New Faculty Fall 2024
Ramakrishnan Professorship to Support Study of Sanskrit
As the University of Chicago prepares to celebrate two major anniversaries in South Asian studies, a new gift will help to ensure UChicago’s continued leadership in the study of the Indian subcontinent. The Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professorship in Sanskrit Studies, established by a $3.5 million gift from Guru and Anupama Ramakrishnan, supports a faculty member whose work focuses on the ancient classical language. Gary Tubb, professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations and faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Delhi, will be the first scholar to hold the new position.
Lindsay Gift to Establish Booth Professorship and Humanities Fellowships
A $5 million gift from Bruce C. Lindsay, MBA’65, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay will endow fellowships for graduate students in the Division of the Humanities and establish the first professorship in economics and public policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Philosopher Candace Vogler on Virtue, Happiness and the Meaning of Life
In an unassuming office on the fourth floor of Wieboldt Hall, Prof. Candace Vogler is working to answer some of the most vexing problems of human existence: Why are some people happy, and others not? What makes life good and meaningful?
Exhibit Features Archival Images of Persepolis
A new exhibition at the Oriental Institute will give visitors a rare glimpse inside the ancient city of Persepolis. “Persepolis: Images of an Empire,” which opens Oct. 13, includes archival photographs and a new multimedia presentation that document an astounding imperial complex of palaces constructed by the Persian kings Darius, Xerxes and Artaxerxes I and III, who ruled between 522 and 338 B.C. in present-day southwest Iran.
