| | 341 | Name: | Wallace Notestein | | | Year Elected: | 1946 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1879 | | | Death Date: | 2/2/69 | | | | |
| 342 | Name: | Dr. Martha Craven Nussbaum | | | Institution: | University of Chicago Law School | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She received her B.A. from New York University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has taught at Harvard, Brown and Oxford Universities. Dr. Nussbaum found in Aristotle and in the thinkers of the Hellenistic period arguments concerning the formation of ethical judgments and the healing of unruly desires that bear importantly on modern dilemmas. She is a public intellectual, offering relevant comments on moral issues, the role of literature and the nature of law.
From 1986-93, Dr. Nussbaum was a research advisor at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, a part of the United Nations University. She has chaired the Committee on International Cooperation and the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical Association, and has been a member of the Association's National Board.
Dr. Nussbaum received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction in 1990 and the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the best collection of essays in 1991; Cultivating Humanity won the Ness Book Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1998, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2002. Sex and Social Justice won the book award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy in 2000. Some of Martha Nussbaum's most recent works are Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality (2008), Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (2010), The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (2012), and Monarchy of Fear (2018). In 2009 she was awarded the A.SK prize by Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, an award that pays tribute to social system reformers, Phi Beta Kappa selected Nussbaum for the Sidney Hook Memorial Award in 2012, in 2018 she won the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, and in 2021 she won the Holberg Prize. Martha Nussbaum was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1995. She won the Society's Henry M. Phillips Prize in 2009 in recognition of her intellectual leadership in philosophy, law and religion, including in particular her development and application of a "capabilities approach" to justice in a variety of contexts including women's rights in developing countries and worldwide, of the disabled and the impaired, and animal species. | |
| 343 | Name: | Dr. Heiko A. Oberman | | | Institution: | University of Arizona | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | April 22, 2001 | | | | |
| 344 | Name: | Dr. Carol J. Oja | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American Studies at Harvard and Faculty Director of the Humanities at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a cultural historian of music with a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on American music and culture, with an emphasis on interracial history and social justice. Her most recent book is Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, edited with Charles Hiroshi Garrett (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) won the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Oxford 2000) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Book Award, and her Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Smithsonian 1990) also won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Oja’s coauthored article "Marian Anderson's 1953 Concert Tour of Japan: A Transnational History," written with Katie Callam, Makiko Kimoto, and Misako Ohta and published in American Music (2019), won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. She was co-director of the digital humanities exhibit Eileen Southern and “The Music of Black Americans,” together with Christina Linklater, and she is author or editor of six other books.
Oja is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she was inducted into the Collegium of Scholars of the Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College; she has served as Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic; she has twice chaired the Pulitzer Prize committee in music; and she was a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music, and she is a past president of that organization. She has held fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, the Radcliffe Institute, ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current book-in-progress is Jim Crow in the Concert Hall: Revisiting Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial Concert and the Racist History that Made it a Flash Point | |
| 345 | Name: | Dr. Naomi Oreskes | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1958 | | | | | | |
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is an internationally renowned geologist, science historian, and author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science, including The Rejection of Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth, and in recent decades has been a leading voice on the issue of anthropogenic climate change. Her research focuses on the earth and environmental sciences, with a particular interest in understanding scientific consensus and dissent. Her 2004 essay "The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change" (Science 306: 1686) has been widely cited, both in the United States and abroad, including in the Royal Society’s publication, "A Guide to Facts and Fictions about Climate Change," in the Academy-award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes | |
| 346 | Name: | Charles G. Osgood | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1971 | | | Death Date: | 7/28/64 | | | | |
