Faculty Experts

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…

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…

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…

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…

Julia Bruggemann

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Ivelisse Rodriguez

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

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…

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…

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…