Aug 27, 2008 -- Yeshiva University continues the steady expansion of its faculty this academic year with the appointment of 30 new faculty members this fall. Of these, ten are newly created positions, some of which replace adjunct professors. “We’re continuing the momentum forward to make sure we have a first-class faculty and to keep the student-to-faculty ratio at 10 to 1,” said Morton Lowengrub, PhD, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. New faculty have been added across the entire University, with a particular focus on undergraduate philosophy, mathematics, English, biology, and Jewish studies. Three full professors have been hired in the philosophy, English, and math departments. Peter Achinstein, a distinguished professor of history and philosophy of science from Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Professor of Philosophy at Yeshiva College. Achinstein, who will begin in January 2009, will play a major role in the college’s Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program. Achinstein has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has written five books, edited seven others, and published widely in scholarly journals. Linda Shires, PhD, an eminent scholar of Victorian literature, has been appointed professor of English at Stern College for Women. Previously at Syracuse University for the past 12 years, Shires has also taught at New York University and Princeton, from which she received her PhD in 1981. She has published widely and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She will take over the chair of the English department at Stern in fall 2009. Yisong Yang, PhD, joins Yeshiva College as a professor of mathematics from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. His areas of research are nonlinear partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and applied mathematics. Yang was an Othmer Senior Faculty Fellow at Polytechnic in 2006 and 2009, and he received the Institut Henri Poincare/Gauthier-Villars Prize in Paris in 1996. He has organized a number of national conferences and has received numerous research grants from the National Science Foundation. Other Appointments: Stern College for Women Kira Adaricheva, Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics Kim Evans, Associate Professor of English, Patrycja Grzelonska, Assistant Professor of Economics Richard Hidary, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Lauren Levy Harburger, Assistant Professor of Psychology Lee Manion, Assistant Professor of English Matthew Miller, Assistant Professor of English Marnin Young, Assistant Professor of Art Yeshiva College Joseph Angel, Instructor of Bible Michael Machczynski, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Yakov Peter, Assistant Professor of Biology Jessica Seessel, Instructor of English Erin Stalcup, Instructor of English Todd Thompson, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Matthew Udkovich, Lecturer in French G. Lee Warren, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sy Syms School of Business David Brock, Visiting Professor of Management Shu Han, Assistant Professor of Information Systems Joseph Kerstein, Visiting Professor of Accounting; Acting Director of the MS in Accounting, Program Veneta Sotiropoulos, Instructor of Marketing Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Peter Markowitz, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law; Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies Daniel Tsadik, Assistant Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Michael S. Fisher, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology Jeffrey Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Psychology John Pachankis, Assistant Professor of Psychology Jody Resko, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology Wurzweiler School of Social Work Amanda Sisselman, Instructor of Social Work For appointments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, click here.