Humanities Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee 2014-2015

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

Dudley Andrew | R. Seldon Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies

Timothy Barringer (spring only) | Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art

Katerina Clark (fall only) | Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Aaron Gerow | Professor of Film Studies and of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Carol Jacobs | Birgit Baldwin Professor of German and Professor of Comparative Literature

Kathryn (Katie) Lofton | Professor of Religious Studies, of Divinity, of History, of American Studies and of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History

Mary Miller (fall only) | Sterling Professor in the History of Art

Linda Peterson | Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English

Maurice Samuels | Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French

David Sorkin | Lucy G. Moses Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History

Gary Tomlinson (fall only) | John Hay Whitney Professor in the Music Department and Professor of Humanities

Anders Winroth | Forst Family Professor of History

Tenure Appointments 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

Richard Burger (fall only) | Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology

Stephen Stearns (spring only) | Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology