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

​Bryce Sadtler​

Chemistry

Luis​ Alejandro Salas​

Classics

Jessica Samuel

​Ignacio Sánchez Prado​

Romance Languages and Literatures

Michael Sanders

Fernando Sanjenís Gutiérrez

​Crickette Sanz​

Anthropology

Christine Sasse

Music

Armin Sauermann

Nick Savage

​Sean Savoie​

Performing Arts

Paolo Scartoni

​Ariela Schachter​

Sociology

Karl Schaefer

Mathematics

Maggie Schlarman

Biology

​Wolfram Schmidgen​

English

Leigh E. Schmidt

John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics

Keith Schnakenberg

Political Science

​Nancy Schnurr​

Romance Languages and Literatures

Lyndsie Schultz

David Schuman

English

​Henry Schvey​

Performing Arts

Rebecca Sears

Classics

Alexander Seidel

Physics

Stephanie N. Shady

Christopher Shaffer

Biology

Toqeer Shah

Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies

​John Shareshian​

Mathematics

​Michael Sherberg​

Romance Languages and Literatures

Ila Sheren

Art History and Archaeology

​Vincent Sherry

English

Yongseok Shin

Economics

Matthew Shipe

English

Betsy Sinclair

Political Science

Julie​ Singer​

Romance Languages and Literatures

​Philip Skemer​

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Elzbieta​ Sklodowska

Romance Languages and Literatures

Virginia Slachman

College Writing Program

Rachel Slaughter

College Writing Program

​Cecil Slaughter​

Performing Arts

Mattias Smangs

​Richard Smith

Anthropology

Steven S. Smith

Political Science

Craig Smith

Biology

Global Studies

​Jennifer R. Smith

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

​William Smith​

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

​Robert Snarrenberg​

Music

Andrew​ Sobel​

Global Studies

Lee Sobotka

Chemistry

​Slava Solomatov​

Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Rose Sommerhauser

Anthropology

Claire Sommers

English

​Mitchell Sommers​

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Yanli Song

Mathematics

James F. Spriggs II

Political Science

Christopher​ Stark​

Music

Alexander​ Stefaniak​

Music

​Paul Steinbeck​

Music

​Paul Stein​

Biology

​Ari Stern​

Mathematics

Amanda Stewart

Music

​Harriet Stone​

Romance Languages and Literatures

Megan Stout

Music

​David Strait​

Anthropology

​Joan Strassmann​

Biology

Michael Strawbridge

Michael Strube

Psychological & Brain Sciences

​Gaylyn Studlar

Film and Media Studies

Jessie Sun

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Qingyi Sun

​Nicole Svobodny​

Global Studies

Claudia Swan

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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