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Hannah Snyder
Principal Investigator · Brandeis University
⭐ Dr. Hannah Snyder will be considering PhD and MA applicants for the 2025-2026 admissions cycle! See more application information, including an FAQ for prospective grad students. We are currently recruiting new undergraduate research assistants! You can learn more about our RA position and apply to b…
Individual differences in executive functions (EF) are associated with many important aspects of human health and functioning, including mental health. Critically, EF processes continue to develop through the early 20s, a period when new stressors arise during the transition to a…
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A.J. Murphy
Assistant Professor of History · Brandeis University
A.J. Murphy is a scholar of American military history, the history of capitalism, and the history of gender and sexuality. Their current book project - Pentagon Capitalism: How the Cold War US Military Modeled Itself on Private Business (forthcoming, Harvard University Press) - r…
Ahmad Namini
Professor of the Practice of Business Analytics · Brandeis University
Ahmad Namini is a Professor of the Practice of Business Analytics at Brandeis University’s International Business School. He teaches courses in computer programming, quantitative analysis, machine learning, and sports analytics. Dr. Namini has served as a quantitative analyst/dev…
Alexandra Pineros-Shields
Associate Professor of the Practice · Brandeis University
Dr. Alexandra Piñeros Shields is an Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program at the Heller School. She brings over 30 years of experience working to advance the human and civil rights of oppressed communities through innovative practices that create…
Amy Singer
Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor of History · Brandeis University
Amy Singer (Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 1989) holds the Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and is Professor in the Department of History, and professor emerita in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She has been a vi…
Angela Gutchess
Professor of Psychology · Brandeis University
Research in my laboratory explores the effects of age and culture on memory and social processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral measures. My research on aging and memory explores age differences in the specificity and accuracy of memory and in t…
Arthur Wingfield
Professor Emeritus of Psychology · Brandeis University
The memory problem in normal aging has its roots in reduced efficiency in acquiring new information, and it is largely this limitation that later translates into memory failures. Our approach to this question is focused on rapid speech comprehension, and memory for what has been …
Avinash Singh
Assistant Professor of History, International and Global Studies, and South Asian Studies · Brandeis University
Assistant Professor of History, International and Global Studies, and South Asian Studies, Department of History, Brandeis University. Education: Brandeis University Ph.D.; Panjab University Ph.D.; Brandeis University M.A.; Panjab University M.A.; Panjab University B.A.
South Asi…
Avital Rodal
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Avital Rodal is a Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of intracellular transport and membrane trafficking, particularly the role of the actin cytoskeleton in endocytosis and vesicle motility. She uses genetic, biochemical,…
Barry Snider
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
Development of new synthetic methods. Mechanisms of synthetically important reactions. Total synthesis of natural products.
Ben Rogers
Soffer Associate Professor of Engineering Science · Brandeis University
Ben and his research group aim to develop quantitative tools and design strategies to understand and control self-assembly at the colloidal length scale. Together they employ a strategy combining concepts from dynamic DNA nanotechnology, detailed measurements of emergent colloida…
Bing Xu
Charles A. Breskin Chair in Organic Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Our research focuses on the interdisciplinary frontier of materials chemistry. We integrate the knowledge and techniques in organic chemistry, materials science, surface chemistry, biochemistry, and nanotechnology to design new biofunctional materials, including nanomaterials, fo…
Brandon Callender
Assistant Professor of English · Brandeis University
Brandon Callender specializes in black queer and black horror studies. He is completing a manuscript on black queer men's intimacies and belongings entitled Getting Behind in Black Gay Men's Literatures.
Brian A. Horton
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Brandeis University
Brian is a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of queer studies, critical theory, popular culture, digital anthropology, and South Asian studies. His research projects broadly focus on sexual, gender, and racial minority subjects and the social worlds that they b…
Bruce Goode
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
dynamics and polymer dynamics, and electron microscopy
Bruce M. Foxman
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
When two or more small molecules combine in a crystal, unusual opportunities may arise. The rewards that result from such opportunities include chemo-, stereo- and enantiospecific syntheses, the synthesis of polymer single crystals, and the facile preparation of otherwise-unattai…
Cameron Anderson
Barbara Sherman '54 and Malcolm L Sherman Associate Professor of Theater Arts · Brandeis University
Cameron Anderson is an internationally acclaimed scenic and projection designer, and has designed extensively at the world's leading theater and opera companies. Recent international highlights include West Side Story for The Kilden Performing Arts Center in Norway and the Vancou…
Caren Irr
Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities · Brandeis University
Caren Irr Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities PhD, Duke University Pronouns: she / her / hers Pronunciation: Irr as in "irregular" or "irritable"
Environmental humanities, theory, creative nonfiction, film, the novel.
Carl S El-Tobgui
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Director of the Arabic Language Program · Brandeis University
Carl Sharif El-Tobgui holds a B.S. in Arabic Language from Georgetown University and a Master's and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from McGill University and currently serves as Associate Professor Arabic & Islamic Studies and Director of the Arabic Language Program at Brandeis. He pre…
Catherine Theobald
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies · Brandeis University
Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Chair of the Department of Romance Studies. Her research has two main foci: early modern French literature and word-image studies (particularly portraiture and book illustratio…
ChaeRan Freeze
Frances and Max Elkon Chair in Modern Jewish History · Brandeis University
Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life.
Jewish History, Women's Studies
Chandler Fulton
Professor Emeritus of Biology · Brandeis University
In the 1960s my lab set out to use genetics to dissect cell differentiation. We chose as research organism a remarkable unicellular eukaryote that lives in freshwater, Naegleria gruberi, which can alternate between walking amoebae and swimming flagellates. When amoebae are transf…
Chi P. Ting
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Total synthesis of natural products. Chemoselective functionalization of peptides. Genome mining and natural product biosynthesis.
Our research program focuses on organic synthesis and biosynthesis of natural products. Natural products have been a tremendous source of new medicin…
Christine Grienberger
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Mechanisms of experience-dependent neuronal computations. The brain's ability to learn is critical for executing tasks that ensure an animal's survival. My lab is interested to understand the synaptic, cellular, and circuit-level computations that allow the brain to produce these…
Colleen Hitchcock
Professor of Ecology
My academic interests are focused on the role of participatory science in ecological inquiry and conservation biology specifically relating to studies of biodiversity, conservation, phenology, and climate change. I am interested in both the power of the public in scientific resea…
Dagmar Ringe
Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Emerita · Brandeis University
Our interests were generally in the relationship of protein three-dimensional structure to chemical function. To this end, research was focussed on the modification of the catalytic properties of a number of pharmaceutically or industrially important enzymes. The methods used wer…
Daniel Bergstresser
Daniel Bergstresser is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Chair of the Undergraduate Business Program at the Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis University, where he also serves as affiliated faculty in the Department of Economics. He earned his A.B. from Stan…
Daniel Thomas Kryder
Luis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics · Brandeis University
Current scholarship concerns the relationship between police and democracy in American history; ideas of time in the American Constitution, white supremacy in US state constitutions from the founding to the present; and qualitative and historical methods.
American politics, Quali…
Darren Zinner
Associate Professor of Health: Science, Society and Policy Program · Brandeis University
Darren Zinner is a Associate Dean for Academics at the Heller School of Social Policy & Management. He is also the Chair of the Health: Science, Society, and Policy program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in healthcare. Dr. Zinner is also a senior member of Brandeis Uni…
David DeRosier
Professor Emeritus of Biology · Brandeis University
The generation and interpretation of cryogenic electron microscope tomograms (cryo-ET) has become the cutting edge of structural cell biology. The three dimensional (3D) cryo-ET images of cells at 2 to 5 nm resolution allow us to see molecules in situ. Using clever averaging tech…
David Katz
Professor of History · Brandeis University
He has published three books about the Jews in early modern England; three books about Christianity and radical Christian thought, same time and place; and one book about Turkey in the British imagination, 1776-1923. He is now writing a book about William James as an historian of…
David Powelstock
Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature · Brandeis University
I am interested in how selfhood, consciousness and language are related, especially in lyric poetry written in Slavic and European languages, and over the entire history of poetry. This central focus is informed by my research interests in areas such as: Theory of Lyric, Historic…
David Sherman
Associate Professor of English · Brandeis University
David Sherman is Associate Professor of English and Department Chair at Brandeis University. He is Co-Director of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative and Co-Founder of The Elegy Project. He holds a PhD from New York University.
Global modernism, elegy and the politics of …
Dawn Skorczewski
Professor of English · Brandeis University
Teaching of writing, Holocaust education, 20th-century American, psychoanalysis and pedagogy, psychoanalysis and literature, contemporary poetry, narrative medicine
Dorothy Kim
Assistant Professor of English · Brandeis University
Dorothy Kim Assistant Professor of English PhD, University of California
Medieval literature, drama, digital humanities
Douglas Theobald
Professor of Biochemistry · Brandeis University
The goal of my research is to understand with atomic precision how macromolecules evolve novel structures, complexes, mechanisms, and functions. We characterize the specific dynamic pathways taken by enzymes during their evolution, by resurrecting lineages of ancestral enzymes al…
Duane Juang
Assistant Professor of Engineering in Biology · Brandeis University
Development of novel assay platforms for research and diagnostics. My research focuses on developing novel, enabling tools at the intersection of engineering, chemistry, and biology to address pressing challenges in human health. Our lab harnesses various physical phenomena (flui…
Elanah M. Uretsky
Professor of International and Global Studies · Brandeis University
I am medical anthropologist who is also broadly trained in public health. As such, my research and teaching take a critical anthropologic approach to examining global health responses to disease, with a specific focus on China. My interests focus on the nexus of gender, sexuality…
Elizabeth Brainerd
Elizabeth Brainerd is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in Economics and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, with affiliate appointments at the Brandeis International Business School and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She also s…
Emilie Diouf
Assistant Professor · Brandeis University
Emilie Diouf is a faculty member in the Department of English at Brandeis University.
Critical theory, film/media, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory and literature, African and Rwandan literature.
Eugene R Sheppard
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought · Brandeis University
EUGENE R. SHEPPARD is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought in the Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies. He serves as Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and an editor of the Tauber Institute Series with Brandeis University …
Eve Marder
University Professor; Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Modulation of Neural Networks. One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience is understanding how circuit function arises from the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and their synaptic connections. Of particular interest to us today is the extent to which similar circui…
Faith Smith
Marta F. Kauffman '78 Professor of African and African American Studies
Professor of English
Affiliate in Creativity Arts and Social Transformation (CAST), Latin American, Caribbean and Latin Studies (LACLS), and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) · Brandeis University
Caribbean cultural production; Black diasporic literature; afterlives of slavery, indenture and empire; gender and sexuality.
Gabriella Sciolla
Professor of Physics · Brandeis University
Professor Sciolla and her team work on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Research topics include the measurement of the properties of the Higgs Boson in ZZ and WW final states, precision measurements of Standard Model phenomena, and the search for new and…
Gina Turrigiano
Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science · Brandeis University
Gina Turrigiano Joseph Levitan Professor of Vision Science
Homeostasis and Neural Circuit Plasticity and Function
Govind Sreenivasan
Associate Professor of History · Brandeis University
Works on the social history of early modern Europe (c. 1450 to c. 1750), especially in comparative perspective with Indo-Islamic and East Asian civilizations. He is most interested in rural Germany, and in particular in the role of criminal and civil legal institutions in the dai…
Gregory Childs
Associate Professor of History · Brandeis University
I research and teach in the fields of Latin American, Caribbean, and African Diaspora studies. My first book project, entitled Seditious Spaces, Public Politics: Antiracism, freedom, and sedition in 1798 Bahia, Brazil, provides an in depth examinations of a late eighteenth centur…
Gregory L Freeze
Raymond Ginger Chair in History · Brandeis University
Gregory L. Freeze (Ph.D. Columbia University) is the Raymond Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis University. His primary teaching interests are modern Russian history, with a particular focus on religious and social history. Freeze initially focused his research on the parish…
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
My research is concerned with the three-dimensional structures of proteins and their biochemical functions. Most of my work is done in collaboration with Prof. Dagmar Ringe; we share facilities, students, and a number of projects. The tools used by our group are X-ray crystallogr…
Hannah Muller
Associate Professor of History · Brandeis University
Hannah Weiss Muller is a historian of Britain and the British Empire with particular interests in the long eighteenth century and the intersections of law, monarchy, identity, and subjecthood. She teaches courses on early modern and modern Britain, the British Empire, Modern Euro…
Hannah Yevick
· Brandeis University
Degree PhD Institut Curie — University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2014
Mechanics of cell and tissue development, collective behaviors in living systems. Living systems undergo highly stereotypic shape changes as they develop their final target shape. The Yevick lab is …
Hao Xu
Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Non-precious metal catalysis directed towards organic synthesis. Translational synthetic chemistry. Discovery of new disease targets and therapeutic probes in human biology.
