Faculty Archive

Historian Joan DeJean's new book reveals the French origins of our comfort-driven lives.

Political scientist Jeffrey Green challenges the notion of vox populi.

Graduate student Aaron Mulvany studies competing narratives of flood and recovery in South Indian coastal communities.

In his new book, Sinologist Victor Mair explores tea's history and its impact on world history.

Psychologist Michael Kahana identifies a type of brain cell that senses direction.

Geologist Doug Jerolmack and students track landscape degradation in Alaska.

Cognitive neuroscientist Amishi Jha studies mindfulness training for military preparedness.

New research explores why different patients respond better to different treatments.

Neuroscientist Sharon Thompson-Schill shows that a little bit of frontal lobe goes a long way in learning.

Associate Professor of Sociology Melissa Wilde looks to policies of the past and how they've shaped the current religious landscape.

Criminologist Richard Berk designs software aimed at reducing recidivism.

Mathematicians Phillip Gressman and Robert Strain solve a 140-year old equation describing the motion of gas molecules.

English professor Nancy Bentley probes the artistic dimensions of shock and awe.

Art historian Holly Pittman analyzes the oldest seal found on the Arabian Peninsula.

Historian Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's debut novel chronicles lives upended by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Music professor co-curates Smithsonian exhibit on the history of Harlem's Apollo Theater.

Historian Stephanie McCurry tells how women and slaves drove old Dixie down.

Roman historian Campbell Grey helps curate exhibition exploring America's Roman inheritance.

Classical scholar James Ker presents the first comprehensive cultural history of one of antiquity's most studied death scenes.

Beth Linker describes the impact of rehabilitation services during World War I.