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| | 21 | Name: | Dr. Jack H. Hexter | | | Institution: | Washington University & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | 12/8/96 | | | | |
| 22 | Name: | Dr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | 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: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | 7/17/99 | | | | |
| 23 | Name: | Dr. Michael H. Jameson | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | 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: | August 18, 2004 | | | | |
| 24 | Name: | Rev. John W. O'Malley | | | Institution: | Georgetown 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: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | September 11, 2022 | | | | | | |
John W. O’Malley is University Professor at Georgetown University and is a specialist in the religious culture of early modern Europe, especially Italy. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Among his publications are Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome (1979), which received the Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association, and Trent and All That (2000), which received the Roland Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. The First Jesuits (1993) received the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society for Church History. It has been translated into twelve languages. A recent monograph, What Happened at Vatican II (2008), has been translated into Italian, French, and Polish. He has edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including three in the Collected Works of Erasmus series. His latest works on the Jesuits are The Jesuits and the Arts (2005), co-edited with Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and Constructing a Saint through Images (2008), an annotated facsimile of the 1609 illustrated life of Ignatius of Loyola attributed in part to Rubens. His recent monograph Trent: What Happened at the Council (2013) has been translated into four languages and received the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. In 2015 he also published Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present.
Father O’Malley has lectured widely in North America and Europe. He is the past President of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America. He has been elected to the Accademia di san Carlo, Ambrosian Library, Milan, and was awarded the Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for distinguished scholarship in religious studies. Father O’Malley received the lifetime achievement award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2002 and the corresponding awards from both the Renaissance Society of America in 2005 and the American Catholic Historical Association in 2012. In 2013 Father O’Malley was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of his paper “The Council of Trent (1545–63) and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1541),” read at the Society’s November Meeting in 2011 and published in the Society's Proceedings in December 2012. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus. Father O’Malley was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and served as its Vice President 2010 to 2016. Father O'Malley died on September 11, 2022 at the age of 95. | |
| 25 | Name: | Dr. Paul Oskar Kristeller | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 6/7/99 | | | | |
| 26 | Name: | Dr. Stephan George Kuttner | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 8/12/96 | | | | |
| 27 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2018 | | | | | | |
William R. Kenan Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, Emeritus at Harvard University, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was highly regarded for her scholarship on Renaissance literary genres, the poets John Milton and John Donne, and her balanced appreciation of female writers and patrons in the English Renaissance. She authored numerous books, including Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England, 1603-1625 (1993), and The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000). She was also the recipient of prestigious awards including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a NEH Senior Fellowship, and three Huntington Library Fellowships. Dr. Lewalski received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and, prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she taught at Wellesley College (1954-56) and Brown University (1956-76). Dr. Lewalski was a past president of the Milton Society of America and has edited texts such as Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century and Milton, Paradise Lost (2008). She served on the Harvard faculty 1982 until 2015 when she became professor emerita. Barbara Lewalski died March 2, 2018, at the age of 87 in Providence, Rhode Island. | |
| 28 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Lewis | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | May 19, 2018 | | | | | | |
Bernard Lewis received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in 1990 "in recognition of his pioneering work in Ottoman-modern Turkish studies, on Race and Colour, and on Muslim views of Europe; of his fundamental role in refining and promoting the writing of Islamic History; and of his contribution in explaining the Middle East to generations of students and to large audiences in the West." Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of London and was Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1949 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Princeton University as the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies with a concurrent membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he became the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus and began a four-year tenure as the Director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2006. An eminent scholar, Dr. Lewis was a prolific author, illuminating the Middle East with clarity and erudition. His impressive list of publications includes The Origins of Ismailism (1940); Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947); Land of Enchanters (1948, 2001); The Arabs in History (1950, 7th edition 1993); The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 1968); Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963); The Assassins (1968); Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (2 vols., 1974); History--Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975); The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); The Jews of Islam (1984); Semites and anti-Semites (1986, 1997, 1999); The Political Language of Islam (1988); Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990); Islam and the West (1993); The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1993); Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995); The Middle East: Two Thousand Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (1995); The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998); A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000); Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems (2001); What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror(2003); From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004); Political Words and Ideas in Islam (2008); and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Islam (1970) and The Encylopedia of Islam (2nd edition, vols. I-VI). Dr. Lewis's many honors and awards include the Ataturk Peace Prize (1998), the Irving Kristol Award (2007) and fifteen honorary doctorates. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1963), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1994). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. Bernard Lewis died May 19, 2018, at the age of 101 in New Jersey. | |
| 29 | Name: | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | 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: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2009 | | | | | | |
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Most recently, he completed a new three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
| 30 | Name: | Dr. John Lukacs | | | Institution: | Chestnut Hill College | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | 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: | May 6, 2019 | | | | | | |
John Lukacs was one of the master interpreters of the modern era, that is, of Western Civilization since 1500. His knowledge of politics and society in Europe and America was unrivalled for breadth and suffused with philosophic imagination. He at home in the wide survey (The Passing of the Modern Age), the local study (Philadelphia: Patricians & Philistines), and the cultural inquiry (Historical Consciousness), these being three of his distinctive contributions. He could conjure before us a city (Budapest: 1900) or the conflict of titans (The Duel: Churchill and Hitler, May-July 1940). By their conception and execution every one of Dr. Lukacs's works fills a gap in our intelligence of the world we live in. Born in Hungary, Dr. Lukacs was a graduate of Palatine Joseph University, Budapest (Ph.D., 1946). For over fifty years he served on the faculty of Chesnut Hill College, becoming Professor Emeritus after 1994. He remained at work into the latest year of his life, publishing his final book, "We at the Center of the Universe," in 2017. John Lukacs died on May 6, 2019 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania at the age of 95. | |
| 31 | Name: | Dr. Martin E. Marty | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | | | | |
Martin E. Marty, born in Nebraska in 1928, holds two degrees in theology and a Ph.D. in American intellectual and religious history. He served ten years as a Lutheran parish minister and thirty-five years as a professor in the Divinity School, the (Humanities) Committee on the History of Culture, and the History Department from 1963-98. His specialty is American religious history, particularly in the national founding period, the late 18th century, and the 20th century, about which he wrote the three-volume Modern American Religion. Since 1998 he has also specialized in comparative studies of militant religious movements, fundamentalism and ethno-nationalisms, and he directed the Fundamentalism projects for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a project that resulted in a five-volume publication by the University of Chicago Press. Alongside his scholarly work, Dr. Marty has also been a journalist, identified since 1956 with the ecumenical The Christian Century and many other publications. He was also co-editor of Church History (1963-98), the journal of the American Society of Church History, of which he has been president. He was also president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Academy of Religion. He is the author of over fifty books, one of which, Righteous Empire, won the National Book Award. An elected member of the American Academy of Religion, he is also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and over seventy honorary doctoral degrees. In 2017 he was honored by the Newberry Library with their Newberry Library Award. He lives in Riverside, IL with his wife, musician Harriet Marty, and the two enjoy nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. | |
| 32 | Name: | Dr. Jane Dammen McAuliffe | | | Institution: | Library of Congress; Bryn Mawr College | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
In 2015, Jane McAuliffe was appointed the inaugural Director of National and International Outreach, a newly created division of the Library of Congress. She retired in October 2019. Prior to that, she served as the Director of The John W. Kluge Center, the residential research center for scholars at the Library of Congress. She is President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College. She had served as the President from 2008 to 2013.
Her primary areas of specialization are the Qur'an and its interpretive tradition, the early history of Islam and the many modalities of Muslim-Christian interaction. For the last decade she has published the six volumes of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, an international scholarly project which has resulted in the first multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an in Western languages. Other publications include Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis (1991), Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Mansur (1995), With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (2006). Dr. McAuliffe is currently the Islam editor for the Norton Anthology of World Religions, co-edits a book series for Brill Publishers and serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals. For two decades she has been involved in many forms of Muslim-Christian dialogue, both nationally and internationally. Most recently this has involved work with the Vatican, Lambeth Palace, the Library of Congress and the Royal Jordanian Institute for Interfaith Studies.
