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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 English
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David Ansari
Department of Anthropology
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Gaetano Antinolfi
Department of Economics
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Abir Arabi
Department of Economics
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Nicola Aravecchia
Department of Classics
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Jennifer Arch
Department of English
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Iteoluwakiishi Arigbabu
Department of Sociology
Christine Armistead
Department of Music
Raymond E. Arvidson
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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G'Ra Asim
Department of English
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Gennie Avellino
Inside Arts & Sciences
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Costas Azariadis
Department of Economics
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Ana Babus
Department of Economics
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Aylin Bademsoy
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Alexis Bafaro
Inside Arts & Sciences
Marlon M. Bailey
Department of African and African-American Studies
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Sarah Baitzel
Department of Anthropology
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Thomas Bakupog
Department of Chemistry
Kara Baldus-Mehrmann
Department of Music
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David Balota
Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Darwin Baluran
Department of Sociology
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Sudeshna Bandyopadhyay
Department of Economics
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Mary Jo Bang
Department of English
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Deanna Barch
Vice Dean of Research
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.
See what our faculty are working on now
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Reichhardt wins NIH MIRA award
The award for early-career researchers will support research on the proteins that enable bacterial infections.