Faculty Research

Five College of Humanities professors have been selected as 2025 Faculty Fellows. Faculty Fellows receive a semester of full release time from teaching and administrative responsibilities in order to spend time advancing scholarly or creative research projects.

Isabelle Freiling researches “wicked problems.” Introduced by Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber in 1973, a wicked problem is a social problem characterized by complex and entangled stakeholders, with little to no consensus on definitions or background, and where the possible implications are wide reaching and confusing.

Who was Balthild, and what does it mean to identify her with the abolition of slavery? This is the central question of Isabel Moreira’s book.