Dr. McAuliffe's research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Connaught Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Before being named president of Bryn Mawr College in 2008, Dr. McAuliffe was Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is currently a distinguished fellow of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She previously held faculty and administrative positions at Emory University and at the University of Toronto. In 2004, she served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the elected leadership position for this 10,000 member professional organization. Dr. McAuliffe is married to Dr. Dennis McAuliffe, a scholar of medieval Italian literature at Georgetown University. They are the parents of four children. | |
| 33 | Name: | Mr. Lewis Mumford | | | Institution: | Author | | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 1/26/90 | | | | |
| 34 | Name: | Dr. David Nirenberg | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1964 | | | | |
| 35 | Name: | Dr. Helen F. North | | | Institution: | Swarthmore College | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | January 21, 2012 | | | | | | |
Helen North was the Centennial Professor of Classics Emerita at Swarthmore College at the time of her death January 21, 2012. She had taught at Swarthmore 1948-91. She began studying Latin at Utica Free Academy and Greek at Cornell University, where she received an A.B. in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1945. In addition to Swarthmore, she taught at Rosary College, Barnard College and Columbia University, LaSalle College, Vassar College, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the American Academy in Rome. Her publications included Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature, which received the Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association in 1969, and From Myth to Icon: Reflections of Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art (Martin Classical Lecture, 1972). Dr. North edited Interpretations of Plato: A Swarthmore Symposium (1977) and co-edited Of Eloquence: Studies in Ancient and Mediaeval Rhetoric by Harry Caplan (1969) and (with Mary C. North) The West of Ireland: A Megalithic Primer (1999) and Cork and the Rest of Ireland: A Megalithic Primer II (2003). She also translated Milton's Second Defense of the English People in the Yale Complete Works (1966). Recent articles and lectures dealt with Plato's rhetoric, Cicero's oratory and rhetoric, and Hestia and Vesta in Greek and Roman cult. Helen North chaired the Phi Beta Kappa Committee on Visiting Scholars and was an editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In 1995, she received the Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome, on whose Board she served from 1972 to 1991. In 1996 she was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Service from the American Philological Association, of which she was President in 1976. Dr. North was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1991. She died in Swarthmore at the age of 90. | |
| 36 | Name: | Dr. Martin Ostwald | | | Institution: | Swarthmore College & University of Pennsylvania | | | 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: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | April 10, 2010 | | | | | | |
Martin Ostwald is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Classics at Swarthmore College as well as Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With scholarly interests in the field of ancient Greek political thought and institutions, he is considered among the most influential and productive students of his time in both classical literature and ancient history. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1922, Dr. Ostwald escaped the Nazi occupation and Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a youth, fleeing first to Holland, then to England and Canada before settling in the United States. After studying and teaching Greek and Latin in refugee camps, he received his higher education in classics at the Universities of Toronto (B.A., 1946) and Chicago (A.M., 1948) and at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1952). Dr. Ostwald has held teaching posts at Wesleyan University (1950-51), Columbia University (1951-58), Swarthmore College (1958-92) and the University of Pennsylvania (1968-92). At Swarthmore, he taught honors seminars that combined Germanic philological rigor with a relaxed, conversational style while also maintaining a joint appointment with the University of Pennsylvania, which allowed him to continue research on fifth-century Athens with Penn graduate students. He held this dual role for 20 years. Dr. Ostwald has also published widely, and his magnum opus, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law, in which he examined the political and social tensions within ancient Athens, has been praised as an indispensable work of political, social, and cultural history. Among his other works are Aristotle, the Nichomachean Ethics (1962); Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy (1969); From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law (1987); and Ananke in Thucydides (1988). A past president of the American Philological Association, Dr. Ostwald was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1991 and the American Philosophical Society in 1993. | |
| 37 | Name: | Dr. David Pingree | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | 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: | November 11, 2005 | | | | |
| 38 | Name: | Dr. Erica Reiner | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | 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: | December 31, 2005 | | | | |
| 39 | Name: | Dr. Eugene F. Rice | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | 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: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | August 4, 2008 | | | | | | |
Eugene F. Rice, Jr. received a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1953. He was a professor at Cornell University for nine years before moving to Columbia University in 1964. He has been the William R. Shepherd Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University since 1995. Dr. Rice has been a major force in the study of Renaissance history for 45 years. His first book, The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom (1958), established his reputation for rigorous research and imaginative writing. His massive edition of the Latin Prefatory Epistles of Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples and Related Texts (1972) is a wonderful work of technical scholarship with the broadest implications for the study of humanism and cultural history. And his prize-winning St. Jerome in the Renaissance (1985) is a subtle study of the intersections of theology, hagiography, and imagery in the visual arts. A winner of Columbia's "Great Teacher's Award," he is as excellent a teacher as he is a scholar. He served as the Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America for 20 years and was chairman of both Columbia's History Department and its Society of Fellows. His recent work includes a comprehensive study of "Western Homosexualities," from the Greeks to the present. Broad in his intellectual interests, especially in music and art, he is energetic, vivacious, and sociable. Honors Dr. Rice has received include the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History, the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Association, the Prize in History from the American Academy of Religion, and a Festschrift in his honor in 1991. Dr. Rice was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 40 | Name: | Dr. William Roach | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 7/30/93 | | | | |
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