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Faculty Chair Appointments

Anthropology

Associate Professor Heather Paxson
Class of '57 Career Development Chair

Department Head Susan Silbey
The Leon and Anne Goldberg Chair

Economics

Assistant Professor Guido Lorenzoni
Pentti JK Kouri Career Development Chair

Assistant Professor Anna Mikusheva
Castle-Krob Career Development Chair

Professor Robert Townsend
Elizabeth and James Killian Chair

Assistant Professor Stephen Ryan
Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Chair

Political Science

Associate Professor Taylor Fravel
Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair

Program in Science, Technology and Society

Assistant Professor Natasha Schull
The Leo Marx Career Development Chair

Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies

Professor Junot Díaz
The Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Chair

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