| | 361 | Name: | Dr. John G. A. Pocock | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | December 12, 2023 | | | | | | |
J.G.A. Pocock grew up in New Zealand and holds his first degrees and an honorary doctorate from that country's university system. He earned his Ph.D. (1952) from Cambridge University, where he studied with Herbert Butterfield, J.H. Plumb and Peter Laslett. He has taught at the Universities of Canterbury and Otago in New Zealand, and in the United States at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Johns Hopkins University since 1974, becoming a professor emeritus in 1994. Since 1984 he has been convenor of the Steering Committee of the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. His publications include: The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (1957, 1987, French, 2000); Politics, Language and Time, Essays on Political Thought and History (1971, 1989); The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975, Italian, 1980, French, 1997, Spanish, 2002/2003, Japanese, 2008); an edition of The Political Works of James Harrington (1997); Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (1985, Japanese, 1990, French, 1998); an edition, with Gordon J. Schochet and Lois G. Schwoerer, of The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (1993); Barbarism and Religion, volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, volume II: Narratives of Civil Government (1999), volume III: The First Decline and Fall (2003), volume IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires (2005); and The Discovery of Islands: Essays on British History (2005) . Barbarism and Religion was the 2000 recipient of the APS's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History. Selections of his essays have been published in Italian, German, Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese. He is currently about to publish Political Thought as History: Essays on Theory and Method, and completing Barbarism and Religion, volume V: Religion: The First Triumph. J.G.A. Pocock was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1994. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University. | |
| 362 | Name: | Dr. Sarah B. Pomeroy | | | Institution: | City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Sarah Pomeroy received a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She then studied Roman law at Columbia for two years. She joined the faculty of Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York in 1964 and in 2003 she became Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita.
Sarah Pomeroy has set her mark on the history of women, as the leading scholar of ancient Greek women’s history since the publication in 1975 of her ground-breaking book Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. Her law degree and knowledge of papyrology have given her special access to under-used categories of primary evidence and allowed her to expand the range of women’s history, as well as ancient history. Her book Spartan Women was the first book-length examination of Spartan women ever published. In Women in Hellenistic Egypt, The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity, and in the recent Pythagorean Women, she uses archaeological evidence to flesh out the small bits of literary references available. The study of ancient history has benefited from her work through the widely used textbooks on ancient history on which she has collaborated with colleagues from different areas.
She is also the author of Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (1990), Women’s History and Ancient History (1991), Xenophon’s Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1995), and Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1999). Her book (with J. Kathirithamby) Mari Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer, won the 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal in the Non-Fiction Chapter Book category. Sarah Pomeroy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. | |
| 363 | Name: | Dr. Edith Porada | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 3/24/94 | | | | |
| 364 | Name: | Chandler R. Post | | | Year Elected: | 1946 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1882 | | | Death Date: | 11/2/59 | | | | |
| 365 | Name: | Dr. Frederick A. Pottle | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 5/16/87 | | | | |
| 366 | Name: | Dr. Richard J. Powell | | | Institution: | Duke University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989. After receiving his B.A. at Morehouse College, he earned the M.F.A. from Howard University. Shortly thereafter Powell completed a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Museum Education at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and, after a brief teaching stint in Virginia, he entered Yale University, where he received the M.A. in African American Studies and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. in the History of Art. While attending Yale, Powell was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which enabled him to conduct dissertation research in Copenhagen's National Museum of Denmark and throughout several Scandinavian countries.
It was during Powell's time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that he became interested in art criticism and organizing art exhibitions. In 1979 the Studio Museum in Harlem enlisted Powell as guest curator for Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics, one of the first art museum surveys of works by African American printmakers. After Powell's year in Denmark, he settled in Washington, D.C. where, while completing his dissertation under the auspices of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he became Director of Programs for the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA): one of several alternative art spaces in the 1980s whose contemporary exhibitions and programs fueled that era's "culture wars."
As a visual artist, Powell has exhibited his prints and drawings in group and solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and, in the 1980s, worked as a periodical and book illustrator, most notably for: The Massachusetts Review; Callaloo; Roseann Bell, Bettye Parker and Beverly Guy Sheftall's Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (1979); and Jessica Hagedorn's Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions (1981). His works are in the permanent collections of the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums (Bradford, UK), the Library of Congress, the Yale University Art Gallery, and in many private hands.
Richard J. Powell, a recognized authority on African American art and culture, has organized numerous art exhibitions, most notably: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989); Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997); To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999); Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary (2005); and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). Among the major museums where his curated exhibitions have been presented are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Along with teaching courses in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies, he has written extensively on topics ranging from primitivism to postmodernism, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997, 2002 & 2021), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008), and Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020). From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the world’s leading English language journal in art history. In 2013 Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and in 2016 was honored at the College Art Association's Annual Conference as the year's most Distinguished Scholar. In 2018 Powell was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
| 367 | Name: | John D. Prince | | | Year Elected: | 1913 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1868 | | | Death Date: | 10/11/45 | | | | |
| 368 | Name: | Dr. James B. Pritchard | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 1/1/97 | | | | |
| 369 | Name: | Tatiana Proskouriakoff | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 8/30/85 | | | | |
| 370 | Name: | Dr. Michael C. J. Putnam | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
Michael Putnam is W. Duncan MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, emeritus, at Brown University, where he has taught since 1960. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1959) and an honorary Ll. D from Lawrence University (1985).
Putnam was acting director of the Center for Hellenic Studies (1961-62) and served as one of its Senior Fellows (1971-1986). He was Townsend Professor of Classics at Cornell University in 1985 and inaugurated the Townsend Lectures. For 1987-88 he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and for 1994-95 a Visiting Scholar for Phi Beta Kappa. In 2004 he gave the Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College and in 2009 inaugurated the Amsterdam Virgil Lectures at the University of Amsterdam.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as the American Philological Association, now the Society for Classical Studies, of which he was director (1972-73), president (1982), delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies (1984-87), financial trustee (1997-2004), and co-chair of its Gateway Campaign Committee (2005-12). He received the Society's Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit in 1971 and its Distinguished Service Award in 2013. He has had a long association with the American Academy in Rome from which he received the Rome Prize (1963-4) and served as Mellon professor-in-charge of the Classical School (1989-9) and as trustee from 1991 to 2010 when he became Life Trustee. He received the Academy's Centennial Medal in 2009 and Trustees Medal in 2010. In 2019 he received the Arete Award from the Padeia Institute. He holds memberships in the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, and the Vergilian Society of America from which he received the McKay Prize in 2009 and which he served as Trustee from 2013-16. He was sole trustee of Lowell Observatory from 1967-87 and continues to serve on its board of advisors. From 1997-2014 he was a member of the Selections Committee of Fogg Museum of Art, and trustee of Bay Chamber Concerts from 1972-88 and 2010-16.
He is the author of a number of books, including The Poetry of the Aeneid (1965); Virgil's Pastoral Art (1970); Tibullus: A Commentary (1973); Virgil's Poem of the Earth (1979); Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy, and Epic (1982); Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes (1986); Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (1995); Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (1998); Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's Art (2000); Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004); Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006); Jacopo Sannazaro: The Latin Poetry (2009); The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil's Aeneid (2011); (with. Rodney Dennis): The Complete Poems of Tibullus: A En Face Edition (2012). He is co-editor of The Virgilian Tradition (2008) and of A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition (2010). He has held Guggenheim, ACLS and NEH fellowships. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1998. | |
| 371 | Name: | Dr. Hilary Putnam | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | March 13, 2016 | | | | | | |
Hilary W. Putnam is the Cogan University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. Before joining the faculty of Harvard, he was Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has also taught at Northwestern University and Princeton University (in both the Philosophy Department and Mathematics Departments). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles as well as several honorary degrees. Dr. Putnam is past president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), the Philosophy of Science Association, and the Association for Symbolic Logic. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the British Academy. His books include three volumes of Philosophical Papers published by Cambridge University Press, a book on mind, language and computers titled Representation and Reality, and two volumes of collected papers published by Harvard University Press under the titles Realism with a Human Face and Words and Life. His new book, The Threefold Cord: Mind, Body and World has just been published by Columbia University Press. Dr. Putnam was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1998. | |
| 372 | Name: | Dr. Willard Van O. Quine | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1908 | | | Death Date: | December 25, 2000 | | | | |
| 373 | Name: | Arthur H. Quinn | | | Year Elected: | 1940 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1875 | | | Death Date: | 10/16/60 | | | | |
| 374 | Name: | Dr. Jahan Ramazani | | | Institution: | University of Virginia | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1960 | | | | | | |
Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He was educated at Virginia (BA, summa cum laude, 1981), Oxford (MPhil, 1983), and Yale (PhD, 1988). He is the author of many books and articles on modern and contemporary poetry. Some of his scholarship has focused on the elegy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as in his first two books, Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (1990) and Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also raised the profile of postcolonial poetry in English of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Black and Asian Britain in his books The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001) and in his Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017). Other of his books exploring the global and transnational dimensions of poetry include A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association for the best book in comparative literary history (2008 to 2010), and Poetry in a Global Age (2020). He has also sought to illuminate poetry’s dialogue with other discourses and genres, particularly in Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014). In addition, he is the editor of “Poetry and Race” (2019), a special issue of New Literary History, and co-editor of “Song” (2016) in the same journal; a co-editor of the most recent editions of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) and The Norton Anthology of English Literature (2006, 2012, 2018); and an associate editor of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (2012). Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, the William Riley Parker Prize of the MLA, and the Thomas Jefferson Award, the University of Virginia’s highest honor. | |
| 375 | Name: | Dr. Arnold Rampersad | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Arnold Rampersad is the leading scholar of his generation in the field of African-American literature. His work on such major figures as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois is widely recognized as scholarship of the highest order, marked as it is by impeccable research and an elegant prose style. Dr. Rampersad's two-volume biography The Life of Langston Hughes (1986-88) is widely praised as a masterpiece of literary/historical narrative, and his mastery of this form was also evident in Days of Grace (1993), a memoir written with the assistance of the late Arthur Ashe. His latest work is Visible Man, a biography of Ralph Ellison. Currently Professor of English, Senior Associate Dean and the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, Dr. Rampersad has also served on the faculties of the University of Virginia and Rutgers, Columbia and Princeton Universities. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he has also edited several other works, including Slavery and the Literary Imagination and Race and American Culture. Perhaps more than any other scholar, Dr. Rampersad has made the study of African-American culture an integral part of intellectual life. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. He won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2012 and was awarded the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University in 2013. | |
| 376 | Name: | Edward K. Rand | | | Year Elected: | 1925 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1872 | | | Death Date: | 10/28/45 | | | | |
| 377 | Name: | Dr. John Rawls | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | November 24, 2002 | | | | |
| 378 | Name: | Dr. Gordon N. Ray | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1915 | | | Death Date: | 12/15/86 | | | | |
| 379 | 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 | | | | |
| 380 | Name: | Agnes Repplier | | | Year Elected: | 1928 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1855 | | | Death Date: | 12/15/50 | | | | |
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