Each year, new faculty join a wide range of departments across Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). This video captures three faculty who joined the Yale faculty in the Fall of 2025: Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, an Egyptologist and assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Johan Ugander, a data scientist and professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science; and Damanveer Grewal, a cosmochemist and professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science.The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is home to 1,000-plus faculty and 40-plus departments and programs that span the divisions of Humanities, Social Science, and Science, and provide instruction to the students of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Meet three new FAS faculty members
This new video highlights three scholars — cosmochemist Damanveer Grewal, Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, and data scientist Johan Ugander — who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Fall of 2025.






