Departments

The disciplines, departments and academic homes that make up the faculty.

Departments & disciplines

Academic depth without unnecessary organizational sprawl.

Departments provide disciplinary homes for teaching, research and the meetings that make teaching and research possible.

Department

How people think, feel, decide and occasionally convince themselves the decision made sense.

Chair: Dr. Simon Ellery

Department

Stories, traditions, identity, memory and the things everyone knows despite nobody knowing where they heard them.

Chair: Dr. Maeve O’Donnell

Department

Power, institutions, policy, democracy and public argument conducted with varying levels of evidence.

Chair: Dr. Anders Nygaard

Department

Media, persuasion, journalism, organizational communication and messages that should probably have been meetings—or vice versa.

Chair: Dr. Lila Chen

Department

Communities, inequality, social systems and why every group chat eventually develops governance.

Interdisciplinary program administered by the Faculty Office.

Department

Literature, writing, rhetoric, cultural criticism and the dangerous practice of reading the entire document.

Chair: Dr. Patrick Morley