Nicole Svobodny
Global Studies
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Claudia Swan
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Eyal Tamir
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Xiang Tang
Department of Mathematics
Younasse Tarbouni
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Lynne Tatlock
Comparative Literature and Thought
Margit Tavits
Department of Political Science
John-Stephen Taylor
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Terri Taylor
College Writing Program
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College Writing Program
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Department of English
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Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Department of Mathematics
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Department of Physics
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Psychological & Brain Sciences
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Department of History
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Department of Anthropology
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Romance Languages and Literatures
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Religious Studies
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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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