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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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Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne Baril
The Department of Philosophy
Michael Barkasi
The Department of Philosophy
Pamela Barmash
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Jonathan Barnes
Department of Chemistry
Carolyn Barnes
Department of Anthropology
Cynthia Barounis
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Marisa Barragán-Peugnet
Romance Languages and Literatures
Heather Barton
Department of Biology
Colin Bassett
College Writing Program
Margaret Guinn Batten
Department of English
John Baugh
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Barbara Baumgartner
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Anne Margaret Baxley
The Department of Philosophy
Roger Beachy
Department of Biology
Kurt Beals
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Lois Beck
Department of Anthropology
Monique Bedasse
Department of History
April Bednarski
Department of Biology
Roya Beheshti Zavereh
Department of Mathematics
Yehuda Ben-Shahar
Department of Biology
Isaac Bendon
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Deanna Benjamin
College Writing Program
Housni Bennis
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
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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