Jeffery Matthews
Performing Arts Department
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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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William J. Maxwell
Department of English
Cameron Maynard
Department of English
Thembelani (Themba) Mbatha
Department of African and African-American Studies
John E. McCarthy
Department of Mathematics
Mark McDaniel
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Kathleen McDermott
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Paige McGinley
Performing Arts Department
Erin McGlothlin
Vice Dean of Undergraduate Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences
Matt McGrath
The Department of Philosophy
William McKelvy
Department of English
William B. McKinnon
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
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Department of English
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Department of English
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Department of Physics
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Department of Physics
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Department of Physics
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Romance Languages and Literatures
Justin Meyer
Department of Classics
Steven Meyer
Department of English
Roger Michaelides
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Melanie Micir
Department of English
Robert Milder
Department of English
Krista Milich
Department of Anthropology
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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