Advisory Committee

Courtney Bender, Associate Professor of Religion

Sarah Cole, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Romance Philology and of Philosophy

Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights

Karen Barkey, Professor of Sociology

Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities

Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and Director of the Institute of African Studies

Nicholas B. Dirks, Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History

Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History

Lydia Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor of the Humanities

Claudio Lomnitz, William B. Ransford Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies and former chair of the Department of Religion