Three faculty join humanities center executive committee

The Center for the Humanities welcomes three new members to its executive committee for the 2023–24 academic year. All have been involved in center activities through its Faculty Fellowship program or Redefining Doctoral Education in the Humanities (RDE) initiative. Their three-year terms will conclude in 2026.

Joining the executive committee are: 

  • Marlon Bailey, professor of African and African American studies and of women, gender and sexuality studies;
  • Heather Berg, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies; and 
  • Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, assistant professor of history.
New additions to the humanities center executive committee (left to right): Marlon Bailey, professor of African and African American studies and of women, gender and sexuality studies; Heather Berg, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies; and Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, assistant professor of history.

The Center for the Humanities Executive Committee is comprised of nine tenure-track and tenured faculty members from across the humanities, who serve in an advisory capacity to the center’s director, providing expertise, counsel and ideas for the development of the center. Members also constitute the selection committees for grants, fellowships and internal competitions administered by the center. Committee members are appointed to three-year terms by the director; at the end of each academic year, three members rotate off and three rotate on. 

Cycling off the committee this spring are Joanna Dee Das, assistant professor of dance; Danielle Dutton, associate professor of creative writing; and Corinna Treitel, professor of history.

Continuing on the committee are Patrick Burke, associate professor of music; Jonathan Fenderson, associate professor of African and African American studies; and Ila Sheren, associate professor of art history and archaeology (through 2024); and Diana Montaño, associate professor of history; Casey O’Callaghan, professor of philosophy; and Jessica Rosenfeld, associate professor of English (through 2025).