Harleen Singh
Interim Academic Dean for the School of Arts, Humanities, and Culture and Associate Professor of Literature, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies · Brandeis University
Harleen Singh is Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Women's Studies. She and Sarah Lamb founded the South Asian Studies Program at Brandeis and Singh served as its Chair from 2007-2016. She is the faculty representative to the Board of Trustees at Brandeis. Her wri…
Howie Tam
Assistant Professor of English · Brandeis University
Howie Tam is an assistant professor in English at Brandeis. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Before arriving at Brandeis, Dr. Tam held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth College and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.
Asian Ameri…
Hyunjun Yang
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry · Brandeis University
Hyunjun Yang is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Brandeis University. He received his B.S. from University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, and completed postdoctoral training in Biophysics and Neuroscience at University of California, …
Ilana Szobel
The book was a finalist for the Concordia University Library - Azrieli Institute Award for Best Book in Israel Studies. Ilana Szobel has also authored various articles treating Hebrew literature, gender and trauma studies, psychoanalysis, disability studies, and Israeli film. By …
Irving R. Epstein
University Professor, Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry, HHMI Professor · Brandeis University
Research in our group covers oscillatory chemical reactions, spatial pattern formation, dynamical systems and neurobiology. Many phenomena in living systems involve periodic changes. In recent years, oscillating chemical reactions have blossomed from a curiosity studied by an obs…
Isaac Krauss
Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Our lab studies interesting problems in organic synthesis and chemical biology. Our chemical biology program is directed at the design and synthesis of carbohydrate clusters which mimic important binding surfaces in biology. One target is the portion of HIV protein gp120 which is…
Iu-Yam Chan
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
Iu-Yam Chan is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Brandeis University. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago.
Laser spectroscopy and magnetic resonance under high pressure; chemical reaction rates and quantum tunneling reactions under pressure.
James Haber
Abraham and Etta Goodman Professor of Biology, and Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center · Brandeis University
Repair of broken chromosomes and triggering of the DNA damage response. Broken chromosomes must be repaired if a cell is to survive; consequently cells have evolved a variety of mechanisms to repair double-strand breaks (DSBs). Both homologous recombination, in which the ends of …
James Howard
Assistant Professor of Psychology · Brandeis University
Our research is aimed at understanding how the human brain constructs outcome expectations to guide decision making. We particularly focus on learning for chemosensory rewards, which constitute an ecologically crucial, but often ignored, modality of study in human cognitive neuro…
James Morris
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
James Morris Professor of Biology I am interested in evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science education. I pursue these diverse interests by focusing on teaching, learning, and research.
evolution, genetics, epigenetics, history of science, and science ed…
James Pustejovsky
TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems · Brandeis University
Computational Linguistics focuses on the study of language from a computational perspective. This dynamic field draws on artificial intelligence, computational and formal logic, linguistics, as well as philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.
Computational Linguistics; Know…
Jane Kondev
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics · Brandeis University
I am a theoretical physicist working on problems in biology. The goal of my research is to uncover general, mathematical laws that govern all living systems.
Theoretical Physics; Biophysics; Cell Biology; Quantitative Biology
Javier Urcid
Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies · Brandeis University
Teaches archaeology and studies the development of ancient complex societies in Mesoamerica: the origin and societal functions of early writing, meaning and material culture, and the social and ideological dimensions of mortuary practices.
Archaeology; Central America; Material C…
Jeffrey Hall
Professor Emeritus of Biology · Brandeis University
Hall and his colleagues investigated the function of the nervous system in Drosophila. Many of their approaches involved genetic studies of behavior, augmented by molecular manipulations of genes defined by certain behavioral mutations. These investigations were in two areas: mol…
Jeffrey Shoulson
Professor of English · Brandeis University
Early Modern English Literature, Jewish Studies, Biblical Studies
Jehuda Reinharz
Professor · Brandeis University
Jehuda Reinharz is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, Emeritus, in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. He earned his B.S. from Columbia University, a B.R.E. from the Jewish Theological Seminary, an M.A. from Harvard Univers…
Jerome Tharaud
Associate Professor of English · Brandeis University
Early American literature and culture; print culture and media; American religious history; art history and visual culture; theories of space and place; the American West.
