtful stewardship of our world.
Pei Zhang’s research focuses on aeolian processes that shape landscapes and communities as weather extremes intensify.
Erin Griffin teaches differential geometry, but she focuses on how learning mathematics can form community, confidence and clarity in communication.