People in the Humanities Council

Eric Gregory

2025-2026 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of Religion

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

Manager, Finance and Administration, Linguistics and American Sign Language

Charles Beitz

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

Wallace Best

Hughes-Rogers Professor of Religion and African American Studies; Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

Acting Director, Program in the Ancient World; Associate Professor of Classics and the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies

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

Maria DiBattista

Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English; Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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

Denis Feeney

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

Elena Fratto

2025-2026 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor 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

Simon Gikandi

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

RL Goldberg

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

Michael Gordin

Dean of the College; Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History

Barbara Graziosi

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

Bernard Haykel

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

Brian Herrera

Associate Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts

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

Associate Professor of Linguistics; Associate Director, Program in Linguistics

Boris Kment

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Class of 1936 Preceptor

Deana Lawson

Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

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

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, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities; Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Debbie Puskas

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

Helmut Reimitz

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

Effie Rentzou

2025-2026 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of French and Italian

Michael Reynolds

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

Gideon Rosen

Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy (AY 2025-26); Stuart Professor of Philosophy

Marina Rustow

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

Esther Schor, Chair (on leave AY25-26)

Chair, Humanities Council; 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

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.

Moulie Vidas

Associate Professor of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies

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

Acting Chair, Department of French and Italian; 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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