| | 221 | Name: | Dr. Alexander Jones | | | Institution: | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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Alexander Jones is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. In 2017 he became the Leon Levy Director at the Institute. He studies the history of the mathematical and physical sciences in antiquity, particularly Greco-Roman and Babylonian astronomy; Greco-Roman physical and mathematical sciences; and scientific texts on papyri. He is the author of five books, including Pappus of Alexandria, Book 7 (2 volumes, 1986), and about forty articles. His edition of the Oxyrhynchus astronomical and astrological papyri, the largest collection ever published, with translation and full technical commentary, is a landmark, entirely transforming the modern study of ancient astronomy and astrology and worthy to stand beside O. Neugebauer's "Astronomical Cuneiform Texts" (1955) and A.J. Sachs's and H. Hunger's "Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia" (1988). A graduate of Brown University (Ph.D., 1985), he served on the University of Toronto faculty from 1992-2008. | |
| 222 | Name: | Dr. Kellie Jones | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Kellie Jones, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), and holds an honorary Doctorate from The Courtauld in London. She has also received awards for her work from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, The College Arts Association, and Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. She was the inaugural winner of the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History for the High Museum of Art in 2005. In 2016 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Prof. Jones is Chair of the Department African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. She has spent close to two thrilling decades at Columbia University. From 1999 to 2006 she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Prof. Jones received both her PhD and MA degrees from Yale in the History of Art. Her BA is from Amherst College.
Prof. Jones’s writings have appeared in a multitude of exhibition catalogues and journals. She is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017), which received the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the American Book Award in 2018 and was named a Best Book of the Decade in 2019 by ArtNews, Best Art Book of 2017 in The New York Times and a Best Book of 2017 in Artforum. She is at work on book projects on sculptor Augusta Savage as well as on Conceptual Art. Her book October Files: David Hammons (MIT Press, 2024) is at press.
Kellie Jones has also worked as a curator for over four decades. In the first decade of her career she worked fairly exclusively within institutions including the Walker Art Center and The Studio Museum in Harlem. However, for much of her curatorial career she served as a guest curator for a variety of venues. She has organized shows for the São Paulo Bienal (1989, showing Martin Puryear; which won best individual exhibition at the Bienal that year) and Johannesburg Biennale (1997, Life’s Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s). She has numerous major national and international exhibitions to her credit. Her exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011 and 2012 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She was co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s” (Brooklyn Museum), named one the best exhibitions of 2014 by Artforum. | |
| 223 | Name: | Dr. William Chester Jordan | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
William Chester Jordan received a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1973 and has remained at Princeton throughout his career. Professor of History since 1986, he also served as director of the Davis Center for Historical Studies from 1994-99. Dr. Jordan is a master medievalist. Beginning as a historian of the state, he has consistently made the development of the central political and social institutions of the great feudal monarchies the core of his work. Thorough investigations in the French national and provincial archives have enabled him to shed new light on classic subjects as diverse as the military organization of the Crusades and the dissolution of serfdom. At the same time, however, he has never lost sight of the many thousands of medieval people who had to forge communities and ways of living outside the central institutions of the great states, and sometimes in sharp opposition to them. His work on the lives of serfs, Jews and women in the Middle Ages applies to new sources, new problems, and unstudied social groups the same expert craftmanship exhibited in his work on serfdom. His book on the famine of the fourteenth century is a still broader account of the social and human consequences of catastrophe.
Jordan's wide historical sympathies, remarkable linguistic gifts, and eloquence in speech and writing have won him an international reputation, and his rigorous undergraduate and graduate teaching has led brilliant younger scholars to devote themselves to careers in the field. A list of his publications include Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (1979); From Servitude to Freedom: Manumission in the Sénonais in the Thirteenth Century (1986); The French Monarchy and the Jews from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians (1989); Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Developing Societies (1993); The Great Famine: Northern France in the Early Fourteenth Century (1996); Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship, Crusades and the Jews (2001); Europe in the High Middle Ages (2001); Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians, (2005). He won the American Philosophical Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in 2012 for his lecture on "Count Robert's 'Pet' Wolf." In 2018 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. William Chester Jordan was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. | |
| 224 | Name: | Dr. Brian Joseph | | | Institution: | Ohio State University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Brian Daniel Joseph is currently Distinguished University Professor, Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of Slavic Languages and Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, at the Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 before beginning his career at Ohio State.
