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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 Economics
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Bryce Sadtler
Department of Chemistry
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Kaho Sakaue
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Luis Alejandro Salas
Department of Classics
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Jessica Samuel
Department of African and African-American Studies
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Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Michael Sanders
College Writing Program
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Fernando Sanjenís Gutiérrez
Department of English
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Angelina Sansone-Dunphy
Inside Arts & Sciences
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Jose Santiesteban
Department of Political Science
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Crickette Sanz
Department of Anthropology
Christine Sasse
Department of Music
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Armin Sauermann
Department of Sociology
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Nick Savage
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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Sean Savoie
Performing Arts Department
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Christopher Schaberg
Inside Arts & Sciences
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Ariela Schachter
Department of Sociology
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Karl Schaefer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
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Maggie Schlarman
Department of Biology
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Wolfram Schmidgen
Department of English
Leigh Schmidt
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
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Keith Schnakenberg
Department of Political Science
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Nancy Schnurr
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Lyndsie Schultz
Department of Education
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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