| | 121 | Name: | Dr. Andrew Delbanco | | | Institution: | Teagle Foundation; Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Andrew Delbanco is Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. He was awarded the 2011 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama "for his writing that spans the literature of Melville and Emerson to contemporary issues in higher education." In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and named by Time Magazine as "America’s Best Social Critic." In 2003, he was named New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities. In 2006, he received the "Great Teacher Award" from the Society of Columbia Graduates.
Professor Delbanco is the author of many books, including, recently, College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (Princeton University Press, 2012), and The Abolitionist Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2012). Melville: His World and Work (2005) was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, in Britain under the Picador imprint, and has appeared in German and Spanish translation. Melville was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, and appeared on "best books" lists in the Washington Post, Independent (London), Dallas Morning News, and TLS. It was awarded the Lionel Trilling Award by Columbia University.
Other books include The Death of Satan (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997), and The Real American Dream (1999), which were named notable books by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. The Puritan Ordeal (1989) also won the Lionel Trilling Award. He has edited Writing New England (2001), The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992, 2009), volume two of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Teresa Toulouse), and, with Alan Heimert, The Puritans in America (1985). His most recent book is The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for American's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (2018).
Andrew Delbanco’s essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, New Republic, New York Times Magazine, and other journals, on topics ranging from. American literary and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education. Mr. Delbanco has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a member of the inaugural class of fellows at the New York Public Library Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is a trustee of the Library of America and trustee emeritus of the National Humanities Center. He has served as Vice President of PEN American Center, and as a trustee of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He became President of the Teagle Foundation in 2018. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 122 | Name: | Dr. Ronald Dworkin | | | Institution: | New York University; University College, Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 2008 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | February 14, 2013 | | | | | | |
Ronald Dworkin was Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, Oxford. He received his L.L.B. from Harvard Law School in 1957 and went on to clerk for Judge Learned Hand. He taught at Yale University Law School from 1962-69, serving as Holhfeld Professor of Law, and from 1969-98 was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and Fellow of University College. In 1994 he was awarded the American Philosophical Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence in recognition of "his book Law's Empire and his other jurisprudential writings over the past quarter century." His 2007 award of the Holberg Prize confirmed more widely what Dworkin's professional colleagues have come to take for granted: that there is no more influential thinker now at work in the fields radiating from the intersections of moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law. With the publication of Rawls' Theory of Justice, moral philosophy was brought back to the center of philosophical study, and Dworkin has expanded its reach both by essentially linking the interpretation of law with the perspective of morality, and by his unique position as a public intellectual. The position is unique in demonstrating in practice one of Dworkin's guiding ideas, namely that freedom of speech is fundamental to that responsibility for civic conversation apart from which society cannot know itself, that is, know what it values politically. Ronald Dworkin's publications include Taking Rights Seriously (1977); A Matter of Principle (1985); Law's Empire (1986); Philosophical Issues in Senile Dementia (1987); A Bill of Rights for Britain (1990); Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia and Individual Freedom (1993); Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution (1996); Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (2000); and Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate (2006). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1979). Ronald Dworkin was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008. He died on February 14, 2013, at the age of 81 in London. | |
| 123 | Name: | Dr. Gerald Early | | | Institution: | Washington University in St. Louis | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies and English Departments at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1982. He also has courtesy appointments in the American Culture Studies Program and the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University. He earned his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and the Ph.D. in English and American literature from Cornell University.
He has served as interim director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity in 2022-2023, and has served as the first chair of the African and African American Studies when it transitioned from program to department, 2014-2021. He had previously served as director of the African and African American Studies Program from 1992-1999. He has also served as the director of the American Culture Studies Program and is the founding director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University. He is the executive editor of The Common Reader, Washington University’s interdisciplinary journal devoted to the essay that is published under the auspices of the provost (http://commonreader.wustl.edu/). From 2009-2012, Early served on the advisory committee for tenure, promotion, and personnel for the School of Arts and Sciences.
Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. His collections of essays include Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture (1989); The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; This is Where I Came In: Essays on Black America in the 1960s (2003), and, most recently, A Level-Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports (2011). He is also the author of Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (1994). He was twice nominated for Grammy Awards for writing album liner notes, of which Early has written many including Black Power: Music of a Revolution (2004), Miles Davis, Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary (2009), Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones (2001), Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection, (2007), Motown: The Complete Motown Singles, Volume 2: 1962, The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, (1999), and Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance (2000).
Additionally, Early is a prolific anthologist. He launched the Best African American Essays 2010 with guest editor Randall Kennedy and Best African American Fiction 2010 with guest editor Nikki Giovanni. Both were part of the annual Best African American Essays and Best African American Fiction series published by Bantam Books for which Early served as the series editor during the life of the series. His other anthologies include The Cambridge Companion to Boxing (2019); Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman (2018, with Matthew Calihman); The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader (2001); Miles Davis and American Culture (2001); The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998); Ain’t But a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis (1998): and Body Language: Writers on Sport (1998). He has served as a consultant on several Ken Burns' documentary films - Baseball; Jazz; The Tenth Inning; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, and Jackie Robinson - all of which have aired on PBS. Early is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served or is currently serving on a number of non-profit boards in St. Louis including the Missouri History Museum, the Foundation Board of the St. Louis Public Library, Jazz St. Louis, Provident Behavioral Health, and the Whitaker Foundation. He served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Humanities Center where he enjoyed an appointment as the John Hope Franklin Fellow in 2001-2002.
He was nominated by President Obama to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, was confirmed by the Senate and began his five-term in August 2013. He was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 2013.
He has reviewed books for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post, among other publications.
His latest essay appears in Andrew Blauner’s On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, published in May 2024.
He served as a consultant for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown on "Souls of the Game: Voices of the Black Baseball Experience," the re-conception of their permanent Blacks and baseball exhibit, which re-opens May 2024. He also wrote the book that will accompany the exhibit, to be published by Ten Speed Press. | |
| 124 | Name: | Ludwig Edelstein | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | 8/16/1965 | | | | |
| 125 | Name: | Dr. Kathy Eden | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Kathy Eden, Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics at Columbia University, studies the history of rhetoric, Renaissance humanism, and the way the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman works of literature and literary theory impacted the reading and writing practices of early modern Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Her research has been supported by a number of foundations and institutions, including the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and All Souls, University of Oxford. In addition to publishing articles on texts as wide-ranging as Aristotle’s Poetics, Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine, Erasmus’ De copia, and Shakespeare’s King Lear, she is the author of a number of books, including Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition (1986), Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception (1997), Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property and the “Adages” of Erasmus (2001), winner of the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature, and The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy (2012). Between 2008 and 2012 she served as editor of the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook. At Columbia, where Eden also served as chair of the program of Literature Humanities, she has won several teaching awards, including the Mark Van Doren Award, the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, and the Great Teachers’ Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. Eden received her B.A. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. | |
| 126 | Name: | Franklin Edgerton | | | Year Elected: | 1935 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1885 | | | Death Date: | 12/7/1963 | | | | |
