IFK Core Faculty members hail from across the University, bringing a wide range of viewpoints and scholarly pursuits to the teaching, research, and conversation of the institute. Core Faculty members are central to supporting IFK’s goals of investigating all aspects of the processes by which cultures lay claim to knowledge, and bringing these conversations about the past, present, and future of human knowledge into the public dialog. As such, Core Faculty members serve as important leaders in the development of this new initiative, and ambassadors for the Institute, across the University, and to the larger community. Core Faculty members are chosen on the basis of their intellectual interest in the formation of knowledge, and membership provides opportunities to participate in the intellectual life of the Institute as we work together to push the boundaries of the future of knowledge itself.

Erin Adams
Joseph Regenstein Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Committees on Immunology, Cancer Biology; Principal Investigator, MyChoice Program
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Clifford Ando
David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor; Professor of Classics, History and Law
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Niall Atkinson
Associate Professor of Art History, Romance Languages and Literature, and the College Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Urban History
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Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies; Director, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge
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Karin Knorr Cetina
Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology; Chair, the Department of Sociology
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Simeon Chavel
Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Divinity School, Faculty in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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Adam Cifu MD
Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean for Medical School Academics, Pritzker School of Medicine
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Shannon Lee Dawdy
Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College; Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Jaś Elsner
Visiting Professor of Art and Religion; Associate Faculty, Department of Art History
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James Evans
Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director of Masters Program in Computational Social Science
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Sarah E. Fredericks
Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics; also in the College; Affiliated faculty member of the The Program on the Global Environment and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
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Anastasia Giannakidou
Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics; Director, Center for Hellenic Studies; Co-Director, Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language
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Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law; Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and Professor of Political Science
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Michael Greenstone
The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School; Director of the Becker Friedman Institute; Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC)
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Lars Peter Hansen
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Statistics
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Joel Timothy Isaac
Associate Professor of Social Thought and History at the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
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Thomas Lamarre
Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
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Dario Maestripieri
Professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, and Neurobiology
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Rochona Majumdar
Associate Professor, Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, and South Asian Languages and Civilizations
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James Osborne
Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology, the Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Rama Ranganathan
Joseph Regenstein Professor and Director, The Center for the Physics of Evolving Systems, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Institute for Molecular Engineering
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Robert J. Richards
Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
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Michael Rossi
Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the College
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Benoît Roux
Amgen Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
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Haun Saussy
University Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College
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Bozena Shallcross
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Gary Tubb
Anupama and Guru Ramakrishnan Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations; Department Chair
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Rebecca Willet
Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Director of AI at the Data Science Institute
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