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.

select honors from our faculty

9 Elected Members of the National Academy of Sciences
18 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients
18 elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Motomi Kajitani

Aurora Kamimura

Education

Hyeok Hweon Kang

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Mona Kareem

Jaclyn Kaslovsky

Roy Kasten

College Writing Program

Peter Kastor

History

Jonathan I. Katz

Physics

Andreas Kautt

Cathy Keane

Classics

Tom Keeline

Classics

Angela K. Kelly

Education

John E. Kelly

Kenneth F. Kelton

Physics

Matt Kerr

Mathematics

Katherine Kerschen

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Tristram R. Kidder

Anthropology

Hillel J. Kieval

HistoryJewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

Hayana Kim

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Young Whun Kim

Mijeong Mimi Kim

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Sukkoo Kim

Economics

Taewoong Kim

Tamsin Kimoto

Chris King

College Writing Program

Allison King

Education

David Kinney

Gabrielle Kirilloff

English

Kari Kirk

Stephanie Kirk

Amanda Kirkpatrick

Music

Christine Kirmaier

Chemistry

Caroline Kita

Germanic Languages and Literatures

John Klein

Art History and Archaeology

Kristina Kleutghen

Art History and Archaeology

Marshall Klimasewiski

English

Krister Knapp

History

Gregory Knese

Mathematics

Matthew Knisley

Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal

Performing Arts

Xenia Knoesel

Sarah Koellner

Hannah Kofman

Bronwen Konecky

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Wouter Kool

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Randy L. Korotev

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Nic Koziolek

Philosophy

Steven G. Krantz

Mathematics

Robert Kranz

Biology

Elena V. Kravchenko

Religious Studies

Henric Krawczynski

Physics

Michael J. Krawczynski

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Scott Krummenacher

Environmental Studies

Todd Kuffner

Kenneth Kulosa

Music

Mitchell Kundel

Biology

Barbara Kunkel

Biology

Mariia Kurbak

Esther Viola Kurtz

Music

Jeffrey Kurtzman

Music

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu

History

Jonathan Kvanvig

Philosophy

Recent Faculty Grants & Awards

Jeffrey M. Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $250,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study event cognition “in the wild.” This project will take the research into the world, where people actually experience events. Key to the research is “Unforgettable,” an infrastructure developed over the past decade by collaborator Simon Dennis, of the University of Melbourne, which helps people enrich and better understand their own memories while collecting data for a scientific exploration of event comprehension and memory.

See what our faculty are working on now

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