The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) and Dean Agustín Rayo recently welcomed six new professors to the MIT community. They arrive with diverse backgrounds and vast knowledge in their areas of research. Grisha Coleman is a full professor in the Music and Theater Arts Section. Her research explores tensions between our physiological, technological, and ecological systems; human movement, our machines, and the places we inhabit. Her practice engages an interdisciplinary approach to these explorations. Coleman received the Doris Duke Foundation’s Performing Arts Technologies Lab Award. Her work has been supported by Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, MacDowell, the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Fou…

Their second novel, “Swans,” and a story collection, “Big Whoop,” are forthcoming. Shota Momma is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Momma is a specialist in psycholinguistics and its interaction with linguistic theory — with a particular focus on the mechanisms of sentence production. Previously, Momma taught as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Maryland and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego. Lindsey Raymond PhD ’24 is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, holding an MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shared position with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.…