The 2003-2006 Mellon Project at the University of Chicago

New Perspectives on the Disciplines: Comparative Studies in Higher Education

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation


SEMINAR STEERING COMMITTEE

Bill Brown
Pullman Professor, English Language & Literature, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College

Margot Browning
Associate Director, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division

Dipesh Chakrabarty
Professor and Co-Chairman, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

James Chandler
Franke Professor, English Language & Literature, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College; Director, the Franke Institute for the Humanities

Jennifer Cole
Assistant Professor, Committee on Human Development

Jean Comaroff
Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology, Committee on African & African-American Studies, and the College

John Comaroff
Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Committee on African & African-American Studies, and the College; Chair, Board of University Publications

Arnold Davidson
Professor, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Divinity School, Committee on the Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science, and the College; Executive Editor, Critical Inquiry

Amy Hollywood
Professor, Theology and the History of Christianity, Divinity School

Bruce Lincoln
Haskell Professor, Divinity School, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Committees on the History of Culture and the Ancient Mediterranean World

Sheldon Pollock
Bobrinskoy Professor, South Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

Moishe Postone
Assoicate Professor, History, Committee on Jewish Studies, Social Sciences Collegiate Division and the College

John Tresch
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Robin Valenza
Assistant Professor, English Language & Literature

Lisa Wedeen
Assistant Professor, Political Science and the College

David Wellbery
LeRoy T. & Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Department of Germanic Studies and the College

This Seminar is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Coordinated by: 
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
phone: 773-702-8274
email: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu

Webmaster: Rachel Drew
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