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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Psychological & Brain Sciences
Federico Acosta y Lara
Department of Political Science
William Acree
Associate Vice Dean of Graduate Education
Gabrielle Adams
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Rachel Adams
College Writing Program
Cassie Adcock
Department of History
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Department of English
Md Nazmul Ahsan
Department of Economics
Jami Ake
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
W. Mark Akin
Department of Music
Deniz Aksoy
Department of Political Science
Lukas Alexander
Department of Political Science
Mark G. Alford
Department of Physics
Tazeen Ali
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Mohamed Ali
The Department of Philosophy
Elizabeth Allen
Romance Languages and Literatures
Kari Allen
Department of Anthropology
Megan Allen
College Writing Program
Sachiko Amari
Department of Physics
Vanessa Amaya Vallejo
Department of Anthropology
Felix Ampadu
Department of Anthropology
Lori Amundson
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Jeffrey Anderson
Department of Music
Kenneth Andrews
Department of Sociology
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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