People in the Humanities Council

Bridget Alsdorf

2023-2024 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of Art and Archaeology

Nasser Abourahme

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

Byron T. Ahn

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

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

Leora Batnitzky

Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Religion; Director, Program in Judaic Studies

Charles Beitz

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

Aisha Beliso-De Jesús

Professor of American Studies; Director, Programs in American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino Studies

Wallace Best

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

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

Susan Coburn

Office Coordinator, Humanities Council and Society of Fellows

Andrew Cole

Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism; Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature; Professor of English

Beatriz Colomina

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

Maria DiBattista

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

Brigid Doherty

Associate Professor of German and Art and Archaeology

Jeff Dolven

Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Professor of English; Acting Chair, Department of English

Luke Eelman

Departmental Computing Support Specialist, Humanities Council

Adam Elga

Professor of Philosophy; Director, Program in Linguistics

Karen Emmerich

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication

Denis Feeney

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

Andrew Feldherr

Steering Committee, Comparative Antiquity; Chair, Department of Classics; 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

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

RL Goldberg

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

Michael Gordin

Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History

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; Chair, Department of Music; Director, Program in Italian Studies

Brian Herrera

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

Tera W. Hunter

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

Laura Kalin

Assistant 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

Melissa Lane

Class of 1943 Professor of Politics; Director, The University Center for Human Values

Deana Lawson

Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Barbara Leavey

Program Manager, Program in the Ancient World; Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities; and Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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

Paul Muldoon

Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; Director, Princeton Atelier; Co-Chair, Fund for Irish Studies

Alexander Nehamas

Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Emeritus

Gabriela Nouzeilles

Director, Program in Latin American Studies; Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Fintan O’Toole

Co-Chair, Fund for Irish Studies; Visiting Lecturer in English and Theater and the Lewis Center for the Arts; Visiting Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor in Irish Letters

Debbie Puskas

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

Laurence Ralph

Professor of Anthropology; Director of Center on Transnational Policing

Helmut Reimitz

Director, Program in Medieval Studies; Steering Committee, Comparative Antiquity Initiative; 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

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

Irene V. Small

Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology; Co-Director, Program in Media & Modernity

Nigel Smith

Chair, Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature; Professor of English

Joe Stephens

Director, Program in Journalism; Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence

Jack Tannous

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

Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies

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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