Faculty Experts

Jennifer 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…

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…

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…

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…

Bryon Black

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…

Carrie F. Klaus

Laurel H. Turk Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the Global Studies Fellows Program

Carrie F. Klaus specializes in writing by women, and by writers posing as women, in early modern France (sixteenth through eighteenth centuries). She is…

Ivelisse Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of English and Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field McKenna Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing

Seth Friedman

John D. Hughes Professor in Communication and Theatre

Seth Friedman is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University,…

Harry Brown

Professor of English and Co-Director of the Environmental Fellows Program

Harry Brown has published three books. "Injun Joe’s Ghost" (2004) examines the figure of the Native American mixed-blood in American writing. "Videogames…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

David Alvarez

Jane Cooling Brady Professor in English

David Alvarez's research focuses on 18th century British literature and the European Enlightenment. He has a special interest in the Third Earl of Shaftesbury…

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…

Sarah Rowley

Associate Professor of History

I am historian of the 20th-century United States, specializing in the histories of women, gender, and sexuality. For the past several years my research…

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…

Marcus Hayes

Dean of the Creative School

Eliza Brown

Cassel Grubb University Professor of Music and Martha C. Rieth Faculty Fellow

Eliza Brown loves sound. Their music is motivated by sound and its potential for meaning, interdisciplinary approaches to narrative and process, and attention…

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…

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…

Jordan Sjol

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…

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…