| | 61 | Name: | Dr. Yve-Alain Bois | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Yve-Alain Bois is one of the most original and active critics of 20th century art working today. A pupil of Roland Barthes, he is equally at home in the theory and the history of the visual arts. In 2015 he published the first of four volumes of his monumental catalog of the American painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly, and is about to publish a 900-page catalog of the works by Matisse (including the famous wall-paintings) in the Barnes Collection. At the Society’s April 2015 meeting, he gave a memorable paper, “Can a Genuine Picasso be a Fake?” In addition to his many books, he has written twelve exhibition catalogs, about fifty articles with titles as surprising and diverse as “The Meteorite in the Garden” and “Painting as Trauma,” and numerous exhibition- and book-reviews. One of his current projects is the modern history of axonometric projection. | |
| 62 | Name: | Dr. Lina Bolzoni | | | Institution: | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Lina Bolzoni is professor of Italian literature at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. She has served on the University of Pisa faculty since 1976 and chaired the Department of Italian Literature from 1989-91 and 1995-97. She has also held visiting professorships at the Collège de France and Harvard, New York and Princeton Universities. She received her Ph.D. from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1974. Lina Bolzoni has pioneered the study of relationships between literature and philosophy, literature and the figurative arts, and between memory and preaching for our generation. She has made the study of sacred and secular oratory her special province and has explored the relationship between the art of memory and figurative practice in both art and literature. She has been a generous colleague at the Scuola Normale and an innovative supporter of electronic scholarship, even exploring relationships between medieval systems of memory and modern neurological patterns of memory and modes of perception. Her approach to the study of literature is innovative and disciplined, expanding the canon in imaginative ways. Dr. Bolzoni's published works include L'universo dei poemi possibili. Studi su Francesco Patrizi da Cherso, 1980; Il teatro della memoria. Studi su Giulio Camillo, 1984; The Gallery of Memory. Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of Printing, 1995; The Web of Images. Vernacular Preaching from its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena, 2002; and Poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento, 2008. She has been honored with the Premio Viareggio per la saggistica, 2002; the Premio Brancati Zafferana Etnea per la saggistica, 2002; and the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jean Scaglione Prize, 2003. Lina Bolzoni is also a member of the Accademia La Colombaria, Firenze. She was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007. | |
| 63 | Name: | Dr. Larissa Bonfante | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2009 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | August 23, 2019 | | | | | | |
Larissa Bonfante was Professor of Classics at New York University (1963-2006). Born in Italy, she came with her family to the United States as a child by way of Spain and Geneva, Switzerland. She held a BA from Barnard College, an M.A. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University, with Otto Brendel as dissertation adviser. Her first published article was "Emperor, God and Man: Julian the Apostate and Ammianus Marcellinus," followed by Etruscan Dress (1975). Further work on ancient dress, originally inspired by the works of Margarete Bieber, included an NEH Summer Seminar on the Symbolism of Roman Costume (1988), and publications on the Roman triumph, and nudity as a costume in classical art. Brendel’s statement, "we take the Greeks as our model, forgetting that they did everything differently from everyone else," helped direct her focus on the non-Greeks of the classical world, for example in The Etruscan Language, written with her father, the Indo-Europeanist Giuliano Bonfante.
Bonfante was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, founder and President of its US Section, and co-editor of Etruscan News. She was Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980, received teaching awards at New York University for her work with undergraduates, and the 2007 Gold Medal for Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America. She delivered the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series in 2006-07 and the AIA Norton Lecturesship in 2007-08. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009. Larissa Bonfante died August 23, 2019 in New York, New York at the age of 88. | |
| 64 | Name: | Campbell Bonner | | | Year Elected: | 1938 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1876 | | | Death Date: | 7/12/54 | | | | |
| 65 | Name: | Dr. Wayne Clayson Booth | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | October 10, 2005 | | | | |
| 66 | Name: | Dr. William J. Bouwsma | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2004 | | | | |
| 67 | Name: | Catherine Drinker Bowen | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 11/1/73 | | | | |
| 68 | Name: | Dr. Gerhard H. Bowering | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
Gerhard Böwering is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University. He was born and educated in Germany. After philosophical studies at Munich, he received a Diploma in Islamic Studies from Panjab University in Lahore, Pakistan and also studied Arabic in Cairo, Egypt. Following theological studies in Montreal, Dr. Böwering studied Islam at McGill University where he earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies in 1975. From 1975-84 he was first assistant and then associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984, Dr. Böwering became Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale. He is the author of The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam (1980) and a critical Arabic edition of a Commentary on the Qur'an (1995 and 1997). He is presently preparing a monograph on the "Idea of Time in Islam" as well as a book entitled Wie die Muslime denken. His scholarly publications also include numerous articles and contributions to major reference books. Dr. Böwering was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994. | |
| 69 | Name: | Dr. Glen W. Bowersock | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
Glen W. Bowersock has been Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1980 and Professor Emeritus since 2006. He graduated "summa cum laude" from Harvard University in 1957. Dr. Bowersock received his M.A. and D.Phil. degrees in Ancient History from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College. During his distinguished career at Harvard University from 1962-80, he served as Professor of Classics and History, Chairman of the Classics Department, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Bowersock has written or edited over a dozen books and published over 300 articles on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history and culture as well as the classical tradition in modern literature. He was awarded the James Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association for his book Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Other books include Augustus and the Greek World, Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire, Julian and Apostate, Roman Arabia, Fiction as History, Martyrdom and Rome, Mosaics as History, From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition, Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity and Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam. With Oleg Grabar and Peter Brown, Dr. Bowersock is co-editor of Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, published in 1999 by Harvard University Press. His Selected Papers on Late Antiquity were published in Italy in 2000. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the German Archaeological Institute. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1989. | |
| 70 | Name: | Dr. Rachel Bowlby | | | Institution: | University College, London | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1957 | | | | | | |
Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature at University College London, Emeritus since 2023. She was previously (2004-14) Lord Northcliffe Professor of English, also at UCL, and held posts before that at the universities of York, Oxford and Sussex. Beginning with a Yale PhD dissertation (in Comparative Literature) on novels about department stores, a principal focus of her research has been the history of consumer culture. Books on this subject include Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreisuer, Gissing and Zola (1985), Shopping with Freud (1993), Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (2000) (on the history of supermarkets), and Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future (2022). Other work has focused on connections between feminism, literary theory and psychoanalysis: Still Crazy after All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis (1992); Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (2007). She has also written about everyday life, including the history of parenthood and reproductive technologies: A Child of One’s Own: Parental Stories (2013); Everyday Stories (2016). Two authors have been the subject of monographs. Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf (1997) extended a previous book on Woolf, while Zola: Writing Modern Life (2025) returns to one of the three authorial subjects of Bowlby’s first book, Just Looking. Talking Walking: Essays in Cultural Criticism (2018) brought together a selection of essays in the various fields of her interest; it is joined by another collection of essays, Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories (2024); this book is part of Edinburgh University Press’s Feminist Library series. Rachel Bowlby has also translated a number of works of contemporary French philosophy, including two books by Jacques Derrida. She has held visiting positions or fellowships at Cornell University (1990-91) and at the universities of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (2007) and Otago (New Zealand) (2006), and delivered the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University (2008). She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2007. | |
| 71 | Name: | Dr. Robert J. Braidwood | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1966 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | January 15, 2003 | | | | |
| 72 | Name: | Dr. Germaine Brée | | | Institution: | Wake Forest University | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | September 22, 2001 | | | | |
