Faculty & Staff
Steering Committee
- Brooke Lea
- DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science (on sabbatical Spring 2025)
- Cognitive Psychology
- lea@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6196
- Samuel Asarnow
- Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Ethics, Action Theory, Metaethics
- sasarnow@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6246
- Darcy Burgund
- Professor of Psychology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- dburgund@macalester.edu
- 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.
- dawes@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6809
- Christina Esposito
- Professor and Chair, Linguistics (acting Director of Cognitive Science, Spring 2025)
- esposito@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6678
- J. Peter Ferderer
- Edward J Noble Professor and Chair
- Macroeconomics, economic history, and behavioral & experimental economics
- ferderer@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6093
- Susan Fox
- Professor
- Artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning
- fox@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6553
- Steve Guglielmo
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Social Psychology
- sgugliel@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6112
- Ariel James
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
- ajames2@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6464
- Shilad Sen
- Associate Professor
- Online communities, human-computer interaction, machine learning
- ssen@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6273
- Morgan Sleeper
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics
- Morgan Sleeper’s primary research interests are music and language,
- msleeper@macalester.edu
Affiliated Faculty
- Janet Folina
- Professor of Philosophy
- Symbolic logic, philosophy of math, philosophy of science
- folina@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6159
- Geoffrey Gorham
- Professor of Philosophy
- Modern philosophy, Descartes
- ggorham@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6048
- Tina Kruse
- Assistant Professor (NTT); Co-chair, Mellon Foundation, Creating Lifelong Learners, Mellon Grant
- kruse@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6076
- Lauren Milne
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Accessible digital interfaces
- lmilne@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6882
- Suhas Arehalli
- Assistant Professor
- sarehall@macalester.edu
Staff
- Jeff Conrod
- Dept. Coordinator
- conrod@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6756