William Acree
Vice Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Innovation
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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Rachel Adams
College Writing Program
Cassie Adcock
Department of History
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Department of English
Jami Ake
Comparative Literature and Thought
W. Mark Akin
Department of Music
Tazeen Ali
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Elizabeth Allen
Romance Languages and Literatures
Jeffrey Anderson
Department of Music
Nicola Aravecchia
Department of Classics
Jennifer Arch
Department of English
G'Ra Asim
Department of English
Kara Baldus-Mehrmann
Department of Music
Mary Jo Bang
Department of English
Joe Barcroft
Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne Baril
The Department of Philosophy
Pamela Barmash
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Marisa Barragán-Peugnet
Romance Languages and Literatures
Colin Bassett
College Writing Program
Margaret Guinn Batten
Department of English
John Baugh
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Anne Margaret Baxley
The Department of Philosophy
Deanna Benjamin
College Writing Program
Housni Bennis
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Recent Faculty Grants & Awards
Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.
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