Humanities Area Appointment Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee 2016-2017

The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member. Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).

Committee Membership

Amy Hungerford | Committee Chair; Dean of Humanities; Professor of English and of American Studies 

Egbert Bakker | Professor of Classics

R. Howard Bloch (fall only) | Sterling Professor of French

Ardis Butterfield | John M. Schiff Professor of English and Professor of French and of Music

Eckart Frahm | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Christine Hayes | Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica and Professor of Religious Studies

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History

Stephanie Newell | Professor of English

Nicola Suthor | Professor in the History of Art

Michael Veal | Professor of Music, of African American Studies and of American Studies

Tenure Appointment Committee Members Only

Tamar Szabó Gendler | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Catherine Panter-Brick | Professor of Anthropology, of Health, of Global Affairs and of Chronic Disease Epidemiology