Executive Committee
Humanities Institute Executive Committee
2022-23 Committee Members
Henry Berlin
Term: August 2022-25
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Laura Chiesa
Term: January 2023-26
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
Neil Coffee
Term: January 2023-26
Professor, Classics
Mishuana Goeman
Term: August 2022-25
Professor and Chair, Indigenous Studies
Matthew Kenyon
Term: January 2023-26
Associate Professor, Art
Ariel Nereson
Term: January 2023-26
Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
Sasha Pack
Term: January 2022-25
Professor of History
Ex officio Members
Elizabeth Otto
Director, UB Humanities Institute and Professor, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Christina Milletti
Executive Director, UB Humanities Institute and Associate Professor, English
Past Members
(listed in reverse chronological order by term)
August 2021-2024
- Karin Michelson, Professor, Linguistics (abbreviated term)
January 2020-23
- John Opera, Assistant Professor, Art
- Katja Praznik, Associate Professor, Arts Management
August 2019-22
January 2019- May 2022
- Ruth Mack, Associate Professor, English
August 2018-21
- James Currie, Associate Professor, Music
- Hal Langfur, Associate Professor, History
January 2019-21 [two year term]
- Camilo Trumper, Associate Professor, History
August 2017-20
- Jaume Franquesa, Associate Professor, Anthropology
- Hershini Young, Associate Professor, English [departed UB 2018]
January 2017-20
- Krzysztof Ziarek, Professor, Comparative Literature
August 2016-19
- Martha Malamud, Professor, Classics
- Stephanie Rothenberg, Professor, Art
January 2016-19
- Erin Hatton, Associate Professor, Sociology
- Tamara Thornton, Professor, History
August 2015-18
- Jonathan Golove, Associate Professor, Music
- Marion Werner, Associate Professor, Geography
August 2014-17
- Rachel Ablow, Professor, English [abbreviated term ending August 2016]
- David Schmid, Associate Professor, English
- Gwynn Thomas, Associate Professor, Transnational Studies
August 2013-16
- Amy Graves-Monroe, Associate Professor, RLL
- Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor, Philosophy
- Justin Read, Associate Professor, RLL
- Teri Rueb, Professor, Media Study
January 2013-16
- Carl Nightingale, Professor, Transnational Studies
August 2012-15
- Carolyn Higbie, Professor, Classics
- Ewa Ziarek, Professor, Comparative Literature
August 2011-14
- Randy Schiff, Associate Professor, English
- Vasiliki Neofotistos, Associate Professor, Anthropology
- John Dugan, Associate Professor, Classics
