People in the Humanities Council

Nasser Abourahme

Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities

Nathan Arrington

Chair, Department of Art and Archaeology; Professor of Art and Archaeology; Director, Program in Archaeology

Yelena Baraz

Director, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature; Professor of Classics

Marie Basso

Program Manager, Linguistics and Italian Studies

Charles Beitz

Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics; Professor of Politics; Director, Program in Political Philosophy

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

Associate Professor of Classics and the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies

Noah Buchholz

Lecturer in the Humanities Council and the Program in Linguistics; ASL Course Sequence Head

Steven Chung

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies; Acting Chair, Committee for Film Studies

Beatriz Colomina

Co-Director, Program in Media and Modernity; Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture; Professor of Architecture

Jeff Dolven

Professor of English; Acting Chair, Department of English

Marc Domingo Gygax

Director, Program in the Ancient World; Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics

Yaacob Dweck

Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History

Luke Eelman

Departmental Computing Support Specialist, Humanities Council

Adam Elga

Professor of Philosophy; Director, Program in Linguistics

Denis Feeney

Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Giger Professor of Latin; Professor of Classics

Christiane Fellbaum

Lecturer with the rank of Professor in the Council of the Humanities, the Program in Linguistics, and Freshman Seminars; Acting Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Elena Fratto

Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Johann Frick

Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Rubén Gallo

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies

Simon Gikandi

Chair, Department of English; Class of 1943 University Professor of English

RL Goldberg

Associate Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows (2020-21)

Barbara Graziosi

Chair, Department of Classics; Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature; Professor of Classics

Thomas Hare

William Sauter LaPorte '28 Professor in Regional Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Comparative Literature

Bernard Haykel

Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

Wendy Heller

Scheide Professor of Music History; Professor of Music

Brian Herrera

Associate Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts; Director, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Brooke Holmes

Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism; Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics

Tera W. Hunter

Chair, Department of African American Studies; Edwards Professor of American History; Professor of History and African American Studies

Laura Kalin

Acting Director, Program in Linguistics; Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Martin Kern

Joanna and Greg Zeluck '84 P13 P18 Professor in Asian Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies

Boris Kment

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Class of 1936 Preceptor

Deana Lawson

Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Christina Lee

Acting Chair, Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Russ Leo

Associate Professor of English

Thomas Leonard

Research Scholar in the Humanities Council; Lecturer in Economics

Lital Levy

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature

Florian Lionnet

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Meredith A. Martin

Director, The Center for Digital Humanities; Associate Professor of English

John T. M. Merrill

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Linguistics

Yair Mintzker

Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of History

Irina Monich

Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Program in Linguistics

Simon Morrison

Director, Fund for Canadian Studies; Professor of Music and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Kinohi Nishikawa

Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Sara S. Poor

2024-2025 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of German

Debbie Puskas

Budget Manager, Humanities Council; Budget & Program Manager, Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies

Laurence Ralph

William D. Zabel ’58 Professor of Human Rights; Professor of Anthropology and Public Affairs; Co-Director of Center on Transnational Policing

Helmut Reimitz

Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History; Professor of History

Effie Rentzou

Director, Program in European Cultural Studies; Professor of French and Italian

Michael Reynolds

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Co-Director, Program in the History and Practice of Diplomacy

Marina Rustow

Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East; Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History;

Kim Lane Scheppele

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and The University Center for Human Values

Esther Schor, Chair

Chair, Council of the Humanities; John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor; Professor of English; Director, Stewart Seminars in Religion; Director, Program in Humanistic Studies

Anna M. Shields

Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies

Nigel Smith

William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature; Professor of English

Jack Tannous

Chair, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Director, Program in Hellenic Studies; Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies

Marta Tienda

Maurice P. During Professor in Demographic Studies; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Ilya Vinitsky

Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Deborah Vischak

Steering Committee, Comparative Antiquity Initiative; Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology

Christy Wampole

Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities; Associate Professor of French and Italian

Sean Wilentz

George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History

Beate Witzler

Executive Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

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