60 remarkable thinkers from across the University.
Pitt Honors Faculty Fellows open minds and doors for Pitt's brightest young talent. They bridge intellectual boundaries, and reimagine the world around them through unique academic lenses — while challenging our students to do the same.
Current Faculty Fellows:
Jeffrey Aziz
Department of English
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Literature and science
George C. Bandik
Department of Chemistry
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: The science and art of organic chemistry
Gretchen Bender
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Modern art, feminism, and art history
CB Bhattacharya
College of Business Administration
Interests: Sustainability, marketing, business ethics
David J. Birnbaum
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Digital humanities, Medieval Slavic texts
Harvey Borovetz
Department of Bioengineering
Swanson School of Engineering
Interests: Development and engineering of artificial hearts
Paul Bové
Department of English
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Critical literary theory, apolcalyptic literature
Cynthia Bradley-King
Child Welfare Training Program
School of Social Work
Interests: Child welfare, reprensentation of race, foster care and adoption
Jeffrey Brodsky
Department of Biological Sciences
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Cellular protein folding, misfolding, and human disease
Judy Cameron
Department of Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Interests: Educational programs bringing data science to youth, neuropsychiatry
Ana Paula Carvalho
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Applied linguistics, Portuguese
Lillian Chong
Department of Chemistry
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Biophysics, writing about science
Frayda Cohen
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: China, gender, and food and sustainability
Ellen Cohn
Department of Communication Science and Disorders
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Interests: Speech-language pathology, cleft palate and craniofacial disorders, healthcare and other applied communication, telehealth
Yolanda Covington-Ward
Department of Africana Studies
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Congo, Liberia, body and identity in African culture
Mary Crossley
School of Law
Interests: Legal and policy responses to health inequality, disability studies
Jason Dechant
Department of Health Promotion and Development
School of Nursing
Interests: Anatomy, nursing, literature about science
Gianni Downs
Department of Theatre Arts
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Scene design, theater arts, undergraduate education
Waverly Duck
Department of Sociology
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Urban ethnography, sociology, community-engaged research
Annmarie Duggan
Department of Theatre Arts
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Lighting design, stage production
Joshua Ellenbogen
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Relationships between painting and photography
Muge Finkel
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Interests: Middle East culture and politics, Japanese culture and politics
Michael Glass
Urban Studies Program
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: City identities, growth and development of urban landscapes
Amanda Godley
Department of Instruction and Learning
School of Education
Interests: Equity and education, urban education, social justice
Michael Goodhart
Department of Political Science
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Global injustice, human rights politics, political responsibility, inequality
Janelle Greenberg
Department of History
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Medieval European law and politics, Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History
Teresa Hastings
Department of Neurology
School of Medicine
Interests: Oxidative mechanisms associated with neurodegeneration
Adriana Helbig
Department of Music
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Eastern European Gypsy music, music therapy, global hip-hop
Bernard Hibbitts
School of Law
Interests: History of the legal profession; ancient law; law and ritual; law and the history of technology; American, English and Canadian legal history
Jana Iverson
Department of Psychology
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Development of communication and movement in infants and toddlers, developmental disorders
Lewis Jacobson
Department of Biological Sciences
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Physiological and hormonal factors that control the degradation of proteins
Delanie Jenkins
Department of Studio Arts
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Contemporary art practices, identity and place
Kristin Kanthak
Department of Political Science
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Women in politics, political engagement, undergraduate education
Leonora Kivuva
Department of Linguistics
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Swahili, African culture, social justice
Adam Leibovich
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Strong and weak interactions of atoms, modern physics
Ilknur Lider
Department of Linguistics
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Turkish language and culture, communication strategies, foreign language proficiency
Steven Little
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Swanson School of Engineering
Interests: Developing materials to replacate biological function
Andrew Lotz
Department of Political Science
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Intersection of popular culture and politics, political history
Dawn Lundy Martin
Department of English
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: African American poetry, social justice
Clark Muenzer
Department of German
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: German literature and culture, creating lexicons
Audrey Murrell
College of Business Administration
Interests: Global management and entrepreneurship, empowering women in business
Lisa Nelson
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Interests: Science, technology, and society
Nancy Pfenning
Department of Statistics
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Statistics in journalism, statistics education, misuse of statistics around health issues
Sheila Pratt
Department of Communication Science and Disorders
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Interests: Pediatric and adult auditory rehabilitation
Kathryn Puskar
Department of Health and Community Systems
School of Nursing
Interests: Behavioral health, combining qualitative and quantitative study
Marla Ripoll
Department of Economics
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Mathematical modeling and economics, cross-country differences in income and demographics, the role of intergenerational links on the persistence of inequality, health and the value of life
Joseph Samosky
Department of Bioengineering
Swanson School of Engineering
Interests: Design and development of medical simulation systems
Cynthia Skrzycki
Department of English
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Journalism, media criticism, media literacy
Jesse Soodalter
Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Interests: End-of-life care planning, attitudes toward death in society, classics, fine art
Abdesalam Soudi
Department of Linguistics
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Conversation Analysis, Human-Computer Interface, Sociolinguistics, Connecting linguistics to the community and industry
George Stetten
Department of Bioengineering
Swanson School of Engineering
Interests: Image-guided intervention, analysis of medical images
John Stoner
Department of History
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: U.S. and South African history
Alan Sved
Department of Neuroscience
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Brain control of cardiovascular function, fluid homeostasis
Martha Terry
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Interests: Sociocultural aspects of human sexuality, reproductive decision-making, HIV/AIDS and women’s health
Natasha Tokowicz
Department of Psychology
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Interests: Language acquisition