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.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College

Michael Forster, Professor of Philosophy and the College

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

Lawrence Zbikowski, Associate Professor of Music