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
Winter 2023 office hours: Wednesdays 10 am - 12 pm, Foster 308.
Lorraine Daston
Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History
Winter 2023 office hours: By appointment and via Zoom
Timothy Harrison
Associate Professor of English and Social Thought
Rosenwald 428
Winter 2023 office hours: By Appointment.
Joel Isaac
Associate Professor of Social Thought and History
Office: Foster 315
Phone: (773) 702-8496
Winter 2023 office hours: Mondays 11 am - 12 pm; Wednesday 4:30-5:30 pm
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
Out of residence Spring 2022.
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 at the University of Chicago
Winter 2023 office hours: Please Request an Appointment.
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.
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.
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 emeritus 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.
Spring 2022 office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays after 1:30pm, by appointment.
Glenn W. Most
Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Classics
Out of Residence Winter 2023. Office hours: By appointment and via Zoom
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: Classics 24
Phone: (773) 702-2516
Winter 2022 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
Winter 2023 office hours: Wednesday 3:30-4:30 pm. By appointment.
Jennifer Pitts
Professor of Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought
Office: Pick Hall 518B
Phone: (773) 702-8868
Winter 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
Winter 2023 office hours: Wednesdays 10:30 am -12 pm, via Zoom.
Zoom Room: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/5758810830; Password: 909055
Email Prof. Saussy if he is not online on Zoom during office hours.
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
Winter 2023 office hours: Please Request an Appointment via Email.
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
Winter 2023 office hours: Tuesday 4-5 pm., Wednesday 3-5 pm, and by appointment.
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
Winter 2023 office hours: Monday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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.
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