Richard Abrams
Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Federico Acosta y Lara
Department of Political Science
William Acree
Associate Vice Dean of Graduate Education
Rachel Adams
College Writing Program
Gabrielle Adams
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Cassie Adcock
Department of History
Lori Admundson
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Department of English
Jami Ake
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
W. Mark Akin
Department of Music
Deniz Aksoy
Department of Political Science
Lukas Alexander
Department of Political Science
Mark G. Alford
Department of Physics
Mohamed Ali
The Department of Philosophy
Tazeen Ali
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Megan Allen
College Writing Program
Elizabeth Allen
Romance Languages and Literatures
Kari Allen
Department of Anthropology
Sachiko Amari
Department of Physics
Jeffrey Anderson
Department of Music
Kenneth Andrews
Department of Sociology
Ameen Animashaun
Department of English
David Ansari
Department of Anthropology
Gaetano Antinolfi
Department of Economics
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Taylor Carlson, assistant professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Social Science Research Council Social Data Research Fellowship to study the extent to which user-generated content (i.e. comments) on social media platforms distorts information reported by mainstream news outlets. The fellowship comes with a $50,000 award.
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