| | 321 | Name: | Harrison S. Morris | | | Year Elected: | 1899 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1857 | | | Death Date: | 4/12/48 | | | | |
| 322 | Name: | Dr. Glenn W. Most | | | Institution: | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
I studied Classics and Comparative Literature in Europe and the United States, and have taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. Since 1996 I have been a recurrent Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and since 2001 simultaneously Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; since 2010 I have been an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. I have published books on Classics (The Measures of Praise: Structure and Function in Pindar's Second Pythian and Seventh Nemean Odes = Hypomnemata 83, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1985; Theophrastus, Metaphysics, ed. with A. Laks, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1993; Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, ed. with A. Laks, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997; the new Loeb edition of Hesiod, in two volumes, 2006-7), on the history and methodology of Classical studies (F.A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer, ed. with A.T. Grafton and J.E.G. Zetzel, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985; Aporemata 1-6, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1997ff.; an English translation of Sebastiano Timpanaro’s study of the genesis of the method of Lachmann, 2005), on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion (Doubting Thomas, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2005; The Classical Tradition, co-edited with A.T. Grafton and S. Settis, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2010), on literary theory (The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory, ed. with W.W. Stowe, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983) and on the history of art (Raffael, Die Schule von Athen. Über das Lesen der Bilder, Frankfurt a.M., Fischer Verlag, 1999; Italian translation 2001), and I have published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on modern philosophy and literature. I was the editor in charge of ancient Greek literature for Der Neue Pauly and directed and co-edited a three-volume selection of the works of Arnaldo Momigliano in German and a new revised edition of the leading American translation of all the surviving Greek tragedies. I am on the editorial board of a number of scholarly journals in Classical studies, philosophy, and other fields. Currently I am finishing a new co-edited Loeb edition of the Presocratic philosophers, a bilingual edition of the ancient and medieval scholia and commentary to Hesiod’s Theogony, and co-edited volumes on the suicide of Ajax in Sophocles’ tragedy and on philological methods in a variety of canonical written traditions.
During my career on both sides of the Atlantic I have tried to combine work in the traditional disciplines of Classical (especially Greek) philology at the highest level of excellence I could attain with research on related disciplines to which Classics could make a significant contribution and from which a significant contribution could be made to scholarship in Classics. This intellectual movement between various foci has enriched and stimulated my work both inside my discipline and outside. To this end I completed two doctorates, one in traditional Classical philology (Greek) in Tübingen, and another in more theoretically and post-classically oriented Comparative Literature at Yale; and my teaching and research have been directed towards both foci. Within the field of ancient Greek I have worked primarily on Greek poetry and philosophy of the Archaic and Classical periods (Hesiod, lyric, tragedy; Presocratics, Plato). My non-Classical activities were directed in the first part of my career primarily to reception studies, Comparative Literature, the history and methodology of Classical scholarship, art history, Biblical studies, and ancient philosophy, and these have continued to be central to my research agenda. In recent years my long-standing interest in the history and methodology of Classical scholarship has developed into an intense commitment to a history of science approach to the comparative study of philological procedures as they have been practiced in various canonical textual traditions, not only Greco-Roman, but also such other ones as Mesopotamian, Jewish, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Chinese. My interest in inter-disciplinarity as providing enrichment and context for my commitment to the discipline of Classical studies is paralleled by a broad network of international collaborations with scholars and institutions throughout Europe and North America (and, more recently, with China as well). | |
| 323 | Name: | Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago, where he also serves on the Committee of Evolutionary Biology, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Committee on African Studies. He was conferred the honorary title of Extraordinary Professor of Linguistics at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa for 2018-2021. Mufwene refers to his research as evolutionary linguistics, in which he approaches language evolution from an ecological perspective, finding inspiration in macroecology and population genetics. The research focuses on the phylogenetic emergence of languages, language speciation, and language endangerment and loss (LEL). The interest in speciation started with the emergence of creoles, which he extended to that of other forms of the indigenization of European languages in the colonies. He conceives of languages as communication technologies developed through the exaptation of the hominin anatomy by the brain in response to especially changing population structures. The complexity of languages as technologies can be correlated with that of the mind that produces them and has arisen incrementally over the past half million years or so. The power of the mind itself is the outcome of how the brain itself has evolved concurrently with ongoing changes in the hominin anatomy. Human mental capacity accounts generally for the complexity of the cultures that have emerged in different populations, by contrast with what we know of the cultures of other animals.
Mufwene has published over 300 journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews. His many authored and (co-)edited books include: Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties – editor (the University of Georgia Press, 1993); African-American English: Structure, history and use, co- edited with John Rickford, Guy Bailey, & John Baugh (Routledge, included among the linguistics classics of the Publisher); The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP, 2001—translated into Mandarin and included among the classics of the Commercial Press in linguistics, in China); Créoles, écologie sociale, évolution linguistique: cours donnés au Collège de France durant l’automne 2003 (L’Harmattan, 2005); Polymorphous linguistics: Jim McCawley’s legacy – co-edited with Elaine J. Francis and Rebecca S. Wheeler (MIT Press, 2005); Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change (Continuum Press, 2008); Globalization and language vitality: Perspectives from Africa, co-edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux (Continuum Press, 2008); Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America – editor (the University of Chicago Press, 2014); Colonisation, globalisation, vitalité du français – co-edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux (Odile Jacob, 2014); Complexity in language: Developmental and evolutionary perspectives – co-edited with Christophe Coupé & François Pellegrino (CUP, 2017); Bridging Linguistics and Economics – co-edited with Cécile B. Vigouroux (CUP, 2020); and The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, 2 volumes – co-edited with Anna María Escobar (June 2022). Mufwene is the founding editor of the book series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact (2001-) and has been invited to edit the book series Cambridge Elements in Language Contact (still in preparation).
Mufwene is a Native of the now Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly the Republic of Zaïre), where he completed his BA in English Philology at the Université Nationale du Zaïre at Lubumbashi, with Highest Honors, in 1973. He enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1974 for his graduate training and earned his PhD, with distinction, in 1979. His dissertation was in Generative Semantics, perhaps one of the last dissertations in this research paradigm. He went to work at the University of the West Indies, at Mona, Jamaica (Jan 1980 – July 1981); and there he retooled himself to do creole linguistics, focusing first on structures of these new vernaculars and then shifting gradually to the subject matter of their emergence. In September 1981, he moved to the University of Georgia, where, reading literature in both chaos theory and evolutionary biology, he started developing his ecological approach to the emergence of creoles and compared the case of English creoles with that of Indigenized Englishes in former British exploitation colonies of Africa and Asia. Since Dec. 1991, he has been teaching at the University of Chicago and chaired its Department of Linguistics from 1995 to 2001.
The growing linguistics interest in LEL prompted him to undertake research on globalization and language. This is an expansion of his ecological approach to language evolution. Focusing on language birth and death, he has questioned the claim that worldwide globalization has been the driver of these evolutionary processes. According to him, worldwide globalization provides remote causes; the real actuators of language speciation and the concurrent LEL are local, produced by the local population structures, including the relevant socioeconomic systems. The approach can explain why the linguistic effects of colonization of the world by Europeans have varied not only between the settlement and exploitation colonies but also from one polity to another, including territories colonized in the same style. In some places, one must also factor in layers of colonization of differing styles such as in South Africa. Mufwene is now revising a book typescript on the subject matter. He is an advocate of decolonial linguistics.
Mufwene was a visiting professor at the Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon, France (Fall 1989); the University of the West Indies at Mona (summer 2001); the National University of Singapore (fall 2001); Harvard University (spring 2002); le Collège de France (fall 2003); Université de Paris, Sorbonne (fall 2004); Institut Universitaire de France (April & May 2006); University of São Paulo (June 2009); and Nanyang Technological University (spring 2018); among a few other places. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Lyon, France (Oct. 2011 - June 2011), taught 4 times at the Summer Institute of Linguistic Society of America (1999, 2005, 2015, 2017); and was inducted Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2018. In 2021 colleagues and friends from different disciplines celebrated his interdisciplinary scholarship with a Festschrift titled Variation rolls the dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, ed. by Enoch Oladé Aboh and Cécile B. Vigouroux (John Benjamins). | |
| 324 | 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 | | | | |
| 325 | Name: | Kenneth B. Murdock | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 11/15/75 | | | | |
| 326 | Name: | Ernest Nagel | | | Year Elected: | 1962 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 9/20/85 | | | | |
| 327 | Name: | Dr. Thomas Nagel | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
Thomas Nagel was born in Yugoslavia in 1937. After earning his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963, he served on the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and New York University, where he is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law and University Professor. He was awarded the Balzan Prize for Moral Philosophy in 2008. Among his writings in philosophy of mind, Dr. Nagel's 1974 essay "What is it like to be a bat?" defended an antireductionist position about the problem of consciousness. He is one of the half dozen most respected moral philosophers in the world. While defending the possibility of objective reasoning about value, he has never ignored the role of subjective reasons, and, with the late Bernard Williams, he pioneered the discussion of "moral luck." He is simultaneously a humanistic and an analytic philosopher, and he shows that there is no contradiction involved in being both. | |
| 328 | Name: | Dr. Gülrü Necipoglu | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Gülrü Necipoglu has been Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University since 1993. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986. Professor Necipoglu is the author of Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapi Palace (1991); The Topkapi Scroll, Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995); and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005). She is also the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture and Supplements to Muqarnas. Her Topkapi Scroll won the Albert Hourani Book Award and the Spiro Kostoff Book Award. The Age of Sinan has been awarded the Fuat Koprulu Book Prize. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the International Palladio Center for the Study of Architecture in Vicenza. | |
| 329 | Name: | Dr. Alexander Nehamas | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Nehamas writes beautifully on a wide range of topics from the most technical issues in ancient philosophy and the philosophy of Nietzsche to questions about painting, poetry, television, and friendship that speak to both the professional philosopher and the educated lay reader. He combines a scrupulous attention to philology and textual criticism with a rare capacity to address the kinds of big questions about what it is to live a virtuous life that have engaged the best of the western philosophical tradition since Plato. His Gifford Lectures, now expanded into a forthcoming book on friendship, are in the tradition of James’ Varieties of Religious Experience (the first Gifford lectures), in that both address the most fundamental of human interests. Nehamas has been widely recognized for his distinction. | |
| 330 | Name: | William A. Neilson | | | Year Elected: | 1944 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1870 | | | Death Date: | 2/13/46 | | | | |
| 331 | Name: | Dr. Susan Neiman | | | Institution: | Einstein Forum | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Susan Neiman has been Director of the Einstein Forum since 2000. She works primarily in moral and political philosophy as well as in the history of philosophy, particularly the 18th century. Much of her work has been devoted to defending the Enlightenment against its caricatures. Her books have been translated into ten languages. They include Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin, The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Fremde Sehen Anders, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grownup Idealists, Why Grow Up?, and Widerstand der Vernunft. She is also the author of many essays, and regularly writes political and cultural commentary for German and American media. Recent awards include the International Spinoza Prize and the Tanner Lectureship at the University of Michigan. In 2019 she received the Volkmar and Margret Sander Prize from Deutsches Haus NYU. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften. Previously, she taught philosophy at Yale University and Tel Aviv University. She received her A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she studied under John Rawls and Stanley Cavell, before studying at the Freie Universität-Berlin under Margherita von Brentano and Jakob Taubes. Neiman is the mother of three grown children, and lives in Berlin. | |
| 332 | Name: | Dr. Otto E. Neugebauer | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1947 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1899 | | | Death Date: | 2/19/90 | | | | |
| 333 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Newman | | | Institution: | Northwestern University | | | Year Elected: | 2017 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Barbara Newman is the leading north American scholar of medieval cultural studies, with appointments in English, Classics and Religion departments, in all of which areas she has made major historical discoveries and proposed stunning reinterpretations. She has written authoritatively on medieval Latin, German, French, Netherlandish and Italian literature, and more generally on gender studies and the history of mysticism. She is one of the world’s leading authorities on Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval polymath whose wide-ranging interests, including midwifery, prophecy, art, and music, perhaps provide the model for Newman’s own interdisciplinary strengths. An influential teacher of graduate students, editor of numerous texts, and author of wide-ranging interpretative studies, Newman has fostered the field of medieval gender studies into new maturity, writing on secular romance literature, on female spirituality, and on the ways in which theology and literature intersect. | |
| 334 | Name: | Marjorie Hope Nicolson | | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1894 | | | Death Date: | 3/9/81 | | | | |
| 335 | Name: | Reinhold Niebuhr | | | Year Elected: | 1947 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1892 | | | Death Date: | 6/1/71 | | | | |
| 336 | 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 | | | | |
| 337 | Name: | William A. Nitze | | | Year Elected: | 1936 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1876 | | | Death Date: | 7/5/57 | | | | |
| 338 | Name: | Dr. Linda Nochlin | | | Institution: | Institute of Fine Arts, New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | October 29, 2017 | | | | | | |
One of the most important and influential art historians of the later twentieth century, Linda Nochlin was a pioneer in the feminist approach to art history. Functioning both as a scholar and as a role model for younger art historians, Dr. Nochlin conducted important research in the field of late nineteenth and early twentieth century French art. Her writings on Courbet are essential to the bibliography on this important painter, and in a series of important essays she explored with erudition and great eloquence questions of the relationship between art and power, particularly in the areas of politics and gender. Deeply versed in theoretical approaches to the field, Dr. Nochlin's work is informed by a profound humanity and generosity of spirit, qualities which have made her an inspiring teacher and mentor to many students and younger scholars. She was the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Dr. Nochlin has also taught at Yale University (1990-92), Vassar College (1963-80) and the City University of New York (1980-90). She is the author of books including Realism (1972); Gustave Courbet: A Study of Style and Society (1976); Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics (1978); Courbet Reconsidered (1988); Women, Art, Power & Other Essays (1988); and The Politics of Vision (1990). Linda Nochlin died October 29, 2017, at the age of 86 in Manhattan. | |
| 339 | Name: | Arthur D. Nock | | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | 1/11/63 | | | | |
| 340 | 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. | |
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