Chairs and Executive Directors of the Humanities Council

Chairs

• 2021 onward: Esther Schor, Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor of American Jewish Studies; Professor of English; inaugural Behrman Professor in the Humanities

• 2016–2021: Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion

• 2014–2016: Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin; Professor of Classics

• 2006–2014: Gideon Rosen, Stuart Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Department of Philosophy

• 2002–2006: Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History

• 1994–2002: Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Emeritus

• 1989–1994: Victor Brombert, Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Emeritus

• 1982–1989: W. Robert Connor GS ’61, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus

• 1974–1982: Edward D. Sullivan, Avalon Professor of Humanities; Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emeritus

• 1971–1974: A. Walton Litz, Jr., Holmes Professor of Belles Lettres; Professor of English, Emeritus

• 1970–1971: Samuel D. Atkins, Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus

• 1953–1970: Whitney J. Oates, Avalon Professor of Humanities; Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature; Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus

Executive Directors

• 1979–2013: Carol Rigolot, previously Romance Languages and Literatures Lecturer
• 2013 onward: Kathleen Crown, previously Director of Studies at Mathey College; Lecturer in the Princeton University Writing Program; and Director of the Science and Technology Program, Freshman Scholars Institute