Faculty

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Rana Abdul-Aziz

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language acquisition, high school political science and philosophy instruction
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Leah Abrams

Assistant Professor
Community Health
Social epidemiology, health policy, population aging, work/retirement, mortality trends, mental health
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Dany Adams

Lecturer
Biology
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Ryan Adelsheim

Lecturer
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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James Adler

Professor
Mathematics
Scientific computing and numerical analysis: Efficient computational methods for complex fluids, plasma physics, electromagnetism and other physical applications.
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Shuchin Aeron

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information theory, convex optimization, machine learning, algorithms for geophysical signal processing, compressed sensing architectures and evaluation, video and image data acquisition and processing
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Julian Agyeman

Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Sustainability policy and planning; environmental and food justice; intercultural cities
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Paul Ahlstrand

Lecturer
Music
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Sara Akant

Professor of the Practice
English
Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Performance and Ritual, Documentary and Collage
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Constanza Alarcon Tennen

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Naseem Alatrash

Lecturer
Music
Arab Music Ensemble cello performance, Arab music
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Gustavo Alfaro

Professor Emeritus
Romance Studies
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Ratib Mortuza Ali

Lecturer
Economics
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Talha Ali

Assistant Professor
Community Health
structural racism and racial/ethnic health disparities across the lifespan social support networks of older adults caregiving and dementia social determinants of healthy aging dyadic analysis
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Cheryl Alison

Lecturer
English
British and Irish Modernism; the Transatlantic Twentieth Century; Mid-twentieth-century American Literature; American Modernism; Visual Culture; Literary Theory; the Intersection of the Arts; Artistic Process & the Archive; the Relationship between Biography, Form, and Historical Moment.
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Aerielle Allen

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Social Processes, Intergroup Relations, Psychology of Racism and Social Equity
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Temor Amin-Arsala

Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
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Efrat Amiri

Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
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Elizabeth Ammons

Professor Emerita
English
American Literature Environmental Humanities U.S. Literature and Race Studies
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Kwasi Ampene

Professor and Department Chair of Music
Music
Intersections between historical/lived experience, music, and social values; music ethnography; compositional conventions and theories in Akan music; Akan heritage of tangible and intangible stool regalia; music and social change, and Popular music.
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Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health and Associate Professor
Public Health and Community Medicine
Currently, I am an Associate Professor within the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University. Additionally, I am the Principal Investigator of an NIMHD R01 (1R01MD016026-01) study entitled "Reducing Racial Disparities in SMM Post COVID19: Assessing the integration of maternal safety bundles and community based doulas to improve outcomes for Black women" Given my extensive training in community-driven participatory research, health disparities, maternal and child health, and qualitative methods, my participation in the BIRCWH Program as a mentor with a focus on health disparities will be an opportunity to further expand my expertise. For the past 15 years, I have worked successfully in communities of color on issues including advancing the understanding, prevention, and reduction of maternal mortality or morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women and socioeconomically disadvantaged women. I have spent substantial time building community-researcher relationships in urban communities, providing technical assistance, and serving as a member of various community-based organizations. Previously, as a recipient of an NIMH training grant, I served as the PI of a pilot study that focused on mother-daughter communication in HIV+ African American women. The pilot study, Project DASH (DIVAS Against the Study of HIV/AIDS) is a dyadic study that explores HIV risk for daughters with HIV+ mothers. This mixed methods pilot study utilized individual interviews and a quantitative survey to examine the quality and context of the mother/daughter relationship as a predictor of sexual behavior and HIV risk in the daughter.
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Maria Andrianova

Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
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Rachel Applebaum

Associate Professor
History
Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the global Cold War, global communism, transnational history
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June Aprille

Professor Emerita
Biology
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Marina Aptekman

Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language, Russian and Soviet Jewish cultural history
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Laura Arevalo-Catalan

Lecturer
Romance Studies
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Emma Armstrong-Carter

Assistant Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
child development; research practice partnerships; prosocial development; children's caregiving for family; school policies educational success
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Luis Arnias

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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Benjamin Aron

Lecturer
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
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David Art

Professor and Department Chair of Political Science
Political Science
Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Europe
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Gloria Ascher

Associate Professor Emerita
International Literary and Cultural Studies
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Timothy Atherton

Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Condensed Matter Physics, Soft materials, Colloids, Liquid Crystals, Computational Physics, Physics Education Soft matter physics is the study of matter that is all around us in everyday life: soaps, oil, foods, sand, foams, and biological matter. All of these are readily deformable at room temperature and combine properties of both fluids and solids. Despite their ubiquity, these materials are extremely complicated. Unlike simple fluids like water, they have rich internal structure; unlike crystalline solids they are typically not periodically ordered. Moreover, they exist in long-lived metastable states far from equilibrium and respond to stimuli such as applied electric and magnetic fields, temperature and pressure. My work seeks to understand how these materials respond to shape: how they self-organize on curved surfaces or in complex geometries and how this knowledge can be used both to sculpt desirable shapes at the microscopic scale and create shape changing systems like soft robots. We use high performance computing to simulate and predict these behaviors and work closely with experimentalists at Tufts and beyond.
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Joseph Auner

Austin Fletcher Professor of Music
Music
Music and technology, sound studies, Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, turn of the century Paris and Vienna, and Weimar Berlin
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David Aurelio

Lecturer
Psychology
Engineering/applied psychology, consumer product design, usability metrics, information visualization, and research field methods.
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Paula Aymer

Associate Professor Emerita
Sociology
Race and ethnic relations; family; religion; immigration
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Jody Azzouni

Professor
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
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Stephanie Badde

Stibel Family Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science
Psychology
Perception
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Chaewon Baek

Assistant Professor
Economics
Macroeconomics, Macro-labor, Macroeconometrics
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Laura Baffoni-Licata

Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
20th-Century Italian Poetry; Italian Women Writers; Italian Literature of the Holocaust; Political Ideology in Italian Literature
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Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe

Professor and Darakjian Jafarian Chair of Armenian History
History
Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe