The Steering Committee advises the Director and promotes the aims of the Institute within the University of Chicago and further afield.

Neil Brenner

Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology

Brian Callender, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Karin Knorr Cetina

Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology; Chair, the Department of Sociology

James Evans

Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director of Masters Program in Computational Social Science

James Obsorne

Assistant Professor of Anatolian Archaeology, the Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Director

Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies