TCP Faculty Fellows

Our faculty fellows teach, research, and serve across the university including in the medical school, law school, business school, engineering school, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, and various departments including Philosophy, English, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Earth & Planetary Sciences.


Faculty by school and position:

  • Cory Berkland, Mark and Becky Levin Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry

  • Peter Boumgarden, Koch Family Professor of Practice in Family Enterprise and Director of the Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise; Assistant Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education

  • Megan Burgess, Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Orthopedics in the School of Medicine

  • Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies

  • Martha Hasting, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering

  • John Hendrix, Kenneth E. Hudson Professor of Art and Founding Chair of the MFA IVC: Illustration and Visual Culture

  • John Inazu, Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion

  • Heidi Kolk, Assistant Professor, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Assessment

  • Penina Laker, Associate Professor, Communication Design, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

  • Mark Leary, Co-Vice Dean of Faculty and Research, Interim Director of WFA–CFAR and Professor of Finance at the Olin Business School

  • Amanda Mack, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Medicine and Director of Post-Professional Education Program in Occupational Therapy

  • Stephen Pak, Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine

  • David Peters, McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering

  • Emily Somerville, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology in the School of Medicine

  • S. Joshua Swamidass, Associate Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine

  • Andrew Tuch, Professor of Law

  • Mark Valeri, Interim Director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics

  • Theo Vander Velde, Assistant Professor of Radiology in the School of Medicine

  • Abram Van Engen, Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the Department of English, Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy)

  • Kristin Van Engen, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Linguistics

  • David Vermette, Assistant Professor of Medicine

  • Dave Walsh, Teaching faculty for the American Cultural Studies Program

  • Kim Wiele, Associate Professor of Radiology and Director, Breast Imaging Fellowship in the School of Medicine

  • Douglas Wiens, Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

  • Ben Wormleighton, Lecturer of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering


Past Fellows:

  • Aaron Abarbanell
    Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
    University of Texas-San Antonio School of Medicine

  • Ginnie Abarbanell
    Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
    University of Texas-San Antonio School of Medicine

  • Taylor Begley
    Assistant Professor of Finance
    Gatton College of Business and Economics
    University of Kentucky

  • Jon Kvanvig
    Professor of Philosophy in Arts & Sciences
    Washington University in St. Louis

  • Jill Pasteris
    Professor Emerita of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences
    Washington University in St. Louis