Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences; coastal communities of the U.S, Caribbean, and Mexico; archival, ethnographic, and archeological methods to examine how landscapes and material objects mediate human relationships.

Joseph Masco,

Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; conceptual effects of the technological revolution.

Stephan Palmié,

Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Afro-Caribbean cultures (particularly religious formations).

Christine Mehring, Professor of Art History; Contemporary art, Post-WWII art and architecture.

Katherine Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Art History; history of architecture and urbanism in Western Europe and the U.S.

Jacqueline Stewart, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. 

Micere Keels, Associate Professor; Race-ethnicity; poverty; integration of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Richard Shweder William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development; Pluralism and the multicultural challenge in Western liberal democracies

Harold Pollack Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration; Faculty Chair, the Center for Health Administration Studies; Co-Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab Poverty policy and public health

Richard Rosengarten Associate Professor of Religion and Literature; Genres of narrative (especially the novel); Hermeneutics, literary theory, and aesthetics; religious thought through the “long” 18th-century

James Lastra Associate Professor; Surrealism both in Europe and in the United States; Silent film comedy; American experimental film; Luis Buñuel

W.J.T. Mitchell Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of English, Art History, and Visual Arts; Visual Culture and Iconography; Critical Race Studies; History of Ideas; Marxism; 18th- and 20th-Century British Literature

John Muse Associate Professor of English & Theater and Performance Studies; Committee on Theater and Performance Studies; Modern and contemporary drama and literature

Deborah Nelson Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English; Late 20^th-century U.S culture and politics; American literature; gender and sexuality; photography; Cold War history.

Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy Professor of English & Race, Politics, and Culture; Modern American poetry, literature and visual art; global and transnational literature; Contemporary Asian American writing

Lawrence Rothfield Associate Professor; Departments of English and Comparative Literature;  Cultural Policy Center Literature and epistemic and political struggles; Cultural policy studies; Politics of taste; 19th-century European fiction

Eric Slauter Associate Professor; Early American cultural, intellectual, and literary history; Legal history; History of political thought; Book history; Visual and material culture studies; Quantitative analysis; History of slavery, abolition, and emancipation; Atlantic history

William Veder, Professor of English; American literature; psychoanalysis; gender theory

Kenneth Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of English, Race, Politics, and Culture; American literature; political and social change; politics of race; form and genre

William Howell Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics; Co-Director, Program on Political Institutions; Professor, Department of Political Science and the CollegeSeparation-of-powers issues and American political institutions

Leora Auslander Professor; European Social History; Founding Director of the Center for Gender Studies; Professor, Committee on Jewish Studies 19th- and 20th-century European Social and Cultural History; Material Culture and the Built Environment; Culture and Politics; Jewish History; Gender History and Theory; Colonial and Post-colonial Europe

Paul Cheney Assistant Professor; The Atlantic World; History of Political Thought; and Early Modern Capitalism; French History; The Enlightenment; French Revolution

Jane Dailey Associate Professor; Modern United States social and political history; African American history; the American South; Legal history

Ramon A. Gutierrez Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor in United States History; Chicano History; Race and Ethnicity in American Life; Chicano/Latino Studies; Indian-White Relations in the Americas; Social and Economic History of the Southwest; Colonial Latin America; Mexican Immigration

Emilio Kouri Professor; Modern Mexico; Social and economic history of Latin America; Agrarian studies; History of ideas; Cuba and the Spanish Caribbean; US Latino history

Julie Saville Associate Professor;  United States History; African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative Slavery and Emancipations

James T. Sparrow Assistant Professor;  Modern United States political and social history; War and society; Social science and the state; Technology; History and new media

Amy Dru Stanley Professor; Nineteenth-century United States; slavery and emancipation; capitalism and political economy; legal and gender; cultural, social, and human rights

Christine Stansell Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History; Women’s and gender history; Antebellum U.S. social and political history; American cultural history; History of human rights and post-catastrophic societies

Richard Helmholz Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law; Natural resources law; Legal history; Roman and canon laws to the development of the common law

Dennis J. Hutchinson William Rainey Harper Professor in the College; Constitutional law; Elements; Legal history

Alison LaCroix Assistant Professor of Law, The Law School Legal history; Federalism; Constitutional law; Federal jurisdiction; Law and literature

Eric Posner Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law; International law; Immigration law; Foreign relations law

Geoffrey Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law; Constitutional law

David Strauss Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law; Constitutional law

Salikoko Mufwene Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics; The Committee on Evolutionary Biology; The Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science Morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of Gullah, African-American Vernacular English, Jamaican Creole, and English

Alan C.L. Yu Associate Professor of Linguistics; Language documentation and revitalization in North America; Native American linguistics; Phonological theory; Speech perception and production; Historical linguistics

Berthold Hoeckner Associate Professor of Music; 19th and 20th-Century music; Aesthetics; Adorno; Music and literature; Film music and visual culture; Psychology and neuroscience of music

Travis A. Jackson Associate Professor of Music; Ethnomusicology; Jazz

Shulamit Ran Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music Composition

Paula Harper Assistant Professor of Music; Virality, digital platforms, media and mediation, circulation, sound studies, gender, fandom

James Conant Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities and the College;  Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Aesthetics; German Idealism; and History of Analytic Philosophy

Michael Dawson John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science; African American political behavior, identity, and public opinion; Political effects of urban poverty; African American political ideology

Mark Hansen Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science; Legislative Politics; Interest Group Politics; Rational Choice Models

Patchen Markell Associate Professor of Political Science; Modern European and American political thought and philosophy; Democratic theory; Critiques of capitalism; Classical political thought and its modern receptions

Eric Oliver Professor of Political Science; Contemporary American politics; Suburban and racial politics; Political psychology; Politics of science

John Padgett Professor of Political Science; American Politics; Organizational Theory; Mathematical Models; Co-Evolution of States and Markets

Gerald Rosenberg Associate Professor of Political Science; Lecturer, The Law School American Politics; Public Law; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Nathan Tarcov Professor of Political Science; History of political theory; Education and family in political theory; Principles of U.S. foreign policy

Mark Payne Associate Professor, the Committee on Social Thought, Department of Classics; The culture of North American plains Indians; Pastoral poetry; Ancient and modern lyric poetry; Poetry of ancient Greece and modern Europe

Robert Pippin Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy; Political philosophy; Theories of self-consciousness; Nature of conceptual change; the problem of freedom