FAS Departments and Programs

In the list of units below, programs are labeled as such, and those marked with † are cross-divisional. Last updated July 12, 2022.

Department and program chair contact information is available here.

Until July 1, 2022, the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) was part of the FAS. Effective July 1, 2022, SEAS is a standalone school. Information on the six SEAS departments (Applied Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science) is available on the SEAS website.

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African American Studies†

Phillip Atiba Solomon

Chair

American Studies (Program)†

Laura Barraclough

Chair

Anthropology

Douglas Rogers

Chair

Applied Mathematics (Program)

Vladimir Rokhlin

Chair

Astronomy

Priyamvada Natarajan

Chair

Chemistry

Kurt Zilm

Chair

Classics

Kirk Freudenburg

Chair

Comparative Literature

Martin Hägglund

Chair

Economics

Tony Smith

Chair

English

Jessica Brantley

Chair

French

Maurice Samuels

Chair

History

Alan Mikhail

Chair

History of Art

Milette Gaifman

Chair

Humanities (Program)

Pauline LeVen

Chair

Italian Studies

Jane Tylus

Chair

Jewish Studies (Program)

Eliyahu Stern

Chair

Linguistics

Raffaella Zanuttini

Chair

Mathematics

Wilhelm Schlag

Chair

Medieval Studies (Program)

Emily Thornbury

Chair

Music

Ian Quinn

Chair

Gundula Kreuzer (2023-2024)

Acting Chair

Philosophy

Paul Franks

Chair

Physics

Karsten Heeger

Chair

Political Science

Gregory Huber

Chair

Psychology

Jutta Joormann

Chair

Religious Studies

Frank Griffel

Chair

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Edyta Bojanowska

Chair

Sociology

Philip Gorski

Chair

Spanish and Portuguese

Jesús Velasco

Chair

Statistics and Data Science

Joseph Chang

Chair

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Program)†

Roderick Ferguson

Chair

Regina Kunzel (Fall 2023)

Acting Chair