The members of the Governing Board are faculty members from various departments in the Humanities Division, as well as from a department in the Social Sciences.

Jonathan Hall, Phyllis F. Horton Professor in the Humanities; Chairman, Department of Classics; Professor, Department of History, and the College

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor in Romance Languages & Literatures and the College, Chair of the Project Towards a New Americas Studies

Richard Neer, Professor of Art History and the College

Deborah Nelson, Associate Professor of English and the College, Director of Center for Gender Studies

Christine Stansell, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History and the College

William Wimsatt, Peter B. Ritzma Professor, Department of Philosophy, Committees on Evolution Biology, Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, and the College

Lawrence Zbikowski, Associate Professor of Music