| | 541 | Name: | Dr. Sarah Stroumsa | | | Institution: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
Sarah Stroumsa is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her academic education at the Hebrew University, as well as at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. She taught in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature and the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she served as Vice-Rector and then as Rector. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as well as of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is a laureate of the Humboldt Research Award, a holder of the Italian Order of Merit, and a recipient of the Leopold Lucas Prize.
Her academic focus is the history of philosophical and theological thought in Arabic in the early Islamic Middle Ages, and the medieval Judaeo-Arabic philosophical literature. She strives to offer a multifocal approach to the study of intellectual history, an approach she used in her publications as well as in the Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World, a master’s program she initiated with her colleagues Sabine Schmidtke and Sari Nusseibeh. Among her published books in English: Freethinkers of Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Rāwaādī, Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, and Their Impact on Islamic Thought (Leiden: Brill, 1999); Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton: Princeton University, 2010); Dāwūd al-Muqammaṣ, Twenty Chapters (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2016); and Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). Her current work focuses on methodological questions in the study of medieval intellectual history (e.g. linear and non-linear tracing of influences, the reliability of unique sources, and the reconstruction of unwritten elements of the texts, such as mimic and tone). | |
| 542 | Name: | Alfred H. Sturtevant | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1892 | | | Death Date: | 4/5/70 | | | | |
| 543 | Name: | Dr. Noel M. Swerdlow | | | Institution: | University of Chicago; California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | July 24, 2021 | | | | | | |
A leading authority in the history of mathematical astronomy, Noel M. Swerdlow is a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology as well as Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics and of History at the University of Chicago. He has served on the Chicago faculty since 1982. Based on an outstanding knowledge of the sources ranging from Oriental to Western and extending over the period from early antiquity to the Copernican, his research is primarily concerned with the history of the exact science from antiquity through the seventeenth century. In his teaching he covers the history of the physical sciences in general. Dr. Swerdlow's published work includes "On Copernicus' Theory of Precession" (1975), "Blackstone's Newtonian Dissent" (1994), "Astronomy in the Renaissance" (1996) and "The Babylonian Theory of the Planets" (1998). He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. | |
| 544 | Name: | Mary Hamilton Swindler | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1884 | | | Death Date: | 1/16/67 | | | | |
| 545 | Name: | Sir Ronald Syme | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 9/4/89 | | | | |
| 546 | Name: | Dr. Richard J. Tarrant | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Richard Tarrant was born in Brooklyn, NY and received his BA from Fordham University in 1966. He pursued graduate study at Oxford (Corpus Christi College) with support from Marshall and Danforth Scholarships, and obtained his D.Phil. In 1972. While at Corpus he was appointed to the P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellowship. In 1970 he took up a position at University College, Toronto, where he remained until moving to Harvard University in 1982. At Harvard he has been successively Professor of Greek and Latin, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Roman Civilization, and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He was Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1995-96 and Interim Dean in 2012. In 1991-92 he was Visiting Mellon Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Visiting Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 2008 he delivered the Comparetti Lectures at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His interests lie mainly in Latin literature, specifically Senecan drama and Augustan poetry, and in the transmission and editing of Latin texts; he has also explored the reception of classical literature in art and music. His books include editions with commentary of Seneca's Agamemnon (Cambridge UP 1977) and Thyestes (Scholars Press 1985), a critical edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Oxford Classical Texts series (2004), and a commentary on Virgil Aeneid Book XII for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (2012); the last of these received the 2013 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. He is also one of the main contributors to the volume Texts and Transmission: A Guide to the Latin Classics, edited by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford 1983). He is currently completing a book entitled Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (to be published by Cambridge UP), is at work on a book on Horace's Odes for Oxford University Press, and is preparing a new critical edition of Horace for Oxford Classical Texts. He has been the editor of Phoenix (the journal of the Classical Association of Canada) and of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; he has served as the Vice-President for Publications of the American Philological Association; and he is a member of the editorial boards of Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, and Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. His teaching at Harvard has been recognized with the Levenson Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, appointment as a Harvard College Professor, and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has twice been named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for contributions to scholarship. Since 1968 he has been married to Jacqueline Brown. His outside interests include baroque and classical music, choral singing, and all things Italian. | |
| 547 | Name: | Dr. Richard Taruskin | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | Death Date: | July 1, 2022 | | | | | | |
Richard Taruskin is Class of 1955 Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. A prodigiously talented musician-scholar, he has produced masterful musicological detective work on matters ranging from the 15th century Burgundians to the late 20th century Soviets. Furthermore, he is a world-class choral conductor, specializing in performances of early music. His talents are often on display in literary journals, where a sharp mind and fluent pen set him above other musician-critics. In university seminars, dealing with the cutting edge of his discipline, he is a brilliant analyst and genial speaker; time and again, and with rare verbal felicity, he has come to eminently logical conclusions that have evaded others. Dr. Taruskin received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Columbia University, where he also taught from 1973-86. His published works include Opera and Drama in Russia (1981); Music in the Western World (1984); Antoine Busnoys: The Latin Texted Works (Masters of the Renaissance) (1989); Mussorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue (1993); Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions (1995); and Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance (1995). In 2017 he won the prestigious Kyoto Prize. | |
| 548 | Name: | J.S.P. Tatlock | | | Year Elected: | 1937 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1876 | | | Death Date: | 6/24/48 | | | | |
| 549 | Name: | Deems Taylor | | | Year Elected: | 1934 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1886 | | | Death Date: | 7/3/66 | | | | |
| 550 | Name: | Lily Ross Taylor | | | Year Elected: | 1945 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1886 | | | Death Date: | 11/18/69 | | | | |
| 551 | Name: | Francis H. Taylor | | | Year Elected: | 1946 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 11/22/57 | | | | |
| 552 | Name: | Archer Taylor | | | Year Elected: | 1951 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1890 | | | Death Date: | 9/30/73 | | | | |
| 553 | Name: | Dr. Owsei Temkin | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | July 18, 2002 | | | | |
| 554 | Name: | Dr. Romila Thapar | | | Institution: | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404b | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | | | | |
Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she was Professor of Ancient Indian History from 1970 to 1991. She was General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an Honorary D.Litt. each from Calcutta, Oxford, and Chicago Universities, among others. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, and of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. In 2008 Professor Thapar was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the United States Library of Congress, which honours lifetime achievement in studies such as history that are not covered by the Nobel Prize. | |
| 555 | Name: | Dr. Joan Thirsk | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | October 3, 2013 | | | | | | |
A scholar of agrarian history, Joan Thirsk was Reader in Economic History at the University of Oxford from 1965 to 1983. No one did more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England than Dr. Thirsk, whose writings represent an important contribution to the national history while also pointing the way for future research. Dr. Thirsk's many authoritative works include English Peasant Farming (1957); Tudor Enclosures (1959); The Agrarian History of England Wales, IV, 1500-1640 (1967), V, 1640-1760 (1984); The Restoration (1976); Economic Policy and Projects (1978); Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day (1997); Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760 (2007); and Hadlow: Life, Land and People in a Wealden Paris, 1460-1600 (2007). She also served as the editor of Agricultural History Review (1964-72). She was an honorary fellow of St. Hilda's College and Kellogg College and had also taught at the London School of Economics. Joan Thirsk was elected an International member of the American Philosophical Society in 1982. She died October 3, 2013, at the age of 91 in Kent, England. | |
| 556 | Name: | Stith Thompson | | | Year Elected: | 1947 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1885 | | | Death Date: | 1/10/76 | | | | |
| 557 | Name: | Dr. Homer A. Thompson | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1951 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | May 7, 2000 | | | | |
| 558 | Name: | Dr. Margaret Thompson | | | Institution: | Museum of American Numismatic Society | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 2/29/92 | | | | |
| 559 | Name: | Dr. Craig R. Thompson | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 10/4/96 | | | | |
| 560 | Name: | Dr. Judith Jarvis Thomson | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | November 20, 2020 | | | | | | |
Judith Jarvis Thomson was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1959. Her teaching career includes Barnard College, Boston University, and as Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Judith Jarvis Thomson has been a leading contributor to the flourishing of moral and political philosophy in America since the 1960s. She is best known for her defense of abortion and for her subtle and pioneering use of “trolley problem” thought experiments as a tool for understanding interpersonal morality, which has set the agenda, and provided a model, for much subsequent work. Thomson’s ingenious use of examples, and her rigorous yet extremely readable style, have made her writing widely influential. Her important book, The Realm of Rights, used this same method of argument from carefully crafted examples to develop a general account of morality based on rights, drawing important connections between morality and law, particularly the theory of torts. Thomson was one of a small number of women philosophers to rise to great prominence in the field in the second half of the twentieth century, paving the way for many others.
She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987-88) and the Quinn Prize of the American Philosophical Association in 2012. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1989) and the American Philosophical Association (president, Eastern Division, 1992-93). Her works include Acts and Other Events (1977), Rights, Restitution, and Risk (1986), The Realm of Rights (1990), and Normativity (2008). Judith Jarvis Thomson was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. She died on November 20, 2020. | |
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