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Arts & Sciences has over 1,000 faculty and staff who utilize their diverse expertise in the pursuit of research breakthroughs, gaining a deeper understanding of the world's most pressing issues and serving as mentors of the next generation.
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Department of Biology
Eloísa Palafox
Romance Languages and Literatures
Mikhail Palatnik
Global Studies
Rita Parai
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Eleanor Pardini
Environmental Studies
Nelson Pardiño
Romance Languages and Literatures
Shanti Parikh
Department of Anthropology
Sunita Parikh
Department of Political Science
Chanhyuk Park
Department of Political Science
Sein Park
Department of Political Science
Shin Young Park
Department of Economics
John Parks
Environmental Studies
Robert Parks
Department of Economics
Timothy Parsons
Department of History
Anca Parvulescu
Department of English
Saori Pastore
Department of Physics
Gary Patti
Dean's Fellow for Advancement and Entrepreneurship
Amy Pawl
Department of English
Sarah Peck
Department of Anthropology
Mark Gregory Pegg
Department of History
Amy Peltz
Department of English
Rachel Penczykowski
Department of Biology
Peng Peng
Department of Political Science
Dolores Pesce
Department of Music
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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