Brian Joseph’s illuminating introductory paper from our Spring 2017 meeting (now published in Proceedings 162, 1) synthesized the issues in reconciling the linguistic and DNA-derived evidence of the peopling of Europe with languages of the Indo-European family. His own prodigious research and publication as an Indo-Europeanist and Balkanologist has centered on the prehistory and history of Greek over its 3500 years and its complex, now millennium-old relations to languages of the other families of the region, principally Albanian, South Slavic, and Turkish. Bringing to this work a profound mastery of contemporary morphological and syntactic theory, his scholarship has decisively rejuvenated linguists’ sense of the unique internal coherence of language as a grammatical structure, yet one ever adapting to the sometimes complex, multilingual social conditions that sustain it. He is the defining master in his generation of theoretically informed historical linguistics. Author or co-author of over 250 substantial journal articles and book chapters, of seven published books and 19 edited volumes or special journal issues, Joseph has also served the entire field of linguistics as editor of its flagship journal, Language.
He is the author of: The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive: A Study in Areal, General, and Historical Linguistics, 1983 (reprint 2009); Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek, 1990; (with H. Hock) Language Change, Language History, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 1996; The Modern Greek Weak Subject Pronoun τος, 2015; (with P. Pappas) Modern Greek – A Grammatical Sketch, 2016; (with V. Friedman) The Balkan Languages, 2018. He has edited: (with P. Postal) Studies in Relational Grammar 3, 1990; (with R. Janda) Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 2003; (with A. Ralli, M. Janse) Studies in Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory, 2011. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2004), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007), Linguistic Society of America (2010) (vice-president/president-elect, 2018). Brian Joseph was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 225 | Name: | Dr. Richard L. Kagan | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 2011 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Richard L. Kagan is Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University where he has been a member of the faculty since 1972. A graduate of Columbia University (BA, 1965) and Cambridge University (Ph.D., 1968), Professor Kagan has also taught at Indiana University, the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Barcelona, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Ecole de Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales in Paris.
His grants include awards from the American Philosophical Society, the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Association, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Grant Committee, etc. He has been a visiting fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton University), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, DC.
Specializing in the history of early modern Europe, especially that of Spain and its overseas empire, his major publications include Students and Society in Early Modern Spain (Johns Hopkins, 1974); Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 (North Carolina, 1981); Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (California, 1990); and Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (Yale, 2000). He is also the editor of Spanish Cities of the Golden Age: The Views of Anton van den Wyngaerde (California, 1989); (with Geoffrey Parker) Spain, Europe and the Atlantic World (Cambridge, 1995); Spain and America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States (Illinois, 2002); (with Abby Dyer) Inquisitorial Inquiries: The Brief Lives of Secret Jews and other Heretics (2004); (with Philip Morgan) Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism (2008); and Clio and the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2009).
Other publications include articles in the American Historical Review, Art Bulletin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Past and Present, Rivista Historica Italiana, Società e Storia, Studies in the History of Art, Studia Historica, etc. He has also contributed essays to several exhibition catalogues, notably El Greco of Toledo (National Gallery of Art, 1982) Circa 1492 (National Gallery of Art, 1992), Spain in the Age of Exploration, 1492-1819 (Seattle Art Museum, 2004), and Nueva York, an exhibition sponsored by the New York Historical Society and the Museo del Barrio (2010).
Professor Kagan's current research focuses on artistic and cultural relations between the United States and the wider Hispanic world. His recent publications in this area include "The Spanish Craze in the United States: Cultural Entitlement and the Appropriation of Spain's Cultural Patrimony, ca. 1890 - ca. 1930," Revista Complutense de Historia de American 36 (2010), 37-58, and "Blame it on Washington Irving: New York's Discovery of the Art and Architecture of Spain," Nueva York: 1613-1945, ed. Edward Sullivan, (New York, New York Historical Society, and Scala, 2010), 155-171. | |
| 226 | Name: | Ernst H. Kantorowicz | | | Year Elected: | 1957 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1895 | | | Death Date: | 9/9/63 | | | | |
| 227 | Name: | Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | Death Date: | September 22, 2023 | | | | | | |
Evelyn Fox Keller received her Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Harvard University, worked for a number of years at the interface of physics and biology, and is now Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of many articles and books, including: A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock; Reflections on Gender and Science; Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science; Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology; The Century of the Gene; and Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. A new book, The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture, is forthcoming. Between Jan, 2006 and July, 2007, she held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris at REHSEIS. | |
| 228 | Name: | R. Hayward Keniston | | | Year Elected: | 1944 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1883 | | | Death Date: | 8/10/70 | | | | |
| 229 | Name: | Dr. George A. Kennedy | | | Institution: | University of North Carolina | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | July 28, 2022 | | | | | | |
George A. Kennedy taught classics and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for thirty years. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954 and taught at Harvard, Haverford College and the University of Pittsburgh before being named Paddison Professor of Classics (now Emeritus) at UNC in 1972. Dr. Kennedy is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and has served as a member of the National Humanities Council and as president of the American Philological Association and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He is author of 13 books on the history of rhetoric and literary criticism, including The Art of Persuasion in Greece (1963), Art and Rhetoric in the Roman World (1972) and Classical Rhetoric and its Christian and Secular Tradition (1980). He is a widely recognized authority on the arts of persuasion in the classical world and on the style of Greek, Latin and early Christian literature. | |
| 230 | Name: | Dr. Joseph Kerman | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | March 17, 2014 | | | | | | |
Joseph Kerman was a central figure in American musicology during the discipline's ascendancy in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a student of Oliver Strunk at Princeton; major influences were D.F. Tovey, William Arrowsmith, and E.T. Cone. After joining the University of California, Berkeley in 1951, he worked to consolidate its leading position in musicological studies. In 1972-74 he held the Heather Professorship of Music at Oxford and in 1987-88 delivered the Charles Eliot North Lectures at Harvard (published as Concerto Conversations). A self-described "critic and musicologist", he always addressed general readers as well as specialists; his first book, Opera as Drama, reached a broad readership. He wrote for general readers in Hudson Review (1948-62) and New York Review (1970-). He also urged that criticism should assume a role within "official" musicology; the hasty evolution of the discipline in the 1980s was spurred both by his polemical book Contemplating Music and his editorship of the innovative journal 19th Century Music. He wrote on a variety of topics in classical music up to the twentieth century, with specialties in Elizabethan music and the music of Beethoven (books: The Elizabethan Madrigal and The Masses and Motets of William Byrd; Beethoven, with Alan Tyson, and The Beethoven Quartets). Other books are The Art of Fugue, a critical edition of Beethoven's "Kafka" sketchbook, the long-running textbook Listen, and the essay collections Write All These Down and Opera and the Morbidity of Music. Joseph Kerman died March 17, 2014, at the age of 89 in Berkeley, California. He had been elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 231 | Name: | Dr. Martin Kern | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Martin Kern is the inaugural Greg (’84) and Joanna (P13) Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies at Princeton University. Born and educated in Germany, he received his Dr. Phil. In Sinology, German Literature, and Art History from Cologne University in 1996. He taught at the University of Washington and Columbia University before moving to Princeton in 2000. He held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies (2002-03), the American Council of Learned Societies (2006-07), the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (2006-07), and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2010-11) and was appointed Astor Visiting Lecturer and Fellow Commoner of The Queen’s College, Oxford University (2013), the inaugural Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecturer, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (2010), and Distinguished Professor at the Research Center for Comparative Literature and World Literature, Shanghai Normal University (2014-16). He was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Among other functions in Europe, China, and the United States, Kern is co-editor of the pre-eminent sinological journal T’oung Pao (since 2010); founding managing editor of Studies in the History of Chinese Texts (2006); co-editor of Handbook of Oriental Studies, academic board member of the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University (Shanghai; 2012); and Executive Council member at the Annual World Conference on Sinology, Renmin University (Beijing; 2014).
Kern’s research cuts broadly across the fields of literature, philology, history, religion, and art in ancient and medieval China, with a dual focus on poetry and the formation of ancient Chinese textuality and cultural memory. The author and editor of nine books and some eighty book chapters and articles (as of 2015), he studies the composition, reception, and canonization of early Chinese texts, including through the analysis of recently excavated manuscripts and from comparative perspectives. He publishes on a wide range of topics, including the history of Chinese literature; the performance of texts in political and religious ritual; authorship as a historical and theoretical problem; issues of writing and orality; the early development of Chinese literary thought; style and rhetoric in philosophy and historiography; the rise of Chinese political philosophy; calligraphy; and the history and current issues of Sinology as a global field. | |
| 232 | Name: | Alfred V. Kidder | | | Year Elected: | 1934 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1887 | | | Death Date: | 6/11/63 | | | | |
| 233 | Name: | Fiske Kimball | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1888 | | | Death Date: | 8/14/55 | | | | |
| 234 | Name: | Dr. Patrick Vinton Kirch | | | Institution: | University of Hawai'I at Manoa; University of California, Berkeley & P.A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
Unsurpassed as a prehistorian of the Pacific, Patrick Kirch was curator of the P. A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is now Chancellor's Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology Emeritus. In 2019 he moved to the University of Hawai'i as a professor of anthropology. In a succession of outstanding contributions, he has shown how Pacific islanders have made changing adaptations to life in the islands over 3,000 years, exemplifying regional archaeology at its best and greatly clarifying our knowledge of the important Lapita cultural horizon of the first and second millennia BC. His book The Wet and the Dry makes a convincing case for recognizing the importance of intensification of agriculture in connection with shifting cultivation and tree crops as well as through irrigation in environments where irrigation is not feasible. He also demonstrates that, contrary to widely held theory, irrigation systems do not require centralized state authority for their development, maintenance, and management. Dr. Kirch's intellectual interests are broad, incorporating geology, botany, and cultural anthropology into his archaeological research. A native of Hawaii, Dr. Kirch has published numerous other works relating to the Pacific, including Marine Explorations in Prehistoric Hawaii (1979), Tikopia: The Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier (1982); The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms (1984); and Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology Prehistory (1985). He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (1975). | |
| 235 | Name: | Dr. Philip Stuart Kitcher | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
I was born in the UK, where I had the good fortune to pursue my secondary education at Christ’s Hospital, one of Britain’s great charitable foundations. From there I went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, to study mathematics. In my final year, however, I switched to the history and philosophy of science, intending to specialize in the history of science. Reading T.S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions inspired a further change, and led me to Princeton and to a Ph.D in the philosophy of science.
My early research concentrated on the philosophy of mathematics, and on general issues in philosophy of science, particularly those raised by Kuhn’s work. But, at the very beginning of my teaching career, undergraduates in my class on philosophy of science urged me to discuss biology (a subject about which I had been completely ignorant). Responding to their concerns, I quickly became fascinated. Thanks to a grant from the ACLS, I was able to supplement my reading with a year at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, where I learned much from Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, and Ernst Mayr. During the 1980s, I wrote extensively on topics in the philosophy of biology. My more general work in the philosophy of science culminated in The Advancement of Science, published in 1993.
Shortly thereafter, the Library of Congress invited me to spend a year writing a report on the implications of the Human Genome Project. The work I did in this area (much of it published in 1996 in The Lives to Come) changed my views about what philosophers of science ought to be doing. I began to see the sciences as embedded within societies, to whose legitimate aims they are partially responsible. Two books, Science, Truth, and Democracy (2001) and Science in a Democratic Society (2011), have tried to probe the relations between the sciences and the human good.
The shift in my thinking was accompanied by a new concentration on ethics, and an attempt to understand how ethical life might fit within an evolutionary picture of our species. Here I was greatly aided by conversations with Sidney Morgenbesser, who helped me to see the kinship between my views and those of John Dewey. Dewey’s pragmatism has left deep imprints in my more recent writings, not only in The Ethical Project (2011) and Preludes to Pragmatism (2012), but also in my discussions of religion (Living with Darwin, 2007, and Life After Faith, 2014). Since coming to Columbia in 1999, the wonderful interdisciplinary intellectual environment has quickened my long-standing interests in music and literature, leading me to write on Wagner, Mahler, Joyce, and Thomas Mann.
