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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 African and African-American Studies
Philip Purchase
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Michelle Purdy
Department of Education
Seonkyung Pyo
Department of Political Science
Shuiming Qian
Department of Biology
Zihan Qin
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Xiaoyan (Christy) Qiu
Department of Political Science
David Queller
Department of Biology
E.A. Quinn
Department of Anthropology
Danny Radomski
Department of Physics
Barbara Raedeke
Department of Music
Christina Ramos
Department of History
Kyra Ramsey
Inside Arts & Sciences
Sheng Ran
Department of Physics
Nancy Rathjen
Department of Education
Brian Rauch
Department of Physics
Zachariah Reagh
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Allison S. Reed
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Andrew Reeves
Department of Political Science
Courtney Reichhardt
Department of Chemistry
Casey Reimer
Department of Education
Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Department of Economics
Lawrence Revard
College Writing Program
Julian Rey
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
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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