
Leadership Team

Wiebke Denecke (魏樸和)
Literature, MIT
Faculty Lead of the initiative
» Pillar: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Yoh Han (Johann) Noh (魯耀翰)
Literature, MIT
Program coordinator for the Initiative
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Magdelena Ho-yan Tang (鄧皓忻)
York Center for Asian Research, York University
Research coordinator for the Initiative
Members

Arthur Bahr
Literature, MIT
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Joshua Bennett
Literature, MIT
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Mike Block
Cello player, Composer, Singer, and Educator
» Pillar: Music Across Borders

Tristan Brown
History, MIT
» Pillar: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship

Indrani Chatterjee
Department of History, University of Virginia

Richard Eberhardt
MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing, MIT Game Lab
» Pillar: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence

Wayne de Fremery
Information Science and Entrepreneurship, Dominican University of California

Alexander Forte
Department of Classics, New York University

Diana Henderson
Literature, MIT

Gabor Hollbeck
Physics, ETH Zürich
» Pillar: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence

Wasalu Jaco/Lupe Fiasco
Literature, MIT
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Mikael Jakobsson
MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing, MIT Game Lab, MIT
» Pillar: Public Literacies: Civic Systems, Media & Emotional Intelligence

Kimiko Kōno (河野貴美子)
Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Jonas Mago
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University
» Pillar: Cognition, Learning & Human Flourishing

Johannes Makar
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Leonard Muellner
Harvard & New Alexandria Foundation
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Gregory Nagy
Comparative Literature, Harvard University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Andreas Ohlemacher
German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation
» Pillar: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences

Andrew Ollett
South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Or Porath
East Asian Studies Department, Tel Aviv University
» Pillar: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship

Michael Puett
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Nasser Rabbat
Department of Architecture, MIT
» Pillar: Heritage, Memory & Identity

Shankar Raman
Literature, MIT

Margery Resnick
Literature, MIT
» Pillar: Heritage, Memory & Identity

Serguei Saavedra
Systems Ecology; Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
» Pillar: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship

Otto Scharmer
MIT Sloan School of Management; Presencing Institute
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Kyungho Sim (沈慶昊)
Department of Sinographic Literatures, Korea University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Simran Jeet Singh
Union Theological Seminary, Aspen Institute, Aspen Institute
» Pillar: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences

Caley Smith
Religious Studies, Georgia College & State University

Michael Stanley-Baker
History and Medical Humanities, Nanyang Technological University
» Pillar: Medicine & Healing Arts

Rafal K. Stepien
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
» Pillar: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences

Alicia V. Stevens
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
» Pillar: Heritage, Memory & Identity

Makoto Harris Takao
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois
» Pillar: Music Across Borders

Joaquín Terrones
Literature, MIT
» Pillar: Medicine & Healing Arts

Dacia Viejo-Rose
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
» Pillar: Heritage, Memory & Identity

Justus Wachs
Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University
» Pillar: Cognition, Learning & Human Flourishing

Di Wang (王笛)
Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
» Pillar: Humans and Their Literatures

Wonseok Yang (楊沅錫)
Department of Sinographic Literatures, Korea University
» Pillar: Good Governance in Bad Times

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
» Pillar: Medicine & Healing Arts