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
2024–2025 Members
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Amanda Anderson
Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities -
Tamara Chin
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature -
Mark Cladis
Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities, Professor of Religious Studies -
Tara Nummedal
John Nickoll Provost's Professor of History, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown Library -
Thangam Ravindranathan
Professor of French and Francophone Studies -
Ralph Rodriguez
Professor of American Studies, Professor of English -
Melvin Rogers
Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics -
Rebecca Schneider
Professor of Modern Culture and Media -
Debbie Weinstein
Associate Professor of American Studies, Interim Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women