Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies
Columbia University
Nadia Urbinati is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions.
Professor of French
Columbia University
Philip Watts' research and teaching focus on 20th-century French literature and film and the relation between politics and aesthetics.
Professor of Anthropology
Barnard College
Paige West, Professor of Anthropology, joined the faculty at Barnard College and Columbia University in 2001, the year after earning her Ph.D. in cultural and environmental anthropology at Rutgers University. She is currently the chair of the Barnard College Department of Anthropology.
President
American Council of Learned Societies
Pauline Yu became president of the American Council of Learned Societies in July 2003, having served as dean of humanities in the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of East Asian languages and cultures from 1994-2003.
