Our people are extraordinary.
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
Allan Larson
Department of Biology
Asha-Marie Larson-Baldwin
Department of Sociology
Seanna Leath
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
Romance Languages and Literatures
Jiyoon Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures
SangMok Lee
Department of Economics
Wonseok Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ji-Eun Lee
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Carole Lemire-Bowman
Department of Music
William Lenihan
Music
Jillian Lepek
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Rebecca Lester
Department of Anthropology
Oksana Leukhina
Department of Economics
Petra Levin
Department of Biology
Diane Wei Lewis
Program in Film and Media Studies
Carter W. Lewis
Performing Arts Department
Guangqi Li
Department of Economics
Ruiyuan Li
Department of Political Science
Wanlin Li
Department of Mathematics
Jiayi Li
Department of Political Science
Yihao (Rayna) Li
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Huiyun Liang
Department of Music
Xia Liang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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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