| 347 | Name: | Dr. Martin Ostwald | | | Institution: | Swarthmore College & University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | April 10, 2010 | | | | | | |
Martin Ostwald is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Classics at Swarthmore College as well as Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. With scholarly interests in the field of ancient Greek political thought and institutions, he is considered among the most influential and productive students of his time in both classical literature and ancient history. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1922, Dr. Ostwald escaped the Nazi occupation and Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a youth, fleeing first to Holland, then to England and Canada before settling in the United States. After studying and teaching Greek and Latin in refugee camps, he received his higher education in classics at the Universities of Toronto (B.A., 1946) and Chicago (A.M., 1948) and at Columbia University (Ph.D., 1952). Dr. Ostwald has held teaching posts at Wesleyan University (1950-51), Columbia University (1951-58), Swarthmore College (1958-92) and the University of Pennsylvania (1968-92). At Swarthmore, he taught honors seminars that combined Germanic philological rigor with a relaxed, conversational style while also maintaining a joint appointment with the University of Pennsylvania, which allowed him to continue research on fifth-century Athens with Penn graduate students. He held this dual role for 20 years. Dr. Ostwald has also published widely, and his magnum opus, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law, in which he examined the political and social tensions within ancient Athens, has been praised as an indispensable work of political, social, and cultural history. Among his other works are Aristotle, the Nichomachean Ethics (1962); Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy (1969); From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law (1987); and Ananke in Thucydides (1988). A past president of the American Philological Association, Dr. Ostwald was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1991 and the American Philosophical Society in 1993. | |
| 348 | Name: | Dr. Stephen Owen | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Stephen Owen is widely viewed as the most important scholar-critic of Chinese literature in the West. He is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and former Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, he was the first specialist in his field to be made a University Professor at Harvard. At a time when understanding China is a major priority for the United States, Dr. Owen has, in a long series of distinguished books and articles, opened the door for Westerners to a new understanding of Chinese literature and culture. Though his specialty is the T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A.D.), he has impressive mastery of the range of Chinese literature over its 2,500 years. His work has been informed by recent Western work in literary theory and by a comparatist perspective. He has paid attention in new ways to Chinese literary theory, for example in Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics. His work shows a remarkable combination of learning, literary sensitivity, and elegance of style, as in the admirable readings of Chinese poetry in Remembrances: The Experience of the Past in Classical Chinese Literature. His magisterial An Anthology of Chinese Literature is an amazing poetic and scholarly accomplishment; almost all of the translations are by Dr. Owen himself, and they bring the translation of Chinese poetry, stories, plays, and essays to a new level of lucidity and literary distinction. His translations and annotations show how Chinese poetry is a genuine tradition, for example in its subtle use, in later poems, of allusions to earlier poems. Though his books are written in English and primarily for Western readers, they have such general importance that many of them have been translated into Chinese and published in China. He has a working knowledge of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish. Without a doubt Dr. Owen has brought Chinese literature within the domain of the comparative study of literature. | |
| 349 | Name: | Sidney Painter | | | Year Elected: | 1953 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 1/12/60 | | | | |
| 350 | Name: | Erwin Panofsky | | | Year Elected: | 1943 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1893 | | | Death Date: | 3/14/68 | | | | |
| 351 | Name: | Dr. Geoffrey Parker | | | Institution: | Ohio State University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Geoffrey Parker is a Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, as well as an Associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at the Ohio State University. He was born in Nottingham, England, and studied history at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he received his BA (1965); his M.A. and Ph.D. (1968); and his Doctor of Letters (1981). He taught at the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews (UK), British Columbia (Canada), and Illinois and Yale (US) before joining the OSU History Department in 1997, where he teaches courses on Reformation Europe and military history at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
In 2006, he received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence; and in 2022 the Rodica C. Botoman award for distinguished undergraduate teaching and mentoring. He has also directed 35 doctoral dissertations to completion, and in 2013 his advisees presented him with a Festschrift in honor of his 65th birthday, The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History.
