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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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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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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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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…
Read more"I'm increasingly [now] becoming more passionate about using music to boost and promote positive mental health."
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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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."
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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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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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…
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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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Marcus Hayes
Dean of the Creative School
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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Ivelisse Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of English and Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field McKenna Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing
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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…
Read more"...as a human being, I find that being underestimated is is an exceptional point of power."
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…
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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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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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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…
Read more"There are new literacies that are incredibly important for the modern world."
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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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…
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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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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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