| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Milton V. Anastos | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angles | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 4/10/97 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. D. R. Shackleton Bailey | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | November 28, 2005 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. John W. Baldwin | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | February 8, 2015 | | | | | | |
John Baldwin was a leading American specialist on the history of medieval France. Like Charles Homer Haskins, he had worked on the institutional and intellectual history of the twelfth century. His early works on the "just price" and the schoolman Peter the Chanter opened new vistas of research on economic growth and the culture of power. His book on the government of Philip Augustus won major prizes in America and France. The recipient of major honors in France and the United States, Dr. Baldwin was a generous colleague, a venerated teacher, and a distinguished medievalist in the mode of C. H. Haskins and J. R. Strayer. He had been at Johns Hopkins University since 1986 as Charles Homer Haskins Professor of History and Professor of History Emeritus. He was awarded the Medieval Academy's Haskins Medal in 1990 and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, France in 2001. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America (president, 1996-97); the British Academy; and l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. James Barr | | | Institution: | Vanderbilt University | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2006 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Wm. Theodore de Bary | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | July 14, 2017 | | | | | | |
Wm. Theodore de Bary began his career as a teacher at Columbia in 1949 when he undertook to develop the undergraduate general education program in Asian Studies. For this he developed basic source readings in Asian Civilizations for India, China, Japan and now Korea. These volumes dealing with the major traditions of Asia, published in 1958-60, have seen wide use in colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. They have now been supplemented by over 140 other texts and translations for use in general educations on Asia. As chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1960-66 and as first director of the National Defense Languages and Area Center he led a major expansion of the language programs in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. From 1969-70 he was President of the Association for Asian Studies. From 1969-71 he served as the first chair of the Executive Committee of the University Senate. From 1971-78 as Provost of the University, among other duties, Dr. de Bary assisted in the renovation and expansion of the East Asian Library and established the Heyman Center for the Humanities, which includes among other programs, offices and a reading room for the Human Rights Program. In 1974, Dr. de Bary was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and in 1999 to the American Philosophical Society. He had received honorary degrees from St. Lawrence University, Loyola University in Chicago, and Columbia. Professor de Bary's scholarly work focused on the major religious and intellectual traditions of East Asia, especially Confucianism in China, Japan and Korea. Among the more than twenty-five works authored by him, he has dealt principally with the issues of civil society and human rights in China. They include Asian Values and Human Rights (1998) and Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good (2004). In 2014 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Wm. Theodore de Bary died July 14, 2017, at age 97, in Tappan, New York. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Hans-Georg Beck | | | Institution: | University of Munich | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 5/25/99 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Bloch | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | September 6, 2006 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Derk Bodde | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | November 3, 2003 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. William J. Bouwsma | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2004 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Gerhard H. Bowering | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
Gerhard Böwering is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University. He was born and educated in Germany. After philosophical studies at Munich, he received a Diploma in Islamic Studies from Panjab University in Lahore, Pakistan and also studied Arabic in Cairo, Egypt. Following theological studies in Montreal, Dr. Böwering studied Islam at McGill University where he earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies in 1975. From 1975-84 he was first assistant and then associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984, Dr. Böwering became Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale. He is the author of The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam (1980) and a critical Arabic edition of a Commentary on the Qur'an (1995 and 1997). He is presently preparing a monograph on the "Idea of Time in Islam" as well as a book entitled Wie die Muslime denken. His scholarly publications also include numerous articles and contributions to major reference books. Dr. Böwering was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994. | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. T. Robert S. Broughton | | | Institution: | University of North Carolina | | | Year Elected: | 1955 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/93 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Walter Burkert | | | Institution: | University of Zurich | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 11, 2015 | | | | | | |
An Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Zurich, Walter Burkert was a well-known historian of Greek religion. He brought methodological innovation and keen insight to the ancient texts and materials of his field, and his work has implications for all aspects of ancient Mediterranean studies, from literature to science to philosophy to religion. Dr. Burkert received training in classical philology, history and philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich, obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Erlangen in 1955 and taught there over much of the next ten years. In 1965 he served as a junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. for one year before becoming a professor of classical philology at the Technical University of Berlin. He joined the faculty of the University of Zurich in 1969 and taught there for 27 years before retiring. He had published books on the balance between lore and science in the followers of Pythagoras; on ritual and archaic cult survival; on the ritual killing at the heart of religion; and on the reception in the Hellenic world of Near Eastern and Persian culture, which sets Greek religion in its wider Aegean and Near Eastern context. Among his works are Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (English translation, 1982), which is considered an outstanding account of concepts in Greek religion; Ancient Mystery Cults (1987); and Creation of the Sacred (1996). Walter Burkert died March 11, 2015, at the age of 84 in Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| 13 | Name: | Professor Alan Cameron | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | Death Date: | July 31, 2017 | | | | | | |
Alan Cameron was a British classicist and Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He taught for nearly 30 years at Columbia, before which time he served for 13 years as lecturer and reader in Latin and professor of Latin Language and Literature at Kings' College London. Dr. Cameron's areas of expertise include Hellenistic and Roman poetry; later Roman literature; Byyzantium; and the transmission of texts. He was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship in 1997 and was honored with the Lionel Trilling Book Award for an outstanding book by a Columbia faculty member for his work Greek Mythography in the Roman World (2004). The latter work traces the beginnings of different versions of myths, including those fabricated in ancient times, while exploring the ways in which ancient Romans learned the myths that pervaded their culture's art. Dr. Cameron's other important works include Porphyrius the Charioteer (1973); Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium (1976); and Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine World (1985). He was a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. Alan Cameron died July 31, 2017, at the age of 79, in New York. | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Giles Constable | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 18, 2021 | | | | | | |
Giles Constable was Medieval History Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. An outstanding medievalist with a particular interest in monastic culture and the religious life of the 12th century, he has published more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history; these include Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), The Letters of Peter the Venerable (2 volumes, 1967), Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (1976), People and Power in Byzantium (with Alexander Kazhdan, 1982), Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995), The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (2009), The Abbey of Cluny (2010) and a translation of How to Defeat the Saracens by William of Adam (2012), as well as over a hundred articles, most of which have been reprinted in five volumes. In addition to his work in monastic studies, Dr. Constable has also conducted research on medieval social, economic and intellectual history of the Middle Ages, and he is known as a scholar of unusual depth and sensitivity. Dr. Constable received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957 and taught there from 1958-84, serving as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (1966-77) and director of Dumbarton Oaks (1977-84), among other positions. He died on January 18, 2021. | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. Patricia Crone | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | Death Date: | July 11, 2015 | | | | | | |
Patricia Crone was a brilliant historian who illuminated the social history of early Islam, the meaning of legal systems, and the history of trade. She had extended her expertise to general stories of social history and to the edition and translation of texts. A native of Denmark, Dr. Crone received her Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental Studies in 1974 and went on to teach at Oxford University (1977-90) and Cambridge University (1990-97) before joining the Institute for Advanced Study as Mellon Professor from 1997-2014. Dr. Crone's many publications include (with M. Cook) Hagarism (1977); Slaves on Horses (1980); Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law (1987); Meccan Trade (1987); Pre-Industrial Societies (1989); The Book of Strangers (1999); and Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005). Her book From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State and Society in the Near East c. 600-850 (2008) is a collection of articles that study the development of early Muslim society. The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism earned four major awards. In 2013 she was awarded the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Excellence in Islamic Studies. Patricia Crone died July 11, 2015, at age 70 in Princeton, New Jersey. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Merle Curti | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin | | | Year Elected: | 1948 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 3/9/96 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Charles Till Davis | | | Institution: | Tulane University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | 4/10/98 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. Wendy Doniger | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Wendy Doniger is accomplished in the study of myth, especially Hindu mythology. One of the most influential scholars in the field, she has helped introduce a generation to a concept of myth with special reference to themes of creation, the erotic and the deceptive. A respected teacher and speaker, Dr. Doniger has been Mircea Eliade Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago since 1986 while also serving as director of the university's Martin Marty Center. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968 as well as a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1973. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Doniger is also the author of numerous articles, such as in The New York Times Book Review, and has served as editor of History of Religions and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Her many books include Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (1973) and Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities (1984), and she has also edited Mythologies, an English-language edition of the 1,300 page Dictionnaires des Mythologies. Among her latest works are The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) and The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewellery (2017). | |
| 19 | Name: | Prof. Georges Duby | | | Institution: | College de France | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405 [401] | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | 12/3/96 | | | | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Robert Fagles | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | March 26, 2008 | | | | |
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