People in the Humanities Council

Program Directors

Program Directors and Committee Chairs lead the interdisciplinary work of the programs under the aegis of the Humanities Council.

Yelena Baraz

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

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis

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

Marc Domingo Gygax

Director, Program in the Ancient World; Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics

Eliza Griswold

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

Brooke Holmes

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

Beatrice E. Kitzinger

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

Thomas Y. Levin

Chair, Committee on Film Studies; Associate Professor of German

Hendrik Lorenz

Director, Program in Classical Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy

Carolina Mangone

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

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

Spyros Papapetros

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

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

Carolyn Yerkes

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

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