humanities

A professor of humanities at Columbia, Lilla is a longtime contributor to the New York Review of Books who frequently writes about other intellectuals like Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin.

In the humanities division, the cutbacks mean the school is pausing Ph.D. admissions for a year in disciplines like comparative literature, Germanic studies and art history.

Mr. Dusenbury is a professor of humanities at the Hamilton School, University of Florida.

Ms. Siljak is a professor of humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida.

Progress depends on innovation at the intersection of the hard sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts.