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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 & 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 Ph.D. 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) the dean discuss its contents openly with the faculty; and (3) 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 facing 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:

1. No major deliberations should be limited to a period when the University is in recess.
2. Departments must be substantive participants in any decision that affects them.
3. The dean’s final proposal for budgetary adjustments must be made available to faculty.
4. The dean should discuss the final proposal with faculty and substantiate the economic rationale for these decisions.
5. Any final proposal regarding any division, including the Arts & 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.
6. 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.

Sincerely,

UChicago American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Augusta McMahon, professor of Mesopotamian archaeology, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Daniel Morgan, professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Catherine Kearns, associate professor, Department of Classics

Erica Warren, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Department of Art History

Andrew Ollett, associate professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Agnes Malinowska, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Department of English Language and Literature

Alice Goff, associate professor, Department of 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, Department of Classics

Mehrnoush Soroush, assistant professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Denis Hirschfeldt, professor, Department of Mathematics

Tristan Schweiger, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Department of English Language and Literature

Andrés Nicolás Rabinovich, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Danielle Roper, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Hilary Strang, senior instructional professor and director, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities

Matthew Harris, assistant professor, Divinity School

Celine Bordeaux, instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Shadi Bartsch, Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Classics

Veronica Vegna, senior instructional professor and director of the Italian Language Program, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Travis A. Jackson, associate professor, Department of Music

Rochona Majumdar, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Zach Loeffler, lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division

Michael Bourdaghs, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Andrew Pitel, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Department of Philosophy

Seth Brodsky, associate professor and director, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry and Department of Music

Ania Aizman, assistant professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Allyson Nadia Field, associate professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

John Proios, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy

Ada Shissler, associate professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Whitney Cox, professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Miguel Martínez, professor of Spanish literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Noha Forster, senior associate instructional professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Jason Grunebaum, instructional professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Alexis Chema, assistant professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Julie Orlemanski, associate professor, Department of English

Francois Richard, associate professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Michael Dietler, professor, Department of Anthropology

Noel Blanco Mourelle, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Sarah Pierce Taylor, assistant professor, Divinity School

Danielle Aubert, professor of practice in the arts, Department of English Language and Literature

Hripsime Haroutunian, instructional professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Patrick Morrissey, assistant instructional professor, Humanities Collegiate Division

Gabriel Winant, associate professor, Department of History

Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, teaching fellow, Department of English Language and Literature

Jeremy Schmidt, writing specialist, Writing Program

Anand Venkatkrishnan, assistant professor, Divinity School

Nisha Kommattam, associate instructional professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Kay Heikkinen, Ibn Rushd Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, retired

Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, assistant professor of Egyptian archaeology, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Gina Fedock, associate professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Kaushik Sunder Rajan, professor, Department of Anthropology

Sascha Ebeling, associate professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Department of Comparative Literature

Joseph Bruch, assistant professor of public health sciences, Biological Sciences Division

Christian Wedemeyer, associate professor of the history of religions, Divinity School

Marianne Bertrand, professor, Booth School of Business

Jessica Baker, associate professor, Department of Music

Eve L. Ewing, associate professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Kamala Russell, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology

Jade Pagkas-Bather, assistant professor of medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health in the Department of Medicine

Laura Ring, Southern Asian Studies librarian, University of Chicago Library

David Woken, Latin American and Caribbean Studies librarian, University of Chicago Library

Curtis Evans, associate professor, Divinity School

Leland Jasperse, teaching fellow, Department of English Language and Literature

Margaret Geoga, assistant professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Daragh Grant, associate senior instructional professor, the College

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Larissa Brewer-García, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Jennifer Mosley, professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Benjamin Balthaser, Hyde Park community member, no departmental affiliation

Andrew Hoberek, Ph.D. ’98, Department of English Language and Literature

Thomaz Amancio, teaching fellow in the humanities, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Megan Browndorf, Slavic and East European Studies librarian, University of Chicago Library

Language and Literature

Sarah Newman, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology

Jennifer Scappettone, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Creative Writing, and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Matias Spector, teaching fellow in the humanities, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Joy Wang, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Department of Political Science

Sara Dallavalle, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Megan Marshall, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Eléonore Rimbault, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Society of Fellows

Sarah Osment, writing specialist, Writing Program

Gabriel Ellis, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Society of Fellows

Ben Laurence, instructional professor, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

Jake Fraser, Ph.D. ’18, Department of Germanic Studies

Katja Garloff, Ph.D. ’97, Department of Germanic Studies

Anthony Nicholson, adjunct associate professor, Department of Computer Science

Joseph Masco, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Department of Anthropology

Stephan Palmie, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology

Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Divinity School

Sophie McMillan-Myers, writing specialist, Writing Program

Connor Strobel, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Society of Fellows

Fred M. Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Niall Atkinson, associate professor, Department of Art History, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization

Ariel Fox, associate professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies

John Marvin, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Philosophy and Divinity School

John McCormick, Karl J. Weintraub Professor, Department of Political Science

Jessica Darrow, associate instructional professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Joshua Adams, Ph.D. ’14, Department of Comparative Literature

Richard Strier, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature

Catherine Mardikes, senior humanities bibliographer, University of Chicago Library

Susan Gal, Mae & Sidney Metzl Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics

Anna Elena Torres, assistant professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Amy Dru Stanley, associate professor, Department of History

Florian Klinger, associate professor, Department of Germanic Studies

Isaac Hand, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Department of History

Darryl Li, associate professor, Department of Anthropology

Megan Heffernan, A.B. ’04, Ph.D. ’13, Department of English Language and Literature

Linda M. G. Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Political Science and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Genevieve Lakier, professor, Law School

Angie Heo, associate professor, Divinity School

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Tyler Williams, associate professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Rebecca Anne Petrush, associate instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Clifton Ragsdale, professor of neurobiology, Division of the Biological Sciences

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, Department of Statistics

Salikoko Mufwene, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Chris Taylor, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Michael Kremer, Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy

John H. Muse, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Alida Bouris, associate professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

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, Department of English

Carl Shook, lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Celia Bravo Diaz, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

María Cecilia Lozada Cerna, senior instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Faith Hillis, professor, Department of History

Dan Arnold, professor, Divinity School

Julia Irons, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Victoria Saramago, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Maria Anna Mariani, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ana Maria F. Lima, senior instructional professor and Portuguese language program director, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Aaron Jakes, associate professor, Department of History

Bel Olid, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Daisy Delogu, professor, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures

Matthew M. Briones, associate professor, Department of History

Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Ph.D. ’13, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Kodie Bastian, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Georgy Khabarovskiy, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

William H. Sewell, Jr., Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and Department of History

Nabil Al-Tikriti, Ph.D. ’04, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Sianne Ngai, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor, Divinity School

Aaron Gottlieb, associate professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

James A. Shapiro, professor emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Duygu Uygun Tunc, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Collegiate Division

Cathy Cohen, D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity

Robert L. Kendrick, Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Music

Lisa Wedeen, professor, Department of Political Science

Carlos Gustavo Halaburda, assistant professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Adrienne Brown, professor, Department of English Language and Literature and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Andreas Glaeser, professor, Department of Sociology

Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Angela S. García, associate professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Persis Berlekamp, associate professor, Department of Art History

Anirban Karak, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division

Steven Rings, associate professor, Department of Music

Anna Schultz, professor, Department of Music

Adom Getachew, professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and Department of Political Science

Leah Feldman, associate professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Nathan Katkin, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Ph.D. ’11, Department of Comparative Literature

Kyeong-Hee Choi, associate professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Alison James, professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Hakan Karateke, professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Leora Auslander, Joann and Arthur Rasmussen Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and Department of History

Ulrike Stark, professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Tara Zahra, Hanna Holborn Gray Professor, Department of History

Jonathan Hall, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Department of History and Department of Classics

Julia Henly, Samuel Deutsch Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Mark Miller, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Jacob Eyferth, associate professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Edward Shaughnessy, Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Josephine McDonagh, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Chair of the Development of the Novel in English Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Christina von Nolcken, associate professor emerita, Department of English Language and Literature

Marc Downie, associate professor of practice in the arts, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Thomas C. Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus, Department of History

Robin Bartram, associate professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice

Larry Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Justin Steinberg, professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dana Seitler, Ph.D. ’00, Department of English Language and Literature

Elaine Hadley, professor emerita, Department of English Language and Literature

Charles C. Bullock, alum, Department of Germanic Studies

Neil Brenner, Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology and Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization

Noémie Ndiaye, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Katherine Fischer Taylor, associate professor emerita, Department of 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, Department of Classics

Rashauna Johnson, associate professor, Department of History

Melinh Lai, assistant instructional professor, Department of Cognitive Science

Claudia Brittenham, professor, Department of Art History and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Margaret Thomas, assistant professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Paula Harper, assistant professor, Department of Music

Katherine Buse, assistant professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Kenneth Pomeranz, professor, Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Andrew Brandel, associate instructional professor, the College

Begona Arechabaleta Regulez, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Marie Berg, instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Kavi Bhalla, associate professor of public health sciences, Biological Sciences Division

