Committees and Programs of the Humanities Council

Membership in the Humanities Council is open to chairs and directors of all humanities departments, programs and committees. The deans of Architecture and Engineering and two representatives from the natural and social sciences also sit with the Council.

The following committees and programs are participating in the Humanities Council in 2009-2010:

American Studies
Hendrik Hartog, Director

Canadian Studies

Alan Patten, Chair

Classical Philosophy

John Cooper, Chair

East Asian Studies

Benjamin Elman, Director

European Cultural Studies

Eileen Reeves, Director

Film Studies

Maria DiBattista, Chair

Gauss Seminars

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Director

Hellenic Studies

Peter Brown, Director
Dimitri Gondicas, Executive Director

Humanistic Studies

Carol Rigolot, Coordinator

Italian Studies

Wendy Heller, Director

Irish Studies

Paul Muldoon, Chair

Judaic Studies

Peter Schäfer, Director

Linguistics

Gideon Rosen, Director

Medieval Studies

D. Vance Smith, Director

Political Philosophy

Philip Pettit, Director

Program in the Ancient World

Brent Shaw, Director
Nino Luraghi, Acting Director, spring

Program in Latin American Studies

Rubén Gallo, Director
Miguel Centeno, Acting Director, fall/spring

Renaissance Studies

Marina Brownlee, Chair

Society of Fellows
Scott Burnham, Director
Mary Harper, Executive Director

University Center for Human Values
Charles Beitz, Director