This is an open letter from members of the University of Chicago community to the university administration. It is sponsored by UChicago AAUP, but you do not need to be a member to sign (though we encourage you to join, which you can do at this link).
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Dear Dean Nelson and Provost Baicker,
We write as members of the University of Chicago community concerned about the proposed reorganization of the Arts and Humanities Division. These concerns are both procedural and substantive.
Procedurally, any process of such potential gravity, for the division and for the wider university, requires more substantive and transparent faculty deliberation. It should not have been compressed into a period of only weeks in the summertime. It is vital, looking ahead, that such deliberations not be limited to a period when the university is in recess. Departments, which only meet during the academic year, must be active participants in any discussion that bears significant consequence for them.
Additionally, the process has been and remains inappropriately opaque, exposing the entire university to a disturbing precedent of arbitrary and unjustified decision-making from above. The ad hoc faculty committees selected by the dean of humanities have been charged with developing measures to cut costs, many of them drafted by a non-academic consultant. The committees have not been given access to financial information about either the current budgetary situation or the possible budgetary consequences of various options. Moreover, their reports have been deemed only advisory, with the administration reserving the option of bypassing any faculty recommendations, and indeed of withholding the dean’s final report from faculty altogether.
Especially in light of a recent unexplained decision to cut off PhD admissions in some but not all departments in the division, it is of the utmost importance to reestablish the integrity of faculty governance over academic matters. It is crucial that (1) the dean’s final proposal regarding any major changes to departments’ research and teaching be made available to the faculty; (2) that the dean discuss its contents openly with the faculty; and (3) that the provost continue to engage faculty deliberative bodies, from departments to the College Council and the Council of the University Senate before reaching any final decision. A reorganization of an entire division of the university, including both its research and educational programs, deserves no less consideration and deliberation.
Substantively, we are disturbed by the long-term trend of university disinvestment from the arts and humanities. The cuts as initially proposed reveal how much the division has been reduced already by this longer-term disinvestment. Yet these are fundamental areas of scholarly inquiry, not merely ornaments adorning the “real business” of the university. They form the original basis of the university’s reputation as well as a crucial resource to the wider institution—through language instruction, undergraduate education in the Core, and expert knowledge. We are concerned that we are witnessing the gradual winding down of whole areas of knowledge production without the acknowledgment that such a grave decision has been taken.
We acknowledge that the university is in a difficult moment, as is higher education writ large. But we believe that the path forward must involve meaningful and broad engagement of the academic community in decisions about our shared fate, not a crash program of “efficiency” cuts to our traditions of expertise, carried out in the dark.
To recapitulate our proposals:
- No major deliberations should be limited to a period when the university is in recess.
- Departments must be substantive participants in any decision that affects them.
- The dean’s final proposal for budgetary adjustments must be made available to faculty.
- The dean should discuss the final proposal with faculty, and substantiate the economic rationale for these decisions.
- Any final proposal regarding any division, including the Arts and Humanities, must be developed in substantive consultation with the duly constituted bodies of faculty governance—departments, the College Council, and the Council of the University Senate.
- Out of a proper process of deliberation, a long-term vision should be developed for the revitalization of the arts and humanities beyond the current emergency measures.
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Signatures
Augusta McMahon, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Middle Eastern Studies and ISAC
Daniel Morgan, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Catherine Kearns, Assoc Prof, Classics
Erica Warren, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH and Art History
Andrew Ollett, Associate Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Agnes Malinowska, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH and English
Alice Goff, Associate Professor, History
Mario Santana, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Stephen Haswell Todd, Associate Instructional Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division
Sarah Nooter, Edward Olson Professor, Classics
Mehrnoush Soroush, Assistant Professor, ISAC/Middle Eastern Studies
Denis Hirschfeldt, Professor, Mathematics
Tristan J. Schweiger, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH & English
Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Danielle Roper, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Hilary Strang, Sr. Instructional Professor, Director, MA Program in the Humanities, MAPH
Matthew Harris, Assistant Professor, Divinity School
Celine Bordeaux, IP, RLL
Shadi Bartsch, Helen A Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor, Classics
Veronica Vegna, Senior Instructional Professor and Director of the Italian Language Program, RLL
Travis A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Music
Rochona Majumdar, Professor, SALC/ CMS
Zach Loeffler , Lecturer, HCD
Michael Bourdaghs, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, EALC
Andrew Pitel, Assistant Instructional Professor , MAPH and Philosophy
Seth Brodsky, Associate Professor, Director, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Music
Ania Aizman , Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
John Proios, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ada Shissler, Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Whitney Cox, Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Miguel Martínez, Professor of Spanish, Chair of RLL, RLL
Noha Forster, Senior Associate instructional professor , Middle Eastern Studies
Jason Grunebaum, Instructional Professor, SALC
Alexis Chema, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature
Julie Orlemanski, Associate Professor, Department of English
Francois Richard, Associate Professor, Anthropology & RDI
Michael Dietler, Professor, Anthropology
Noel Blanco Mourelle, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Assistant Professor, Divinity
Danielle Aubert, Professor of Practice in the Arts, English
Hripsime Haroutunian, Instructional Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Patrick Morrissey, Assistant Instructional Professor, Humanities Collegiate Division
Gabriel Winant, Associate Professor, History
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Humanities Teaching Fellow, English Language and Literature
Jeremy Schmidt, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Assistant Professor, Divinity School
Nisha Kommattam, Associate Instr. Professor, Comparative Literature
Kay Heikkinen, Ibn Rushd Lecturer in Arabic, Retired, Middle Eastern Studies
Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Middle Eastern Studies and ISAC
Gina Fedock, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor, Anthropology
Sascha Ebeling, Associate Professor, SALC / CMLT
Joseph Bruch, Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
Christian K. Wedemeyer, Associate Professor, History of Religions, Divinity School
Marianne Bertrand, Professor, Booth School of Business
Jessica Baker, Associate Professor of Music, Music
Eve L. Ewing, Associate Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Kamala Russell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Jade Pagkas-Bather, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine
Laura Ring, Southern Asian Studies Librarian, Library
David Woken, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Librarian, University of Chicago Library
Curtis Evans, Associate Professor, Divinity
Leland Jasperse, Humanities Teaching Fellow, English
Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and ISAC
Daragh Grant, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, The College
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Larissa Brewer-García, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Jennifer Mosley, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Benjamin Balthaser, Community member in Hyde Park, None
Andrew Hoberek, PhD 1998, English
Thomaz Amancio, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures
Megan Browndorf, Slavic and East European Studies Librarian, Library
Christopher J Smith, alumnus, English
Sarah Newman, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Jennifer Scappettone, Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Romance Languages and Literatures; Faculty Affiliate, CSGS and CEGU; Resource Faculty, Comparative Literature
Matias Spector, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures
Joy Wang, Harper-Schmidt Fellow/Collegiate Assistant Professor, Political Science/Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Sara Dallavalle, Assistant Instructional Professor, RLL
Megan Marshall, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Eléonore Rimbault, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Society of Fellows
Sarah Osment, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Gabriel Ellis, Harper-Schmidt Fellow & Collegiate Asst. Professor, Humanities
Ben Laurence, Instructional Professor, Human Rights
Jake Fraser, PhD ’18, Germanic Studies
Katja Garloff, PhD Germanic Studies, 1997, Germanic Studies
Anthony Nicholson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science
Joseph Masco, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Anthropology
