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Lorraine Daston

Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and History

Office Hours: By appointment.

Office: Foster 315

Lorraine Daston is Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Permanent Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Ber...

Timothy Harrison

Associate Professor of English and in the Committee on Social Thought

Office Hours: By appointment.

Office: Rosenwald 428

harrisont@uchicago.edu

MAILING ADDRESSDepartment of English1115 E. 58th StreetChicago, IL 60637ABOUTTimothy M. HarrisonMy work examines the conditions that enabled the liter...

Joel Isaac

Interim Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Committee on Social Thought, Associate Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and History

Office Hours:

Mondays 11am - 12pm

Tuesdays 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Office: Foster 301

Phone: (773) 702-8496

jisaac@uchicago.edu

MAILING ADDRESSJohn U. Nef Committee on Social Thought1130 East 59th StreetChicago, IL 60637ABOUTI am an historian of philosophy and the social scienc...

Hans Joas

Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought

Office: Foster 309

Phone: (773) 702-8413

hjoas@uchicago.edu

ABOUTHans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and, for over twenty years, has also be...

Irad Kimhi

Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought

Office: Foster 309

ikimhi@uchicago.edu

MAILING ADDRESSJohn U. Nef Committee on Social Thought1130 East 59th StreetChicago, IL 60637ABOUTIrad Kimhi’s interest and expertise range across vari...

Gabriel Richardson Lear

Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization in Philosophy and in the Committee on Social Thought

Office Hours: By appointment.

Office: Foster 308

Phone: (773) 702-5078

grlear@uchicago.edu

MAILING ADDRESSDepartment of Philosophy 1115 E. 58th StreetChicago, IL 60637ABOUTGabriel Richardson Lear works on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. ...

Jonathan Lear

John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, Philosophy, and in the College

Office Hours: Thursday: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Office: Foster 503

Phone: (773) 702-8407

jlear@uchicago.edu

ABOUTJonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy. His work...

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

MAILING ADDRESSCommittee on Social Thought1130 E. 59th St.Chicago, IL 60637ABOUTHeinrich Meier is Director emeritus of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens ...

Glenn W. Most

Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Classics

Office Hours: Tuesdays 10am-12pm or by appointment.

Office: Foster 302

gmost@uchicago.edu

CVABOUTGlenn W. Most was until 2020 Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and remains a regular Visiting Professor on ...

Mark Payne

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

Office Hours: By appointment.

Office: Walker 309

Phone: (773) 702-2516

mpayne@uchicago.edu

ABOUTWithin Greek and Roman literature, I have worked on lyric and didactic poetry, comedy, and Hellenistic poetry. More broadly, I am interested in a...

Robert B. Pippin

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

Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4:30 pm

Office: Foster 307

Phone: (773) 702-5453

rbp1@uchicago.edu

WebsiteCVMAILING ADDRESS1130 East 59th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637ABOUTRobert Pippin works primarily on the modern German philosophical tradition, w...

Jennifer Pitts

Professor of Political Science and in the Committee on Social Thought

Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 pm – 3 pm

Office: Pick Hall 404

Phone: (773) 702-8868

jpitts@uchicago.edu

WebsiteCVMAILING ADDRESSPick Hall 518B5828 S University AveChicago, IL 60637ABOUTJennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Science and the Committee on...