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This list of University of Chicago faculty contains administrators, long-term faculty members, and temporary academic staffs of the University of Chicago.The long-term faculty members consists of tenure/tenure-track and equivalent academic positions, while that of temporary academic staffs consists of lecturers (without tenure), postdoctoral researchers, visiting professors or scholars ...
David Nirenberg served as the inaugural faculty director of the Neubauer Collegium from 2012 to 2014. [13] Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, was named Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in October, 2014. [14]
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side , near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop .
Michael Silverstein (12 September 1945 – 17 July 2020) [2] was an American linguist who served as the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. [3] He was a theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology.
isac.uchicago.edu The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures , West Asia & North Africa ( ISAC ; formerly the Oriental Institute ), established in 1919, is the University of Chicago 's interdisciplinary research center for ancient Near Eastern studies and archaeology museum .
Russell Howard Tuttle (born August 18, 1939) is a distinguished primate morphologist, [1] [2] paleoanthropologist, and a four-field (linguistics, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and biological anthropology) trained Anthropologist. [3]
A distinguished Semiticist and a member of the Baptist clergy, Chicago's first university president William Rainey Harper believed that a great research university ought to have as one central occupation the scholarly study of religion, to prepare scholars for careers in teaching and research, and ministers for service to the church.
The Department of Education, begun in 1922, offers classes, lectures, field trips, museum overnights and special events for families, adults and children. [123] The Field has adopted production of the YouTube channel The Brain Scoop , hiring its host Emily Graslie full-time as 'Chief Curiosity Correspondent'.