Stephan Palmie’, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology
Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Divinity School, Medieval Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies; associate member Classics and Anthropology
Sophie McMillan-Myers, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Connor Strobel, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows, the College
Fred M. Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, Middle Eastern Studies
Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor, Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, Committee on the Environment, Geography, and Urbanization
Ariel Fox, Associate Professor, EALC & TAPS
John Marvin, PhD Student, Philosophy/Divinity
John McCormick, Weintraub Professor, Political Science
Jessica Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor, Crown Family School
V. Joshua Adams, Alumnus, Comparative Literature
Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, English
Catherine Mardikes, Senior Humanities Bibliographer, Library
Susan Gal, Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology and Linguistics
Anna Elena Torres, Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor, History
Florian Klinger, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies
Isaac Hand, Harper-Schmidt Fellow/Collegiate Assistant Professor, History/Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Darryl Li, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Megan Heffernan, Alumna, PhD ’13, AB ’04, English
Linda M. G. Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor Political Science and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Political Science/CSGS
Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law, The Law School
Angie Heo, Associate Professor, Divinity
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Tyler Williams, Associate Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Rebecca Anne Petrush, Associate Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Clifton Ragsdale, Professor, Neurobiology
William Sites, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Yali Amit, Professor, Statistics
Salikoko S. Mufwene, The Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Linguistics and RDI
Chris Taylor, Associate Professor, English
Michael Kremer, Mary R Morton Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Philosophy
John H. Muse, Associate Professor, English/TAPS
Alida Bouris, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Professor, emeritus, Divinity School
Monica H. Green, not affiliated (concerned fellow academic), not affiliated (historian by training and profession)
Jonathan Flatley, Professor, English
Carl Shook, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies
Celia Bravo Diaz, Assistant Instructional Professor, RLL
María Cecilia Lozada Cerna, Senior Instructional Professor, RLL
Faith Hillis, Professor, History
Dan Arnold, Professor, Divinity School
Julia Irons, PhD Candidate, Classics
Victoria Saramago, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Maria Anna Mariani, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Ana Maria F. Lima, Senior Instructional Professor, Portuguese Language Program Director, Romance Languages and Literatures
Aaron Jakes, Associate Professor, History
Bel Olid, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Daisy Delogu, Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures
Matthew M. Briones, Associate Professor of History, History
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Ph.D. ‘13, Romance Languages and Literatures
Kodie Bastian, PhD Student, Classics
Georgy Khabarovskiy, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
William H. Sewell, Jr, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Political Science and History
Nabil Al-Tikriti, NELC 2004 Ph.D. Alumnus, NELC
Sianne Ngai, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, English
William Scheeiket, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor, The Divinity School and the College
Aaron Gottlieb, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
James A. Shapiro, Professor Emeritus,, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Duygu Uygun Tunc, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Cathy Cohen, D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor, Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity
Robert L. Kendrick, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Music
Lisa Wedeen, Professor, Political Science
Carlos Gustavo Halaburda, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Adrienne Brown, Professor, English and RDI
Andreas Glaeser, Professor, Sociology
Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, emerita, EALC
Angela S. García, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor Emerita, Art History
Anirban Karak, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Steven Rings, Associate Professor, Music
Anna Schultz, Professor, Music
Adom Getachew, Professor, RDI and polisci
Leah Feldman, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Nathan Katkin, PhD Candidate, Classics
Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Alumna, Comparative Literature
Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Professor, EALC
Alison James, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Hakan Karateke, Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Leora Auslander, Joann and Arthur Rasmussen Professor, Race, Diaspora, & Indigeneity and History
Ulrike Stark, Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Tara Zahra, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, History
Jonathan Hall, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, History and Classics
Julia Henly, Samuel Deutsch Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Mark Miller, Associate Professor, English
Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor, EALC
