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
Department of Political Science
Christopher
Shaffer
Department of Biology
Toqeer
Shah
Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
John
Shareshian
Department of Mathematics
Michael
Sherberg
Romance Languages and Literatures
Ila
Sheren
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Vincent
Sherry
Department of English
Yongseok
Shin
Department of Economics
Matthew
Shipe
Department of English
Betsy
Sinclair
Department of Political Science
Julie
Singer
Romance Languages and Literatures
Philip
Skemer
Department of 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 Department
Anthony
Smith
Department of Biology
Craig
Smith
Department of Biology
Steven S.
Smith
Department of Political Science
Jennifer R.
Smith
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Richard
Smith
Department of Anthropology
William
Smith
Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Robert
Snarrenberg
Department of Music
Andrew
Sobel
Global Studies
Stephanie N. Shady
Christopher Shaffer
Toqeer Shah
John Shareshian
Michael Sherberg
Ila Sheren
Vincent Sherry
Yongseok Shin
Matthew Shipe
Betsy Sinclair
Julie Singer
Philip Skemer
Elzbieta Sklodowska
Virginia Slachman
Rachel Slaughter
Cecil Slaughter
Anthony Smith
Craig Smith
Steven S. Smith
Jennifer R. Smith
Richard Smith
William Smith
Robert Snarrenberg
Andrew Sobel
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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.
See what our faculty are working on now
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