Congratulations to our Duke faculty who have been promoted or appointed to the rank of full professor. Promotion and appointment to full professor is the culmination of a rigorous review by the faculty’s academic peers inside and outside Duke and by the academic leaders at the department, school and campus levels. The review process looks for distinction and impact in research, teaching, service and engagement, and for leadership in the faculty’s area of expertise nationally and internationally. All these colleagues embody and exemplify the academic excellence that is so essential to fulfilling Duke’s mission of education, discovery and engagement. Congratulations!
Francesco Bianchi
Professor of Economics
Francesco Bianchi is a professor of economics in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and a research professor at Johns Hopkins University for the 2021-2022 academic year. He is a member of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Bianchi received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2009. He has held visiting positions at the University of California at Los Angeles, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University. In 2015 he was awarded the Wim Duisenberg Research fellowship and in 2010 he received the Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Monetary Economics and other leading academic journals. Currently, Bianchi’s main research interests involve the role of agents’ beliefs in explaining macroeconomic dynamics, the interaction between monetary and fiscal policy and macro-finance.
Appointment Date: July 1, 2021
Mark Edward Borsuk
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mark Borsuk’s research concerns the development and application of mathematical models for integrating scientific information on natural, technical, and social systems. He is a widely-cited expert in Bayesian network modeling with regular application to environmental and human health regulation and decision making. He is also the originator of novel approaches to climate change assessment, combining risk analysis, game theory, and agent-based modeling. Borsuk’s highly collaborative research has been funded by NSF, EPA, NIH, NIEHS and USFS, and he has authored or co-authored 75 peer-reviewed journal publications and 6 book chapters. Borsuk received the Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Risk Analyst Award from the Society for Risk Analysis in 2013 and the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society in 2008. Before joining the Duke faculty, Dr. Borsuk was a member of the Dartmouth College faculty for 10 years where he held an appointment in the Thayer School of Engineering. Dr. Borsuk received a B.S.E. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University, an M.S. in Statistics and Decision Sciences from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy from Duke University. He did his post-doctoral training in the Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment, and Modelling (SIAM) at the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), where he advanced to head of the Decision Analysis and Integrated Assessment group. As part of his appointment at Duke, Dr. Borsuk directs a new interdisciplinary research and teaching initiative in risk, uncertainty, optimization and decision-making.
Appointment Date: July 1, 2021
Kenneth Brown
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kenneth Brown is professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering and physics in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. His research interests include the control of quantum systems for both understanding the natural world and developing new technologies. His current research areas focus on the development of the robust quantum computers and the study of molecular properties at cold and ultracold temperatures. Awards include being a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Experienced Research Fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Kavli Fellow with the Kavli Foundation and National Academy of Science. Brown earned his B.S. from the University of Puget Sound and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkley.
Appointment Date: January 1, 2021
Frank Bruni
Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
Frank Bruni is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy. He joined the Duke faculty in 2021 after 25 years at the New York Times, where he served as metro reporter, White House correspondent, Rome bureau chief, chief restaurant critic and most recently as an Op-Ed columnist. He was the first openly gay Op-Ed columnist at the Times and in 2016 was honored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association with the Randy Shilts Award for his lifetime contribution to LGBTQ equality. He is the author of three New York Times best sellers: a 2015 examination of the college admissions frenzy, “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be”; a 2009 memoir, “Born Round,” about the joys and torments of his eating life; and a 2002 chronicle of George W. Bush’s initial presidential campaign, “Ambling into History.” His first cookbook, “A Meatloaf in Every Oven,” was published in February 2017 and co-written with his Times colleague Jennifer Steinhauer. His forthcoming book, “The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found,” which reflects on his imperiled eyesight and the challenges of aging, will be published in March 2022. Bruni joined the Times from the Detroit Free Press, where he was, alternately, a war correspondent, the chief movie critic and a religion writer. He has worked as a general-assignment writer for the Detroit Free Press and the New York Post. He has taught at Princeton University and been active at his alma mater, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as an advisor on improving the undergraduate experience and the liberal arts curriculum.
Appointment Date: May 13, 2021
Stephen Buckley
Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
Stephen Buckley is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy. He is a veteran editor and educator who worked at The Washington Post, Tampa Bay Times and the Poynter Institute. He joined the Duke faculty in July 2021. Buckley, a 1989 Duke graduate in political science, has had a wide-ranging career as a local reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and journalism educator. After graduating from Duke, Buckley spent 12 years at The Post as a local reporter and foreign correspondent. He covered education, courts and the night police beat and then became a foreign correspondent, initially as the Post’s Africa Bureau Chief and then the paper’s first correspondent based in Brazil. He returned to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2001 as a national reporter for the Times and then became an editor in charge of national and international coverage before being promoted to managing editor and then publisher of tampabay.com, the paper’s digital site. He moved to the Poynter Institute in 2010 as dean of the faculty. In 2015, he moved to Kenya, where he taught at The Aga Khan University before becoming the lead story editor for Global Press Journal, an international news organization that focuses its reporting on under-covered regions.
Appointment Date: May 13, 2021
M. Kate Bundorf
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management
M. Kate Bundorf is J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Sanford School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on health policy and the economics of health care systems. She has studied public and private health insurance markets, the organization of health care providers and consumer decision making in health care. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Bundorf was an associate professor of health research and policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the President-Elect of ASHEcon and a co-editor of The Journal of Health Economics. Bundorf received her M.B.A. and M.Ph. from The University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from The Wharton School. She was a Fulbright Lecturer at Fudan School of Public Health in Shanghai, China during 2009 and 2010. Her research has been published in leading economic and health policy journals and has received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received the 13th Annual Health Care Research Award from The National Institute for Health Care Management in 2007.
Appointment Date: January 1, 2021
Daniel Castelo
William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies
Daniel Castelo is the William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies in the Divinity School. During his doctoral work, he taught intensive Wesleyan theology courses in Mexico, Honduras and Brazil and afterward took a teaching post at a Mexican seminary for three years. Subsequently, he moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he taught dogmatic and constructive theology at Seattle Pacific University for fourteen years. Castelo has been an active participant in the Central American Methodist Course of Study program and recently has served as a doctoral mentor for the Hispanic Theological Initiative. He began his publishing career exploring the topic of divine attribution. This work resulted in the monograph “The Apathetic God,” for which he won a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise. He proceeded to consider questions surrounding a Christian account of theodicy, the doctrine of God broadly, and the theological interpretation of Scripture. Additionally, he has focused on the theology of renewal movements and Christian pneumatology. He currently has publishing contracts for books that explore Latinx theology and a Wesleyan doctrine of God.
Appointment Date: July 1, 2021
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is professor of the practice and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Statistical Science. She is also an affiliated faculty in the Computational Media, Arts and Cultures program at Duke University. Her work focuses on innovation in statistics and data science pedagogy, with an emphasis on computing, reproducible research, student-centered learning and open-source education. Çetinkaya-Rundel works on integrating computation into the undergraduate statistics curriculum, using reproducible research methodologies and analysis of real and complex datasets.
Appointment Date: July 1, 2021
Joel Collier
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Joel Collier is professor of biomedical engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering. His research specialty is in immune engineering, a new but rapidly growing field in which bioengineering approaches are used to modulate the immune system. He has made important contributions in self-assembling peptides and their application in vaccine development and cell delivery, particularly relevant in the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to his impressive research record, he has worked tirelessly to improve the department’s student experience, supporting student-initiated efforts to discuss the impact of social issues on student life and strengthening the undergraduate and graduate biomaterials…
Duke Faculty Promoted or Appointed to the Rank of Full Professor