Faculty Fellow

Kenneth Olsen is a Professor of Biology. His educational outreach is centered on the genetic basis of evolution in plants. As a researcher, he explores how the variations found within a species are shaped by natural selection, population history, and other evolutionary forces. Click HERE for more information on Kenneth Olsen.

Joan Strassmann is the Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology. Her work investigates cooperative alliances that have occurred at several important steps in the evolution of life, and have proven evolutionarily and ecologically very successful. Studying how these alliances came to be, how conflicts are subsumed into cooperation, what conflicts remain, and how they influence sociality […]

​Julia Walker is Associate Professor of Drama and English. Her interests focus primarily on drama and performance, and range across the broadly defined historical period of modernity (c. late-18th century to the present). Click HERE for more information on Julia Walker.