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Established
  
2012

Founded
  
2012

Founder
  
David Nirenberg

Phone
  
+1 773-795-2329

Location
  
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave Chicago, Illinois 60637 United States

Website
  
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu

Address
  
5701 South Woodlawn Avenue, 5701 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States

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The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society is an educational center located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

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History

The Neubauer Collegium was established in June 2012. It was founded with a gift of $26.5-million from Joseph Neubauer, former CEO and chairman of Aramark Corporation, and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, founder of the Philadelphia marketing and communications firm, J.P. Lerman & Company. A second major gift came from Emmanuel Roman, CEO of the Man Group and a University of Chicago graduate in whose honor the head of the Collegium is named the Roman Family Director.

The inaugural cohort of 18 faculty research projects were announced in March 2013 and represent faculty from 17 departments, as well as the Chicago Booth School of Business, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Oriental Institute.

Campus

The collegium occupies an historic 16,000 sq. ft. Collegiate Gothic style building erected in 1933 as the home of the Meadville Lombard Theological School, adjacent to the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park which was purchased by the University in 2011 and was renovated by Kliment Halsband Architects.

Leadership

Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, was named Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in October, 2014.

An advisory board comprising faculty from across the University works closely with the director. Members of the advisory board are:

  • Frances Ferguson, Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
  • Susan Goldin-Meadow, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development
  • John Goldsmith, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics
  • John Mark Hansen, Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor, Political Science and the College; Senior Advisor to President Zimmer
  • Karin Knorr Cetina, George Wells Beadle Chair Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology
  • Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor,University of Chicago Law School and Professor, Pritzker School of Medicine
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor, Modern Chinese History and the College; Department Chair, History
  • Robert J. Richards, Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor in the History of Science; Professor in the Department of Medicine, Philosophy, History, Psychology; the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; Director, Fishbein Center for History of Science
  • Anne Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College; Chair, Department of Music
  • David N. Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Cinema and Media Studies and the College
  • Mark Siegler, Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery; Executive Director, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence; Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics


    • Past members of the advisory board have included:

  • Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
  • Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Klimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Lorraine Daston, Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History
  • Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, the College
  • David Levin, Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College; Director, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry
  • Haun Saussy, University Professor in Comparative Literature, and the College
  • Candace Vogler, David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy and the College; Chair, Philosophy

    • References

    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society Wikipedia
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