The Division of the Arts & 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/Arts & Humanities Division Graduate Student Council

This advisory council serves as a voice for Arts & Humanities students to provide input and suggestions regarding policies and procedures within the Division directly to the Dean of the Division, Debbie Nelson and is responsible for the allocation of the Student Services Fee for student/academic programming within departments. Meetings are held once per quarter and representatives are selected by an application process and/or the individual departments.

PhD Students 2025-2026
Jessie Alperin, ARTH
Cole Gruber, ARTH
Isabella Spagnuolo, CLAS
Nathan Katkin, CLAS
Richard Ciolek, CLAS
Neil Spadafora, CMPLT
Wafa Asher Syed, CMPLT
Miao Wang, CMS
Amber Fehrs, CMS
Feifan Li, EALC
Frances Pool-Crane, ENGL
Tyler Lutz, ENGL
Alicia Badea, GRMN 
Summer Xia, LING
Joseph Harris, MES
Anthony Ray, MES
Yousef Aly, MES
Katharina Krause, MES
Alejandro Cueto, MUSI/TAPS
Catrin Dowd, MUSI/TAPS
Gray Reichl, PHL
Enya Calibuso, RLL
Quentin Vaganay, RLL
Catherine Nelli, SLAC
Sohini Sengupta, SALC
Anna Kaluher, SLL 

MA/MFA Students, 2025-2026
Yelnura Tynysbekova, CMES
Franklin Zhang, DIGS
Clio Luo, DIGS
Franklin Wang, DIGS
Raymond Chen, DIGS
Juan Palacios, DoVA
Nathan Holder, DoVA
Ramsey Aziz, MAPH
Amanda Sukenick, MAPH 
Isabel Wheat, MAPH 

Arts & Humanities Division Graduate Student Council, 2025-2026
Christian Borgen, MES, President

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 2025-2026

TBD