Edward Shaughnessy, Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China, EALC
Josephine McDonagh, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Chair of the Development of the Novel in English Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English
Christina von Nolcken, Associate Professor, Emeritus, English and Program in Medieval Studies
Marc Downie, Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts, Cinema and Media Studies
Thomas C Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus, History
Robin Bartram, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
Larry Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Justin Steinberg, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Dana Seitler, PhD 2000, English
Charles C. Bullock, Graduate, Germanic Studies
Elaine Hadley, Professor emerita, English
Charles C. Bullock, Graduate, Germanic Studies
Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, Sociology and CEGU
Noémie Ndiaye, Associate Professor, English, RLL, TAPS
Katherine Fischer Taylor, Associate Professor emerita, Art History
Brian Leiter, Karl N Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School
Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Christopher A. Faraone, Professor, Classics
Rashauna Johnson, Associate Professor, History
Melinh Lai, Assistant instructional professor, Cognitive Science
Claudia Brittenham, Professor, Art History and RDI
Margaret Thomas, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Paula Harper, Assistant Professor, Music
Katherine Buse, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor, History and EALC
Andrew Brandel, Associate Instructional Professor, The College
Begona Arechabaleta Regulez, Assistant Instructional Professor, RLL
Marie Berg, Instructional Professor, RLL
Kavi Bhalla, Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, History
Darrel Chia, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPH and English
Tessa Huttenlocher, Assistant Instructional Professor, Sociology
Julia Brown, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Society of Fellows, the College, The College
Brianna Parry, Staff, Theater & Performance Studies
Eduardo Leão, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Eman Abdelhadi, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development
Benjamin Ruder, Manager, Film & Technical Operations, Film Studies Center
Marshall Jean, Assistant Instructional Professor, Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences
Jan Goldstein, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor Emerita, History
Anna Di Rienzo, Professor Emerita, Human Genetics
Paola Iovene, Associate Professor, EALC
Benjamin Saltzman, Associate Professor, English
Carolina López-Ruiz, Professor, Classics, Divinity School, ISAC
Timothy M. Harrison, Associate Professor, Department of English, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Divinity School (Associated Faculty), Comparative Literature (Resource Faculty)
Christopher Simon, Associate Instructional Professor, Department of Classics
Marlis J. Saleh, Bibliographer for Middle East Studies, Library
Sarah Fredericks, Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics, Divinity School, CEGU, the College
Elena Bashir, Senior Lecturer, Retired, South Asian Languages and Civilizaions
Rachel Girty, Writing and Research Advisor, Creative Writing
Nick Nurre, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Chad Broughton, Instructional Professor, Public Policy
Max Smith, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPSS
Irena Čajková, Instructional Professor, RLL
Dana Glaser, Humanities Teaching Fellow, English and CSGS
Bill Hutchison, Assistant Instructional Professor, Writing Program
Srini Vasudevan, Assistant Instructional Professor, Economics
Nell Pach, Assistant Instructional Professor, Writing Program
Mandira Bhaduri, Instructional Professor of Bangla/Bengali, SALC
Marissa Fenley, Harper Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Jennifer Cutilletta, Adjunct faculty, Crown school
Samuel Catlin, PhD ‘22, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow ‘22-‘23, Comparative Literature
Leonardo Cabrini, Assistant Instructional Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Linda T. Darling, Alumna, HIstory
Mary Elena Wilhoit, Associate instructional professor, MA Program in the Social Sciences
Caine Jordan, Teaching Fellow, History & Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Dmitry Kondrashov, Instructional professor, BSCD
Michelle Hoban, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Helga Anetshofer, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies
Elizabeth Fiedler, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Peadar Kavanagh, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Romance Languages and Literatures
Mickle Maher, Lecturer, TAPS
Matt Hauske, alum, PhD 2015, Cinema and Media Studies
Michael Fisch, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor, Art History
Stephanie Soileau, Assistant Professor of Practice, English and Creative Writing
Mark Baugher, Associate Instructional Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jessica Landau, Assistant Instructional Professor, CEGU
Andrea Ray, Teaching Fellow, Committee on Social Thought
Matt Lang, AM ‘16, Senior Editorial Associate, University of Chicago Press
James León Weber, AIP, RLL
Elizabeth Helsinger, Professor Emerita, English
Gabriela Zapata-Alma, Lecturer 2, Crown Family School
Cameron Cocking, Core Writing Advisor, Core Writing Program
Nada Petkovic, Instructional Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
K.J. Hickerson, Assistant Instructional Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Jared Berkowitz, Assistant Instructional Professor, Law, Letters, and Society
Gloria Goodwin Raheja, PhD alumna. Currently Professor Emerita, U. of Minnesota, PhD graduate, Anthropology, with extensive work in the Humanities Division.
