Daniel Herwitz, Director and Mary Fair Croushore Professor of Humanities

Daniel Herwitz has been Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities at the University since 2002. He also holds Professorships in Comparative Literature, Philosophy and History of Art in the College, and is adjunct Professor in Screen Arts and Culture. He holds tenure in the School of Art and Design. Before coming to Michigan, Herwitz lived and worked in South Africa, where he was Chair in Philosophy at the University of Natal (1996-2002) and Director of the Center for Knowledge and Innovation there. His book of essays, Race and Reconciliation (Minnesota 2003) is the result of that stay, along with short stories published in the Michigan Quarterly Review. Herwitz has three books appearing in 2008: The Star as Icon (Columbia), Key Concepts in Aesthetics (Continuum) and (edited with Ashu Varshney) Midnight’s Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

herwitz@umich.edu 202 South Thayer/1127 (734) 936-3520