SSD Welcomes New Faculty for the 2023-24 Academic Year

Christina Brown
Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Christina Brown is a development economist studying labor and behavioral economics questions. Her research examines labor and education market imperfections, especially around issues of asymmetric information. Prior to joining the university, Brown completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Samuel Fury Childs Daly (starting January 1, 2024)
Associate Professor, Department of History

Samuel Fury Childs Daly is a historian of warfare, law, and the places in African history where they meet. He is the author of A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge, 2020). His new book, Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire, will be published by Duke University Press in 2024. He is currently conducting research for a book about the history of military desertion. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University, and he previously taught at Duke University.

Lydia Emery
​​​​​​​Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Lydia Emery’s program of research focuses on close relationships, considering in particular how both social class contexts and people’s individual self-concepts affect their romantic relationships. Before joining the faculty as an Assistant Professor, Emery completed postdoctoral training in the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and English from Haverford College and her PhD in Psychology from Northwestern University.

Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science

Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz studies social movements, U.S. Latinx politics, and immigration. His current book project entitled “La lucha de cada día: Immigrant Justice Organizing and the Political Remaking of Illegality in the U.S.” chronicles and analyzes immigrant-led community organizing, exploring the strategies employed by these communities to advance welcoming social policies, create long-lasting political infrastructures, and even organize inside detention centers. Ramón earned his PhD and MPhil degrees from Yale University’s Political Science Department, and a B.A. in political science from Johnson C. Smith University.

Kyshia Henderson
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology

Kyshia Henderson is a social psychologist whose primary interest lies in examining how White Americans justify and promote racism, specifically how historical truths are ignored, dismissed, and distorted in ways that promote white supremacy. She takes historical context seriously, and has worked to provide a framework for thinking about hsitorical context in psychological science. Prior to joining the university, Henderson earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California Los Angeles and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Virginia. 

Eric Richert
Assistant Professor, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Eric Richert is an Assistant Professor with research interests that lie at the intersection of empirical industrial organization and finance. Before joining the University he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in Economics from Queen’s University.