Richard Abrams
Psychological & Brain Sciences
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William Acree
Vice Dean of Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Innovation
Rachel Adams
College Writing Program
Cassie Adcock
Department of History
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Department of English
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Department of Economics
Jami Ake
The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
W. Mark Akin
Department of Music
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Department of Political Science
Lukas Alexander
Department of Political Science
Mark G. Alford
Department of Physics
Tazeen Ali
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
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College Writing Program
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Romance Languages and Literatures
Kari Allen
Department of Anthropology
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Department of Physics
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Department of Anthropology
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Department of Music
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Department of Sociology
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Gaetano Antinolfi
Department of Economics
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Department of Classics
Jennifer Arch
Department of English
Raymond E. Arvidson
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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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