Provost Advisory Committees

The Provost's Advisory Committee on the Libraries is the structural mechanism by which ongoing collaboration between the Libraries, the faculty, and the Provost occurs. It was established by then-Provost Jonathan Cole in 1997 but it had not met in recent years. In the 2015 academic year, the Committee was reinstated by Provost John Coatsworth following the recommendations of an external and internal review of the University Libraries.  

Members of the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Libraries serve the University by "reviewing the current state of the Libraries; reviewing proposed actions needed to be taken to improve upon the current situation; helping to formulate policy related to libraries and academic information systems; discussing the types of investments the University should make; and acting as a communications conduit between the Libraries and the academic units that it serves."

The Provost relies on the Committee to provide faculty input and guidance to ensure that the Libraries are as responsive as possible to the needs and aspirations of Columbia's schools and departments and their faculties. The Provost meets with the Committee each academic year to review its recommendations.

2025-26 Members 
 

Lucia Allais
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture

Lydia Chilton
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 

Seth Cluett (Co-Chair)
Lecturer in the Discipline of Music, Department of Music; Director, Computer Music Center; Assistant Director, Sound Art MFA Program

Zoë Crossland
Director of the Columbia Center for Archaeology, Department of Anthropology

Brent Hayes Edwards (PACL Chair)
Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Yasmine Ergas
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs

Mark Hansen
David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and Innovation; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation

Seth Kimmel
Associate Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; Director, Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Ioannis Kymissis (Co-Chair)
Vice Dean of Infrastructure and Innovation, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Tamar Mitts
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, SIPA

Tommaso Porzio 
Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business, Economics Division, Columbia Business School

Shana Redmond
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Samuel K. Roberts 
Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

David Schiminovich
Professor of Astronomy; Co-Director, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory

Soumitra Sengupta
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Avinoam Shalem
Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam, Department of Art History & Archaeology

Shelly Silver
Associate Professor and Director of Moving Image, Visual Arts Program, School of the Arts 

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

Clifford Stein
Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of Computer Science

Dennis Tenen 
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Jennifer Wenzel
Director of PhD Careers Advising; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

The Provost's Advisory Council for Faculty Advancement, formed in the fall of 2012, consists of a group of senior faculty from across the University who serve two-year, renewable terms. Council members play a vital role in shaping the direction of the Faculty Advancement initiatives, and also serve as thought leaders within their respective schools. The Council meets on a quarterly basis, and advises the Provost on a myriad of faculty initiatives, publications, and awards. 

2025-26 Members
 

Ana Abraido-Lanza
School of Social Work

Walter Bockting
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons; School of Nursing

Nabila El-Bassel
School of Social Work

Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr.
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Farah Jasmine Griffin
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Karl Jacoby
Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Gita Johar
Columbia Business School

Kathryn Johnston
Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Kellie Jones
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Rebecca Kobrin
Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Helen H. Lu
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; College of Dental Medicine

Maria Victoria Murillo
Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; School of International and Public Affairs

Samuel K. Roberts
Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

Daichi Shimbo
Professor of Medicine; Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Senior Vice President for Faculty Affairs, CUIMC

Jacquelyn Y. Taylor
Columbia University School of Nursing

Gina Wingood
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia employs a standing committee system to conduct a final University-wide evaluation whenever a school or department, including Barnard College but excepting the Faculty of Law and Teachers College, recommends a candidate for tenure. By examining both the process by which candidates are nominated and their qualifications, the standing committee seeks to ensure a University-wide consistency in the evaluation of nominations to tenure and thereby to promote the appointment of faculty of exceptional quality and distinction throughout the institution.

The standing committee–the Tenure Review Advisory Committee (TRAC)–serves in an advisory capacity to the provost, who determines whether the candidate should be recommended to the president and trustees for tenure. The University’s standing committee system of tenure review is administered on behalf of the provost by the vice provost for faculty affairs.

The Provost’s and Executive Vice President for University Life and Wellbeing’s Advisory Committee on Conduct and Accountability (ACCA) was established in November 2025 to review discipline processes to advise the Provost and the Executive Vice President for University Life and Wellbeing. The review will include the current Rules of University Conduct and the Center for Student Success and Intervention/Dean’s Discipline to provide recommendations regarding the efficacy of these disciplinary processes. If appropriate the committee will also consider the overlap with the processes led by the Office of Institutional Equity. These recommendations will be aimed to safeguard the University’s mission and maximize the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the core disciplinary processes. 

At the end of this academic year, the committee’s charge and composition will be reviewed and renewed, reconfigured, or retired as appropriate.

Contacting the Advisory Committee on Conduct and Accountability 

You can contact the committee anytime at [email protected].

Please note that questions and comments submitted to the committee will be kept as private as possible. Messages that contain information requiring mandatory reporting will be forwarded to the appropriate University office.
 

2025-26 Members
 

Mario Small
Co-Chair, Quetelet Professor of Social Science; Chair, Department of Sociology, Arts and Sciences

Peter Dixon
Co-Chair, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Professional Studies; Program Director, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, School of Professional Studies

Christine Hendon
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Vice Dean of Engagement and Strategic Partnerships, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Elizabeth Murphy Fitelson
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at CUIMC, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Jon Freeman
Associate Professor of Psychology, Arts and Sciences

Magda Schaler-Haynes
Professor of Health Policy and Management and Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health

As an institution known for excellence in scholarship and education in the humanities, Columbia is well positioned to make a generational case for the enduring value of human thinking and creativity. Advancing the humanities broadly has the potential to extend the reach of our work across higher education and beyond at this critical moment. 

The recently established Faculty Advisory Committee on the Humanities will identify promising opportunities and directions for strengthening the humanities through a shared, campus-wide vision, including the articulation of key themes that define this effort. 

Members of the committee represent departments across Arts and Sciences, as well as schools and disciplines outside Arts and Sciences whose work engages with humanistic inquiry and its impact across the University. The committee is co-sponsored by Angela V. Olinto, Provost and Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics, and Amy Hungerford, Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Contacting the Faculty Advisory Committee on the Humanities

You can contact the committee anytime at [email protected]. 

Please note that questions and comments submitted to the committee will be kept as private as possible.

2025-26 Members
 

Angela V. Olinto
Co-Sponsor, Provost, Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Physics

Amy Hungerford
Co-Sponsor, Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences

Courtney Bender
Co-Chair, Tremaine Professor of Religion, Arts and Sciences

Julie Stone Peters
Co-Chair, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Arts and Sciences

Marcos Balter
Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Music, Arts and Sciences

Rita Charon
Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Julia Hirschberg
Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Reinhold Martin
Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Malgorzata Mazurek
Associate Professor of Polish Studies, Department of History, Arts and Sciences

Naeem Mohaiemen
Associate Professor, Visual Arts, School of the Arts

Avinoam Shalem
Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam, Arts and Sciences

Joanna Stalnaker
Professor of French, Arts and Sciences

Weiping Wu
Ex-Officio, Vice Provost for Academic Programs

Bruno Bosteels
Ex-Officio, Dean of Humanities, Arts and Sciences

The Early Career Faculty Advisory Committee was established in 2026 to provide a forum for the Office of the Provost to better understand issues affecting early career faculty and how to ensure our systems, services, and programs best meet their needs.

Contacting the Early Career Faculty Advisory Committee

If you have feedback or questions for the Office of the Provost about the early career faculty experience, please reach out to [email protected].
 

2025-26 Members

Dima Amso
Co-Chair, Professor of Psychology and Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement 

Carrie Marlin
Co-Chair, Vice Provost for Faculty Support and Work/Life

Leah Aronowsky
Assistant Professor of Climate, Climate School

Derek Brown
Assistant Professor of Business, Graduate School of Business

Alexis Clark
Assistant Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism

Christie Custodio-Lumsden
Assistant Professor of Nutrition Sciences (in Dental Medicine), College of Dental Medicine

Anindita Dasgupta
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Sociomedical Sciences

Thomas Dodman
Associate Professor of French, Department of French

Jane Huang
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astronomy

Natasha Johnson
Assistant Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work

Chloé Cooper Jones
Associate Professor of Writing, School of the Arts

Shaina Kelly
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering

Mireia Luzárraga
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Department of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Lev Menand
Associate Professor of Law, School of Law

Tamar Mitts
Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs

Ruth Opara
Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Music

James Stafford
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History

Meghan Turchioe
Assistant Professor of Nursing, Department of Nursing Scholarship and Research

Yvon Woappi
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics