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

Nathan Arrington

Acting 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

Susan Coburn

Office Coordinator, Humanities Council and Society of Fellows

Beatriz Colomina

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

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

Acting Director, Program in Judaic Studies; 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

Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Johann Frick

Associate Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies; 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

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; Director, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Brooke Holmes

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

Tera W. Hunter

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

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

Christina Lee

Acting Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; 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

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

Anna M. Shields

Chair, Department of East Asian Studies; Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies

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.

Deborah Vischak

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

Michael Wachtel

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

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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