Humanities Advisory and Tenure and Appointments Committee

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Joe Cleary | John M. Schiff Professor of English

Stephen Davis | Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History

Marlene Daut | Professor of French and of African American Studies

Casey Dunn | Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Genetics

Beverly Gage | John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History

Scott Herring | Professor of American Studies and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Laurie "LA" Paul | Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science

Kishwar Rizvi | Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art and Architecture

Shawkat Toorawa | Brand Blanshard Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Professor of Comparative Literature

Noël Valis | Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

Marc Robinson | Committee Chair; FAS Dean of Humanities; Malcolm G. Chace ’56 Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of English, Professor of American Studies, and Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism

Tamar Szabó Gendler (Fall 2024) | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Steven Wilkinson (Spring 2025) | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Sunil Amrith | Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History

Michael Della Rocca (Fall 2023 only) | Sterling Professor of Philosophy

Sarah Demers | Professor of Physics

Paul Freedman | Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

Elizabeth Hinton | Professor of History, African American Studies, and Law

Alice Kaplan (Spring 2024 only) | Sterling Professor of French

Christina Kraus | Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Classics

Kishwar Rizvi | Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art and Architecture

Kirk Wetters | Professor of German

Ruth Yeazell | Sterling Professor of English

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

Kathryn Lofton | Committee Chair; FAS Dean of Humanities; Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies, of History, and of Divinity

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

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Marisa Bass | Professor in the History of Art

Michael Della Rocca | Sterling Professor of Philosophy and Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy

Sarah Demers | Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics

Fatima el-Tayeb | Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

David Engerman | Leitner International Disciplinary Professor of History

Paul Freedman | Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

Alice Kaplan | Sterling Professor of French and John M. Musser Professor of French

Gary Tomlinson (Fall 2022 only) | Sterling Professor of Music and of Humanities

Michael Warner | Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

Kathryn Lofton | FAS Dean of Humanities; Acting Dean of the FAS (January 1 - June 30, 2023); Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies and of History

Tamar Szabó Gendler (Fall 2022 only) | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Keith DeRose | Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy

David Engerman | Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History

Phillip Atiba Goff (Spring 2022 only)| Carl I. Hovland Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Psychology

Gregory Laughlin | Professor of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Lisa Lowe | Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies

Tina Lu | Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Nadine Moeller | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Paul North | Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Gary Tomlinson | John Hay Whitney Professor in the Music Department and Professor of Humanities

Michael Warner (Fall 2021 only) | Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and Professor of American Studies

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

Kathryn Lofton | Committee Chair, Dean of Humanities; Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies and of History

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

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Kathryn Lofton | Committee Chair, Humanities Advisory Committee; FAS Dean of Humanities; Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of American Studies and of History

Milette Gaifman | Professor of the History of Art and of Classics

Brad Inwood | William Lampson Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Classics

Joshua Knobe (fall 2020 only) | Professor of Philosophy, of Linguistics, and of Psychology

Tina Lu | Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Head of Pauli Murray College

Samuel Moyn | Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History

Tavia Nyong’o | Professor and Chair, Theater and Performance studies; Professor of American Studies and of African American Studies

Katie Trumpener | Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English

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

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

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

Gregory Laughlin | Outside Member, Tenure and Appointments Committee; Professor of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Humanities Advisory Committee Membership

Kathryn Lofton | Committee Chair, Humanities Advisory Committee; Acting FAS Dean of Humanities; Professor of Religious Studies, of American Studies and of History

Ned Blackhawk | Professor of History and of American Studies

Edyta Bojanowska | Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Eckhart Frahm | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Kirk Freudenburg | Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Classics

David Kastan | George M. Bodman Professor of English

Naomi Lamoreaux | Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History

Paul North | Professor of German

Ken Winkler | Kingman Brewster, Jr. Professor of Philosophy

Additional Members of Tenure and Appointments Committee

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

Catherine Panter-Brick | Outside Member, Tenure and Appointments Committee; Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs

Committee Membership

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

Rudiger Campe | Alfred C. and Martha F. Mohr Professor of German Languages and Literatures

Brad Inwood | Professor of Philosophy and of Classics

Ed Kamens | Sumitomo Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Jonathan Kramnick (spring only) | Maynard Mack Professor of English

Stephanie Newell (fall only) | Professor of English

Marc Robinson (fall only) | Professor of Theater Studies, of American Studies and of English and Professor in the Practice of Drama

Pierre Saint-Amand | Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French

Stuart Schwartz | George Burton Adams Professor of History

Caleb Smith | Professor of English and of American Studies

Michael Veal (fall only) | Professor of Music, of African American Studies and of American Studies

Tenure and 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

Margaret Clark | John M. Musser Professor of Psychology

Committee Membership

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

Egbert Bakker | Professor of Classics

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

Alan Mikhail | Professor of History

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

Stephanie Newell (fall only) | Professor of English

Paul North | Professor of German

Marc Robinson | Professor of Theater Studies, of American Studies and of English and Professor in the Practice of Drama

Pierre Saint-Amand (fall only) | Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French

Caleb Smith | Professor of English and of American Studies

Jing Tsu (spring only) | Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature

Michael Veal (spring only) | Professor of Music, of African American Studies and of American Studies

Tenure and 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

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

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

Committee Membership

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

R. Howard Bloch | Sterling Professor of French

Eckart Frahm | Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

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

Emily Greenwood | Professor of Classics and of African American Studies

Inderpal Grewal | Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of American Studies

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

Caleb Smith | Professor of English and of American Studies

David Sorkin (spring only) | Lucy G. Moses Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History

Nicola Suthor | Professor in the History of Art

Anders Winroth (spring only) | 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

Tyrone Cannon | Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry

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