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781	Name:	Edwin G. Conklin
	Year Elected:	1897
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1863
	Death Date:	11/21/52

782	Name:	Dr. W. Robert Connor
	Institution:	The Teagle Foundation & National Humanities Center
	Year Elected:	1996
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1934

	W. Robert Connor is a classicist and former president and director of the National Humanities Center. From 2003 to 2009 he served as president of the Teagle Foundation, an organization dedicated to strengthening higher education, where he is now a Senior Advisor. Dr. Connor holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he also taught Greek and Roman history from 1964-89, retiring as Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, Emeritus. He has also taught at the University of Michigan. Dr. Connor has long provided energetic and imaginative leadership in sustaining the best humanistic scholarship and has played an important role in affirming the importance of the humanities to American society. During his tenure at the helm of the National Humanities Center, Dr. Connor oversaw the Center's internationally recognized fellowship program; strengthened its initiatives to improve college and secondary school education; and encouraged its outreach to wide national audiences through effective public programs. During his administration, the center's permanent strength was significantly augmented. During his presidency of the Teagle Foundation, he focused on the systematic improvement of undergraduate learning in the liberal arts and sciences. His leadership gave impetus to national efforts as well as to projects on individual campuses. In particular the New Leadership for Student Learing and Accountability initiative derived in large part from his insistence on a concerted, proactive national strategy for improving student learning. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1992), Dr. Connor is also the author of numerous works on Athenian political and cultural history, including Thucydides (1984), a study of the ancient historical writer.

783	Name:	Dr. Joseph Connors
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2003
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	401. Archaeology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1945

	Joseph Connors studied at Boston College and Cambridge University before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978. He taught in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University from 1980-2002, with a leave to serve as Director of the American Academy in Rome from 1988-92. He became Director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for the Study of the Italian Renaissance in Florence, in 2002. From an initial study of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Rome he has deepened and extended our knowledge of the architecture and urban development of Baroque Rome, in particular the way in which elites and institutions express power relationships through changes in the urban fabric. He received the Richard Krautheimer Medal in 1984 and the Premio Letterario Rebecchini (with Louise Rice) in 1991. He is the author of one book on Frank Lloyd Wright and several on Roman baroque architecture: Borromini and the Roman Oratory: Style and Society, 1980; Specchio di Roma barocca (with Louise Rice), 1991; Francesco Borromini: Opus Architectonicum, 1998; and Alleanze e inimicizie: L'urbanistica di Roma barocca, 2005. A major monograph on the architecture of Francesco Borromini (1599-1667) is in preparation. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003.

784	Name:	Samuel F. Conover
	Year Elected:	1806
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased

785	Name:	Solomon W. Conrad
	Year Elected:	1822
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/2/1831

786	Name:	Timothy Conrad
	Year Elected:	1865
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1803
	Death Date:	8/8/1877

787	Name:	Dr. Giles Constable
	Institution:	Institute for Advanced Study
	Year Elected:	1987
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1929
	Death Date:	January 18, 2021

	Giles Constable was Medieval History Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. An outstanding medievalist with a particular interest in monastic culture and the religious life of the 12th century, he has published more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history; these include Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), The Letters of Peter the Venerable (2 volumes, 1967), Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (1976), People and Power in Byzantium (with Alexander Kazhdan, 1982), Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995), The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (2009), The Abbey of Cluny (2010) and a translation of How to Defeat the Saracens by William of Adam (2012), as well as over a hundred articles, most of which have been reprinted in five volumes. In addition to his work in monastic studies, Dr. Constable has also conducted research on medieval social, economic and intellectual history of the Middle Ages, and he is known as a scholar of unusual depth and sensitivity. Dr. Constable received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957 and taught there from 1958-84, serving as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (1966-77) and director of Dumbarton Oaks (1977-84), among other positions. He died on January 18, 2021.

788	Name:	John E. Le Conte
	Year Elected:	1851
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	11/21/1860

789	Name:	John L. Le Conte
	Year Elected:	1853
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	11/15/1883

790	Name:	John Le Conte
	Year Elected:	1873
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	4/29/1891

791	Name:	Joseph Le Conte
	Year Elected:	1873
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	7/6/1901

792	Name:	Robert G. Le Conte
	Year Elected:	1905
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	8/6/1924

793	Name:	John H. Converse
	Year Elected:	1898
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1841
	Death Date:	5/3/10

794	Name:	Dr. Philip E. Converse
	Institution:	University of Michigan
	Year Elected:	1988
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1928
	Death Date:	December 30, 2014

	Philip Converse was a leading scholar in the field of political behavior for three decades. Having conducted important research on political opinion and electoral behavior, he was central to transforming the descriptive study of government into today's comparative and analytical study of politics. His 1964 article "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" held that public opinion tended to be inconsistent across issues, unstable over time and not particularly considerate of ideology. Political Representation in France (1986), his comprehensive work with Roy Pierce, was immediately recognized as a landmark study, winning the 1987 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award. Another work, The American Voter (1960), written with Angus Campbell, made proficient use of data from National Elections Studies, a seminal set of surveys of American public opinion that were carried out at the University of Michigan. Dr. Converse was associated with the University of Michigan since receiving his Ph.D. from that institution in 1958. He served as director of the university's Institute for Social Research and as Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science, among other positions. Philip Converse died December 30, 2014, in Ann Arbor at age 86.

795	Name:	Redmond Conyngham
	Year Elected:	1819
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1782
	Death Date:	6/16/1846

796	Name:	John N. Conyngham
	Year Elected:	1848
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	2/23/1871

797	Name:	George H. Cook
	Year Elected:	1864
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1817
	Death Date:	9/22/1889

798	Name:	Joel Cook
	Year Elected:	1895
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1842
	Death Date:	12/15/10

799	Name:	Gustavus W. Cook
	Year Elected:	1934
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1868
	Death Date:	6/4/40

800	Name:	Professor Michael A. Cook
	Institution:	Princeton University
	Year Elected:	2001
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404b
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1940

	Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He was educated at Cambridge, studying English and European History as well as learning Turkish and Persian. From Cambridge he went on to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where his work focused on Ottoman population history in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He taught Middle Eastern history at the School until 1986 when he left to join the faculty at Princeton. A prolific author, Professor Cook's publications include Early Muslim Dogma: A Source-Critical Study (1981), The Koran (2000), Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (2000), A Brief History of the Human Race (2003), and Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (2014). His current areas of interest include the formation of Islamic civilization and the role played by religious values in that process. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Holberg Prize in 2014, the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching (awarded at Princeton's 2016 Commencement), the Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies in 2019, and the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. In 2018 he was named Honorary Fellow at King's College London. Michael Cook was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 2001.

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