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198 faculty · 700 courses · data as of 2026-07-02
Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Emeritus h-index 23
Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music h-index 7
Notable: “Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java” (1996) · 51 citations
Eric Charry, Chair; Professor of Music h-index 6
Roger Mathew Grant, Dean of the Arts and Humanities; Professor of Music h-index 6
Courses: World Music · Materials and Design · Rhythms of the World: An Introduction to Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Time · MF DOOM and Pierre Henry · A Thousand Years of Music History · History of Rock and R&B +31 more
J. Donald Moon, John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Emeritus h-index 54
Erika Franklin Fowler, Professor of Government; Director, Wesleyan Media Project h-index 35
Nancy L. Schwartz, Professor of Government, Emerita h-index 22
Notable: “Market Structure and Innovation.” (1982) · 1,531 citations
Martha Crenshaw, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, Emerita h-index 22
Courses: Politics: Fundamental Concepts (FYS) · American Government and Politics · International Relations · Democracy and Dictatorship: Politics in the Contemporary World · The Moral Basis of Politics · Applied Data Analysis +26 more
Sean McCann, Professor of English; Kenan Professor of the Humanities h-index 10
Notable: “Do You Believe in Magic? Literary Thinking after the New Left” (2005) · 93 citations
Ruth Nisse, Professor of English; Professor, Medieval Studies h-index 5
Notable: “"A Coroun Ful Riche": The Rule of History in St. Erkenwald” (1998) · 70 citations
Ren Ellis Neyra, Associate Professor of English; Associate Professor, African American Studies h-index 5
Notable: “Salsa’s Unruly Audition” (2019) · 9 citations
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Professor of English h-index 4
Notable: “Listening with John Clare” (2009) · 6 citations
Courses: 21st Century American Literature (FYS) · Reading Black Culture (FYS) · A Nation of Immigrants? · Writing Medicine and the Doctor-Writer · The Revolutionary Rupture: Slavery, Latifundio and Revolution in Caribbean and Lat. Amer. Lit. and Cinema (FYS) · Poetry Lab +30 more
Gary Yohe, Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 49
Notable: “A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems” (2003) · 11,130 citations
John Bonin, Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 26
Notable: “Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?” (1993) · 424 citations
Richard S. Grossman, Professor of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “The Shoe That Didn't Drop: Explaining Banking Stability During the Great Depression” (1994) · 201 citations
Joyce Jacobsen, Professor of Economics, Emerita h-index 16
Notable: “Measuring Returns on Investments in Collectibles” (1999) · 163 citations
Courses: Introduction to Economics · Mathematical Tools for Economic Analysis · Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Economic Analysis · Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Disparity (FYS) · Introduction to Economic Theory · Political Economy (FYS) +34 more
Charles A. Sanislow, Professor of Psychology; Chair, Neuroscience and Behavior h-index 70
Notable: “Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders” (2010) · 7,059 citations
Kathleen Marie Pike, Visiting Scholar in Psychology h-index 49
Notable: “Innovations and changes in the ICD‐11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders” (2019) · 779 citations
Lisa C. Dierker, Professor of Psychology; Walter Crowell University Professor of Social Sciences h-index 47
Notable: “A Practical Guide to Calculating Cohen’s f2, a Measure of Local Effect Size, from PROC MIXED” (2012) · 1,300 citations
Matthew Kurtz, Professor of Psychology h-index 35
Notable: “A meta-analytic investigation of neurocognitive deficits in bipolar illness: Profile and effects of clinical state.” (2009) · 428 citations
Courses: Foundations of Contemporary Psychology · Myth, Magic, and Movies · What is 'Typical?' Diversity in Human Development (FYS) · Your Brain on College (FYS) · Psychological Science and the Good Life (FYS) · Social Psychology of Close Relationships (FYS) +26 more
Scott Higgins, Director, College of Film and the Moving Image; Chair, Film Studies; Professor h-index 6
Notable: “University Students' Perceptions of Cooperative Learning: Implications for Administrators and Instructors” (2001) · 102 citations
Leo A. Lensing, Professor of Film Studies, Emeritus h-index 6
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Emerita h-index 5
Michael James Slowik, Vice Chair, Film Studies; Professor of Film Studies h-index 4
Notable: “Diegetic Withdrawal and Other Worlds: Film Music Strategies before King Kong , 1927–1933” (2013) · 7 citations
Courses: Introduction to Collaborative Documentary Filmmaking · Form, Story, and Genre: An Introduction to Wesleyan Film Studies · Difficult Women: Post/Feminism in Television Comedies and Dramedies · Hollywood and Big Data · The Foundations of Cinema · Introduction to Korean Cinema +28 more
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About Wesleyan University. Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT reports an overall acceptance rate of 16.0%, an early-round acceptance rate of 38.3%, an SAT middle 50% of 1480–1560, a class size of 824, and a yield of 34.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Progressive LAC. Film and music programs. Open curriculum. Known for intellectual diversity.