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Faculty and Staff

Meet the faculty and staff in the Department of Cognitive Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.

Staff

Faculty

  • picture of Adam Croom

    Adam Croom

    Visiting Assistant Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Cognitive scientist of language specializing in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

    Email: [email protected]

  • Todd Oakley

    Todd Oakley

    Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Cognitive Semiotics, Linguistics, Social Cognition, Rhetoric, Language of Economics & Finance, Institutions

    Email: [email protected]

  • Headshot of Fey Parrill

    Fey Parrill

    Department Chair
    Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Embodied Cognition, Teaching & Learning, Climate Cognition

    Email: [email protected]

  • Yasuhiro Shirai

    Yasuhiro Shirai

    Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Tense-aspect, Corpus-Based Research, Usage-based Linguistics

    Email: [email protected]

  • Headshot of female smiling

    Vera Tobin

    Associate Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science

    Narrative, Literature, Surprise, Stories, Linguistics, Irony, Cognitive Bias, Cognitive Approaches to Literature

    Email: [email protected]

  • Mark Turner

    Mark Turner

    Institute professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Artificial and Natural Intelligence, Decision-Making, Data Science, Multimodal Communication

    Email: [email protected]

    Phone: 216.744.0571

Affiliated Faculty

  • Daniela Calvetti

    Daniela Calvetti, PhD

    James Wood Williamson Professor
    Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

    Email: [email protected]

  • Heath Demaree Professor and Chair; Department Representative for Communication Sciences CWRU

    Heath Demaree

    Professor and Chair; Department Representative for Communication Sciences majors & minors
    College of Arts and Sciences
    Professor
    Department of Psychological Sciences
    College of Arts and Sciences

    Email: [email protected]

    Phone: 216.368.6468

  • Robert Greene

    Robert Greene

    Professor and Chair
    Department of Psychological Sciences
    School of Dental Medicine
    Professor and Chair; Department Representative for Communication Sciences majors & minors
    Human Learning & Memory

    Email: [email protected]

  • Yohannes Haile-Selassie

    Yohannes Haile-Selassie

    Adjunct Professor
    Department of Anthropology
    College of Arts and Sciences
    Paleoanthropologist
    Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    Professor and Director, Institute of Human Origins
    School of Human Evolution and Social Change
    Arizona State University

    Email: [email protected]

    Phone: 216.231.4600

  • Peter Thomas headshot

    Peter Thomas, PhD, MA, MS, BA

    Professor
    Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

    Email: [email protected]

    Phone: 216.368.3623

  • Headshot of Peter Whitehouse

    Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD

    Professor
    Department of Neurology
    School of Medicine
    Professor
    Department of Psychiatry
    School of Medicine
    Professor
    Department of Neurosciences
    School of Medicine
    Professor
    Department of Cognitive Science
    College of Arts and Sciences
    Professor
    Department of Organizational Behavior
    Weatherhead School of Management

    Email: [email protected]

    Phone: 216.470.2931

Emeritus Faculty

External Affiliated Faculty

Michael Householder

Michael Householder

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Curriculum, School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences