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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Faculty members and others in the Tufts community describe how their family stories and heritage inform their scholarship, research, and practice.
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A performance artist who explored race, culture, and identity, she inspired both students and colleagues in her eight years at SMFA at Tufts.
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The Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, he taught at the university for more than 47 years, focusing on the links between science, technology, ethics, and public policy.
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The liars we’ve been binge-watching are more like us than we might want to think, say two Tufts psychologists.
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Maurice Emmanuel Parent, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, talks about the two terms and how he sees them playing out on stage and screen.
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As space exploration speeds up, engineers and other visionaries help us imagine—and prepare for—life beyond our planet.
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Genealogist Bryna O’Sullivan, A08, is now working on identifying and telling the stories of African American Revolutionary War veterans buried in Old North Cemetery in Middlefield, Connecticut.
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Three questions with Tufts economist Gilbert Metcalf about gasoline costs and what suspending gas taxes might do.
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With resistance to the Russian invasion much stronger than expected, the conflict’s future is uncertain, Tufts experts say.
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Tim Atherton, Associate Professor of Physics, is co-lead author of a new study which finds that overall climate and exclusionary behaviors are the biggest factors for LGBT+ scientists leaving physics, with women and trans people most likely to experience harassment.
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State immigrant policies matter and creating a sense of belonging for all residents builds stronger feelings of inclusion, as seen by a new study of Arizona and New Mexico from Professor of Political Science Deborah Schildkraut.
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Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University's Tisch College describes how the November 2022 ballot question would affect state revenues and public investments, predicts how high-earners might respond.
