David Marchant
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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Marvin Marcus
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Lori Markson
Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Fiona Marshall
Department of Anthropology
Henri Martikainen
Department of Mathematics
Beth Martin
Environmental Studies
Andrew Martin
Department of Political Science
Claire Masteller
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Jeffery Matthews
Performing Arts Department
William J. Maxwell
Department of English
Cameron Maynard
Department of English
Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha
Department of African & African American Studies
John E. McCarthy
Department of Mathematics
Mark McDaniel
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Kathleen McDermott
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Paige McGinley
Performing Arts Department
Erin McGlothlin
Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences
Matt McGrath
The Department of Philosophy
William McKelvy
Department of English
William B. McKinnon
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Heather McPherson
Department of English
Edward McPherson
Department of English
Augusto Medeiros da Rosa
Department of Physics
Alex Meshik
Department of Physics
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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