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

Marc Domingo Gygax

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

Devin Fore

Chair, Department of German; Chair, Committee for Film Studies; Professor of German; Co-Director, Program in Media and Modernity

Brooke Holmes

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

William Jordan

Director, Program in Medieval Studies; Dayton-Stockton Professor of History

Laura Kalin

Acting Director, Program in Linguistics; Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Council of the Humanities

Christina Lee

Acting Chair, Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Hendrik Lorenz

Director, Program in Classical Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy

Carolina Mangone

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

Meredith A. Martin

Director, The Center for Digital Humanities; Associate Professor of English

Simon Morrison

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

Jan-Werner Müller

2024-2025 Old Dominion Professor in the Humanities Council; Roger Williams Straus Professor of Politics; Director, Program in Political Philosophy

Kinohi Nishikawa

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

James Rankin

Director, Center for Language Study; University Lecturer, German

Effie Rentzou

Director, Program in European Cultural Studies; Professor of French and Italian

Esther Schor, Chair

Chair, Council of the Humanities; 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

Christy Wampole

Director, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities; Associate Professor of French and Italian

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