Chairs and Directors

Graham Bader
Graham Bader

Associate Professor of Art History; Chair, Department of Art History; Director, Humanities Research Center


Lisa Balabanlilar
Lisa Balabanlilar

Chair, Department of Transnational Asian Studies; T.T. and W.F. Chao Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies; Associate Professor, Department of History


Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Martin Blumenthal-Barby

Professor of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures; Co-Director, Cinema and Media Studies

Carl Caldwell
Peter C. Caldwell

Samuel G. McCann Professor of History; Director, Program in Politics, Law and Social Thought


Joseph Campana
Joseph Campana

Alan Dugald McKillop Professor of English; Department of English; Director, Center for Environmental Studies


Nathan Citino
Nathan Citino

Chair, Department of History Barbara Kirkland Chiles Professor of History

Leo Costello
Leo Costello

Associate Professor, Art History and Co-Director, Program in Museum and Cultural Heritage


Jacqueline Couti
Jacqueline Couti

Laurence H. Favrot Professor; Chair, Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures


Sophie Crawford-Brown
Sophie Crawford-Brown

Assistant Professor of Art History; Director, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations Program; Courtesy Faculty, Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures

Jeffrey Fleisher
Jeffrey Fleisher

Professor; Department Chair, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences; Director, Center for African and African American Studies


Matthias Henze
Matthias Henze

Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Department of Religion; Director, Program in Jewish Studies


Cymene Howe
Cymene Howe

Professor, Anthropology; Co-Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies

Robert Howell
Robert Howell

Chair, Department of Philosophy; Professor of Philosophy


Maya Soifer Irish
Maya Soifer Irish

Associate Professor of History; Director, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Jewish Studies


Christina Keefe
Christina Keefe

Director, Rice Program in Theatre; Professor in the Practice

Molly Morgan
Molly Morgan

Lecturer, Anthropology; Co-Director, Program in Museums and Cultural Heritage


Brian Ogren
Brian Ogren

Chair, Department of Religion; Professor of Judaic Studies


Lida Oukaderova  Associate Professor of Art History
Lida Oukaderova

Associate Professor of Art History; Co-Director, Program in Cinema and Media Studies

Elizabeth Petrick
Elizabeth Petrick

Associate Professor of History; Co-Director, Program in Science and Technology Studies


Alexander Regier
Alexander Regier

Chair, Department of English; Professor of English; Professor of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures


Helade Santos
Helade Santos

Director of Language Instruction, Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication; Teaching Professor, Portuguese and Spanish

John Sparagana
John Sparagana

Grace Christian Vietti Chair of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Professor of Painting and Drawing, Chair, Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts


Diana Strassmann
Diana Strassmann

Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Humanities; Director, Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities


Lora Wildenthal
Lora Wildenthal

John Antony Weir Professor of History; Director, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Politics, Law and Social Thought

David Worth
David Worth

Director, George R. Brown Forensics Society; Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities