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| | 41 | Name: | Dr. Ludo Rocher | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | November 2, 2016 | | | | | | |
Ludo Rocher brought to Sanskrit studies the rigorous philological training of a classicist and the persuasive talents of a lawyer. He was W. Norman Brown Professor of South Asian Studies Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had taught since 1966, Dr. Rocher was born in Belgium and was a graduate of the University of Ghent (LL.D., 1950; Ph.D., 1952). His publications, including over 140 articles on subjects ranging from Indian law and philosophy to Sanskrit grammar and Hindi, reflect Dr. Rocher's devotion to the traditions of Western scholarship and his mastery both of the latter and of the Indian sastras. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he had chaired the Department of Oriental Studies and the Department of South Asia Regional Studies, Dr. Rocher taught Sanskrit and comparative philology at the University of Brussels (1959-67), directing its Center for Study of South and Southeast Asia from 1961-67. A past president of the American Oriental Society, Dr. Rocher was also a fellow of the Royal Academy for Overseas Science, Belgium and of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, where he had frequently conducted research. Ludo Rocher died November 2, 2016, at age 90, at home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
| 42 | Name: | Dr. Thomas G. Rosenmeyer | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1920 | | | Death Date: | February 6, 2007 | | | | |
| 43 | Name: | Dr. Franz Rosenthal | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | April 8, 2003 | | | | |
| 44 | Name: | Dr. Meyer Schapiro | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1969 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 3/3/96 | | | | |
| 45 | Name: | Dr. Kenneth M. Setton | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1952 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | 2/18/95 | | | | |
| 46 | Name: | Dr. Ihor Sevcenko | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | December 26, 2009 | | | | | | |
Ihor Sevcenko was educated in Classics and Byzantine Studies in Warsaw, Prague, Louvain and Brussels. He specializes in Byzantine cultural history, hagiography, Byzantine text editions, Byzantino-Slavic cultural relations, Byzantine epigraphy and Greek palaeography. Among his early publications in the field is Études sur la polémique entre Théodore Métochite et Nicéphore Choumnos (1962). His collections of essays include Society and Intellectual Life in Late Byzantium (1981), Ideology, Letters and Culture in the Byzantine World (1982) and Byzantium and the Slavs in Letters and Culture (1991). His recent work includes Ukraine between East and West (1996, Ukrainian ed., 2001). Extracurricular publication: translation of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Ukrainian (1946, publ. 1947). He is a former Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1956), former Visiting Fellow at All Souls and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford (1979-80 and 1987 and 1993 respectively); Visiting Professor at the Collège de France (1985), Universities of Munich (1969), Cologne (1992, 1996) and at the Central European University of Budapest (1996, 1997); Guggenheim Fellow (1963); Guest of the Rector of Collegium Budapest (1998); Onassis Foundation Fellow (2002) recipient of Festschriften Okeanos (1984) and Chrysai Pylai (2002), of the Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1985), of honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cologne (1994), Warsaw (2001), and Lublin (Catholic, 2005) of the M. Hrusevs'kyj Medal of the Scientific Sevcenko Society (L'viv) (1996) and Laureate of the Antonovych Literary Prize for 1999 (awarded in Kiev in 2000); member of a number of learned societies, among them the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America (Fellow), l'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, l'Accademia di Palermo, l'Accademia Pontaniana (Naples), the Christian Archaeological Society (Athens), the British Academy, the Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), the Academy of Humanities Research (Moscow), the National Academy of Ukraine (Kiev) and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Krakow, 2007). He has served as President of the Assocation Internationale des Études Byzantines as well as Honorary President of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. (2003). His hobby is trout fishing. | |
| 47 | Name: | Dr. David Dean Shulman | | | Institution: | Hebrew University | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
I was born in Waterloo, Iowa (1949) and grew up among the fields, and under the vast open skies, of the Midwest. In 1967 I moved to Israel because I had fallen in love with the Hebrew language and wanted to live where it is spoken. In the course of my B.A. years I fell in love with another language, Persian, and with its classical poetry. I went on pilgrimage to the graves of Sa'di and Hafez in Shiraz. From Iran I drifted, without premeditation, eastward to India.
At SOAS I was trained in Tamil by my guru, John Ralston Marr, and in South Asian studies generally and in Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger, Peter Khoroche, J. E. B. Gray, and Tuvia Gelblum. My dissertation focused on the mythology of the great Tamil temples as embodied in a large literature of classical sthalapurāṇas. Since 1976 I have been teaching Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and South Asian cultural and religious history at the Hebrew University.
Ever restless, I wanted to learn another south Indian language and was drawn into the magnetic field of force of Velcheru Narayana Rao, the doyen of Telugu studies in this generation. In 1982-1983 I studied with him at the University of Wisconsin. Slowly Telugu became the center of my work, and Andhra, a second home. Narayana Rao and I have collaborated on many books on Telugu literature and the cultural history of Andhra Pradesh. I have also worked closely with Sanjay Subrahmanyam together with Narayana Rao (Symbols of Substance, 1992 and Textures of Time, 2002) and with my colleague in Jerusalem, Don Handelman (two books on south Indian Śaivism and fieldwork on the goddess Gangamma at Tirupati and the Golden Goddess, Paiditalli, in Vizianagaram).
Of the various books I have written, I am most proud of the monograph documenting the seventeenth-century ceiling paintings at the Tiruvarur temple in Tamil Nadu, since these paintings were in grave danger of being lost through neglect and erosion (they have now been carefully conserved through the last-minute intervention of a team lead by Ranvir Shah of Chennai). The book offers a complete photographic record of these masterpieces, by V. K. Rajamani, the finest art photographer in South India.
My enduring passion is for Indian classical music, both in the northern Hindustani-Dhrupad style, which I have studied with Osnat Elkabir, and in the south Indian Carnatic tradition. I am working on a series of essays on Carnatic compositions.
In recent years I have become fascinated with Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the last living tradition of Sanskrit drama and one of the classical performing arts of Kerala. Together with my Sanskrit and Malayalam students and with colleagues from Germany, particularly Heike Moser of Tuebingen, I have had the privilege of watching full-scale performances - ranging from 12 hours to 150 hours - of the main repertoire of major troupes in Mūḻikkuḷam and Kiḷḷimangalam, in central Kerala. I hope to complete a book on these performances sometime soon.
I am also a grass-roots peace activist in Israel-Palestine, concentrating mostly on the area of the south Hebron hills, where we have been able to make a difference in the lives of the Palestinian farmers and herders living under the harsh conditions of the Israeli Occupation. My experiences there are recorded in Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (University of Chicago Press, 2007). | |
| 48 | Name: | Prof. Lawrence Stone | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1970 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | 6/16/99 | | | | |
| 49 | Name: | Dr. Ronald S. Stroud | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | 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: | October 7, 2021 | | | | | | |
Ronald Stroud is an extraordinary scholar of Greek history, inscriptions and archaeology. An inspirational teacher, he has been a benefactor to all who work in these areas through his many years meticulously editing the indispensible annual supplement of newly discovered and newly studied inscriptions (Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum). A comprehensive, balanced use of the ancient historians, inscriptions and archaeology to understand ancient society is a goal sought by many but rarely achieved with the sureness, learning and elegance of Dr. Stroud. His greatest contributions have been the publication of Athenian laws on stone and the excavation of the sanctuary of the goddess Demeter at Corinth. Presently Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature Emeritus, Dr. Stroud has been affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley since earning his Ph.D. from the university in 1965. His published works include Drakon's Law on Homicide (1968); The Axones and Kyrbeis of Drakon and Solon (1979); The Athenian Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 B.C. (1998); and The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Architecture and Topography (1998). | |
| 50 | Name: | Dr. Brian Tierney | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1990 | | | 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: | November 30, 2019 | | | | | | |
Internationally recognized as a leading scholar of medieval canon law, Brian Tierney was among the most distinguished intellectual historians of the Middle Ages. After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Dr. Tierney received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He taught at Catholic University and at Cornell University, where was the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Emeritus. He was the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was awarded the honorary degrees of Doctor of Theology from Uppsala University, Sweden, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Catholic University. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 1994 he received the Award for Academic Distinction of the American Historical Association. Dr. Tierney authored many articles and several books, including Foundations of the Conciliar Theory (1955), Medieval Poor Law (1959), The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300 (1964), Origins of Papal Infallibility, 1150-1350 (1972) Religion, Law and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650 (1981), and The Idea of Natural Rights, Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150-1625. Brian Tierney died November 30, 2019 in Syracuse, New York at the age of 97. | |
| 51 | Name: | Dr. Speros Vryonis | | | Institution: | New York 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: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | March 11, 2019 | | | | | | |
Speros Vryonis, Jr., was one of the most eminent Byzantinists of his generation. After a distinguished career at UCLA, he became the founding director of the Alexander S. Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University, from which he retired as Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Civilization Emeritus. Dr. Vryonis's extensive work on the history and culture of the Greeks from Homer to the present, and on their relations with the Slavic, Islamic, and New Worlds, includes the seminal The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century; Byzantium and Europe; Studies on Byzantium, Seljuks and Ottomans; Byzantium: Its Internal History and Relations with the Islamic World; and Studies in Byzantine Institutions and Society. He also edited, among other volumes, Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change (with Henrik Birnbaum); Essays on the Slavic World and the Eleventh Century; Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages; Individualism and Conformity in Classical Islam (with Amin Banani); and Islam's Understanding of Itself (with Richard G. Hovannisian). A graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D., 1956), Dr. Vryonis was a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Scholar as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America. Toward the end of his life he directed the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism. Speros Vryonis died March 11, 2019 in Sacramento California at the age of 90. | |
| 52 | Name: | Dr. Ronald G. Witt | | | Institution: | Duke 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: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | March 15, 2017 | | | | | | |
Ronald Witt was a distinguished scholar of Renaissance humanism with an extensive publication record. His book In the Footsteps of the Ancients is considered the most important book on the medieval origins of Renaissance humanism in the past fifty years, and it has gained widespread international recognition as a ground-breaking contribution to the early history of the humanist movement in Italy. He is a recipient of the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and of the American Historical Society's Marraro Prize, given for the best book in Italian studies. His election as vice president (with automatic succession to the office of president) of the Renaissance Society of America was further testimony to his leadership in the field of Renaissance studies. At the time of his death on March 15, 2017, at age 84, he was William B. Hamilton Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University, where he had taught since 1971, Dr. Witt received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1965). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. | |
| 53 | Name: | Dr. Ying-shih Yu | | | Institution: | Princeton 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: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | August 1, 2021 | | | | | | |
An influential teacher and prolific author, Ying-shih Yu has long earned international recognition as the pre-eminent scholar of Chinese history. The breadth of his research, ranging from views of life and death in first and second-century China, through intellectual history and political culture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, to eighteenth through twentieth-century Chinese intellectual history, is staggering. In his work he combines close and subtle scrutiny of fresh source materials to broad generalization about main themes in Chinese history and culture. His research on a merchant ethos in Chinese society from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, for example, has been influential in articulating the belief in a Confucian work ethic in modern East Asian countries. In May 2001 a group of his former students gathered in Princeton for an unusually stimulating two-day conference on topics ranging over more than two thousand years of Chinese history. Born in China in 1930, Dr. Yu received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962 and served as assistant professor there from 1969-77 before moving to Yale University as Charles Seymour Professor of History. In 1987 he joined the faculty of Princeton University as Professor of Chinese Studies and History and became Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies Emeritus in 2001. Dr. Yu's many written works include Views of Life and Death in Late Han China (1962); Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations (1967); Fang I-chih wan chieh k'ao (The Death of Fang I-chih), 1611-1671 (1972); "Intellectual Breakthroughs in the Tang-Sung Tradition"; "'O Soul, Come Back!' A Study in the Changing Conceptions of the Soul and Afterlife in Pre-Buddhist China"; Intellectual History in Late Imperial China: Modern Interpretations (1984); Shih yu Chung-kuo wen-hua (History of Chinese Culture) (1987); and The Radicalization of China in the Twentieth Century. With fellow APS member John Hope Franklin, Dr.Yu shared the 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity. He was elected a member of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 1974 and of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. He died on August 1, 2021 in Princeton, NJ. | |
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