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†

Phillip Atiba Solomon

Department Chair

American Studies (Program)†

Laura Barraclough

Program Chair

Classics

Department Chair

Comparative Literature

Department Chair

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Department Chair

English

Jessica Brantley

Department Chair

Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (Program)†

Acting Chair 2024-25

Film and Media Studies (Program)

Program Chair

French

Maurice Samuels

Department Chair

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Department Chair

History

Department Chair

History of Art

Acting Chair Spring 2025

History of Art

Milette Gaifman

Department Chair

Humanities (Program)

Program Chair

Italian Studies

Millicent Marcus

Acting Chair 2024-25

Italian Studies

Department Chair

Music

Gundula Kreuzer

Department Chair

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Department Chair

Philosophy

Department Chair

Religious Studies

Department Chair

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Acting Chair, Spring 2025

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Edyta Bojanowska

Department Chair

Spanish and Portuguese

Department Chair

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (Program)

Program Chair

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

Roderick Ferguson

Program Chair

Social Science

Anthropology

Acting Chair Fall 2024

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

Daniel Spielman

Acting Chair, Spring 2025

Statistics and Data Science

Department Chair

Science

Astronomy

Priyamvada Natarajan

Department Chair

Chemistry

Department Chair

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Department Chair

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Department Chair

Mathematics

Department Chair

Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Department Chair

Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Department Chair

Physics

Department Chair

Additional Program Chairs

Applied Mathematics (Program)

Vladimir Rokhlin

Program Chair

Cognitive Science (Program)†

Program Chair

Early Modern Studies (Program)

Program Chair

Ethics, Politics, and Economics (Program)†

Ana De La O Torres

Program Director

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

Program Chair

Jewish Studies (Program)

Program Chair

Medieval Studies (Program)

Emily Thornbury

Program Chair