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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Associate Professor of Anthropology Amahl Bishara’s global take on what we can learn from other communities by direct observation shapes her outlook on justice and human rights.
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While community residents express some satisfaction, they see inequalities and opportunity for change according to survey conducted by Brian Schaffner, Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies and students.
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Two Tufts science groups are competing in STAT’s best innovations in biomedicine competition—and you can vote now.
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After a sabbatical, Cook will focus on his research, teaching in the psychology department.
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In the wake of police killings of Black Americans, a political science class takes students beyond the headlines.
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A lecturer in the Department of English and prolific writer, he taught creative writing at Tufts for 20 years.
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Nik Karns participated in collaborative research which examined disproportionate barriers facing people of color who aspire to open and operate charter schools.
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Tufts Biology students publish research on leafcutter ants in peer-reviewed journal.
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Milo Koretsky to join Tufts School of Engineering and Tufts School of Arts and Sciences as the inaugural McDonnell Family Bridge Professor.
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In WGBH news segment, Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh discusses how inviting his grandfather to participate in one of his Zoom classes led to some of his students inviting their own grandparents to join as well.
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Tufts faculty and staff members shared messages of gratitude and support for students' hard work this semester.
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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.
