Purpose
The 320 York Street Humanities Grant Selection Committee convenes each spring to choose among applicants for the collaborative project grants supported by the 320 York Humanities endowment. The committee is chaired by the Dean of Humanities. It includes the Director of the Whitney Humanities Center (ex officio), a representative from the Yale College Dean’s Office, and a body of ladder faculty, instructional faculty, and graduate student representatives from across the humanities.
2016-17 Committee Membership
Amy Hungerford (committee chair) | Dean of Humanities; Bird White Housum Professor of English and Professor of American Studies
Jennifer Allen | Assistant Professor of History
Paola Bertucci | Associate Professor of History and of History of Medicine; Assistant Curator, Peabody Museum
Molly Brunson | Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of History of Art
Matthew Jacobson | William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and Professor of African American Studies and of History
Edward Kamens | Sumitomo Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
George Levesque | Associate Dean of Yale College, Dean of Academic Programs, Lecturer in History
Kathryn Lofton | Deputy Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, and of History
Tavia Nyong’o | Professor of American Studies and Theater Studies, and of African American Studies
Ayesha Ramachandran | Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Kishwar Rizvi | Associate Professor of the History of Art
Karin Roffman | Senior Lecturer in Humanities and in English; Associate Research Scholar in American Studies
Pierre Saint-Amand | Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French
Theresa Schenker | Senior Lector in German, Language Program Director of German
Alicia Schmidt Camacho | Professor of American Studies; Associate Head of Ezra Stiles College
Zoltan Szabo | Professor of Philosophy and of Linguistics
Gary Tomlinson (ex officio) | John Hay Whitney Professor in the Music Department and Professor of Humanities; Director of the Whitney Humanities Center
Shawkat Toorawa | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Andrew Vielkind | Graduate Student representative for 320 York project, History of Art and Film and Media Studies
Anna Zayaruznaya | Assistant Professor in the Music Department
Tongjia (Alex) Zhang | Graduate Student representative for 320 York project, Classics and Philosophy