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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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Kara Baldus-Mehrmann
Music
Mary Jo Bang
English
Joe Barcroft
Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne Baril
Philosophy
Pamela Barmash
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Marisa Barragán-Peugnet
Romance Languages and Literatures
Colin Bassett
College Writing Program
Guinn Batten
English
John Baugh
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Anne Margaret Baxley
Philosophy
Kurt Beals
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Monique Bedasse
History
Deanna Benjamin
College Writing Program
Housni Bennis
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Nancy E. Berg
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Elizabeth Bernhardt
Romance Languages and Literatures
Iver Bernstein
HistoryAfrican and African-American Studies
Ruth Berson
College Writing Program
Anna F. Bialek
John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics
Kate Bloomquist
College Writing Program
Stefanie Boese
College Writing Program
Ian Bogost
Film and Media Studies
Elizabeth Borgwardt
History
Daniel Bornstein
History
Virginia Braxs
Romance Languages and Literatures
Eric Brown
Philosophy
J. Andrew Brown
Romance Languages and Literatures
Rachel Brown
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
J. Dillon Brown
English
William Bubelis
Classics
Sebastian Buhts
Music
Patrick Burke
Music
Colin Burnett
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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