Directors of Undergraduate Studies and Directors of Language Programs (2024-2025)

Directors of Undergraduate Studies

Department/Program: African American and African Diaspora Studies
Director: Farah Griffin
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: American Studies
Director: Robert Amdur, Hilary Hallett
Email: [email protected]
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Department/Program: Anthropology
Director: Maria José de Abreu
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Archaeology
Director: Hannah Chazin
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Architecture
Director: Karen Fairbanks
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Art History and Archaeology
Director: Barry Bergdoll
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Astronomy
Director: Frederik Paerels
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Biological Sciences
Director: Alice Heicklen
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Business Management
Director: Jocelyn McArthur
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Chemistry
Director: Vesna Gasperov
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Classics and Ancient Studies
Director: Nikolas Kakkoufa
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Cognitive Science
Director: Brendan Fleig-Goldstein
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Comparative Literature and Society
Director: Tadas Bugnevicius
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Computer Science
Director: Jae Woo Lee
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Creative Writing
Director: Shane McCrae (Fall 2024) Hilary J. Leichter (Spring 2025)
Email: [email protected]
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Department/Program: Dance
Director: Seth Williams
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Drama and Theatre Arts
Director: Alice Reagan
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Director: Terry Plank Joerg Schaefer
Email: [email protected]
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Department/Program: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Director: Lu Kou
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Director: Matthew Palmer
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Economics
Director: Susan Elmes
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Education
Director: Maria Rivera Maulucci
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: English and Comparative Literature
Director: Nicholas Dames
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Ethnicity and Race Studies
Director: Bahia Munem
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species
Director: Jill Shapiro
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Film and Media Studies
Director: Robert King
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: French and French & Francophone Studies
Director: Aubrey Gabel
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Germanic Languages
Director: Annie Pfeifer
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Hellenic Studies (Modern Greek Studies)
Director: Nikolas Kakkoufa
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: History
Director: Paul Chamberlin
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Human Rights
Director: Glenn Mitoma
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Italian
Director: Konstantina Zanou
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Jewish Studies
Director: Isabelle Levy
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Director: Victoria Murillo
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Director: Lee Abraham
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Linguistics
Director: Meredith Landman
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Mathematics
Director: Julien Dubedat
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Medical Humanities
Director: Tadas Bugnevicius
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Director: Susan Boynton
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Department/Program: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Director: Hamid Dabashi
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Music
Director: Aaron Fox
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Music Performance Program
Director: Magdalena Stern-Baczewska
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Neuroscience and Behavior
Director: Christopher Baldassano, Sarah DeMoya, Alfredo Spagna
Email: [email protected]
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Department/Program: Philosophy
Director: Wolfgang Mann
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Physical Education
Director: Jeffrey Ryder
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Physics
Director: Jeremy Dodd
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Department/Program: Political Science
Director: Shigeo Hirano
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Psychology
Director: Christopher Baldassano Katherine Fox-Glassman Patricia Lindemann
Email: [email protected]
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Department/Program: Public Health
Director: Dana March Palmer
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Regional Studies
Director: Adam Leeds
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Religion
Director: Yannik Thiem
Email: [email protected]

Department/Program: Slavic Languages
Director: Adam Leeds
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Department/Program: Sociology
Director: Teresa Sharpe
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Department/Program: Statistics
Director: Ronald Neath
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Department/Program: Sustainable Development
Director: Leah Aronowsky Joerg Schaefer
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Department/Program: Urban Studies
Director: Barnard College: Aaron Passell, Columbia College: Amy Chazkel
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Department/Program: Visual Arts
Director: Sable Elyse Smith
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Department/Program: Women’s and Gender Studies
Director: Elizabeth Povinelli
Email: [email protected]

Directors of Language Programs

Language Program: African Languages
Director: Mariame Sy
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Ancient Greek
Director: Nikolas Kakkoufa
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Arabic
Director: Taoufik Ben Amor
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Armenian
Director: Charry Karamanoukian
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Catalan
Director: Elsa Úbeda
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Chinese
Director: Zhirong Wang
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Dutch
Director: Wijnie de Groot
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Language Program: French
Director: Pascale Hubert-Leibler
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: German
Director: Jutta Schmiers-Heller
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Hebrew
Director: Naama Harel
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Hindi/Urdu
Director: Rakesh Ranjan
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Italian
Director: Federica Franze (Elementary Italian), Patrizia Palumbo (Intermediate Italian)
Email: [email protected]
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Language Program: Japanese
Director: Kyoko Matsui Loetscher
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Korean
Director: Joowon Suh
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Latin
Director: Nikolas Kakkoufa
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Modern Greek
Director: Nikolas Kakkoufa
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Persian
Director: Saeed Honarmand
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Portuguese
Director: José Antonio Castellanos-Pazos
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Russian
Director: Marina Tsylina
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Sanskrit
Director: Jay Ramesh
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Spanish
Director: Francisca Aguiló-Mora, Lee Abraham
Email: [email protected]
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Language Program: Tamil
Director: Jay Ramesh
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Tibetan
Director: Sonam Tsering
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Turkish
Director: Zuleyha Colak
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Vietnamese
Director: Chung Nguyen
Email: [email protected]

Language Program: Yiddish
Director: Agnieszka Legutko
Email: [email protected]