Five new scholars and professors have joined the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts this fall, bringing knowledge and expertise in a wide range of research interests to the School of Public Policy and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Join us in welcoming these tenure-track faculty members to the College.

Literature, Media, and Communication

Yanni Loukissas. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Yanni Alexander Loukissas is a designer and ethnographer with a focus on the role of computation in cooperative practices of exploration and imagination. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Originally trained as an architect at Cornell University, he subsequently received a MS and a PhD in Design and Computation at MIT. His main interests are the cultural dimensions of data, mapping, modeling, visualization, simulation and prototyping.

Gregory Zinman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Gregory Zinman received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Before coming to Georgia Tech, he was an ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Columbia University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His research interests include experimental film and media, artists’ film and video, digital aesthetics, the moving image online, and early computer films.

Public Policy

Benjamin Chupp
Assistant Professor

B. Andrew Chupp received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from Georgia State University and a B.S. degree in economics and mathematics from Berry College. His research interests are environmental policy, federalism, and public choice. His current research projects include a retrospective analysis of the EPA’s Acid Rain Program, continued investigation of the interplay between state and federal environmental policies, and development of empirical models to measure legislative interaction and power.

Kaye Husbands Fealing, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

Kaye Husbands Fealing is an economist who comes to the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She has built a distinguished record of achievements in scholarship, education, and national and international leadership and service. Her areas of expertise include international trade policy; science, technology, and innovation policy in specific contexts; knowledge generation and the development of networks.

Emanuele Massetti, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Emanuele holds a PhD in Economics from Catholic University of Milan, an MSc in Economics from University College London and a MA in Economics from Brown University.  He is Senior Researcher at the Sustainable Development Unit of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Research affiliate at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC). His main research interests are in Environmental Economics.