Joan Press
Professor Emerita of Biology · Brandeis University
Dr. Press taught immunology, microbiology, and infectious disease courses for science and non-science majors. Additionally, she was the Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH) for the Biology department, Coordinator of Independent Research, Coordinator of Senior Research and Honors, an…
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Professor · Brandeis University
Jody Hoffer Gittell is Professor of Management at Brandeis University where she teaches Research Methods, Organizational Theory, Strategic Human Resource Management & People Analytics, and the Relational Coordination Master Class. She is Executive Director of the Relational Coord…
John Burt
Paul E. Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature · Brandeis University
19th-century American literature, 20th-century American literature (especially poetry), Southern Gothic fiction, American romantic fiction, composition, rhetoric.
John Plotz
Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities · Brandeis University
Victorian literature, the novel, science fiction and fantasy
Jonathan Krasner
Jonathan Krasner, Associate Professor, is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education Research with a joint appointment in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. His cur…
Jonathan Touboul
Professor of Mathematics · Brandeis University
My research lies at the boundary between mathematics and biology. I chiefly using tools from dynamical systems and stochastic theory to model neuronal activity, competition between ecological species and embryonic development. Dynamical Systems and Stochastic processes allow desc…
Jonathan W Unglaub
Associate Professor of Fine Arts · Brandeis University
History and Appreciation of Art, Renaissance Period, Fine Arts, Renaissance art, Baroque art
Joseph Wardwell
Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and has work in each collection. He was a 2012 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. In addition to numerous group exhibitions, he has held solo exhibitions in New York,…
Joshua Meisel
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Assistant Professor of Biology, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Endowed Chair in Neuroscience. Education: BA, BS, MS, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Postdoctoral Fellow, MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Mitochondri…
Judith Herzfeld
Professor Emerita of Biophysical Chemistry · Brandeis University
Judith Herzfeld is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at Brandeis University.
Judith Tsipis
Professor Emerita of Biology · Brandeis University
Building on my background in virology and genetics, I devoted most of my career to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. For my first 31 years at Brandeis I taught the introductory biology laboratory course taken by all Biology majors and pre-med students and ad…
Kalpana White
Professor Emerita of Biology · Brandeis University
Neuronal maturation, function and plasticity depend on a large number of intricate cellular processes, which allow individual neurons to function within a larger network. Our focus was on two of the cellular processes crucial to the neuron: axonal transport and regulated RNA spli…
Kate A. Moran
Professor of Philosophy · Brandeis University
Kate Moran received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on Immanuel Kant's moral and political philosophy. Prof. Moran teaches courses on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy, as well as courses in ethics, moral psychology, political…
Katharine Abruzzi
Associate Research Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Understanding the contribution of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in Drosophila circadian rhythms. How does the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression impact circadian rhythms? Do these RNA-centric mechanisms help buffer circadian gene expression fr…
Katherine Shulenberger
Assistant Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Semiconductors, semiconductor nanocrystals, optoelectronic devices, renewable energy technologies, optical characterization, photon-counting measurements, ultrafast optical characterization, interparticle interactions, thin-film properties, heavy metal free NC systems.
Katrin Fischer
Assistant Professor in University Writing · Brandeis University
Katrin Fischer specializes in science and nature writing, business writing, and interdisciplinary pedagogies. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections between the sciences, business, and the liberal arts, on the transferability of writing skills across disciplines and…
Kaushik Ragunathan
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance; single molecule approaches to study chromatin associated factors in vitro and in cells
Kene Piasta
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Kene Piasta Associate Professor of Biology
Biology education and protein structure-function
Kenneth C. Hayes
Professor Emeritus of Biology (Nutrition) · Brandeis University
Lipid Metabolism
Comparative nutritional pathophysiology in man and animals.
Lipoprotein metabolism and atherogenesis, diabetes and obesity.
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Professor of Chemistry · Brandeis University
Our group studies the composition and nanoscale structure of polymer materials, nanothreads, metal–organic frameworks, carbon materials, nanocomposites, and natural organic matter, using a variety of quantitative, selective, or two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) exp…
Kristen Lucken
Kristen Lucken directs the Master’s in Global Studies program at Brandeis. Her research explores immigration, ethnic and religious pluralism, social inclusion and nationalism. Living and working in the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia during a time of major historical change (1…
Laura Jockusch
Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies · Brandeis University
Prof. Jockusch’s research and teaching focus on the social, political, cultural, and legal histories of European Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust and engage in comparative, transnational, and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Her first book studied the beginnings of Ho…
Laura Quinney
Professor of English · Brandeis University
Romanticism, 18th century, philosophy, psychoanalysis.
