Current Social Thought Faculty

Gabriel Richardson Lear

Chair of the Committee on Social Thought, Professor of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought

Office: Stuart 214
Phone: (773) 702-5078

Spring 2023 office hours: Thursdays 10 am - 12 pm, Foster 308.


Joel Isaac

Associate Professor of Social Thought and History

Office: Foster 315
Phone: (773) 702-8496

Spring 2023 office hours: Mondays 9 am - 10 am; Tuesdays 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm


Jonathan Levy

Professor of US History, Fundamentals, Social Thought, and the College

Office: Social Sciences Research 504
Phone: (773) 702-8369

Associate Faculty Member, Law School; Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; Faculty Chair, Law, Letters, and Society; Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, the College.

Winter 2023 office hours: Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm.

       

Glenn W. Most

Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Classics

Spring 2023 Office hours: Wednesdays 2 pm - 4 pm. Foster 302.


Mark Payne

Chester D. Tripp Professor in Comparative Literature, Classics, and the Committee on Social Thought

Professor of Classics, Social Thought, and the College

Office: Walker 309
Phone: (773) 702-2516

Spring 2023 office hours: Please request an appointment.


Robert B. Pippin

Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College

Office: Foster 307
Phone: (773) 702-5453

Spring 2023 office hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30, by appointment. 


Jennifer Pitts

Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought

Office: Pick Hall 518B
Phone: (773) 702-8868

Spring 2023 office hours: Mondays 1:30 - 3:30 pm. 


Andrei Pop

Director of Graduate Studies for the Committee on Social Thought, Allan and Jean Frumkin Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and in the College

Office: Foster 317
Phone: (773) 702-8410

Will be on  leave AY 2022-2023.


Haun Saussy

University Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College

Office: Wieboldt 412
Phone: 773-702-4803

Spring 2023 office hours: Wednesdays 9 am -12 pm, in Wieboldt 412.

(No office hours frin April 20th to May 20th)


Laura Slatkin

Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought

Office: Foster 301
Phone: (773) 702-8408

Out of residence Winter 2023. Office hours by appointment, via Zoom.


Nathan Tarcov

Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Social Thought and Political Science and in the College

Office: Foster 316
Phone: (773) 702-8064

Spring 2023 office hours: Mondays 3 pm - 4 pm. 


Rosanna Warren

The Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, and the College

Office: Foster 301
Phone: (773) 702-8408

Spring 2023 office hours: By Appointment Only. 


David Wellbery

LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of Germanic Studies, Social Thought, and in the College

Office: Wieboldt 410
Phone: (773) 702-8494

Spring 2023 office hours: Mondays 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm (Wieboldt 410) or by appointment. 


Emeritus Faculty


Wendy Doniger

Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the History of Religions; Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College


Ralph Lerner

Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of Social Thought and in the College

Office: Harper West Tower 603
Phone: (773) 702-7933

Request appointments via email.


Jean-Luc Marion

Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, and Professor in Social Thought and Philosophy

Office: Swift 300A
Phone: (773) 702-8244

Professeur émérite at the Université Paris-IV (Sorbonne), Department of Philosophy.

Out of residence Spring 2022.   

Thomas Pavel

Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and Creative Writing

Office: Wieboldt 409C
Phone: (773) 702-8485


James M. Redfield

Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literatures, of Social Thought, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and in the College

Request appointments via email.


David Tracy

Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religions, and in the Committee on Social Thought


Visiting Faculty


Visiting Scholars


Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellows


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