Faculty

The faculty of Arts & Sciences at Boston University includes 535 tenured or tenure-track faculty as well as hundreds of research faculty and part-time or full-time instructors. The faculty’s expertise is broad and deep, characteristic of a comprehensive research institution. Faculty remain thoroughly committed to teaching and advising undergraduate and graduate students, who can be certain that their teachers are experts in the subject matter and dedicated to the current and historical knowledge and methods of the liberal arts and sciences.

Faculty Directory

Faculty information is available on each department’s website, where most faculty maintain their own webpages. The Arts & Sciences departments listing includes a link to each department’s website.

You can also find Arts & Sciences faculty contact details by searching the BU Directory.

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Faculty Accolades

Members of the Arts & Sciences faculty are exceptionally distinguished scholars and teachers. Faculty accolades, encompassing a wide range of international and national awards, appointments, and elected memberships, are only one measure of the significant contribution faculty members make to their fields of study and the wider world.

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New Faculty

Each year we are fortunate to recruit excellent new scholars and teachers to our faculty. Here are the members of our faculty who were hired during the 2010–12 recruiting season.

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