Jeffrey Wolf, Lecturer, English Language & Literatures
Won Kyung Na, Associate Instructional Professor in Korean Language, EALC
Christopher Kindell, Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization
Margaret Olin, Alumna – AB, AM, PhD, English; Art History; History of Culture
Maria Yakubovich, Lecturer II, Slavic
Christopher Gortmaker, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, English
Francis W. Hoeber, Posthumous editor of the last work of Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (my sister) and Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professors for 50 years, Political Science
Bad Weiss, alumnus, Anthropology
Benjamin Yates, PhD Candidate, Classics
Tien-Tien Jong Zhang, PhD candidate, Cinema and Media Studies
Jonah Radding, Assistant Instructional Professor, Classics
Peter Onyisi, AB ’03, Physics
Jennifer Brosek, Alumna, Political Science (BA), CIR (MA), former PhD student NELC
David Clingingsmith, PhD Student, South Asian Languages and Literatures
Kerry Boeye, PhD (2010), Art History
Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern, PhD ’99
Sergio Delgado Moya, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Hussein Ali Agrama, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Fred Kopp, Lecturer, Germanic Studies
David A. Peterson, Assistant Instructional Professor, MACSS
Adam Roth Singerman, MA 2014, PhD 2018, Humanities Teaching Fellow 2018-2020, Linguistics
Aidan Kaplan, Assistant Instructional Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Hanna Pickwell, Teaching Fellow, Anthropology
Angela Zito, PhD Alumnus 89, Car Eastern Lang and Civ
Christina Filippaki, Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, Department of Classics and the College
Justine Buck Quijada, Alumnus College ’94, Div SS ’09, currently Assoc. Prof. of Religion, Wesleyan University, Anthropology
David Diamond, PhD ‘15, English
Brad Weiss, PhD. Alumnus, Anthropology
Michele Friedner, Professor, Comparative Human Development
Diana Schwartz Francisco, Associate Instructional Professor, History
Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Sara Nur Yıldız, Alumna, Near East Languages and Civ (Middle Eastern Studies)
Katie Howe, PhD alumna, Philosophy
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, Associate Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Daniel Suslak, PhD alumnus, Associate Professor, Indiana University Dept of Anthropology
Emilio Kourí, Professor of history, History
Matthew Peterson, PhD alumnus, Divinity
Charles Mathewes, Alumnus, PhD Divinity School 1997
Matthew W. Stolper, Professor Emeritus, NELC (MES), ISAC (OI)
Thuto Thipe, Assistant Professor, History
Glenn Hendler, Visiting Faculty (years ago), English andAPH
Daniel Burnfin, PhD 2022, HTF 2022-4, Lecturer 2024-5, Germanic Studies & Philosophy
Laura Bier, Alumni (MA ‘95), Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Samuel Baker, PhD 2001, English
Eva Pensis, Alumnus, Music & Theatre and Performance Studies
Hans Thomalla, Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Music, Music
Damien Bright, Assistant Instructional Professor, MAPSS
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Professor, History, SALC
Alexander Cowan, Assistant Professor, Music
Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor, Music, TAPS
Kevin Barrett, Lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work
Erika Supria Honisch, PhD 2011, Music (Music History and Theory)
Florian Walch, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, West Virginia University, PhD Music History and Theory ’23
Hannah McGinty, A.B. 2013, Music
Jim Sykes, Alumnus, Music
Zachary Tavlin, Lecturer, Humanities Core
David Grubbs, PhD ‘05, Distinguished Professor of Music, CUNY, English
Alex Kentsis, MD, PhD, Director of the Tow Center for Developmental Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University Medical College, AB, SM 1998, Biological Sciences and History
Sarah Brailey, Director of Vocal Studies, Music
Jeffrey Harvey, Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor, Physics
Erol Koymen, PhD 2022, music
Janet Spittler, Alumna, PhD 2007, New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the Division of the Humanities
Michael Gallope, Visiting Professor (Spring 2025) and Former Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Music / Society of Fellows
Miku Fukasaku, Associate Instructional Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Damon Jones, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Steven N. Durlauf, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Na’ama Rokem, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature
Rebecca Posner-Hess, PhD candidate, Classics
Ina Blom, Wigeland Visiting Professor, Art History
Tommaso Sabbatini, PhD ’20, Music
Jsdon Barabba, Alumnus, Music
