School Committees

The SHASS Faculty Diversity Committee is tasked with maintaining and advancing the school’s diversity efforts.

Chair: Heather Paxson
Faculty: Patricia Tang
Faculty: Elizabeth Wood
Staff: Carly Soll

Gender Equity Committee

The Gender Equity Committee works with the Associate Dean for Faculty to advise the dean on the promotion of gender equity (and equity more broadly) across SHASS, including recommendations on talent acquisition, retention, and opportunities for advancement. The SHASS co-chairs also meet periodically with the Gender Equity co-chairs from other schools across the Institute.

Co-chair: David Pesetsky
Co-chair: TL Taylor
Ex officio: Heather Paxson
Staff: Carly Soll

The Burchard Scholars Program brings together distinguished faculty and MIT sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, or social sciences. Faculty and students meet throughout the year for dinner seminars that reflect the range of inquiry and research in SHASS.

Chair: Charles Shadle
Faculty: Ian Ball
Senior lecturer: Liana Ewald
Faculty: Mariya Grinberg
Faculty: Noel Jackson
Faculty: Marjoleine Kars
Faculty: Matthias Michel
Faculty: Eli Nelson
Staff: Chanh Phan

Education Innovation Fund Selection Committee

The Education Innovation Fund (EIF) is part of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC). The EIF is intended to support new educational approaches in SHASS fields.

Co-chair: Eric Klopfer
Co-chair: Emily Richmond Pollock
Faculty: Devin Caughey
Faculty: Paloma Duong
Faculty: Robin Scheffler
Lecturer: Joaquin Terrones
Lecturer: Michael Trice
Student: TBD
Student: TBD
Staff: Chanh Phan

Extended Lecturer Council

The Extended Lecturer Council brings together teaching staff representatives in Music and Theater Arts, Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and Global Languages to share information and exchange ideas.

Lecturer: Tony Chen
Senior lecturer: Liana Ewald
Lecturer: A.C. Kemp
Senior Lecturer: Teresa Neff
Lecturer: Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze
Senior Lecturer: Ken Urban

The de Florez Fund Committee funds humorous projects and events proposed by students, faculty, and staff at MIT. The committee also seeks out collaborations and brainstorms about ways to stir up humor around campus.

Chair: Kieran Setiya
Senior lecturer: Eva Dessein
Senior lecturer: Teresa Neff
Faculty: Benjamin Mangrum
Staff: Chanh Phan

Humanities Cultivation Fund Committee

The Humanities Cultivation Fund is part of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC). It supports projects led by people from Humanities or Arts focused on a humanistic topic with broad impact.

Co-chair: Arthur Bahr
Co-chair: Anne McCants
Faculty: Eden Medina
Faculty: Leslie Tilley
Faculty: Per Urlaub
Staff: TBD

Internal Faculty Fellows Program Committee

Chair: Anne McCants
Faculty: Arthur Bahr
Faculty: TBD
Faculty: TBD
Faculty: TBD
Staff: TBD

SHASS Awards Selection Committee

The SHASS Awards Selection Committee selects awardees for the Dean’s Grants program and decides the winner of the Levitan Research Prize.

Chair: Anne McCants
Faculty: Per Urlaub
Faculty: Richard Nielsen
Lecturer: Amy Carleton
Staff: TBD

SHASS+ Connectivity Fund Selection Committee

The SHASS+ Connectivity Fund is part of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC). The fund is designed to support research that builds bridges between SHASS fields and other fields at MIT. Five faculty members from SHASS are joined by five members drawn from across the Institute.

Co-chair: David Kaiser (SHASS)
Co-chair: Maria Yang (School of Engineering)
Faculty: Will Deringer (SHASS)
Faculty: Noah Nathan (SHASS)
Faculty: Emma Teng (SHASS)
Faculty: Esther Duflo (SHASS)
Faculty: Eran Egozy (SHASS)
Faculty: Catherine D’Ignazio (School of Architecture and Planning)
Faculty: Rohit Karnik (School of Engineering)
Faculty: Wanda Orlikowski (Sloan School of Management)
Faculty: Jessika Trancik (Schwarzman College of Computing)
Faculty: Jeremiah Johnson (School of Science)