MAPSS Executive Committee
The MAPSS program is a teaching unit of the Graduate Division of the Social Sciences, whose deans and departmental chairs play an active role in supporting the mission of the program. The actual teaching faculty of the MAPSS Program encompasses the entire roster of the Social Science Division professors and deans from the other Divisions and professional schools The Executive Committee comprises University faculty with a special interest in MAPSS. Committee members work with the MAPSS director in establishing program goals and procedures, as well as consulting on admissions and aid.
DIRECTOR
John J. MacAloon (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1980). Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Division of the Social Sciences. History of Social and Cultural Theory; International Non-Governmental Organizations; Cultural Performance Theory; History and Anthropology of the Olympic Games.ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Betty G. Farrell (Ph.D. Harvard, 1982). Senior Lecturer, Graduate Division of the Social Sciences and Public Policy Studies Program in the College. Historical and contemporary U.S. Family Patterns; Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture and Public Policy.EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Ralph A. Austen (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1966). Professor, Department of History, Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities, and the College. African Economic History; Comparative Slavery and Slave Trade; Colonialism and Imperialism; African Literature; Witchcraft.Dipesh Chakrabarty (Ph.D. Australian National University, 1984). Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, South Asian History, and the College; Chair of South Asian Languages and Literatures. Social and Cultural History of South Asia; Critical Theory; Post-Colonial Studies.
Elisabeth Clemens (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1990). Associate Professor of Sociology and the College. Organizational Analysis; Institutional Theory; American Political Development and Social Movements.
Bertram Cohler (Ph.D. Harvard, 1967). William Rainey Harper Professor, Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Divinity School, Committees on Human Development and Interdisciplinary Studies. Developmental Psychopathology; Family and Personality Development.
Jean Comaroff (Ph.D. London School of Economics, 1974). Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology, Committees on African & African-American Studies and the College; Member, Morris Fishbein Center. History of Science & Medicine; Director, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. Sociocultural Anthropology, History, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Ritual, Medicine, The Body, Neoliberalism, Crime, Policing and Public Order; Southern Africa.
Michael P. Conzen, (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972). Professor and Chairman, Committee on Geographical Studies, Professor in the College. Urban Geography
Raymond D. Fogelson (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1962). Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Committee on Human Development. Social Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Primitivism, Religion, Tourism, Museums; Native North America.
Morris Fred (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1975; J.D. University of Chicago, 1997). Professorial Lecturer, Graduate Division of the Social Sciences. Disability, Law, Museums, Sweden and China.
Rachel Fulton (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1994). Associate Professor of Medieval History. History of Christianity; Medieval European Cultural, Social, and Religious History; Medieval Liturgy; the Cult of the Virgin Mary; Scriptural Exegesis and Hermeneutics.
Susan Goldin-Meadow, (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1975). Irving B. Harris Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Committee on Human Development, and the College. Developmental Psychology; Longitudinal Study of Processes in Language Acquisition; Gestural Communication in Deaf and Hearing Children; Gesture and Speech as Reflection of "Readiness" to Learn.
Gary Herrigel, (Ph.D. MIT, 1990). Associate Professor of Political Science. Comparative Politics, with an emphasis on Europe, the United States, and Japan; Social Theory; Economic Sociology; and Economic Geography.
Alan Kolata, (Ph.D. Harvard, 1978). Chair, Department of Anthropology; Neukom Family Professor, Department of Anthropology and the College. Archaeology and Ethnohistory; Preindustrial Urbanism; Development of Agricultural Systems; Human-Environment Interactions; Anthropology of Development; Andes, Mesoamerica; Southeast Asia.
Bruce Lincoln, (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1976). Caroline E. Haskell Professor, Divinity School, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Committees on the History of Culture and the Ancient Mediterranean World; Associate Member, Departments of Anthropology and Classical Languages and Literature; Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion as Relating to Discourse, Practice, Power, Conflict, and the Construction of Social Borders; Pre-Christian Europe; Pre-Islamic Iran; African, Melanesian, and Native American Traditions.
Martha McClintock (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1974). David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology, Committee on Human Development, and the College; Director, Institute of Mind and Biology. Behavioral Endocrinology of Reproduction in Animals and Humans; Behavioral Psychological, and Social Regulation of Physiology; Evolution and Development of the Interaction between Hormones and Behavior.
Omar McRoberts, (Ph.D. Harvard, 2000). Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the College. Sociology of Religion, Urban Poverty, Race and Collective Action; Ethnographic Study of Religious Life.
Howard Nusbaum, (Ph.D. SUNY University of Buffalo, 1981). Chair, Department of Psychology; Professor, Department of Psychology, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, and the College. Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Speech Perception and Processing; the Role of Learning and Attention in Language Processing; Computational Models of Speech Perception; Human Factors Research on Speech Technology.
Lloyd I. Rudolph (Ph.D. Harvard, 1956). Professor. Emeritus, Department of Political Science and the College. Chair of the South Asian Studies Concentration in the College; Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and State Formation in South Asia.
Anne Terry Straus, (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1976). Professorial Lecturer, Graduate Division of the Social Sciences. Anthropology of Native Americans.
Richard P. Taub, (Ph.D. Harvard, 1966). Chairman, Department of Comparative Human Development; Paul Klapper Professor, Social Sciences, College; Professor, Sociology, Human Development, and the College. Urban Communities, Rural Communities, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, and Indian (India) Studies.
