DIRECTORS OF THE BIG PROBLEMS PROGRAM
Founded in 1999, the Big Problems program is a curricular collaboration between the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the College, which has developed and offered over fifty capstone courses in the College.
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Director
Christian W. MacKauer Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
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Co-Directors (2010-2023)
Christian W. MacKauer Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College
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Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Committee on Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology, and the College
Founding Director (1999-2010)
Peter B. Ritzma Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy, Committees on Evolutionary Biology, Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science, Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, and the College
Executive Director
Associate Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities; Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division
For more information, please contact Margot Browning, Executive Director, by emailing mb31@uchicago.edu or calling 773-702-5657.