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2024-25 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 | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Past Humanities Advisory and Tenure and Appointments Committees
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