| 127 | Name: | Dr. Ronald Egan | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Ronald Egan is Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Chinese literature from Harvard University, writing a dissertation on the early historical work Zuo zhuan under the direction of James Robert Hightower. His research focuses on Chinese literature, aesthetics, and cultural history of the Tang-Song period. His publications include books on the literary works and lives of Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, the latter entitled Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi. He has also published a general study of innovations in Song dynasty aesthetic thought, entitled The Problem of Beauty: Aesthetic Thought and Pursuits in Northern Song Dynasty China, now available in a Chinese edition from Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing Company. He is also the translator of selected essays from Qian Zhongshu’s Guanzui biani, which appeared as Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters by Qian Zhongshu. A recent study concerns the works and reception history of the great woman poet of the twelfth century, Li Qingzhao, entitled The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China (Harvard University Press, 2013), also now available in a Chinese edition from Shanghai Ancient Books. Subsequently, he published a complete new translation of Li Qingzhao writings, available in a bilingual edition in the Library of Chinese Translations series (De Gruyter, 2019). He previously taught at the Harvard University, Wellesley College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and UCLA. At UC Santa Barbara, where he taught for twenty-five years, he was the founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. He formerly served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and as President of the American Oriental Society. | |
| 128 | Name: | Stefan Einarsson | | | Year Elected: | 1954 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 4/9/1972 | | | | |
| 129 | Name: | Loren C. Eiseley | | | Year Elected: | 1960 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 7/9/1977 | | | | |
| 130 | Name: | Dr. Elizabeth Anderson | | | Institution: | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1987, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, and joined the Philosophy Department at University of Michigan. Professor Anderson designed University of Michigan’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, and was its founding director. She has won fellowships from the ACLS and Guggenheim Foundations, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, and is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), Private Government (How Employers Rule our Lives, and Why We Don’t Talk About It) (Princeton UP, 2017) and numerous, widely reprinted articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics. She specializes in moral and political philosophy, social and feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. She has written extensively on egalitarianism, the interaction of facts and values in social science research, the intersection of democratic theory and social epistemology, and pragmatism. Her current research reconsiders the history of the Protestant work ethic from the 17th century to 21st century neoliberalism. | |
| 131 | Name: | Sir John Elliott | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1982 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | March 10, 2022 | | | | | | |
Sir John Elliott was born in Reading, England, on June 23, 1930. He was brought up in Surrey, where his father was headmaster of a preparatory school, and won a scholarship at the age of thirteen to Eton College. After military service, he went to Cambridge University in 1949 with a scholarship in modern languages but read history at Cambridge, where he won a First Class with distinction in both parts of the Historical Tripos. From 1952-55 he did research in the history of seventeenth-century Spain under the direction of Herbert Butterfield and was awarded a Ph. D. in 1955 for a thesis on the Catalan revolt of 1640, subsequently published in 1963 under the title of The Revolt of the Catalans. On the strength of this thesis he was also elected into a Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently was appointed a teaching Fellow of the College and University Lecturer in History. In 1958 he married Oonah Sophia Butler. From 1968-73 he was Professor of History and Head of the History Department of King's College, University of London. In 1973 he and his wife moved to the United States when he was appointed a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 1990 he returned to England following his appointment as Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and he held the chair until his retirement in 1997. He is now an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, to which the Regius chair is attached, and also of Trinity College, Cambridge. As a historian he has concentrated primarily on Early Modern Spain, Europe and the Americas. Among his publications, in addition to The Revolt of the Catalans, are Imperial Spain, 1469-1716 (1963); Europe Divided, 1559-1598 (1968); The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 (1970); A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV, in collaboration with Jonathan Brown (1980); Richelieu and Olivares (1984); The Count-Duke of Olivares (1986); Spain and its World (1989). Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 was published in 2006. His honors and prizes include the Wolfson Prize for History (1986), the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences (1996), the Balzan Prize for History, awarded by the International Balzan Foundation (1999) and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians (2007). Sir John holds several honorary doctorates, and in 1994 was knighted for his services to history. He also holds the Spanish orders of the Grand Cross of Alfonso el Sabio, and of Isabel la Católica. | |
| 132 | Name: | Dr. Murray B. Emeneau | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1952 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | August 29, 2005 | | | | |
