Department and Program Chairs
Humanities and Cross-Divisional (Humanities/Social Science)
Laura Barraclough
- Program Chair
- American Studies (Program)
Erica Edwards
- Department Chair
- Black Studies
Noel Lenski
- Department Chair
- Classics
Jing Tsu
- Department Chair
- Comparative Literature
Tina Lu
- Department Chair
- East Asian Languages and Literatures
Caleb Smith
- Department Chair
- English
Fatima el-Tayeb
- Program Chair
- Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Program)
Fatima Naqvi
- Department Chair
- Film and Media Studies (Program)
Maurice Samuels
- Department Chair
- On Leave Spring 2026
- French
Pierre Saint-Amand
- Acting Chair Spring 2026
- French
Kirk Wetters
- Department Chair
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
Regina Kunzel
- Department Chair
- On Leave Spring 2026
- History
Alan Mikhail
- Acting Chair Spring 2026
- History
Milette Gaifman
- Department Chair
- History of Art
Pauline LeVen
- Program Chair
- On Leave AY 2025-26
- Humanities (Program)
Shawkat Toorawa
- Acting Chair Fall 2025
- Humanities (Program)
Marijeta Bozovic
- Acting Chair Spring 2026
- Humanities (Program)
Jane Tylus
- Department Chair
- Italian Studies
Gundula Kreuzer
- Department Chair
- On Leave Fall 2025
- Music
Ian Quinn
- Acting Chair Fall 2025
- Music
Nadine Moeller
- Department Chair
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Paul Franks
- Department Chair
- Philosophy
Travis Zadeh
- Department Chair
- Religious Studies
Edyta Bojanowska
- Department Chair
- On Leave Fall 2025
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
John MacKay
- Acting Chair Fall 2025
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
R Howard Bloch
- Acting Chair AY 2025-26
- Spanish and Portuguese
Shane Vogel
- Program Chair
- Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Program)
Roderick Ferguson
- Department Chair
- 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
Jutta Joormann
- 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
Ronald Breaker
- 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)
Marisa Bass
- Program Chair
- Early Modern Studies (program)
Bill Rankin
- Program Chair
- On Leave Spring 2026
- History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health (program)
Paola Bertucci
- Acting Chair Spring 2026
- History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health (program)
Eliyahu Stern
- Program Chair
- Jewish Studies (program)
Emily Thornbury
- Program Chair
- Medieval Studies (program)