Faculty & Staff
Steering Committee

- Brooke Lea
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science (on sabbatical Spring 2025)
- Cognitive Psychology
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- 651-696-6196

- Samuel Asarnow
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Ethics, Action Theory, Metaethics
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- 651-696-6246

- Darcy Burgund
- Professor of Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
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- 651-696-6022

- James Dawes
- De Witt Wallace Professor of English
- American literature; countercultures; human rights; literary and language theory; violence and trauma; literature and philosophy.
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- 651-696-6809

- Christina Esposito
- Professor and Chair, Linguistics (acting Director of Cognitive Science, Spring 2025)
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- 651-696-6678

- J. Peter Ferderer
- Edward J Noble Professor and Chair
- Macroeconomics, economic history, and behavioral & experimental economics
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- 651-696-6093

- Susan Fox
- Professor
- Artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning
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- 651-696-6553

- Steve Guglielmo
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Social Psychology
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- 651-696-6112

- Ariel James
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
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- 651-696-6464

- Shilad Sen
- Associate Professor
- Online communities, human-computer interaction, machine learning
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- 651-696-6273

- Morgan Sleeper
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Morgan Sleeper’s primary research interests are music and language,
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- Suhas Arehalli
- Assistant Professor
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- he/him/his
- Zuoyu Tian
- Assistant Professor
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- He/Him/His
Affiliated Faculty

- Janet Folina
- Professor of Philosophy
- Symbolic logic, philosophy of math, philosophy of science
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- 651-696-6159

- Geoffrey Gorham
- Professor of Philosophy
- Modern philosophy, Descartes
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- 651-696-6048

- Tina Kruse
- Assistant Professor (NTT); Co-chair, Mellon Foundation, Creating Lifelong Learners, Mellon Grant
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- 651-696-6076

- Lauren Milne
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Accessible digital interfaces
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- 651-696-6882
Staff
- Jeff Conrod
- Dept. Coordinator
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- 651-696-6756