Faculty Archive

Associate Professor of Psychology Sara Jaffee investigates early childhood behavior.

Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics Mirjam Cvetic makes science appealing to students of all interests and skill levels.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Marc Meredith dissects the 2012 campaigns.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry examines what happens when light strikes objects.

Professor of English and Cinema Studies Timothy Corrigan explores essay film.

Professors of Economics Dirk Krueger and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde discuss the state of the European economy.

Matt Levendusky provides political insight on factors influencing voters’ decisions.

Assistant Professor of English Salamishah Tillet helps music stars John Legend and The Roots create a window to the past.

Associate Professor of Classical Studies Thomas Tartaron discusses the evolution of the Olympic Games.

Social scientist Jere Behrman gives an inside look at his work outside the classroom.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Kok-Chor Tan examines the intricacies of distributive justice on a global scale.

Professor of Music Emma Dillon discusses a lost, but not forgotten, musical style.

Senior Lecturer and director of the Theatre Arts Program Rosemary Malague investigates women and the claim to authenticity in the acting classroom.

Jane Willenbring measures the rapid rate at which ice sheets are receding.

Paul Rozin identifies a major roadblock to exploring new methods of attaining drinkable water.

John MacDonald sheds light on the Trayvon Martin case and the impact it's making on the public.

Emeritus historian writes the human story from the Stone Age to today.

Ethnomusicologist writes about the power of faith in the life of music and the power of music in the life of faith.

Classicist examines the tragic fate of living too long.

In the office of a typical archaeologist, you would expect to find things like stone tools, pottery fragments, and maybe even a few Wooly Mammoth bones. But Clark Erickson is no typical archaeologist. Oversize rolls of aerial photographs are stacked into tubular pyramids on a desk and worktable in his University Museum office. They fill up file cabinets and populate a storage room. At last count, he had about 700 giant aerial and satellite images—almost all of them picturing some region of the Amazon.