Tomie Arai, artist
Siona Benjamin, artist
Laurence Bergreen, bestselling author. Mr. Bergreen generously gifted funds that enabled us to establish the Magellan Prize in the Humanities, awarded each year to a student who excels in the Humanities Program (2004-08)
Andrew Boyd, Brother Void performance artist
Tony Church, Shakespearean actor
Rachael Blau DuPlessis, literary critic
Robert Fagles, Homer translator
Eric Foner, U.S. Historian
Peter Galison, historian of science & physics
Boris Gasparov, linguistics scholar
John Gennari, historian of modern culture and jazz
Amit Goswamy, physicist and Indian philosopher
Mei Ling Hom, artist
David Kastan, Shakespearean scholar
Uma Krishnamurti, psychologist and classical Indian dancer
Kathryn Kueny, scholar of Islam
Donald Kuspit, art critic
Miguel Luciano, artist and teacher at le Puente Latino Cultural
Center, NYC
Ranko Markovic, pianist
Joseph Marolis, philosopher
Maria Rosa Menocal, literary critic
Nicholas Mohr, fiction writer
Pauline Oliveros, composer
Colin A. Palmer, historian
Burton Pike, literary critic
Robert Pinsky, U.S. poet laureate
Ramya Ramnarayan, choreographer and classical Indian dancer
Arnold Rampersad, Langston Hughes and Jackie Robinson biographer
Nancy Reisch, Clara Schumann biographer
Christopher Ricks, literary critic
Robert Rosenblum, art historian
Rakesh Sharma, filmmaker
Robert Thurman, scholar-practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism
Lucette Valensi, Middle East historian
Jonathan Walters, historian of religions
The Humanities Program has also co-sponsored numerous speakers, field trips, and events on campus with departments across the disciplines