I’m currently engaged in several attempts to elaborate a Deweyan pragmatism for our century, by supplying a general framework and focusing on education, democracy, and moral progress. I hope to have enough time not only to complete these projects, but also for further philosophical explorations of literary and musical works. I trust my long - and winding - intellectual journey is not yet finished. With luck, there will be a few more bends and surprises. - Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. He has also earned many other honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Psychological Association and the Prometheus prize of the American Philosophical Association. In 2020 he was awarded the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic philosophy. In 2021 he was awarded the 2020 2020 Hempel Award, "recognizing outstanding lifetime achievement in the philosophy of science" and published two books, Moral Progress (June) and The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education (November). | |
| 236 | Name: | Dr. Ernst Kitzinger | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | January 22, 2003 | | | | |
| 237 | Name: | Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn | | | Year Elected: | 1952 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1905 | | | Death Date: | 7/29/1960 | | | | |
| 238 | Name: | Dr. Elfriede Regina (Kezia) Knauer | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | June 7, 2010 | | | | | | |
Elfriede Knauer has an incredible range of knowledge in the ancient (and even somewhat modern) art world and history. She has travelled well beyond the normal compass of the archaeologist; she is expert in the culture of China, the Russian steppes, Persia and Iran and the ancient Greek and Roman world. She wrote a book on the Silk Road, which she has personally travelled. Dr. Knauer has written on such a variety of subjects that only a perusal of the titles of her publications can give an idea of what this scholar can control. Born in Germany, Dr. Knauer earned her Ph.D. from Frankfurt University and is currently a Consulting Scholar in the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. | |
| 239 | Name: | Dr. Bernard M. W. Knox | | | Institution: | Center for Hellenic Studies | | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | July 22, 2010 | | | | | | |
Bernard M. W. Knox was born and raised in England. His early focus on languages won him a scholarship to study at St. John's College in Cambridge. He received his degree in 1936, then left for Spain to fight with the International Brigade against Franco. Seriously wounded, he returned to England, then moved to the United States to marry his American wife in 1939. Two years later, he joined the army and was commissioned as a defense officer on an American air base in England. His ability with languages and desire to be involved led to his deployment to France, where he parachuted in and took an active part in the operations of the Maquis in support of the invading forces. He was later transferred to the Italian front. He received the Croix de Guerre à l'ordre de l'armée (avec palmes) and the Bronze Star with cluster. In 1945 he returned to the United States and took up graduate studies at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in 1948 and stayed at Yale as a professor of Greek until 1961 when he became the first director of the newly opened Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., a post he held for 24 years before retiring and being named Director Emeritus. He was the author of Oedipus at Thebes (1957), Oedipus the King (1959), The Heroic Temper (1964), Word and Action (1979), and Essays Ancient and Modern (1989). In 2004 he was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences. The prize certificate citation reads, "In recognition of the role this brilliant classicist has played on an international stage by presenting, in his writings, his teaching and the power of his example, the civilizations of Greece and Rome; as a man of words and a man of action too - he has offered a lucid reminder of where we come from and an inspiring vision of what we may become." Dr. Knox had been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1985. He died July 22, 2010, at the age of 95. | |
| 240 | Name: | Dr. Ludwig Koenen | | | Institution: | University of Michigan | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | May 9, 2023 | | | | | | |
Ludwig Koenen has taught at the University of Michigan since 1975. As Herbert C. Youtie Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Papyrology, he is regarded as one of the world's most renowned papyrologists. His research has centered primarily on the religious history of the Roman Empire, especially the period in which Orthodox Christianity became established as a state religion. He has served as chair of the university's Department of Classical Studies and has overseen the organization, cataloguing and preparation for publication of its papyri collection, the largest in the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Koenen received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 1957 and taught there from that time until his tenure at Michigan. He has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and, since 1975, has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has also served as president of the American Philological Association. | |
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