Department and Program Chairs
See also the table of contact info for chairs and their assistants. Departments and programs marked with † are cross-divisional.
Humanities

African American Studies†
Department Chair; Professor of English, African American Studies, & American Studies

American Studies (Program)†
Program Chair; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of English


Comparative Literature
Department Chair; Professor of Comparative Literature & Humanities

East Asian Languages and Literatures
Department Chair; Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures


Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Program)†
Program Chair; Professor of American Studies

Film and Media Studies (Program)
Program Chair; Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies


Germanic Languages and Literatures
Department Chair; Professor of Germanic Language and Literature






Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Acting Chair (AY2020-21), Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, DGS

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Department Chair; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations



Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department Chair; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies


Theater and Performance Studies
Chair; Professor of Theater Studies, of African American Studies, and of American Studies

Social Science




Political Science
Department Chair; Forst Family Professor of Political Science, Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Psychology
Department Chair; Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry


Science



Earth and Planetary Sciences
Department Chair; Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Department Chair; Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology


Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Department Chair; Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Head of Branford College

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Department Chair; Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

School of Engineering & Applied Science

Applied Physics
Department Chair; William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Applied Physics & Physics & of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Biomedical Engineering
Department Chair; John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Department Chair; Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering


Electrical Engineering
Department Chair; John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Department Chair; Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science; Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Additional Program Chairs

Applied Mathematics (Program)
Program Chair; James E. English Professor of Mathematics & Applied Math


Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Program)†
Program Director; Damon Wells Professor of Political Science

History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health (Program)
Program Chair; Professor of History



Renaissance Studies (Program)
Program Chair; T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies