Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is the executive organ presiding over all of the activities of the PhD. It is interdepartmental and composed of members of the Department of Comparative Humanities as well as representatives appointed by the supporting departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The departments that are currently represented on the Steering Committee are Classical and Modern Languages, Comparative Humanities, English, Fine Arts, History, Philosophy, Theatre Arts, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Pamela Beattie
Chair and Associate Professor, Comparative Humanities
Simona Bertacco
Professor, Comparative Humanities
Ying Kit Chan
Professor, Fine Arts
John Gibson
Professor, Philosophy
Alan Golding
Professor, English
Ann C. Hall
Professor, Comparative Humanities
Greg Hutcheson
Associate Professor, Classical and Modern Languages
Brandon McCormack
Associate Professor, Pan-African Studies and Comparative Humanities
Director, Ann Braden Institute for Social Justice Research
Maryam Moazzen
Associate Professor, Comparative Humanities
Ranen Omer-Sherman
Professor, Comparative Humanities
Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies
Janna Segal
Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts
Mary P. Sheridan
Professor, English
Director, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society
Karl Swinehart
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Comparative Humanities
Nancy Theriot
Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Jennifer Westerfeld
Associate Professor, History