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
Chair of the Committee on Social Thought.
Lorraine Daston
Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History
Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Hans Joas
Visiting Professor of Sociology and Social Thought
Office: Foster 309
Phone: (773) 702-8413
Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Gabriel Richardson Lear
Professor of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought
Office: Stuart 214
Phone: (773) 702-5078
On leave 2019-20.
Jonathan Lear
John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College
Office: Foster 503
Phone: (773) 702-8407
Roman Family Director, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, The University of Chicago
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
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.
Heinrich Meier
Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought
Office: Foster 309
Phone: (773) 834-1090
h.meier@carl-friedrich-von-siemens-stiftung.de
Director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich, and permanent Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Glenn W. Most
Visiting Professor of Social Thought and of Classics
Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
David Nirenberg
Dean of The Divinity School and the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of History, The Divinity School, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and the College
Office: Swift 101
Phone: (773) 702-8221
Thomas Pavel
Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, the Committee on Social Thought, Fundamentals, and Creative Writing
Office: Wieboldt 409C
Phone: (773) 702-8485
Mark Payne
Professor of Classics, Social Thought, and the College
Office: Classics 24
Phone: (773) 702-2516
Jennifer Pitts
Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought
Office: Pick Hall 518B
Phone: (773) 702-8868
Andrei Pop
Associate Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Art History, and in the College
Office: Foster 317
Phone: (773) 702-8410
Haun Saussy
University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Social Thought, and the College
Office: Wieboldt 412
Phone: 773-702-4803
Laura Slatkin
Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought
Office: Foster 301
Phone: (773) 702-8408
Nathan Tarcov
Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Social Thought and Political Science and in the College
Office: Foster 316
Phone: (773) 702-8064
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
David Wellbery
LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor of German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Social Thought and in the College
Office: Wieboldt 404
Phone: (773) 702-2372
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
Retired in 2003; still teaching.
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
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