| 133 | Name: | Dr. Caryl Emerson | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Caryl Emerson received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1980. She was assistant and associate professor of Russian literature at Cornell University from 1980-87. In 1988 she became the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, a position she currently holds. Caryl Emerson is widely regarded within the academic profession as the pre-eminent Slavist of her generation. She has also won a large readership outside the university as a prolific contributor to the popular press, reviewing many books for the New Republic, Opera News, New York Times Book Review, etc., and contributing program essays on Russian opera to Stagebill. Her public-spiritedness comes through in her list of conference appearances (ca. 10 a year) on Bakhtin, and she is chiefly responsible for his current vogue. In addition to the books listed below, she has published 70 articles. In 1997 she received the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. Dr. Emerson is the author of The Life of Musorgsky (1999); The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997); (with R.W. Oldani) Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations (1994); (with W. Morson) Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (1990); Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme (1986); and editor of Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges, (1989). She has been the general editor of the monograph series "Studies in Russian Literature and Theory" at Northwestern University Press since 1992. She has served on the editorial boards of Comparative Literature; Literary Imagination; Russian Review; Slavic and East European Journal; and Tolstoy Studies Journal. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. | |
| 134 | Name: | Richard Ettinghausen | | | Year Elected: | 1976 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 4/2/1979 | | | | |
| 135 | Name: | Eugene G. O'Neill | | | Year Elected: | 1935 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1888 | | | Death Date: | 11/27/53 | | | | |
| 136 | Name: | Dr. Robert Fagles | | | Institution: | Princeton 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: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | March 26, 2008 | | | | |
| 137 | Name: | Dr. Lothar von Falkenhausen | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Lothar von Falkenhausen is the leading archaeologist of China of his generation. A polyglot like few others, he has taught—each time in the local language—as Visiting Professor in Beijing, Münster, Hong Kong, Kyoto, Paris, and Heidelberg. His most recent book Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (2006), by now translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, is the definitive social history of bronze age China. His vast list of publications ranges from antiquarianism to ancient musical instruments, and further on to ancient salt production, empire and urban studies, questions of literacy and orality in the Chinese canon, philosophical perspectives in Chinese ritual, religious mortuary practices, and social ranking in tombs. His work is as transnational as it is interdisciplinary, ranging across continents and centuries, and combining archaeology with intellectual, social, technological, and economic history. | |
| 138 | Name: | Livingston Farrand | | | Year Elected: | 1924 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1867 | | | Death Date: | 11/8/1939 | | | | |
| 139 | Name: | Dr. Didier Fassin | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He has recently been elected at the Collège de France to a permanent Chair named “Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies”.
Initially trained as a physician in Paris, he practiced internal medicine as an infectious disease specialist at the Hospital Pitié-Salpétrière and taught public health at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. He also worked as a medical doctor in India and Tunisia. Later shifting to social science, he received his M.A. in anthropology from La Sorbonne, and his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, writing his thesis on power relations and health inequalities in Senegal.
After having been granted a fellowship by the French Institute for Andean Studies to investigate maternal mortality and living conditions among Indian women in Ecuador, he became assistant professor of sociology in 1991 at the University of Paris North. There, he created CRESP, the Center for Research on Social and Health Issues, working on several public health problems such as the history of child lead poisoning in France and the politics of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Appointed as Professor of sociology at the University of Paris North in 1997, he was elected two years later as Director of studies in anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. In 2007, he founded IRIS, the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences, in an effort to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists and legal scholars around contemporary political and social issues. He himself developed a long-term program exploring the multiple facets of humanitarianism in local and international policies, especially towards the poor, immigrant and refugees, as well as victims of violence and epidemics. In parallel, he launched a research project on borders and boundaries in an attempt to articulate the issues around immigration and racialization.
In 2008, he received an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for his program Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology, which he developed with a team of twelve anthropologists and sociologists. To reappraise theoretical issues in the analysis of morals and ethics, he himself conducted ethnographic research on police, justice and prison in France. In 2009, he succeeded Clifford Geertz at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, and became the first James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science. His inaugural public lecture was entitled “Critique of Humanitarian Reason”. In 2010, he became Visiting Professor at the Universities of Princeton and Hong Kong. A year later, he created a Summer Program in Social Science for earlier-career scholars from Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, on the basis of two-year sessions, the first one in Princeton, the second one in the Global South.
