The FHI Advisory Board meets three times yearly to provide expertise, counsel, and ideas for the operations and programs of the Institute.
Updated December 2021
Anne Allison
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Paul A. Baker
Professor of Earth & Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of Environment (Co-Director, Amazon Lab)
Saskia Cornes
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Franklin Humanities Institute
Program Director, Duke Campus Farm
Roberto Dainotto
Professor of Romance Studies, Literature, & International Comparative Studies
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies
Wesley Hogan
Research Professor, Franklin Humanities Institute
Tsitsi Jaji
Associate Professor of English
Deborah Jakubs
University Librarian
Shambhavi Kaul
Associate Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Jennifer Knust
Professor of Religious Studies (Co-Director, Manuscript Migration Lab)
Jocelyn Olcott
Professor of History; International and Comparative Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (GSF); Chair, GSF
Richard J. Powell
John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History (Co-Director, From Slavery to Freedom Lab)
Henry Pickford
Associate Professor of German & Philosophy
Julianne Werlin
Bacca Foundation Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Culture and Society, Department of English
Ex Officio
William Johnson
Dean of Humanities; Professor of Classical Studies