Department and Program Chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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

Humanities and Cross-Divisional (Humanities/Social Science)

African American Studies†

Jacqueline Goldsby

Department Chair

American Studies (Program)†

Michael Denning

Program Chair

Classics

Kirk Freudenburg

Department Chair

Comparative Literature

Martin Hägglund

Department Chair

Comparative Literature

Acting Chair Spring 2022

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Department Chair

English

Jessica Brantley

Department Chair

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Program)†

Ana Ramos-Zayas

Program Chair

Film and Media Studies (Program)

John Durham Peters

Program Chair

French

Pierre Saint-Amand

Department Chair

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Department Chair

History

Department Chair

History

Joanne Meyerowitz

Acting Chair 2021-22

History of Art

Milette Gaifman

Department Chair

Humanities (Program)

Francesco Casetti

Program Chair

Italian Studies

Department Chair

Music

Department Chair

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Shawkat Toorawa

Department Chair

Philosophy

Department Chair

Philosophy

Kenneth Winkler

Acting Chair, 2021-22

Religious Studies

Department Chair

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Edyta Bojanowska

Department Chair

Spanish and Portuguese

Department Chair

Theater and Performance Studies (Program)

Program Chair

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Program)†

Roderick Ferguson

Program Chair

Social Science

Anthropology

Department Chair

Economics

Department Chair

Linguistics

Raffaella Zanuttini

Department Chair

Political Science

Department Chair

Psychology

Department Chair

Sociology

Department Chair

Statistics and Data Science

Department Chair

Science

Astronomy

Department Chair

Chemistry

Department Chair

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Department Chair

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Department Chair

Mathematics

Department Chair

Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Enrique de la Cruz

Department Chair

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Department Chair

Physics

Department Chair

School of Engineering & Applied Science

Applied Physics

Vidvuds Ozolins

Department Chair

Biomedical Engineering

Department Chair

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Department Chair

Computer Science

Department Chair

Electrical Engineering

Leandros Tassiulas

Department Chair

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Department Chair

Additional Program Chairs

Applied Mathematics (Program)

Program Chair

Cognitive Science (Program)†

Program Chair

Early Modern Studies (Program)

Ayesha Ramachandran

Program Chair

Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Program)†

Currently vacant

Program Director

History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health (Program)

Program Chair

Judaic Studies (Program)

Maurice Samuels

Program Chair

Medieval Studies (Program)

Emily Thornbury

Program Chair