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.
Research and Scholarship News from A&S
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Gilbert Metcalf, professor of economics, is lead researcher on the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tisch College's new report which estimates the potential impact of the Transportation Climate Initiative.
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This segment, which features Dean of Arts and Sciences Jim Glaser, profiles A&S alum Jennifer O'Malley Dillon who was President-elect Joe Biden's campaign manager and has now been named his deputy chief of staff.
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Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture, has written this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal about the dire situation in Armenia and the need to project the region's cultural heritage. (Subscription required)
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Tufts faculty weigh in on the prospects for incoming Biden administration policies and for the political future of the U.S..
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A new cross-school initiative at Tufts aims to change how we teach data science in STEM and non-STEM disciplines alike.
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The presidential election shows the standoff in our national politics is growing more serious, says Tufts political scientist
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New research from Zarin Machanda, Usen Family Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, is highlighted in an article in the New York Times.
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Representation is not equitable for people of color and the poor, shows new book by Brian Schaffner, Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies, Department of Political Science.
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Researchers discover that bacteria that ripen cheese respond to the volatile gases produced by cheese fungi.
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Lessons from a Pandemic: Amid COVID-19, sociology professor Natasha Warikoo says educators and parents must keep equity as their focus.
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Faculty have transformed Experiments in Ecology amid COVID-19 but continue to provide students with a window into the natural world.
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Of all K-12 students, those with special needs are especially hard hit by the pandemic, say Tufts special education experts.
