Department and Program Chairs
Humanities and Cross-Divisional (Humanities/Social Science)
Laura Barraclough
- Program Chair
- On Leave Fall 2026
- American Studies (Program)
Kathryn Lofton
- Acting Chair Fall 2026
- American Studies (Program)
Erica Edwards
- Department Chair
- Black Studies
Noel Lenski
- Department Chair
- Classics
Jing Tsu
- Department Chair
- On Leave Spring 2027
- Comparative Literature
Shawkat Toorawa
- Acting Chair Spring 2027
- Comparative Literature
Tina Lu
- Department Chair
- On Leave AY 2026-27
- East Asian Languages and Literatures
Aaron Gerow
- Acting Chair AY 2026-27
- East Asian Languages and Literatures
Caleb Smith
- Department Chair
- On Leave Fall 2026
- English
Langdon Hammer
- Acting Chair Fall 2026
- English
Fatima el-Tayeb
- Program Chair
- Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Program)
John Durham Peters
- Department Chair
- Film and Media Studies (Program)
John MacKay
- Acting Chair Spring 2027
- Film and Media Studies (Program)
Pierre Saint-Amand
- Acting Chair AY 2026-27
- French
Kirk Wetters
- Department Chair
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
Regina Kunzel
- Department Chair
- History
Milette Gaifman
- Department Chair
- History of Art
Stefanie Markovits
- Program Chair
- Humanities (Program)
Jane Tylus
- Department Chair
- Italian Studies
Gundula Kreuzer
- Department Chair
- Music
Nadine Moeller
- Department Chair
- On Leave Fall 2026
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Kevin van Bladel
- Acting Chair Fall 2026
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Paul Franks
- Department Chair
- On Leave AY 2026-27
- Philosophy
Zoltán Szabó
- Acting Chair AY 2026-27
- Philosophy
Travis Zadeh
- Department Chair
- Religious Studies
Marijeta Bozovic
- Department Chair
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
Lisa Voigt
- Department Chair
- Spanish and Portuguese
Alexandra Vazquez
- Department Chair
- Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Program)
Scott Herring
- Department Chair
- On Leave Spring 2027
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Program)
Kalindi Vora
- Acting Chair Spring 2027
- Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Program)
Social Science
Douglas Rogers
- Department Chair
- Anthropology
Samuel Kortum
- Department Chair
- Economics
Veneeta Dayal
- Department Chair
- Linguistics
Gerard Padró i Miquel
- Department Chair
- Political Science
Marvin Chun
- Department Chair
- Psychology
Emily Erikson
- Department Chair
- Sociology
Yihong Wu
- Department Chair
- Statistics and Data Science
Science
Priyamvada Natarajan
- Department Chair
- Astronomy
Nilay Hazari
- Department Chair
- Chemistry
Maureen Long
- Department Chair
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
David Vasseur
- Department Chair
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Wilhelm Schlag
- Department Chair
- Mathematics
Christian Schlieker
- Department Chair
- Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Scott Holley
- Department Chair
- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Sarah Demers
- Department Chair
- Physics
Additional Program Chairs
Joshua Knobe
- Program Chair
- Cognitive Science (program)
Catherine Nicholson
- Program Chair
- Early Modern Studies (program)
Bill Rankin
- Program Chair
- History of Science and Medicine (program)
Eliyahu Stern
- Program Chair
- Jewish Studies (program)
Maria Doerfler
- Program Chair
- Medieval Studies (program)