Student Leadership Opportunities
The Division of the Humanities at UChicago offers graduate students the opportunity to develop leadership skills, which can be critical for personal and professional development, through a myriad of activities and programming. While many departments have ways for students to get involved within their specific department, there are three main opportunities for students to become connected from a divisional standpoint.
Dean’s Student Advisory Board
This advisory committee serves as a voice for Humanities students to provide input and suggestions regarding policies and procedures within the Division directly to the Dean of the Division, Anne Walters Robertson. Meetings are held once per quarter typically in Weeks 4 or 5, and representatives are selected first by an application process and if needed, then requested by individual departments.
Dean’s Student Advisory Board 2020-2021
Doctoral Students
Jenny Harris; Art History
Ritika Kaushik; Cinema & Media Studies
Laura Bevilacqua; Classics
Ido Telem; Comparative Literature
Joseph Haydt; Germanic Studies
Brianna Wilson; Linguistics
Patrick Dittamo; Music
Cagdas Acar; Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Amy Levine; Philosophy
Thomaz Amancio; Romance Languages & Literatures
Sthira Bhattacharya; South Asian Languages & Civilizations
Stepan Atamian; TAPS/Germanic Studies
Dean’s Student Advisory Board 2020-2021
MA/MFA Students
Lily Sadowsky; CMES
Yuexin Chen; DIGS
Ifeoma Abara; DIGS
Alana Ferguson; DoVA
Xinyi Song; MAPH
Michael Beit; MAPH
Michelle Chow; MAPH
Asya Sagnak; MAPH
Adrian Ray Avalani; MAPH
Tara Guillaume; MAPH
Humanities Division Graduate Student Council
The Humanities Division Graduate Student Council (HDGSC) represents students in the Division of the Humanities, allocates funds provided by the Student Activity fee, and fosters intradepartmental, as well as interdepartmental and divisional, activities. Each department or committee in the Division of the Humanities will designate one representative to the HDGSC, and these representatives collectively form the HDGSC. The HDGSC will name officers to lead meetings, budgetary review, and communication.
2020-2021 representatives:
President
Jon Bullock, Music
bullockj@uchicago.edu
Vice President
Catie Witt, NELC
cwitt@uchicago.edu
The Graduate Council
The Graduate Council is the representative student government for graduate students and focuses on building community across graduate divisions, helping students get the funding they need to further their academic and professional pursuits, and working with administrators to improve graduate student life. Additional information about the Graduate Council can be found here.
Academic Year Representatives:
Aimee Gonzalez; aimeegonzalez@uchicago.edu
Arshy Azizi, arshyazizi@uchicago.edu
Mariah Bender, mbender1@uchicago.edu
Matthew Hewett; mhewett@uchicago.edu
Natalie Farrell; farrelln@uchicago.edu
Zhengyuan Ling, lingz@uchicago.edu