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

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

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

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

Eduardo L. Cadava

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

Flora Champy

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

Maria DiBattista

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Council; Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology;

Mirjam Kotwick

Associate Professor of Classics and Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptor

Thomas Y. Levin

Chair, Committee on Film Studies; Associate Professor of German

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

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

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; Director, Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows; Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

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

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

Gayle Salamon

Professor of English; Associate Chair, Department of English

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

Jack Tannous

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

Moulie Vidas

Associate Professor of Religion and the Program in Judaic Studies

Christy Wampole

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

Xin Wen

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History

Xiaoyu Xia

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature

Carolyn Yerkes

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

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