He is the author or editor of 40 books, including The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road. The logistics of Spanish victory and defeat in the Low Countries Wars, 1567-1659 (1972; revised edition 2004); The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (1988; third edition 1996), winner of the "best book prize" from the Society for the History of Technology; The Grand Strategy of Philip II (1998), winner of the Samuel E. Morison Prize from the Society of Military History; and The Global Crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the 17th century (2013; updated edition, 2017), winner of the Best Book Prize from the Society of Military History and a British Academy Medal for a "landmark scholarly achievement which has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study." His biography Emperor: A new life of Charles V (2019), won the 2020 Ohio Academy of History award for "the outstanding publication of the previous year." His latest book, co-authored with one of his former doctoral students, Colin Martin, is Armada. The Spanish Enterprise and England’s deliverance in 1588. His books have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages.
He won the biennial Heineken Prize for History, awarded every two years to the scholar "deemed to have had the greatest impact on the profession," in 2012; the Sullivant Gold Medal, awarded once every five years by OSU’s Board of Trustees "to a member of the university whose achievements have been extraordinary and distinctive", in 2021; and the Ohio Academy of History annual Distinguished Historian Award in 2022. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received honorary doctorates from several European universities. In 1992, King Juan Carlos of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella la Católica; and in 1996, the Spanish government made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio.
He has four children and three grandchildren. | |
| 352 | Name: | Mr. Robert McCracken Peck | | | Institution: | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Drexel University) | | | Year Elected: | 2022 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404c | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Robert McCracken Peck, Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. He served as Special Assistant to the Academy's President and Director of the Academy's Natural History Museum before being named Fellow of the Academy in 1983. In 2000 he assumed additional responsibilities as the Academy's Curator of Art and Artifacts and Editor of Scientific Publications. From 2003-2007 he served as Librarian of the Academy. In 2003 he was named Senior Fellow of the Academy.
Peck is the author of six books: The Natural History of Edward Lear (2016, 2018, and 2021), (Specimens of Hair (2018), Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America (1990), Headhunters and Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador (1987), A Celebration of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1982), and William Bartram's Travels (1980); the co-author of two: A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science (2012) and All In The Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (2008), and has written chapters for dozens of others. He has also written for a wide range of popular and scholarly magazines including: Audubon, Natural History, National Wildlife, International Wildlife, Nature, Arts, Antiques, Image, Terra, Explore, Landscope (Australia), The Journal for Maritime Research, Polar Record, The Explorers Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
His 1990 book, Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, was the companion volume to an 8-part B.B.C./P.B.S. television series of the same title which dealt with the discovery and exploration of America from a natural history point of view. Within weeks of its appearance in Great Britain, Mr. Peck's book went onto the U.K. Best-Seller List, where it remained for nine weeks (reaching the #3 slot in April, 1990). The German edition, Im Land Des Adlers (1992) also achieved Best-Seller status. The book was selected by the New York Times for its list of notable books for the year.
An active member of the Explorers Club (whose Philadelphia chapter has recognized him its Explorers Award), Mr. Peck has developed a special interest in the history of exploration, retracing the travel routes of a number of 18th and 19th century naturalists including: William Bartram, John James Audubon, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander Von Humboldt, John Burroughs and John Muir.
He has served as a natural history consultant to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Princeton University Library, Readers Digest Books,
David Attenborough and the British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.).
In 1989 a new species of South American frog (one of three new species he discovered during an expedition to Ecuador) was named in his honor.
In 1991 Mr. Peck was honored by the Academy of Natural Sciences' Richard Hopper Day Medal for his work in interpreting natural history to the public. (Other recipients of the medal have included: Jacques Piccard, Louis Leakey, Ruth Patrick, David Attenborough, Lewis Thomas, Gerald Durrell, Stephen Ambrose, Sylvia Earle, and Elizabeth Kolbert.) He has also received Philadelphia’s Wyck-Strickland Award for outstanding contributions to the cultural life of Philadelphia and the Garden Club of America’s Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for environmental writing.
He has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Houghton Library (1994-1995 and 2010-2011), and at the Yale Center for British Art (1997); and has twice been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome (2014 and 2017).
He was granted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the University of Delaware in 2012.