Lawrence Wangh
Professor Emeritus of Biology · Brandeis University
Reproduction Biology and Molecular Cytology
My laboratory is currently devoted to the invention and application of new technology in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics. Over the past five years we have discovered and developed a new method of DNA amplification that overcomes t…
Leah Gordon
Harry S. Levitan Director of Education and Associate Professor of Education · Brandeis University
Leah Gordon, Harry S. Levitan Director of Education and Associate Professor of Education, holds a joint-Ph.D. in History and Education from the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of the twentieth century United States, Professor Gordon has particular interests in the history…
Leslie Griffith
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience · Brandeis University
Biochemistry of Behavior. Survival requires that animals interact in appropriate and adaptive ways with their environment. My lab is interested in how the nervous system integrates information and generates behavioral outputs. We study behavior at the biochemical, cellular and or…
Linda Bui
the University of Michigan, MIT, and the Sloan School of Management. She was a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board Council on the Economy-wide Modeling and Environmental Justice. She is also a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board Board's Scientific and Technological Achi…
Liora S Norwich
Associate Professor of the Practice · Brandeis University
Associate Professor of the Practice, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Graduate Program, Brandeis University.
Jewish professional leadership
Lisa Rourke
Associate Professor of the University Writing Program · Brandeis University
My scholarship has focused on three areas: writing analytics, assessment and under-served students.
Writing or Composition Education; Writing analytics; Assessment; Accessibility; Under-served populations
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Professor of Biology and Chemistry · Brandeis University
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
Targeted protein degradation, antimicrobial discovery; enzyme structure-function studies, mTOR inhibitors. My laboratory uses approaches derived from both chemistry and biology. Projects include problems in inhibitor design, enzyme catalysis and…
Maria de Boef Miara
Associate Professor in Biology · Brandeis University
My professional interests are the grownup version of a childhood spent catching frogs, collecting insects and trailing the vet on my family's farm. As a comparative morphologist I explore the relationship between structure and function across species. The discipline of comparativ…
Mary Baine Campbell
Professor Emerita · Brandeis University
Medieval and early modern literature and culture, 20th-century poetry, poetry of women in English, travel writing, history of science, creative writing.
Matthew Fraleigh
Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture · Brandeis University
Matthew Fraleigh is Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture at Brandeis University. His research concerns the literature of early modern and modern Japan, especially kanshibun (Sinitic poetry and prose). He has published two books focused on the nineteenth centu…
Maura Jane Farrelly
Professor of American Studies · Brandeis University
Maura Jane Farrelly is Professor and chair of American Studies at Brandeis University. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University, with an emphasis on religion and the colonial and early-American periods. Farrelly is the author of Papist Patriots: The Making of an America…
Mayumi Tamaki
Senior Lecturer in Japanese · Brandeis University
Mayumi Tamaki is a senior lecturer in Japanese. She teaches all levels of Japanese language and culture courses. Her research interests include Japanese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and Japanese linguistics.
Melissa Kosinski-Collins
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Melissa Kosinski-Collins Professor of Biology
Biology Education, STEM Education Policy, Protein Folding and Aggregation
Michael Heller
Associate Professor of Music · Brandeis University
Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Music, Brandeis University. Education: Harvard University Ph.D.; Rutgers University-Newark M.A.; Columbia University B.A.
Music
Michael Marr
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Mechanisms Controlling Gene Expression. My lab is focused on investigating how a metazoan cell responds to developmental and environmental signals and how this response is manifest in changes in gene expression. The developmental, metabolic, and environmental signals a cell recei…
Michael Rosbash
Peter Gruber Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Professor of Biology and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Brandeis University
Michael Rosbash - with Jeffrey Hall (Brandeis University) and Michael Young (Rockefeller University) - received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research into circadian rhythms.
circadian rhythms
Michael Willrich
Leff Families Professor of History · Brandeis University
Michael Willrich is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and the Leff Families Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has taught in the Brandeis History Department for more than a quarter century, served as Department chair twice, and has received two university prizes for…
Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History · Brandeis University
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. She is the author of the book Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Oxford University Pre…
Neil Simister
Associate Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
The goal of our research is to describe in molecular terms how immunoglobulins are transported from a pregnant or nursing mammal to her unborn or newborn offspring. Although the fetus is capable of an immune response, it is normally sheltered from foreign antigens and does not ma…
Neil Swidey
Professor of the Practice of Journalism · Brandeis University
Neil Swidey is a bestselling author, magazine writer and multimedia journalist. He is the author of "Trapped Under the Sea," which was named one of the best books of the year by Amazon and Booklist, and "The Assist," which was named one of the best books of the year by the Washin…
Nianwen Xue
Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics · Brandeis University
Nianwen Xue is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Language & Linguistics Program at Brandeis University. His research interests include developing linguistic corpora annotated with syntactic, semantic, and discourse structures, as well as machine learning appr…
Olga Broumas
Professor Emerita of the Practice of English · Brandeis University
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Paul Garrity
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Professor of Biology
Molecular basis of sensory transduction and behavior. We study the molecular basis of sensory transduction and behavior by investigating the molecular detectors and neural circuits that sense temperature and chemicals. We study thermal and chemical sensation …
Paul Miller
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Brains, like the creatures possessing them, are dynamical systems. In my research, therefore, I bring together the computational and mathematical tools used in the study of dynamical systems with data accrued from living brains, neural circuits, and single neurons, to make progre…
Paul Morrison
Professor of English
Paul Morrison teaches courses in film, popular culture, sexuality, literary theory, and modern literature.
film, popular culture, sexuality, literary theory, modern literature, Popular Culture, Sexuality and Sex Roles, Modernism
Peter Jordan
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
Understanding the physicochemical bases for controlled transport of ions and water across biomembranes is a major research area in biophysics. Transmembrane permeation of charged and polar species is mediated by specialized proteins, which form water filled channels. Recent advan…
Philip Keehn
Professor of Chemistry Emeritus · Brandeis University
The relationships between structure, properties and reactivities of molecules are important for the fundamental understanding of chemical systems and processes. These relationships are the general focus of our research efforts. We synthesize and study molecules with unusual archi…
Piali Sengupta
Harold and Bernice Davis Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease, and Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Neurogenetics of sensory behaviors. How do animals sense their environment? How do these external cues elicit specific behaviors and developmental programs? How are these responses modified by the animal's experience and internal state? The lab aims to answer these questions by i…
Rachel Woodruff
Associate Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Before I came to Brandeis, my research focus was to use biochemical and genetic experiments to better understand DNA damage responses and mutagenesis in yeast and bacteria. Since coming to Brandeis, I am focusing exclusively on teaching, and do not have a research lab.
Ramie Targoff
Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities; Professor of English; Co-chair, Italian Studies · Brandeis University
Renaissance literature, lyric poetry, religion and literature; Shakespeare; Italian literature; and women's writing
Rosalind Kabrhel
an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division pursuing cases under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act and anti-discrimination laws. I have also worked for state and federal legislators performing political investigations, issue advocacy, due diligence research, and l…
Sabine von Mering
Professor of German and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Sabine von Mering is Professor of German and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Center for German and European Studies ( CGES ), Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, a member of the program faculty in Environmental Studies at Bra…
Sacha Nelson
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science · Brandeis University
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Life Science
Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex. The mammalian neocortex is our most complex organ and plays an indispensable role in many human behaviors. Impaired function of cortical circuits is central to a diverse set of ne…
Sara Shostak
Interim Academic Dean for the School of Social Sciences and Social Policy and Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences · Brandeis University
Sara Shostak is the Interim Academic Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Social Policy and P rofessor of Sociology and Health: Science, Society and Policy. From 2022-2025, she served as the inaugural director of the Vic ‘63 and Bobbi Samuels ‘63 Center for Community Partner…
Sarah Lamb
Professor of Anthropology, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences · Brandeis University
Sarah Lamb, Professor of Anthropology and Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who studies the ways people construct their social-cultural worlds and identities, particularly surrounding age, gender, the body, family, religion, and …
Sarah Mayorga
Sarah Mayorga is Professor of Sociology and faculty in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program. She teaches courses on the sociology of race and racism, urban sociology, Latinx sociology, and inequalities in the media. Her research investigates questions of raci…
Sebastian Kadener
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism. Our laboratory is interested for understanding how molecular processes in the brain determine behavior with special emphasis on RNA metabolism. We are particularly interested on the role of circular RNAs (circRNAs) at the molecular and n…
Shantanu Jadhav
Professor of Psychology · Brandeis University
Learning, Memory and Decision Making in the Mammalian Brain. The brain has a remarkable capacity to learn and to use past experience to guide our daily behavior. Multiple brain regions coordinate activity to form representations of the external world, learn new experiences, store…
Stephen Dowden
Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literarture. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humbo…
Stephen McCauley
Professor of the Practice of English · Brandeis University
Stephen McCauley Professor of the Practice of English Director of the Creative Writing Program Meet Professor McCauley through OpenBook: An English Department Podcast https://stephenmccauley.info
Stephen Van Hooser
Associate Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Stephen Van Hooser Associate Professor of Biology
Development and function of cortical circuits
Susan Birren
Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor in Neuroscience · Brandeis University
Zalman Abraham Kekst Professor in Neuroscience
Developmental Neurobiology. Modulatory neurotransmitter systems profoundly influence circuit function and behavior with effects on processes ranging from learning and memory to the control of peripheral organ function. Developmental …
Susan Lovett
Abraham S. and Gertrude Burg Professor of Microbiology · Brandeis University
Mechanisms of DNA repair and mutation avoidance
Susan S. Lanser
Professor Emerita of English; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Comparative Literature · Brandeis University
18th-century literature, culture and history, narrative theory and the novel, French Revolution, gender and sexuality, Israel-Palestine studies
Susan Staves
Professor Emerita · Brandeis University
17th- and 18th-century British literature, history, and legal history
Suzanne Paradis
Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Professor of Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Development. The complex circuitry of the mammalian brain enables the execution of fundamental cognitive processes such as learning, speech, and memory. Neural circuits are assembled via specialized sites of cell-cell contact a…
Thomas Fai
Associate Professor of Mathematics · Brandeis University
I am an associate professor in the Mathematics Department at Brandeis University. My research interests include mathematical biology, data-driven modeling, multiscale numerical methods, and applied probability. My overall research goal is to use mathematical modeling and detailed…
Thomas King
Associate Professor of English · Brandeis University
Early modern English drama and social performance, 18th-century British studies, performance studies, queer studies, gender studies.
Thomas Pochapsky
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry · Brandeis University
Our research is directed towards an understanding of non-covalent interactions in chemical and biochemical systems. We employ a variety of techniques in our work, but nuclear magnetic resonance is our most important tool. NMR can be used to obtain structures of complex macromolec…
Toni Shapiro-Phim
Toni Shapiro-Phim is Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts and Assistant Director of Global Community Engagement at the Samuels Center for Community Engagement and Civic Transformation, and Professor and Chair of Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CA…
Troy Luster
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
Troy Luster Assistant Professor of Biology Director, PSM Program in Biotechnology Academic Profile Prior to joining Brandeis, I worked in biotech for more than 15 years leading discovery teams focused on developing new therapies for cancer.
Ulka Anjaria
Professor of English · Brandeis University
Ulka Anjaria is a faculty member in the Department of English at Brandeis University.
Indian novel in English, South Asian popular culture, Bollywood, literary realism, postcolonial literature, global fiction.
V Varun Chaudhry
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Brandeis University
V Varun Chaudhry (they/he) is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on gender, race, sexuality, and class in the United States. His research and teaching focuses on the institutionalization of racialized and gendered categories and logics in US-based nonprofit and funding …
Wangui M Muigai
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History · Brandeis University
Wangui Muigai is a historian of medicine and science, specializing in race, gender, and health in the United States. A 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her work "that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society," her scholarship has been supported by the Americ…
William E Kapelle
Associate Professor of History · Brandeis University
My main research lies in Domesday Book (the great survey made of the English kingdom in 1086), related land surveys, and English "feudalism."
Medieval History; Roman History
William Flesch
Professor of English · Brandeis University
William Flesch Professor of English PhD, Cornell University Undergraduate Advising Head Meet Professor Flesch through OpenBook: An English Dept Podcast .
Renaissance, theory, philosophy, contemporary poetry, 20th-century comparative literature, Henry James, Freudian psychoanalysi…
Yangyang Wang
Assistant Professor · Brandeis University
dynamical systems, mathematical and computational neuroscience, multiple timescale dynamics, network dynamics and homeostasis. I am particularly interested in modeling and analyzing intrinsic neural dynamics in central pattern generators, brain rhythms associated with cognition, …
Yerbol Z. Kurmangaliyev
Assistant Professor of Biology · Brandeis University
How are brain connectomes encoded in the genome? Brain function relies on proper wiring of neural circuits. There are a myriad of neurons (from 100,000 in fruit flies to 100 billion in humans) that can recognize and form connections with specific partners in the immensely crowded…
Yuri Doolan
Associate Professor of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Brandeis University
Yuri W. Doolan (PhD, Northwestern University, 2019) is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the inaugural Chair of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Brandeis University. His research and teaching focus on Asian American histor…