The Division of the Humanities at UChicago offers graduate students the opportunity to develop leadership skills, which can be critical for personal and professional development, through a myriad of activities and programming. While many departments have ways for students to get involved within their specific department, there are three main opportunities for students to become connected from a divisional standpoint.

Dean’s Student Advisory Board/Humanities Division Graduate Student Council

This advisory council serves as a voice for Humanities students to provide input and suggestions regarding policies and procedures within the Division directly to the Dean of the Division, Debbie Nelson and is responsible for the allocation of the Student Services Fee for student/academic programming within departments. Meetings are held once per quarter and representatives are selected by an application process and/or the individual departments.

PhD Students 2024-2025
Zahra Syed, ARTH
Jiyoon Kim, CMS
Isabella Spagnuolo, CLAS
Yunning Zhang, CMPLT
Xueyan Lv, EALC
Erika Barrios, ENGL
Tyler Lutz, ENGL
Nicholas Andes, GRMN
Lucas Fagen, LING
Taela Dudley, LING
Yousef Aly, MES
Hiro Choi, MUSI
Pramantha Tagore, MUSI
Braeden Giaconi, PHL
Abhiraj Singh, PHL
Khouloud Gargouri, RLL/TAPS
Chana Toth-Sewell, SLL
Mercy Dutta, SALC
Aishwarya Kothare, SALC
Catrin Dowd, TAPS

MA/MFA Students, 2024-2025
Eleanor Cunningham, MAPH
Cindy Kuai, DIGS
Raymond Chen, DIGS
Runfeng Wang, DIGS
Fateme Tavakoli, CMES
Yelnura Tynysbekova, CMES
Rebekka Federle-McCabe, DOVA

Humanities Division Graduate Student Council, 2024-2025
Christian Borgen, MES, President

Hugo Ljungbaeck, CMST, Vice-President

The Graduate Council

The Graduate Council is the representative student government for graduate students and focuses on building community across graduate divisions, helping students get the funding they need to further their academic and professional pursuits, and working with administrators to improve graduate student life. Additional information about the Graduate Council can be found here.

Academic Year Representatives 2024-2025:

Giovanni Minicucci, VP of Community Initiatives, RLL