The Academic Senate ensures scholarly excellence and a global outlook across all of the Collegium’s programmes, and provides advice on institutional matters. It serves to guarantee the highest scholarly standards and a sustained global commitment in all SCAS activities.

Its members are:

Professor Ash Amin
Emeritus 1931 Professor of Geography and Fellow of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge

Professor John Broome
Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. Honorary Professor, Australian National University

Professor Lorraine Daston
Director Emerita, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. Visiting Professor, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Professor Peter Goddard (Chair)
Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences, and former Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Fellow and former Master, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge

Professor Premesh Lalu
NRF/British Academy SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture and Technics, Research Professor of History and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

Professor Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies & Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University

Professor Helga Nowotny
Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies, eth, Zurich. Founding Member and Former President, European Research Council

Professor Locke Rowe (Adjunct Member)
Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto