| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Meyer Howard Abrams | | | Institution: | Cornell University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | April 21, 2015 | | | | | | |
Among America's most highly respected literary scholars, Meyer Howard (Mike) Abrams was best known for his analysis of the Romantic period in English literature. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1912, Dr. Abrams received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1940. He joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1945, becoming a full professor in 1953, Whiton Professor of English in 1960 and professor emeritus in 1983. His two greatest books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, are recognized as outstanding achievements. The former book ranked 25th in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the past 100 years, and for the latter Dr. Abrams was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Language Association. In 1962, he conceived and edited The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and he continued as general editor through its seventh edition. Dr. Abrams was the recipient of the Award in Humanistic Studies from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Society and the Award for Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His book The Fourth Dimension of a Poem and Other Essays (2012) was released slightly before his 100th birthday. In 2014 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Dr. Abrams died April 21, 2015, at age 102, in Ithaca, New York. | |
| 2 | 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 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. M. Alison Frantz | | | Institution: | American School of Classical Studies | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 2/1/95 | | | | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Ward H. Goodenough | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | June 9, 2013 | | | | | | |
Anthropologist Ward Goodenough ably bridged the gap between traditional ethnology and studies of cultural change. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1919, he was educated at Cornell and Yale Universities and taught at the University of Wisconsin from 1945-49 before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. He was appointed professor of anthropology in 1962 and became University Professor Emeritus in 1989. Dr. Goodenough's interests included cultural and linguistic anthropology; social organization; anthropology of law; culture theory; and semantics. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Oceania, from Micronesia to New Guinea, and he had served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1958), as president of the American Ethnological Association (1962) and the Society for Applied Anthropology (1963), and as editor of The American Anthropologist (1966-70). His publications include Property, Kin and Community of Truk (1951), Native Astronomy in the Central Carolinas. (1953) and Cooperation in Change (1963). Along with his anthropological work, Dr. Goodenough also wrote poetry and composes music. Ward Goodenough was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. He died on June 9, 2013, at the age of 94, in Haverford, Pennsylvania. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Michael H. Jameson | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | August 18, 2004 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Lewis | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1916 | | | Death Date: | May 19, 2018 | | | | | | |
Bernard Lewis received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in 1990 "in recognition of his pioneering work in Ottoman-modern Turkish studies, on Race and Colour, and on Muslim views of Europe; of his fundamental role in refining and promoting the writing of Islamic History; and of his contribution in explaining the Middle East to generations of students and to large audiences in the West." Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of London and was Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1949 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Princeton University as the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies with a concurrent membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he became the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus and began a four-year tenure as the Director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2006. An eminent scholar, Dr. Lewis was a prolific author, illuminating the Middle East with clarity and erudition. His impressive list of publications includes The Origins of Ismailism (1940); Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947); Land of Enchanters (1948, 2001); The Arabs in History (1950, 7th edition 1993); The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 1968); Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963); The Assassins (1968); Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (2 vols., 1974); History--Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975); The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); The Jews of Islam (1984); Semites and anti-Semites (1986, 1997, 1999); The Political Language of Islam (1988); Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990); Islam and the West (1993); The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1993); Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995); The Middle East: Two Thousand Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (1995); The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998); A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000); Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems (2001); What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror(2003); From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004); Political Words and Ideas in Islam (2008); and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Islam (1970) and The Encylopedia of Islam (2nd edition, vols. I-VI). Dr. Lewis's many honors and awards include the Ataturk Peace Prize (1998), the Irving Kristol Award (2007) and fifteen honorary doctorates. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1963), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1994). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. Bernard Lewis died May 19, 2018, at the age of 101 in New Jersey. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. James B. Pritchard | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 1/1/97 | | | | |
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