Faculty

Moving in Circles: Path Cells Show the Way

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

In Search of the Best Medicine for Depression

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

Examining Religion's Past With an Eye on the Present

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

The Big Thaw

Geologist Doug Jerolmack and students track landscape degradation in Alaska.

Cognition Without Control

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

Semper Zen

Cognitive neuroscientist Amishi Jha studies mindfulness training for military preparedness.

Actuarial Criminology

Criminologist Richard Berk designs software aimed at reducing recidivism.

Math Mystery

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

Confederate Reckoning

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

Crash! Bang! Reflect

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

Fictional Realities

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

Ancient Rome and America

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

Ancient Cylinder Seal

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

The Real Thing

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

The Deaths of Seneca

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