The governing board consists of the institute's director and eight appointed tenured faculty from departments or programs in the humanities, as well as scholars from departments and programs in other areas of the University whose main research is closely related to scholarship in the humanities. Faculty members serve staggered three-year terms.
Cogut Institute for the Humanities
Governing Board
2021–2022 Members
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Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Associate Professor of American Studies and English -
Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Yannis Hamilakis
Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies -
Thomas Lewis
Co-Deputy Dean and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate School, Professor of Religious Studies -
Lukas Rieppel
Associate Professor of History -
Melvin Rogers
Associate Professor of Political Science -
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Chair of Italian Studies -
Peter Szendy
David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature
Member on leave
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Patricia Ybarra
Chair of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies