Directors of Undergraduate Studies and Directors of Language Programs (2025-2026)

Directors of Undergraduate Studies
Department/Program	Director	Email
African American and African Diaspora Studies	Kellie Jones	kej2110@columbia.edu
American Studies	Robert Amdur Jeremy Dauber	rla2@columbia.edu jad213@columbia.edu
Anthropology	Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Fall 2025) Maria José de Abreu (Spring 2026)	nhb2115@columbia.edu md3605@columbia.edu
Archaeology	Hannah Chazin	hc2986@columbia.edu
Architecture	Karen Fairbanks	kfairbanks@barnard.edu
Art History and Archaeology	Branden Joseph	bwj4@columbia.edu
Astronomy	Frederik Paerels	fbp4@columbia.edu
Biological Sciences	Alice Heicklen	ah2289@columbia.edu
Business Management	Jocelyn McArthur	MendelsonCenter@gsb.columbia.edu
Chemistry	Vesna Gasperov	vg2231@columbia.edu
Classics and Ancient Studies	Nikolas Kakkoufa	nk2776@columbia.edu
Cognitive Science	Elif Duman	ead2145@columbia.edu
Comparative Literature and Society	Madeleine Dobie	mld2027@columbia.edu
Computer Science	Jae Woo Lee	jwl3@columbia.edu
Creative Writing	Hilary Leichter	hg2488@columbia.edu
Dance	Seth Williams	ssw2131@columbia.edu
Drama and Theatre Arts	Alice Reagan	areagan@barnard.edu
Earth and Environmental Sciences	Terry Plank Joerg Schaefer	tap3@columbia.edu jms2003@columbia.edu
East Asian Languages and Cultures	Lu Kou	lk2950@columbia.edu
Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology	Matthew Palmer	mp2434@columbia.edu
Economics	Susan Elmes	se5@columbia.edu
Education	Maria Rivera Maulucci	mriveram@barnard.edu
English and Comparative Literature	Erik Gray	eg2155@columbia.edu
Ethnicity and Race Studies	Michael Witgen	mw3528@columbia.edu
Evolutionary Biology of the Human Species	Jill Shapiro	jss19@columbia.edu
Film and Media Studies	Robert King	rk2704@columbia.edu
French and French & Francophone Studies	Joanna Stalnaker	jrs2052@columbia.edu
Germanic Languages	Annie Pfeifer	ap750@columbia.edu
Hellenic Studies (Modern Greek Studies)	Nikolas Kakkoufa	nk2776@columbia.edu
History	Stephanie McCurry	sm4041@columbia.edu
Human Rights	Glenn Mitoma	gtm2136@columbia.edu
Italian	Pier Mattia Tommasino	pmt2114@columbia.edu
Jewish Studies	Isabelle Levy	icl2001@columbia.edu
Latin American and Caribbean Studies	Eduardo Moncada	emoncada@barnard.edu
Latin American and Iberian Cultures	Lee Abraham	lba2133@columbia.edu
Linguistics	Meredith Landman	ml4263@columbia.edu
Mathematics	Julien Dubedat	jd2653@columbia.edu
Medical Humanities	Madeleine Dobie	mld2027@columbia.edu
Medieval and Renaissance Studies	Susan Boynton	slb184@columbia.edu
Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies	Debashree Mukherjee	dm3154@columbia.edu
Music	Aaron Fox	aaf19@columbia.edu
Music Performance Program	Magdalena Stern-Baczewska	mb3713@columbia.edu
Neuroscience and Behavior	Christopher Baldassano Sarah DeMoya	cab2304@columbia.edu sed2182@columbia.edu
Philosophy	David Albert	da5@columbia.edu
Physical Education	Jeffrey Ryder	jr3786@columbia.edu
Physics	Jeremy Dodd	jrd4@columbia.edu
Political Science	Shigeo Hirano	sh145@columbia.edu
Psychology	Katherine Fox-Glassman Patricia Lindemann [on leave Spring 2026]	kjt2111@columbia.edu pgl2@columbia.edu
Public Health	Dana March Palmer	dm2025@columbia.edu
Regional Studies	Liza Knapp	lk2180@columbia.edu
Religion	Courtney Bender	cb337@columbia.edu
Slavic Languages	Liza Knapp	lk2180@columbia.edu
Sociology	Teresa Sharpe	ts2785@columbia.edu
Statistics	Daniel Rabinowitz	dr105@columbia.edu
Sustainable Development	Leah Aronowsky Joerg Schaefer	la2438@columbia.edu jms2003@columbia.edu
Urban Studies	Aaron Passell	apassell@barnard.edu
Visual Arts	Naeem Mohaiemen	nm2678@columbia.edu
Women’s and Gender Studies	Elizabeth Povinelli (Fall 2025) Lila Abu-Lughod (Spring 2026)	ep2122@columbia.edu la310@columbia.edu

Directors of Language Programs
Language Program	Director	Email
African Languages	Mariame Sy	sms2168@columbia.edu
Ancient Greek	Nikolas Kakkoufa	nk2776@columbia.edu
Arabic	Taoufik Ben Amor	tb46@columbia.edu
Armenian	Charry Karamanoukian	ck2444@columbia.edu
Catalan	Elsa Úbeda	eu2130@columbia.edu
Chinese	Zhirong Wang	zw30@columbia.edu
Dutch	Wijnie de Groot	wed23@columbia.edu
French	Pascale Hubert-Leibler	ph2028@columbia.edu
German	Jutta Schmiers-Heller	js2331@columbia.edu
Hebrew	Naama Harel	nh2508@columbia.edu
Hindi/Urdu	Rakesh Ranjan	rr2574@columbia.edu
Italian	Federica Franze (Elementary Italian) Patrizia Palumbo (Intermediate Italian)	ff2157@columbia.edu pp4@columbia.edu
Japanese	Kyoko Matsui Loetscher	kml2168@columbia.edu
Korean	Joowon Suh	js604@columbia.edu
Latin	Nikolas Kakkoufa	nk2776@columbia.edu
Modern Greek	Nikolas Kakkoufa	nk2776@columbia.edu
Persian	Saeed Honarmand	sh3468@columbia.edu
Portuguese	João Nemi Neto	jn2395@columbia.edu
Russian	Marina Tsylina	mt3750@columbia.edu
Sanskrit	Jay Ramesh	jr3203@columbia.edu
Spanish	Francisca Aguiló-Mora	fa2443@columbia.edu
Tamil	Jay Ramesh	jr3203@columbia.edu
Tibetan	Sonam Tsering	st2931@columbia.edu
Turkish	Zuleyha Colak	zc2208@columbia.edu
Vietnamese	Chung Nguyen	cn2496@columbia.edu
Yiddish	Agnieszka Legutko	abl2109@columbia.edu