Aug 4, 2010 -- Twenty undergraduate and graduate faculty members will join Yeshiva University’s diverse roster of scholars this fall. Four professors—Drs. Douglas Burgess, Alessandro Citanna, Andreas Hamel and Yuxi Zheng—will be teaching at both Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women. Burgess joins the University’s history department after positions as a postdoctoral fellow at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Social Research and New York Historical Society. He obtained his JD from Cornell University and PhD from Brown University. Citanna brings experience as a visiting professor of economics and finance at Columbia University and as a professor of economics and finance at HEC Paris to YU’s economics department. Citanna earned a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Hamel and Zheng are additions to the mathematics department. Hamel, who earned his PhD summa cum laude from Germany’s Martin Luther University, has lectured in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University. Zheng has served as professor and associate head of the mathematics department at Penn State University. He obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Susan Crawford, who earned a BA summa cum laude and JD from Yale University, comes to Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law as a professor specializing communications, cyber, privacy and property law, and Brett Frischmann joins Cardozo after a stretch as associate professor of law at Loyola University School of Law. His educational background includes a BA in astrophysics and an MS in Earth resources engineering and applied sciences from Columbia University, along with a JD magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. Other new faculty, listed by school, include: Stern College Omer Acikgoz, assistant professor of economics (will also teach at Yeshiva College) Yael Leibowitz, instructor of Bible Shoshana Schechter, instructor of Bible Yeshiva College Fabiola Barrios-Landeros, assistant professor of chemistry Van Kelly, visiting assistant professor of computer science Amish Khalfan, visiting assistant professor of physics David Lavinsky, assistant professor of English Yakov Lowinger, visiting assistant professor of sociology Yair Shahak, instructor of Hebrew Sigal Shalom, instructor of Hebrew Shlomo Wadler, instructor of Hebrew Sy Syms School of Business Yasar Kocaga, assistant professor of operations management Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology Catherine Eubanks-Carter, assistant professor of psychology Melanie Moretz, assistant professor of psychology