Meet the Faculty Fourcasters

The Fourcasters are a transdisciplinary collective at the University of Chicago. We are working on problems related to possible futures and the SPORE device.

Seth Richardson

Managing Editor of The Journal of Near Eastern Studies and Associate

Kimberly Hoang

Associate Professor Director of Global Studies

Jason Riggle

Associate Professor, Director of Language Modeling Lab, Department of Linguistcs and Humanities Collegiate Division

James Evans

Professor; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Science; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Heidi Coleman

Senior Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies

David Archer

Professor of Geophysical Sciences

Sarah Johnson

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English Language and Literature

Sarah Fredericks

Assistant Professor of Environmental Ethics, The Divinity School

Pedro Lopes

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Sabina Shaikh

Senior Lecturer of Environmental & Urban Studies and Director of the Program on Global Environment

Mark Templeton

Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic

James T. Sparrow

Associate Professor of History and the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division

Christopher Wild

Professor of Germanic Studies and Theater & Performance Studies, and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division

John Boyer

Dean of The College and Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History

Ashlyn Sparrow

Assistant Director of the Weston Game Lab

Benjamin Morgan

Associate Professor of English Language and Literature

Kristen Schilt

Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Tracye Mathews

Executive Director of Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Catherine Kearns

Assistant Professor of Classics

Issa Lampe

Director of the Feitler Center, Smart Museum

Kara Keeling

Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies

Bonnie Kanter

Student Affairs Administrator a The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

Ryan Jobson

Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology

Marc Downie

Lecturer in Cinema and Media Studies

Shannon Dawdy

Professor of Anthropology

Bill Brown

Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor of American Culture in English Language and Literature

Patrick Jagoda

Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and English Language and Literature, and Director of the Weston Game Lab

Greg Dwyer

Associate Professor Department of Ecology & Evolution

Eve Ewing

Assistant Professor of School of Social Service Administration

Edwin Kite

Assistant Professor of Geophysical Sciences

Mai Vukcevich

Assistant Director of The Franke Institute for the Humanities

Melissa Gilliam, MD

Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice and Vice Provost

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Edgar Garcia

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature

Elise Larose

Advisor in The College and Director of the Mellon Mays Program

Julie Marie Lemon

Director and Curator of the Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative

Desiree Foerster

Visiting Scholar in Department of Cinema and Media Studies

Leila Brammer

Director Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse

Alison Gass

Dana Feitler Director, Smart Museum