Dana Carlisle Kletchka -- assistant professor in the department of arts administration, education and policy -- studies the history, theory, and philosophy of art museum education. Her research has examined museum practices and how art educators are treated in large institutional contexts. In addition, she looks at the surprisingly different roles and intentions of art educators and art historians in museums. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of

Scott McGraw, professor and chair of the department of anthropology, is a researcher, biological anthropologist, evolutionary anatomist, and primate behavior analyst. He observes animals in the wild to see how their physical movements, for example, result from bone structures. Biological anthropologists then use this information to understand how extinct animals might have moved, such as our human ancestors. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Benjamin Hoffmann--associate professor in the department of French and Italian, director of the Center for Excellence, and novelist--researches 18th-century French literature and philosophy, transatlantic studies, contemporary French literature, and creative writing. His recent publication is The Paradoxes of Posterity, a philosophical inquiry on the concept of posterity. He discusses this, digital humanities, and more with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence

Robert Holub, Ohio eminent scholar and professor and chair of the department of Germanic languages and literatures, studies 19th and 20th century intellectual, cultural, and literary history, especially Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Heine, German realism, and literary and aesthetic theory. He discusses the historical setting of Nietzsche and how this impacts the ways we understand his writing. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Eric Bielefeld, professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing science, studies auditory physiology, especially inner ear pathology. His most recent work involves modeling how exposure to HIV medications during pregnancy influences the development of auditory systems and the impact of cooling the inner ear on chemotherapy efficacy. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Robert Bond, associate professor in the School of Communication, researches political behavior and attitudes, specifically, how social networks influence political behavior and communication. His work as a computational social scientist involves building models that mimic human behavior and studying the results of interactions. For more of his discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Skylar Cranmer, the Carter Phillips and Sue Henry Professor of Political Science, researches network science, such as forecasting the evolution of complex networks or exploring whether brain scans can predict political partisanship. He joins host David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence to discuss network science, which incorporates fields from political science to physics to mathematics to biology, among others.

Adriana Dawes, associate professor of mathematics and molecular genetics, studies mathematical biology, mathematical modeling of cell polarization and chemotaxis, and differential equations. She traces how organisms control their grow from one to trillions of cells, which involves countless decisions about organization and function. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Jay Gupta, professor of physics, explores the properties of novel materials at the atomic scale to address problems in energy conversion and advanced computing. Via scanning tunneling microscopy, his group examine items that are a billionth of a meter. For more of his discussion of nanomaterials, semiconductors and how to spell your name in atoms, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence

Jennifer Willging, associate professor and interim chair of the department of French and Italian, specializes in 20th and 21st century French literature and culture. Her work explores literature that attempts to understand contemporary society and important influences, such as technology. For more of her discussion with David Staley, listen to this week's Voices of Excellence