Elizabeth Chatterjee, assistant professor, Department of History

Darrel Chia, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities and Department of English Language and Literature

Tessa Huttenlocher, assistant instructional professor, Department of Sociology

Julia Brown, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Society of Fellows

Brianna Parry, staff, Theater & Performance Studies

Eduardo Leão, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Eman Abdelhadi, assistant professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

Benjamin Ruder, manager of film and 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, Department of History

Anna Di Rienzo, professor emerita, Department of Human Genetics

Paola Iovene, associate professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Benjamin Saltzman, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Carolina López-Ruiz, professor, Department of Classics, Divinity School, and Insitute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Timothy M. Harrison, associate professor, Department of English, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, and Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science

Christopher Simon, associate instructional professor, Department of Classics

Marlis J. Saleh, bibliographer for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago Library

Sarah Fredericks, associate professor of environmental ethics, Divinity School, Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization, and the College

Elena Bashir, senior lecturer, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizaions, retired

Rachel Girty, writing and research advisor, Department of Creative Writing

Nick Nurre, writing specialist, Writing Program

Chad Broughton, instructional professor, Department of Public Policy

Max Smith, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences

Irena Čajková, instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Dana Glaser, Humanities teaching fellow, Department of English Language and Literature and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Bill Hutchison, assistant instructional professor, Writing Program

Srinivasan Vasudevan, assistant instructional professor, Department of Economics

Nell Pach, assistant instructional professor, Writing Program

Mandira Bhaduri, instructional professor of Bangla/Bengali, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Marissa Fenley, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate assistant professor, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Jennifer Cutilletta, adjunct faculty, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice

Samuel Catlin, Ph.D. ’22, postdoctoral teaching fellow ’22–23, Department of Comparative Literature

Leonardo Cabrini, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Linda Darling, Ph.D. ’90, Department of History

Mary Elena Wilhoit, associate instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences

Caine Jordan, teaching fellow, Department of History and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Dmitry Kondrashov, instructional professor, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division

Michelle Hoban, writing specialist, Writing Program

Helga Anetshofer, lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Elizabeth Fiedler, writing specialist, Writing Program

Peadar Kavanagh, Humanities teaching fellow, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Mickle Maher, lecturer, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Matt Hauske, Ph.D. ’15, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Michael Fisch, associate professor, Department of Anthropology

Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor, Department of Art History

Stephanie Soileau, assistant professor of practice, Department of English Language and Literature and Department of Creative Writing

Mark Baugher, associate instructional professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Jessica Landau, assistant instructional professor, Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization

Andrea Ray, teaching fellow, Committee on Social Thought

Matt Lang, senior editorial associate, University of Chicago Press

James León Weber, assistant instructional professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Elizabeth Helsinger, professor emerita, Department of English Language and Literature

Gabriela Zapata-Alma, lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Cameron Cocking; core writing advisor, Core Writing Program

Nada Petkovic, instructional professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

K. J. Hickerson, assistant instructional professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

Jared Berkowitz, assistant instructional professor, Department of Law, Letters, and Society

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Ph.D. ’85., Department of Anthropology

Jeffrey Wolf, lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature

Won Kyung Na, associate instructional professor in Korean language, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Christopher Kindell, assistant instructional professor, Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization

Margaret Olin, A.B. ’68, A.M. ’77, Ph.D. ’82, Department of English Language and Literature; Department of Art History

Maria Yakubovich, lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Christopher Gortmaker, teaching fellow in the Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature

Francis W. Hoeber, posthumous editor of the last work of professors emeritus Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph, no departmental affiliation

Bad Weiss, alum, Anthropology

Benjamin Yates, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Tien-Tien Jong Zhang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Jonah Radding, assistant instructional professor, Department of Classics

Peter Onyisi, A.B. ’03, Department of Physics

Jennifer Brosek, A.B., Department of Political Science; A.M., Committee on International Relations; former Ph.D. student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

David Clingingsmith, Ph.D. candidate, Department of South Asian Languages and Literatures

Kerry Boeye, Ph.D. ’10, Department of Art History

Rebecca Zorach, Ph.D. ’99, Department of Art History.

Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

Hussein Ali Agrama, associate professor, Department of Anthropology

Fred Kopp, lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies

David A. Peterson, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts in Computational Social Science

Adam Roth Singerman, A.M. ’14, Ph.D. ’18, Humanities Teaching Fellow 2018–20, Department of Linguistics

Aidan Kaplan, assistant instructional professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Hanna Pickwell, teaching fellow, Department of Anthropology

Angela Zito, Ph.D. ’89,  Depatement of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Christina Filippaki, teaching fellow in the Humanities, Department of Classics and the College

David Diamond, Ph.D. ’15, Department of English Language and Literature

Brad Weiss, Ph.D. ’92, Department of Anthropology

Michele Friedner, professor, Department of Comparative Human Development

Diana Schwartz Francisco, associate instructional professor, Department of History

Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Sara Nur Yıldız, Ph.D. alum, Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Katie Howe, Ph.D. ’19, Department of Philosophy

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, associate professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Daniel Suslak, Ph.D. ’05, Department of Anthropology, Department of Linguistics

Emilio Kourí, professor, Department of History

Matthew Peterson, Ph.D. ’24, Divinity School

Matthew W. Stolper, professor emeritus, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Thuto Thipe, assistant professor, Department of History

Glenn Hendler, visiting assistant professor ’99, Department of English Language and Literature

Hans Thomalla, Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Music, Department of Music

Damien Bright, assistant instructional professor, Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences

Dipesh Chakrabarty, professor, Department of History and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Alexander Cowan, assistant professor, Department of Music

Philip V. Bohlman, Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Kevin Barrett, lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Erika Supria Honisch, Ph.D. ’11, Department of Music

Florian Walch, Ph.D. ’23, Department of Music

Zachary Tavlin, lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division

David Grubbs, Ph.D. ’05, Department of English Language and Literature

Sarah Brailey, director of vocal studies, Department of Music

Jeffrey Harvey, Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics

Erol Koymen, Ph.D. ’22, Department of Music

Miku Fukasaku, associate instructional professor, Department of 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, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Ina Blom, Wigeland Visiting Professor, Department of Art History

Tommaso Sabbatini, Ph.D. ’20, Department of Music

Crystal Bae, assistant instructional professor of geographic information science, Division of the Social Sciences and the College

Matthew Kruer, associate professor, Department of History and Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity

John Leavitt, Ph.D. ’85, Department of Anthropology

Darlene Castro, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Music

Martha Feldman, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music

Colleen Grogan, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice

Tyler Zimmer, associate instructional professor and assistant director of undergraduate studies,  Department of Philosophy

Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Ph.D. ’94, Department of English Language and Literature

Will Ardery, writing specialist, Writing Program

Prachi Sanghavi, associate professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

Matthew W. Stolper, John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Department of Art History

Crystal Beiersdorfer, lecturer, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and Department of Media Arts and Design

Cass Turner, Ph.D. ’18, Department of English Language and Literature

Shannon Lee Dawdy, professor, Department of Anthropology

Nick Turner, lecturer, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel, A.B. ’14, Department of History

Kari Watson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Music

Marie Satya McDonough, Ph.D. ’11, Department of English Language and Literature

Olga Sánchez, instructional associate professor, Department of Music

Darya Tsymbalyuk, assistant professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Kikù Hibino, bibliographic assistant, University of Chicago Library

Aren Wilson-Wright, assistant instructional professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Alex Kale, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and Data Science Institute

John Wilkinson, professor emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature

Edgar Garcia, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature

Anne Rogers, associate professor, Department of Computer Science

Gabriel Richardson Lear, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization, Department of Philosophy and John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

Gil J. Stein, professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

David Schloen, John A. Wilson Professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Jeffrey Stackert, Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible, Divinity School and Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Petra Goedegebbure, associate professor of Hittitology, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Kathryn Bandy, lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Esmael Haddadian, instructional professor, Biological Sciences Collegiate Division

Hervé Reculeau, associate professor of Assyriology, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Elaine Fisher, A.M. ’07, A.B. ’05, Divinity School, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Theo van den Hout, Arthur Rasmussen Professor Emeritus of Hittite and Anatolian Languages, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Ari Almog, senior instructional professor of modern Hebrew studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Blase Ur, associate professor, Department of Computer Science

Sophia Alkhoury, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics

Stacy Hackner, A.B. ’10, Department of Anthropology

Isabella Spagnuolo, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

Austin O’Malley, assistant professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Julianne Grasso, Ph.D. ’20, Department of Music

Timothy Ng, assistant instructional professor, Department of Computer Science

Patrick Fitzgibbon, Ph.D. ’24, Department of Music

Kelly Holob, assistant director of fellowships, Divinity School and UChicagoGRAD

Nathan Friedman, Ph.D. candidate, Department of 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, Department of 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, professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Olga Solovieva, academic affiliate, Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Edward L. Shaughnessy, Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Susan Burns, professor and chair, Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Donald Harper, Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Rachel Hyeryeong Bahng, assistant instructional professor in Korean, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Xiaorong Wang, associate instructional professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Anne Marie Smith, writing specialist, Writing Program