His other honors have included an award for courage and integrity from the Philadelphia and St. Louis chapters of the Explorers Club, and the David S. Ingalls, Jr. Award for Excellence from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Founders Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History (2021), and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Wagner Free Institute of Science (2019).
Mr. Peck has traveled widely on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences, accompanying research expeditions in Nepal (1983), Ecuador (1984, 1992, and 1998), Venezuela (1985 and 1987), South Africa (1993), Botswana, (1993), Namibia (1993), Siberia (1994), Guyana (1997), and Mongolia (seven expeditions, 1994-2011). He conducted research on the history of science in Russia in 2019.
In recognition of his deep knowledge of the cultural and natural history of Mongolia, Mr. Peck was invited by the White House and the U.S. State Department to represent the United States at ceremonies marking Mongolia’s 800th birthday in Ulaan Baatar in July 2006. The two-person presidential delegation consisted of Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns and Mr. Peck.
Mr, Peck’s photographs have been published in books, journals, and magazines and exhibited in museums across the U.S. His one-man photographic exhibition documenting nomadic life in Central Asia, has been shown at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Mongolian Embassy, Washington, D.C..
In 2008 Mr. Peck curated an exhibition and co-authored a book about the British artist and naturalist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1894), Charles Darwin’s illustrator and the first person to create life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs (at the Crystal Palace in London in 1854). The book was published in the summer of 2008 and was excerpted to serve as the lead story in Natural History magazine.
His book, The Natural History of Edward Lear, published by David R. Godine in the fall of 2016, grew out of an exhibition on the British writer, traveler, and artist that Mr. Peck guest-curated for Harvard University’s Houghton Library. Both the American and the British editions of the book sold out within a year. A Chinese edition, published in 2018, met with equal success. A revised and expanded edition of the book was published by Princeton University Press in 2021.
Mr. Peck’s book, Specimens of Hair, The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne, was published by Blast Books in 2018. Enhanced by the spectacular photography of Rosamond Purcell, it is a book about an extraordinary collection of wool, fur and hair that was collected by a Philadelphia naturalist in the early 19th century in an effort to better understand the relationships – and commercial application – of these animal products and of humans in a pre- Darwinian world. The book was one of only four selected by Publishers Weekly as a recommended purchase for Christmas 2018 under a category the magazine called “slightly weird and very wonderful.” Favorably reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, it was featured in a blog in Atlas Obscura (reaching an audience of 5 million people), and in on-line articles for National Geographic and Time Magazine. The book stimulated a 20 minute interview with Mr. Peck about the Browne collection and the subject of hair on NPR’s popular “Science Friday” program. | |
| 353 | Name: | Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan | | | Institution: | American Academy of Political and Social Science & Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | May 13, 2006 | | | | |
| 354 | Name: | Josiah H. Penniman | | | Year Elected: | 1901 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1869 | | | Death Date: | 4/10/41 | | | | |
| 355 | Name: | Dr. Marjorie Perloff | | | Institution: | Stanford University; University of Southern California | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 24, 2024 | | | | | | |
Marjorie Perloff is Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor Emerita at the University of Southern California. She is the author of many books on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century poetries and poetics. Perloff has been a frequent reviewer for periodicals from TLS and The Washington Post to all the major scholarly journals, and she has lectured at most major universities in the U.S. and at European, Asian, and Latin American universities and festivals. She was recently the Weidenfeld Professor of European Literature at Oxford University and the Kelly Writers House Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Perloff has held Guggenheim, NEH, and Huntington fellowships, served on the Advisory Board of the Stanford Humanities Center. In 2014 she was awarded the Washington University International Humanities Medal. She was President of the American Comparative Literature Association from 1993-95 and of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2006. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recently was named Honorary Foreign Professor at the Beijing Modern Languages University. She received an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, from Bard College in May 2008. A native of Vienna, Austria, who grew up in New York City, Marjorie lives in Los Angeles, where her late husband, Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, was American Heart Association Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Pediatrics.
Her works include Rhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats (1970), The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell (1973); Poet Among Painters (1977; new edition 1997); The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1981); The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture (1986, new edition, 1994); Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (1992); Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary (1996, 1998 paperback; translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Slovenian, and French); The Vienna Paradox (2004, German 2012); Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (2010); Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays (2014); Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire (2016); Circling the Canon: Selected Book Reviews (2019); Infrathin: an Experiment in Micropoetics (2021); Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks 1914-1916 (2022). | |
| 356 | Name: | Ralph B. Perry | | | Year Elected: | 1939 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1877 | | | Death Date: | 1/22/57 | | | | |
| 357 | Name: | Dr. Henri M. Peyre | | | Institution: | Yale University & City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 1953 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1901 | | | Death Date: | 12/9/88 | | | | |
| 358 | Name: | Dr. David Pingree | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | 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: | November 11, 2005 | | | | |
| 359 | Name: | Dr. Gloria Ferrari Pinney | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | Death Date: | September 18, 2023 | | | | | | |
Born in Italy, Gloria Ferrari Pinney received her Laurea in Lettere Classiche at Università degli Studi in Rome in 1964. In 1976 she received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She was a professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology for twelve years at Bryn Mawr College. In 1993 she became a professor in the departments of Art and Classical Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She has been Professor of Classical Archaeology at Harvard University since 1998, a post from which she retired in 2003. Gloria Ferrari Pinney combines a deep knowledge of classical philology and keen artistic sensitivity with a penetrating critical acumen that allows her to reach unprecedented and often revolutionary conclusions about even well-known ancient monuments. Her pioneering study on the origin of Asiatic sarcophagi was in fact disregarded by scholars for almost twenty years until excavational finds confirmed her hypothesis. Within her great range, she is an expert in Greek vase painting, with emphasis on iconography, yet two of her recent publications - on the North metopes of the Parthenon (2000) and the architecture of the Archaic Akropolis (2002) - are among her most startling contributions. Although well versed in current art-historical and linguistic theory, she produces terse and concise analyses that carry conviction with their strict logic. Some of her publications include Il commercio dei sarcofagi asiatici (1966); "Achilles Lord of Scythia," Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (1983); "For the Heroes are at Hand," The Journal of Hellenic Studies (1984); "Eye-cup," Revue Archeologique (1986); "Pallas and Panathenaea," Proceedings, 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery (1988); Materiali del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia XI: I vasi attici a figure rosse del periodo arcaico (1988); "Figures in the Text: Metaphor and Riddles in the Agamemnon," Classical Philology (1997); "The Geography of Time," Ostraka (2000); Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece (2002); and "The Ancient Temple on the Acropolis at Athens," American Journal of Archaeology (2002). Dr. Pinney was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. | |
| 360 | Name: | Dr. Robert B. Pippin | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 408 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Robert B. Pippin is the current Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Chair of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, having previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. Arguably more than anyone else in the Anglo-American philosophical world, Robert Pippin is responsible for the very considerable rise of interest in Hegel's thought that has taken place since the publication of his pathbreaking book Hegel's Idealism (1989). For Pippin, Hegel is not simply one of the great figures of the philosophical past; rather, from the first he has found in Hegel an exemplary thinker for the present age, one whose writings have first to be understood in the context of problems inherited from Kant and his immediate successors, but which then can be seen to bear closely on problems in the philosophy of mind, art, action and Continental and English-language traditions. More recently, Pippin has ranged widely across the 19th and 20th centuries, with magisterial essays on figures such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Blumenberg, Gadamer and Strauss, as well as a highly original book on the novelist Henry James. He is currently putting the final editorial touches to a book-length study of Hegel's theory of agency. He was the 2001 winner of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. As mentioned, he has authored a number of books, including: Kant’s Theory of Form: An Essay on the Critique of Pure Reason, 1982; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture, 1991; Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations, 1997; Henry James and Modern Moral Life, 2000; The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath, 2005; Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life, 2008. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences since 2007. | |
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