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)
Acting Program Chair, 2019-20; B. E. Bensinger Professor of Comparative Literature and of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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
Department Chair; Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Religious Studies
Department Chair; Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, & Divinity
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department Chair; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film Studies
Theater and Performance Studies (Program)
Program Chair; Professor of Theater Studies, of American Studies and of English and Professor in the Practice of Drama
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Program)†
Acting Program Chair, Spring 2020; Professor
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
Applied Physics
Department Chair; William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Applied Physics & Physics & of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Department Chair; Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Geology and Geophysics
Department Chair; Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Department Chair; Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Professor of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Department Chair; Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
School of Engineering & Applied 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
Cognitive Science (Program)†
Program Chair; Brooks & Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science
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
Medieval Studies (Program)
Program Chair; John M. Schiff Prof of English, Prof of French & Music
Renaissance Studies (Program)
Program Chair; T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History & Religious Studies