Our people are extraordinary.
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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Aliakbar Daemi
Mathematics
Elena Dalla Torre
Romance Languages and Literatures
Talia Dan-Cohen
Anthropology
Kelly Daniel-Decker
Music
Bethany Daniels
English
Nick Danis
Linguistics
Political Science
Joanna Dee Das
Performing Arts
Megan Daschbach
Chemistry
Steve Davis
Music
Kathryn Davis
English
Tansu Daylan
Physics
Maria de la Cruz
Chemistry
Tomas de Oliveira
Todd Decker
Music
Nicolas Esteban Der Meguerditchian
Bhupal Dev
Physics
Rachael DeWitt
Julien Di Giovanni
El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
African and African-American Studies
Willem H. Dickhoff
Physics
Marina DiMarco
Jimin Ding
Ram Dixit
Biology
Nathan Dize
Ian Dobbins
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Christopher Douthitt
Music
Mark Dowell
Romance Languages and Literatures
Ben Duane
Music
Ian Duncan
Biology
Danielle Dutton
English
Maximiliano Dvorkin
Economics
Robert F. Dymek
Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Mary Ann Dzuback
Women, Gender, and Sexuality 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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