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Jennifer Adams
Professor of Communication and Theatre, Chair of the Communication and Theatre Department and Alfred and Kathleen Evens Faculty Fellow
Jennifer Adams has a fellowship to conduct archival research on free speech issues. In particular she is researching World War I-era women radicals who…
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Amy Eremionkhale
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Business Analytics Program
Amy Eremionkhale is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at DePauw University. She has experience teaching several courses in economics, business…
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Bryon Black II
Assistant Professor of Music
Dr. Black’s primary research focuses on the intersections between gospel music and European choral traditions. His 2024 dissertation used the choral music…
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Seth Friedman
John D. Hughes Professor in Communication and Theatre
Seth Friedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University…
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Joseph Albanese
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Joe Albanese researches image theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a focus on the Viceroyalty of Peru. He also studies the trans-Atlantic…
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Ivelisse Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of English and Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field McKenna Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing
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Jeffrey Dunn
Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and Associate Director of the Business Analytics Program
I am the Phyllis W. Nicholas Director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. I am also an associate professor in the DePauw philosophy…
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Craig Paré
Professor of Music
Craig Paré, Professor of Music, conducts the DePauw University Band and Symphonic Band. Appointed to the Institute of Music faculty in 1993, Dr. Paré has…
Read more"I usually need some sense that I'm embarking on a project of discovery that's going to have real meaning in my life, and maybe in the lives of other people."
Farah Ali
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
My primary fields of research are sociolinguistics and second/heritage language acquisition (S/HLA). While my work in these different areas extends over…
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Guangjun Qu
Hiram L. Jome Professor of Economics and Management and Allen A. Wilkinson Faculty Fellow
Specialties: Globalization, Trade, Tariff, Currency Exchange Rate, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, Asian Economies, Business, Investment, Geopolitics,…
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James Wells
Edwin L. Minar Professor of Classical Studies and Coordinator of World Literature
Specialties: Ancient Greek Lyric Poetry, Creative Writing, Translation, and Environmental Humanities
James Bradley Wells is a poet, translator (ancient…
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Howard Pollack-Milgate
Professor of German Studies
Howard Pollack-Milgate, Professor of German, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1998. He teaches German at all levels and has taught classes…
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David Gellman
Professor of History
I am a historian of colonial North America and the United States, with a particular focus on efforts to abolish slavery in the Revolutionary Era and in…
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Humberto Barreto
Professor of Business Analytics
Humberto Barreto is Professor of Business Analytics at DePauw University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor…
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Janani Sridhar
Assistant Professor of Music
Janani Sridhar made headlines as the first Singaporean to win the top prize at the Llangollen International Musical Eistedfodd. The competition, commonly…
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Jennifer Heaven Mike
Visiting Global Studies Scholar and Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dr. Jennifer Heaven Mike is a scholar and creative writer whose work exists at the rich intersection of law, gender, human rights, and artistic expression…
Read more"I’m really interested in periods of crisis and change, and in seeing how those periods create spaces for voices that don’t always get heard otherwise."
Sarah Louise Cowan
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Sarah Louise Cowan's research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a particular focus on the intersection of visual art and activism…
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Lori Miles
Professor of Art and Art History
Lori Miles focuses on art making, mostly dealing with cultural memes – especially looking at the gap between sculpture and contemporary controversies.…
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Marcus Hayes
Dean of the Creative School
Jordan Sjol, PhD
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts
Media Publications:
“Explosive Cinema” Film Series and How to Blow Up a Pipeline 35 MM premiere
Roxy Cinema. New York, NY. https://www.roxycinemanewyork…
Gregory (Greg) Schwipps
Professor of English
Greg Schwipps (’95) received his BA from DePauw University and his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His essays and short fiction can…
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Julia Brüggemann
Albert E. Crandall '56 Professor of History and Chair of the History Department
Julia Brüggemann is the Albert E. Crandall '56 Endowed Professor in History and the Chair of the Department of History. She earned her Ph.D. at Georgetown…
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Derek Ford
Associate Professor of Education Studies and Chair of the Education Studies Department
I am associate professor of philosophy and history of education and teach courses on how education has, does, and can help us imagine, struggle for, and…
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Erik Wielenberg
Blair Anderson and Martha Caroline Rieth Chair in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy
Wielenberg holds a robust form of moral realism according to which (i) moral properties are sui generis, not reducible to other kinds of properties and…
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