| 73 | Name: | Mr. Robert Brentano | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | November 21, 2002 | | | | |
| 74 | Name: | Dr. Victoria Reifler Bricker | | | Institution: | Tulane University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Victoria R. Bricker received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. She joined the faculty of Tulane University in 1969 and became professor emerita of anthropology in 2006. Dr. Bricker's brilliant research has focused on the cultural and linguistic structure of the Maya, ancient and contemporary, with path-breaking studies of three domains: the forms of ritual humor found in modern Mayan cultures (1973); comparative analysis of Mayan insurrections against Spanish rule during the colonial and modern periods (1981); and the grammar of Mayan hieroglyphs (1986). More recently, she has focused her research on the hieroglyphs and iconography found in the Mayan codices - painted bark-cloth books - (1992), and she is now universally recognized as a preeminent world authority in this scholarly field. Dr. Bricker was been the series editor of the Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians between 1977 and 2007. She was an editor for the American Ethnologist (1973-76) and book review editor of the American Anthropologist (1971-73). She is the author of Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas (1973); The Indian Christ, the Indian King: The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual (1981); A Grammar of Maya Hieroglyphs (1986); Papers on the Madrid Codex (1997; (with Eleuterio Po’ot Yah and Ofelia Dzul de Po’ot) A Dictionary of the Mayan Language as Spoken in Hocaba, Yucatan (1998); (with H. Bricker) "Zodiacal References in the Maya Codices," in The Sky in Mayan Literature (1992); "Color and texture in the Maya language of Yucatan," in Anthropological Linguistics (1999); (with Helga Maria Miram) "An Encounter of Two Worlds: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua (2002), and (with Harvey Bricker) Astronomy in the Maya Codices (2011) and Lunar Calendars of the Pre-Columbian Maya (2020); Transformational Journeys: An Ethnologist’s Memoir (2017) and A Historical Grammar of the Maya Language of Yucatan, 1557-2000 (2018). Victoria and Harvey Bricker are the 2011 recipients of the American Philosophical Society's John Frederick Lewis Award for Astronomy in the Maya Codices. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Anthropological Association, serving on its executive board from 1980-83. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 75 | Name: | Clarence S. Brigham | | | Year Elected: | 1955 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1877 | | | Death Date: | 8/13/63 | | | | |
| 76 | Name: | Dr. Victor H. Brombert | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | | | | |
Winner of many awards for both scholarship and teaching, Victor Brombert is, in the words of a distinguished senior colleague in the field, "a superb literary critic and polished stylist, eclectic in his tastes, averse to all dogmatic theories, and probably the most eminent and influential French scholar of his generation." Currently the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, Dr. Brombert has taught at Princeton since 1975 and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Dr. Brombert was assistant professor and Benjamin F. Barge Professor of Romance Language and Literature at Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Romance Languages (1964-73). He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1953 and has honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and the University of Toronto. A former president of the Modern Language Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Brombert is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought.(2002). He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France, and has also written widely on T.S. Eliot, Hugo and Stendhal, among others. A comparativist and literary historian, Dr. Brombert is that rare scholar from whose observations all readers of literature have benefited. | |
| 77 | Name: | Van Wyck Brooks | | | Year Elected: | 1939 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1886 | | | Death Date: | 5/2/63 | | | | |
| 78 | Name: | Dr. Cleanth Brooks | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | 5/10/94 | | | | |
| 79 | Name: | Dr. Peter Brooks | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2003 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Peter Brooks received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1965. That same year he joined the faculty of Yale University, where he is the Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature until June, 2009. During his tenure, he has been director of the literature major, chairman of the department of French, and founding director of the Whitney Humanities Center.
He is one of the most distinguished literary scholars of his generation, a generation dominated by theoretical discovery and debate. Peter Brooks has achieved an original and highly influential syntheses of his own. His contribution to the study of narrative has been particularly notable because of the connections he has established between the narrative impulse and form and sexuality and between narrative and legal argument. Several of his works have become classics of criticism, and many of his ideas have become common currency among literary scholars. Dr. Brooks is also known to a wider audience through articles in magazines and The New York Times.
He is the author of The Novel of Worldliness: Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (1969); The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James (1976, 1985, 1995); Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative (1984, 1992); Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993); Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994); World Elsewhere (1999); Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000); and Henry James Goes to Paris (2007), which won the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa. He is the editor of (with A. Kernan, M. Holquist) Man and his Fictions: An Introduction to Fiction-Making, its Forms and Uses (1973); and (with A. Woloch) Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture (2000).
Dr. Brooks was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. He was given the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2008 and began teaching at Princeton University. | |
| 80 | Name: | Dr. T. Robert S. Broughton | | | Institution: | University of North Carolina | | | Year Elected: | 1955 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/93 | | | | |
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