Luis Alejandro Salas
Department of Classics
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Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Department of English
Leigh Schmidt
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Nancy Schnurr
Romance Languages and Literatures
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Department of English
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Performing Arts Department
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Department of Classics
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Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
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Ila Sheren
Department of Art History and Archaeology
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Department of English
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Romance Languages and Literatures
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Romance Languages and Literatures
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College Writing Program
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Performing Arts Department
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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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