The MIT College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) has introduced a number of adjustments to the management of its tutorial items for the 2024-25 tutorial 12 months.
“I’m assured these excellent members of the SHASS group will present distinctive management. I’m excited to see every implement their imaginative and prescient for the way forward for their unit,” says Agustin Rayo, the Kenan Sahin Dean of MIT SHASS.
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Christine Walley will function head of the Anthropology Part. Walley is the SHASS Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. She obtained a PhD in anthropology from New York College in 1999. Her first ethnography, “Tough Waters: Nature and Growth in an East African Marine Park,” explored environmental battle in rural Tanzania.
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Seth Mnookin will function head of the Comparative Media Research Program/Writing. Mnookin is a longtime journalist and science author and was a 2019-20 Guggenheim Fellow. He graduated from Harvard Faculty in 1994 with a level in historical past and science, and was a 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy College of Authorities. Mnookin will proceed in his function as director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing.
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Kieran Setiya will function head of the Division of Linguistics and Philosophy. Setiya is a professor of philosophy and is head of the philosophy part. He works primarily in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of thoughts. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from Princeton College in 2002.
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Within the Literature Part, affiliate professors Sandy Alexendre and Stephanie Frampton will function co-heads. Alexandre’s analysis spans the late nineteenth century to present-day Black American literature and tradition. She obtained a PhD in English language and literature from the College of Virginia in 2006. Frampton can also be co-chair of the Program in Historical and Medieval Research. She obtained a PhD from Harvard College in comparative literature in 2011.
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Jay Scheib will function head of the Music and Theater Arts Part. Scheib is Class of 1949 Professor of Music and Theater Arts. He obtained an MFA in theater directing from the Columbia College College of the Arts. He’s a recipient of the MIT Edgerton Award, the Richard Sherwood Award, a Nationwide Endowment for the Arts/TCG fellowship, an OBIE Award for Greatest Path, and the distinguished Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Within the Program in Science, Expertise, and Society, Kate Brown will function head. Brown is the Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in Historical past of Science. Her analysis pursuits illuminate the purpose the place historical past, science, expertise and bio-politics converge to create large-scale disasters and modernist wastelands. Brown will publish “Tiny Gardens In all places: A Kaleidoscopic Historical past of the Meals Sovereignty Frontier” in 2025 with W.W. Norton & Co. Brown has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Basis, the Carnegie Basis, the European College Institute, The Kennan Institute, Harvard’s Davis Heart for Russian and Eurasian Research, and the U.S. Holocaust Museum. She obtained her PhD in historical past from the College of Washington at Seattle.
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Within the Program in Girls’s and Gender Research, Sana Aiyar will function interim head. Aiyar is an affiliate professor of historical past, and is a historian of recent South Asia. She obtained her PhD from Harvard College in 2009 and held an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins College in 2009-10.
