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