People in the Humanities Council

Affiliated Faculty

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

Chair, Department of Classics; Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature; Professor of Classics

Jason M. Beckman

Cotsen Fellow in East Asian Studies in the Society of Fellows; Associate Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in East Asian Studies

Sandra Bermann

Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

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

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

Lacy Feigh

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

Akil Fletcher

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

Devin Fore

2026-2027 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Chair, Department of German; Professor of German

Elena Fratto

Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Rubén Gallo

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

Michael Gordin

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

Barbara Graziosi

Behrman Professor in the Humanities; Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature; Professor of Classics

Eliza Griswold

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

Katja Guenther

2026-2027 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Associate Professor of History

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

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

2026-2027 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Director, Gauss Seminars in Criticism; Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics

Sara Kang

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

Beatrice E. Kitzinger

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

Christina Lee

Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Thomas Y. Levin

Chair, Committee on Film Studies; Associate Professor of German

Beth Lew-Williams

2026-2027 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Professor of History; Director, Program in Asian American Studies

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

Carolina Mangone

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

Simone Marchesi

Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Professor of French & Italian

Federico Marcon

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

Simon Morrison

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

Jan-Werner Müller

Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics; Director, Program in Political Philosophy

Kinohi Nishikawa

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

Spyros Papapetros

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

Miriam Pensack

Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Associate Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in History

Helmut Reimitz

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

Gayle Salamon

Professor of English; Associate Chair, Department of English

Esther Schor, Chair

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

Julia Silverman

Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Associate Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in Art and Archeology

Ripley Stroud

Cotsen Fellow in Humanistic Studies in the Society of Fellows; Associate Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in Philosophy

Jack Tannous

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

Eva Vaillancourt

2025-2026 Princeton-Mellon Initiative / Humanities Council Fellow

Moulie Vidas

Associate Professor of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies

Stacy Wolf

Professor of Theater; Director of Fellowships; Founding Director of Music Theater

Xiaoyu Xia

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature

Carolyn Yerkes

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

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