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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: adam.croom@case.edu

  • 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: todd.oakley@case.edu

  • 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: fey.parrill@case.edu

  • 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: yasuhiro.shirai@case.edu

  • 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: vera.tobin@case.edu

  • 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: mark.turner@case.edu

    Phone: 216.744.0571

Affiliated Faculty

  • Photo of Timothy Beal

    Timothy Beal, PhD

    Distinguished University Professor and Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
    Director, h.lab, College of Arts and Sciences
    Program Faculty, Environmental Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences
    Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences

    Email: timothy.beal@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2221

  • Picture of Richard Boyatzis

    Richard Boyatzis

    Distinguished University Professor
    H. Clark Ford Professor, Weatherhead School of Management
    Professor, Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management
    Senior Research Fellow, Coaching Research Lab, Weatherhead School of Management

    Email: richard.boyatzis@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2053

  • A brunette woman with long earrings smiling against a backdrop of foliage

    Francesca Brittan, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences
    Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences
    Head of Musicology
    Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology

    Email: francesca.brittan@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2032

  • Daniela Calvetti

    Daniela Calvetti, PhD

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

    Email: daniela.calvetti@case.edu

  • 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: heath.demaree@case.edu

    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: robert.greene@case.edu

  • 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: yhaileselassie@asu.edu

    Phone: 216.231.4600

  • Angela Hein Ciccia

    Angela Hein Ciccia, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

    Email: angela.ciccia@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.5385

  • Headshot of Maureen McEnery

    Maureen McEnery, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
    Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
    Block Leader, Block 6: Cognition, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine

    Email: mwm4@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3377

  • Peter Thomas headshot

    Peter Thomas, PhD, MA, MS, BA

    Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics

    Email: peter.j.thomas@case.edu

    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: peter.whitehouse@case.edu

    Phone: 216.470.2931

Emeritus Faculty

External Affiliated Faculty

Michael Householder

Michael Householder

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

St. Catherine University