Roy Kasten
College Writing Program
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Peter Kastor
Department of History
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Department of Physics
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Department of Biology
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Department of Classics
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Department of Classics
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Department of Anthropology
Kenneth F. Kelton
Department of Physics
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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Department of Anthropology
Hillel J. Kieval
Department of History
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Department of Economics
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
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College Writing Program
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Romance Languages and Literatures
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Music
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Department of Chemistry
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Physics
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Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Department of Art History and Archaeology
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Department of History
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Michael Frachetti has received a $20,000 grant from Fondation Max van Berchem for research on 'Nomadic' urbanism in 11th century Uzbekistan.
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Three Questions with Adia Harvey Wingfield
Adia Harvey Wingfield, professor of sociology, studies the intersection of race, work and sociology. In addition to writing regularly about such matters for The Atlantic, she also has written numerous scholarly articles and books, including No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work.
Meet our new faculty: Social sciences
Arts & Sciences welcomes new instructors across disciplines this fall. Meet our newest faculty in the social sciences.
Poetry for all
Launched this month with a colleague at Illinois Wesleyan University, Abram Van Engen’s (English) “Poetry for All” podcast aims to demystify poetry and invites even skeptics to join in. Each 15-minute episode takes on a single poem, first reading it, then taking it apart, and then reading it again. “Poetry is not reserved for those with a special interest and talent in the literary arts,” he writes. “Poetry is for us all.”