People in the Humanities Council

Chairs and Division Representatives

The Council includes department chairs in the humanities, along with divisional representatives from social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering.

Nathan Arrington

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

Wendy Laura Belcher

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Professor of Comparative Literature and African American Studies

Joshua Billings

Acting Chair, Department of Classics; Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

Göran Blix

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

Angela N. H. Creager

Chair, Department of History; Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, Professor of History

Devin Fore

Chair, Department of German; Professor of German

Simon Gikandi

Chair, Department of English; Class of 1943 University Professor of English

Andrea Goldsmith

Dean of Engineering and Applied Science; Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Barbara Graziosi

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

Judith Hamera

Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts; Professor of Dance

M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies; Professor of Near Eastern Studies; Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs

Tera W. Hunter

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

Federico Marcon

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

Pedro Meira Monteiro

Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Grigore Pop-Eleches

Acting Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Professor of Politics and International Affairs

Gideon Rosen

Acting Chair, Department of Philosophy (AY 2025-26); Stuart Professor of Philosophy

Mary (Cassie) Stoddard

Director, Center on Science and Technology; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ilya Vinitsky

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

Christy Wampole

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

Judith Weisenfeld

Chair, Department of Religion; Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion

Stacy Wolf

Acting Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts (Fall 2025); Professor of Theater; Director of Fellowships; Founding Director of Music Theater

Deborah J. Yashar

Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs; Professor of Politics and International Affairs; Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

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