Home to 15 departments, the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) offers students a small liberal arts college experience within a premier research university setting. The College and its departments are at the forefront of research within their various fields.

CLA is home to more than 5,000 students, both graduate and undergraduate, who learn in seminar-style classes, conduct research with award-winning faculty, and gain real-world experience in the field. Our graduates build the essential skills valued in the workplace: critical reading, careful thinking and effective communicating. Through our graduate degree programs, students in the College of Liberal Arts are equipped to become vanguards of integrated and innovative thinking.

Graduate students and faculty regularly win awards and accolades for their scholarship. Recent honors include:

  • American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Lecturer Award
  • APA Student Research Award in Clinical Psychology
  • APA Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology
  • Anxiety and Depression Association of America Clinician Trainee Award
  • Fulbright Scholarship
  • Goldsmith Book Prize from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
  • Lindau (Germany) Nobel Laureate Meetings invitation
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute invitation
  • National Humanities Center Fellowship
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Pew Fellowship
  • Society for Research in Adolescence Emerging Scholar Travel Award
  • Sundance Film Festival selection

Graduate Faculty

Casarae Abdul-Ghani, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Purdue University.

Elizabeth Adams, Instructor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Michigan State University.

Hiram Aldarondo, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Lauren B. Alloy, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Eli Alshanetsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, New York University.

Nilgün Anadolu-Okur, Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Hacettepe University.

Reynaldo Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Molefi Kete Asante, Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Kathleen Auerhahn, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Riverside.

James D. Bachmeier, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Irvine.

Christina Baker, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Steven R. Belenko, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Daniel W. Berman, Professor, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Lila Corwin Berman, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Marcus Bingenheimer, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; Dr.Phil., Wurzburg University.

Khalid Y. Blankinship, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Washington.

Michael L. Bognanno, Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Cornell University.

Julie L. Booth, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University.

Aryeh I. Botwinick, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Princeton University.

Lisa A. Briand, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Michigan.

Seth C. Bruggeman, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, College of William and Mary.

César Cabezas, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Lee-Ann Chae, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Sanjoy Chakravorty, Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Southern California.

Jason M. Chein, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pittsburgh.

Eunice Y. Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Sydney.

Eugene Chislenko, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Elise Chor, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Nyron Crawford, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Ohio State University.

Heath Fogg Davis, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Princeton University.

Richard E. Deeg, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kevin J. Delaney, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Dimitrios I. Diamantaras, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Rochester.

Nah D. Dove, Assistant Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York.

Deborah A. G. Drabick, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Douglas Duckworth, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Virginia.

Lauren Ellman, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Jamie J. Fader, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Mohsen Fardmanesh, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Paul Farnsworth, Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Robert L. Fauber Jr., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Georgia.

Barbara Ferman, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Brandeis University.

K. Orfeo Fioretos, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Ifetayo M. Flannery, Assistant Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Temple University.

Talissa Ford, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Paul B. Garrett, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, New York University.

Melissa R. Gilbert, Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Clark University.

Tania Giovannetti, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Drexel University.

Kristin Gjesdal, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Oslo.

Travis F. Glasson, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Petra Goedde, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Northwestern University.

Alex Gottesman, Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Kimberly Ann Goyette, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Michigan.

Cristina Gragnani, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Peter Gran, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Jason Gravel, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Irvine.

Alexandra Guisinger, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Elizabeth Gunderson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Victor Gutierrez-Velez, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Michael G. Hagen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Simon Hakim, Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Espen Hammer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The New School for Social Research.

Donald A. Hantula, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Notre Dame.

Carissa M. Harris, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Northwestern University.

Allison Hayes-Conroy, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Clark University.

Chelsea A. Helion, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Cornell University.

Kevin A. Henry, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, McGill University.

Karen E Klaiber Hersch, Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Rutgers University.

Matthew Hiller, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Texas Christian University.

Kathryn A. Hirsh-Pasek, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Brian J. Hutler, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Veronica Jacome, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Peter R. Jones, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Aberystwyth University.

Priya Joshi, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Joyce A. Joyce, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Georgia.

Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrew Karpinski, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Michigan.

Michael W. Kaufmann, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Philip C. Kendall, Laura H. Carnell and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dustin Kidd, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Virginia.

Joshua Klugman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Indiana University.

Robin A. Kolodny, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.

Rita Krueger, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Don Lee, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; MFA, Emerson College.

Sue-Im Lee, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Michael A. Leeds, Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Princeton University.

Mark A. Leuchter, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Toronto.

Judith A. Levine, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Northwestern University.

Laura S. Levitt, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Emory University.

Xiaojiang Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Connecticut.

Jay B. Lockenour, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Kevin Loughran, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Northwestern University.

Hilary Iris Lowe, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Kansas.

Natalie Léger, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Cornell University.

Peter J. Marshall, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Cambridge.

Ama Mazama, Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III.

Michael S. McCloskey, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Southern Mississippi.

Laura McGrath, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Michigan State University.

Alan McPherson, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Patricia Melzer, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Clark University.

Jeremy Mennis, Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Pennsylvania State University.

Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask, Professor, Department of Greek and Roman Classics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Brown University.

Katherina Motyl, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Gary A. Mucciaroni, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Srimati Mukherjee, Professor of Instruction, Department of English, First Year Writing Program, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Louisiana.

Vishnu Murty, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Duke University.

Shigenori Nagatomo, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Hawaii.

Kimani Nehusi, Associate Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University College of London.

Harvey R. Neptune, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, New York University.

Nora S. Newcombe, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Steven L. Newman, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.

David Nickerson, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Melissa E. Noel, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York.

Thomas Olino, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Lauren Olsen, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California San Diego.

Ingrid Olson, Professor and the Thaddeus L. Bolton Chair in Psychology, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Ryan Omizo, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Ohio State University.

Laura A. Orrico, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Los Angeles.

Jena Osman, Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Lara Ostaric, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Notre Dame.

Vinay Parikh, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Punjabi University.

C. Hamil Pearsall, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Clark University.

José Manuel Pereiro-Otero, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Colorado Boulder.

Montserrat Piera, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Pennsylvania State University.

Danya Pilgrim, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Mark A. Pollack, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Victor M. Pueyo Zoco, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Elver Sergio Ramirez-Franco, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pittsburgh.

Jerry H. Ratcliffe, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Nottingham (UK).

Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Southern Methodist University.

Aunshul P. Rege, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Rutgers University.

Terry Rey, Professor, Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Temple University.

Monica Ricketts, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Moritz Ritter, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Toronto.

Caterina Gouvis Roman, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, American University.

Jessica Roney, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.

Christina Rosan, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cathryn Jo Rosen, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; LLM, Temple University.

Eileen Ryan, Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

James Salazar, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Michael W. Sances, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Viviane Sanfelice, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Rochester.

Jacob Shell, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Syracuse University.

Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Thomas F. Shipley, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Gretchen Sileo, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Georgetown University.

Pedro Silos, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Iowa.

Bryant Simon, Laura H. Carnell Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Aaron X. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Africology and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Temple University.

David V. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Duke University.

Hillel David Soifer, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Damien Stankiewicz, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, New York University.

Jessica Stanton, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Columbia University.

Laurence D. Steinberg, Laura H. Carnell and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Cornell University.

William J. Stull, Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sandra L. Suárez, Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Charles E. Swanson, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Minnesota.

Ronald D. Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Michigan.

Rebbeca Tesfai, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Kimberley Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Rutgers University.

Barbara E. Thornbury, Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of British Columbia.

Teshale Tibebu, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Olga Timoshenko, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Yale University.

Paul D. Toth, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pittsburgh.

J. Christopher Upton, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Indiana University.

Gregory J. W. Urwin, Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Notre Dame.

Pablo S. Vila, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Texas at Austin.

E. Rely Vîlcicã, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Temple University.

Thomas J. Waidzunas, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California San Diego.

Shannon Walters, Associate Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Pennsylvania State University.

Jeffrey T. Ward, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Florida.

Charles A. Weitz, Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Pennsylvania State University.

Kimberly D. Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, The Ohio State University.

Roland L. Williams Jr., Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Mathieu E. Wimmer, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Pennsylvania.

Celeste M. Winston, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, City University of New York.

David Wolfsdorf, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Chicago.

Jennifer D. Wood, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Toronto.

Alese Wooditch, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, George Mason University.

Matt Wray, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of California Berkeley.

Hongling Xie, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sean Yom, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Harvard University.

Amarat Zaatut, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Rutgers University.

Lu Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Johns Hopkins University.

Shanyang Zhao, Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of Maryland.

Yun Zhu, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, University of South Carolina.

Adam Ziegfeld, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.