In France, he has been involved in the politics of science, as a member of the Scientific Council of INSERM, the National Institute for Health and Medical Research, of the Ethics Committee of INRA, the National Institute for Agronomic Research, and of the Scientific Council of the City of Paris. In 2006, he became the chair of the Committee for Humanities and Social Science in the French National Agency for Research. In the United States, as a member of the Committee of World Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association appointed in 2010, he was committed to the global circulation of knowledge and the reduction of the gap between the North and the South in the development of social science. And as a guest advisor of the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission, he has contributed since 2018 to the reform of the state penal and penitentiary system.
His research on punishment was the matter of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley, and his reflection on life was the topic of his Adorno Lectures, at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. He also gave the inaugural Lemkin Lecture at Rutgers University on resentment and ressentiment, the Tumin Lecture at Princeton University on the life of things, the Eric Wolf Lecture at the University of Vienna on conspiracy theories, and the Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia on crisis. He developed a theoretical analysis of the public presence of the social sciences, which he presented in his recipient lecture for the Gold Medal in anthropology at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award he has been granted has allowed him to conduct a multi-sited research exploring the ubiquitous notion of crisis and its multiple meanings from a global perspective. Appointed in 2019 at the Annual Chair in Public Health at the Collège de France he gave his inaugural lecture on the inequality of lives. In 2021, he was elected at the Academia Europaea and received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Liège.
Apart from his academic career, he has participated in various solidarity non-governmental organizations in France, in particular as Administrator and later Vice-president of MSF, Doctors Without Borders, from 1999 to 2003, and as President of COMEDE, the Medical Committee for the Exiles since 2006. Following the publication of his book on urban policing, he was requested to testify as amicus curiae in the first French lawsuit against racial discrimination in law enforcement. He is a frequent contributor to various media, in France to national radio programs, newspapers and magazines, such as France Culture, Le Monde, Libération and Alternatives économiques, and occasionally writes for the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, among others.
His publications include: as editor, Contemporary States of Emergency. The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions (with Mariella Pandolfi, Zone Books, 2010), Moral Anthropology. A Companion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Moral Anthropology; A Critical Reader (Routledge, 2014), Writing the World of Policing. The Difference Ethnography Makes (The University of Chicago Press, 2017), If Truth Be Told. The Politics of Public Ethnography (Duke University Press, 2017), A Time for Critique (with Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University Press, 2018), Deepening Divides. How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineates our World (Pluto Press, 2020), Words and Worlds. A Lexicon for Dark Times (with Veena Das, Duke University Press, 2021), Pandemic Exposures. Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus (with Marion Fourcade, Hau Books, 2021), Crisis Under Critique. How People Assess, Transform and Respond to Critical Situations (with Axel Honneth, Columbia University Press, 2022), and La Société qui vient (Seuil, 2022); as author, When Bodies Remember. Politics and Experience of AIDS in South Africa (University of California Press, 2007), The Empire of Trauma. An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with Richard Rechtman, Princeton University Press, 2009), Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present (University of California Press, 2011), Enforcing Order. An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity, 2013), At the Heart of the State. The Moral World of Institutions (with Yasmine Bouagga et al., Pluto, 2015), Four Lectures on Ethics. Anthropological Perspectives (with Michael Lambek, Veena Das & Webb Keane, Hau Books, 2015), Prison Worlds. An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Polity, 2016), Life. A Critical User’s Manual (Polity, 2018), The Will to Punish (Oxford University Press, 2018), Policing the City. An Ethno-Graphic (with Frédéric Debomy and Jake Raynal, Other Press, 2021), Death of a Traveller. A Counter Investigation (Polity, 2021), Les Mondes de la santé publique. Excursions anthropologiques. Cours au Collège de France (Seuil, 2021). His books have been translated into eight languages. | |
| 140 | Name: | William Scott Ferguson | | | Year Elected: | 1937 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1876 | | | Death Date: | 4/28/1954 | | | | |
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