People in the Humanities Council

Affiliated Faculty

Elizabeth M. Armstrong

Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Head of Butler College

Nathan Arrington

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

Supratik Baralay

Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Classics and in Humanistic Studies

Yelena Baraz

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

Sandra Bermann

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature

Allison M. Bloom

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Program in Linguistics

Göran Blix

Chair, Department of French and Italian; Professor of French and Italian

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

Acting Director, Program in the Ancient World; 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

Eduardo L. Cadava

2025-2026 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Philip Mayhew Professor of English

Allison Carruth

Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Flora Champy

Associate Professor of French and Italian. R.K. Root University Preceptor

Benjamin Conisbee Baer

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Program in South Asian Studies

Peter S. Cook

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

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

Adam Elga

Professor of Philosophy; Director, Program in Linguistics

Katie Farris

Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Lacy Feigh

Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and History

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

Akil Fletcher

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology

Elena Fratto

2025-2026 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Paul Frymer

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

Rubén Gallo

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

Branko Glisic

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Barbara Graziosi

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

Eric Gregory

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

Eliza Griswold

Director, Program in Journalism; Professor of the Practice, Humanities Council

Dimitrios Halikias

Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Politics and in Humanistic Studies

Chloe Howe Haralambous

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and in Comparative Literature

Lara Harb

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Wouter Haverals

Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, The Council of the Humanities

Wendy Heller

Scheide Professor of Music History; Professor of Music

Kelsey Henry

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity Studies in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and African American Studies

Brooke Holmes

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

Samuel Holzman

Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology and the Stanley J. Seeger '52 Center for Hellenic Studies; Director, Program in Archaeology; Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptor

Tera W. Hunter

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

Sara Kang

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and in History

Erika Kiss

Professional Specialist, University Center for Human Values; Director, University Center for Human Values Film Forum

Beatrice E. Kitzinger

Director, Program in Medieval Studies; Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology;

Mirjam Kotwick

Associate Professor of Classics and Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptor

Eve Krakowski

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies

Thomas Y. Levin

Chair, Committee on Film Studies; Associate Professor of German

Yiyun Li

Director and Professor of Creative Writing

Florian Lionnet

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Timothy Y. Loh

Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology

Hendrik Lorenz

Director, Program in Classical Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy

Stephen Macedo

Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Daniela Mairhofer

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

Carolina Mangone

Director, Program in Italian Studies; Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology

Babak Manouchehrifar

2022-2025 Stewart Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Fellow

Federico Marcon

Chair, Department of East Asian Studies; Professor of East Asian Studies and History

Nolan McCarty

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Vice Dean for Academic Assessment in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty

Forrest Meggers

Associate Professor of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Co-Director, Program in Architecture and Engineering.

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

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

Elaine Pagels

Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion

Spyros Papapetros

Director, Program in European Cultural Studies; Associate Professor of Architecture

Nicolás Pereda

Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts

Sara S. Poor

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

Laurence Ralph

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

Effie Rentzou

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

Nicholas Rolle

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

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

Milena Šereikaitė

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

Christy Wampole

Acting Chair, Department of French and Italian; Professor of French and Italian

Xin Wen

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History

Autumn Womack

Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Carolyn Yerkes

Chair, Committee for Renaissance and Medieval Studies; Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology

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