John-Paul Spiro, alumnus (M.A.), Philosophy
Crystal Bae, Assistant Instructional Professor, Geographic Information Science
Matthew Kruer, Associate Professor, History and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
John Leavitt, Professor, Université de Montréal, PhD 1985, Anthropology
Darlene Castro, PhD Candidate, Music
Martha Feldman, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor, Music
Colleen Grogan, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta University Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
Tyler Zimmer, Associate Instructional Professor, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, alumni, PhD, English
Will Ardery, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
Prachi Sanghavi, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Matthew W. Stolper, John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus, OI (ISAC)., NELC (MES), PAMW
Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Art History
Crystal Beiersdorfer, Lecturer 2 in Department of Cinema and Media Studies and in the College, Cinema and Media Studies, Media Arts and Design
Cass Turner, PhD Alum, English
Benjamin Smith, Alumnus, Departments of Comparative Human Development and Linguistics
Shannon Lee Dawdy, Professor, Anthropology
Nick Turner, Lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Jonathan Katz-Ouziel, Alum, History
Seth L. Sanders, former Postdoctoral Fellow, NELC
Kari Watson, PhD Student, Music
Marie Satya McDonough, PhD 2011, English
Philip McGrath, Alumnus, Music
Olga Sánchez, Instructional Associate Professor, Music
Darya Tsymbalyuk, Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Kikù Hibino, Bibliographic assistant, Regenstein Library
Aren Wilson-Wright, Assistant Instructional Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
Alex Kale, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Data Science Institute
John Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor, English
Edgar Garcia, Associate Professor, English
Anne Rogers, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Gabriel Richardson Lear, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, Philosophy, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
Gil J. Stein, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Middle East Studies
David Schloen, John A. Wilson Professor, Middle Eastern Studies and ISAC
Jeffrey Stackert, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible, The Divinity School and ISAC
Petra Goedegebbure, Associate Professor Hittitology, ISAC, MES, the College
Kathryn Bandy, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies
Esmael Haddadian, Instructional Professor, BSCD
Hervé Reculeau, Associate Professor of Assyriology, ISAC/MES
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University, Alum, MA 2007, BA 2005, Divinity School, SALC
David Tavárez, Alumnus (PhD, 2000), Anthropology and History
Theo van den Hout, Arthur Rasmussen Prof. em. of Hittite and Anatolian Languages, ISAC/MES
Ari Almog, Senior Instructional Professor, Modern Hebrew Studies, MES
Blase Ur, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Sophia Alkhoury, PhD Candidate, Classics
Dr Stacy Hackner, AB ’10, Anthropology
Isabella Spagnuolo, PhD Student, Classics & TAPS
Austin O’Malley, Assistant Professor, MES
Julianne Grasso, Alumna, Music
Alican Camci, Alumni, Music
Ananya Vajpeyi, Graduate Student 1996-2004 (PhD), SALC
Mia Capodilupo, Alumni, Anthropology
Timothy Ng, Assistant Instructional Professor, Computer Science
Patrick Fitzgibbon, PhD, 2024, Music
Samuel Baudinette, Alumnus, Divinity School
Kelly Holob, PhD alumna, Assistant Director of Fellowships, Divinity School, UChicagoGRAD
Nathan Friedman, PhD student, Music
Janelle Goodwil, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Callie Maidhof, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director, Global Studies
Matt Epperson, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Katie Kadue, Harper-Schmidt Fellow (2017-21), Society of Fellows
John J. MacAloon, Professor Emeritus, Social Sciences Division and The College
Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Olga Solovieva, Academic Affiliate, CEERES
Edward L. Shaughnessy, Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China, EALC
Susan Burns, Chair, Department of History, Professor, History and EALC, History, EAlC, and the College
Donald Harper, Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor, Cinema & Media Studies / East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Rachel Hyeryeong Bahng, Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean, East Asian Languages & Civilizations
Xiaorong Wang, Associate Instructional Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Anne Marie Smith, Writing Specialist, Writing Program
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