Faculty & Research
Our Faculty
The faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest of Tufts’ nine schools, explores collaborative research and scholarship opportunities across the university and around the world. More than 400 faculty make up the School of Arts and Sciences. The majority of A&S faculty hold a PhD and/or a terminal degree in their field (such as a MFA) and many of them are practicing professionals at the forefront of their fields.
Research and Scholarship Across Disciplines
Tufts University is recognized as one of the leading private research universities in the United States. The Carnegie Foundation ranks Tufts as a Research-1 institution—its highest classification for degree-granting colleges and universities—but the university's commitment to research is about more than prestige. It's about the academic community coming together in creative and compelling ways to push boundaries and ask the questions that will take our knowledge to the next level.
Across the School of Arts and Sciences' more than 40 academic departments, programs, and centers, approximately 400 faculty, 1,000 graduate students, and 5,400 undergraduates work collaboratively on groundbreaking research that spans our diverse disciplines.
Our aim is to support innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration as the foundations of discovery. Our approach is to create and support scholarship across the school to seamlessly integrate undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty into a collaborative educational research environment. The school celebrates all A&S scholars and the over 200 active grants, fellowships, and awards it receives each year.
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Latinos, those with only high school education, and under-30s hit harder by layoffs than other groups, according to new Tufts University national survey
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The laws governing housing, along with redlining, were part of the systemic efforts to maintain structural racism, Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning in a piece originally published in the Conversation
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Survey also finds differences in prevalence of COVID-19 testing based on geographic, personal and socio-economic factors
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A new endowment supports education, research and civic engagement initiatives designed to support individuals and families who have been affected by the opioid crisis
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The health disparities faced by people of color are shown in stark relief by the pandemic, say Tufts experts
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Jennifer Allen, professor of community health is co-leader of the national survey designed and analyzed by Tufts University’s Research Group on Equity in Health, Wealth and Civic Engagement.
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Leonard and Jane Holmes Bernstein Professor in Evolutionary Science in the Department of Physics and Astronomy Alexander Vilenkin explains how large black holes really are and what the point of no return means.
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Survey by Tufts University researchers also finds 42% of Latinos and 27% of Whites know victims of police mistreatment
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Scientists collaborate to understand the coronavirus, from how it is transmitted to the disparity of its harm
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Tufts researchers to study how sex and gender affect individuals’ risk of worse outcomes from COVID-19
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The Boston Globe highlights Associate Professor of Music Stephan Pennington's livestreamed fundraising lecture on Black music history and civil rights
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It is not just that housing costs are too high, but that incomes are too low, says Shomon Shamsuddin, assistant professor of urban and environmental policy and planning
