FACULTY ADVISORS
Faculty Advisors of the Leadership & Society Initiative are eminent scholars committed to harnessing the University’s intellectual resources to positively impact the world. Advisors serve as critical thought leaders and guides for LSI’s curriculum and pedagogy.
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Robert Chaskin
McCormick Foundation Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Junhong Chen
Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory, Molecular Engineering
Elisabeth Clemens
William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology
Harry L. Davis
Roger L. and Rachel M. Goetz Distinguished Service Professor of Creative Management, Founding Director of the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership, Booth School of Business
Oeindrila Dube
Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris School of Public Policy
Laura Gagliardi
Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor in the Department of Chemistry, the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the James Franck Institute, Chemistry, Physical Sciences
Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science
Rocky Kolb
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physical Sciences
Jens Ludwig
Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, Co-Director of the Education Lab, Harris School of Public Policy
Doriane Miller
Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Community Health and Vitality, UChicago Medicine
Kenneth Polonsky
Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine
Dana L. Suskind
Founder and Co-Director of TMW Center for Early Learning, Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program Public Health, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Public Policy
Linda Waite
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology
Kenneth Warren
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies; Director, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
Laurie Zoloth
Professor of Religion and Ethics, Senior Advisor to the Provost for Programs on Social Ethics