Nancy Berg
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
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Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Shefali Chandra
Department of History
Richard Chapman
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Jianqing Chen
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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East Asian Languages and Cultures
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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