Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
Performing Arts Department
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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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Nic Koziolek
The Department of Philosophy
Elena V. Kravchenko
Religious Studies
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Department of Music
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Department of Music
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Department of Music
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
Department of History
Silvia Ledesma Ortiz
Romance Languages and Literatures
Ji-Eun Lee
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Carole Lemire-Bowman
Department of Music
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Music
Diane Wei Lewis
Program in Film and Media Studies
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Department of Music
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Department of English
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College Writing Program
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Department of Music
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Department of History
Zhao Ma
East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Department of English
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Deirdre Maitre
Program in Film and Media Studies
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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