| | 1 | Name: | Dr. John S. Chipman | | | Institution: | University of Minnesota | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | | | | |
John Chipman received a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1951. He was assistant professor of economics at Harvard University from 1951-55 and moved to the University of Minnesota, where he is currently Regents' Professor of Economics Emeritus, in 1955. John Chipman is an economist's economist, enjoying the highest respect as a scholar who has made important contributions in several diverse fields within and on the borders of economics. His main contributions are to utility theory, to the theory of aggregation (with profound implications for questions such as how to conceptualise and measure trade in "similar" products, or what is called "intra-industry trade"), and to many other analytical issues in the theory of international trade. He is also an important scholar of the history of international trade theory and its evolution from the earliest times. Dr. Chipman is among the most important and influential theorists of his generation. He received the James Murray Luck Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 and a Festschrift presented by students and scholars in 1999. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a distinguished fellow of the American Economics Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Alfred W. Crosby | | | Institution: | University of Texas at Austin | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1931 | | | Death Date: | March 14, 2018 | | | | | | |
Alfred W. Crosby received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1961. He served as professor of history at Washington State University for eleven years before joining the University of Texas, Austin in 1977 as Professor of American Studies. He was a National Institutes of Health fellow, 1971-73, and a Guggenheim fellow, 1987-88. Alfred Crosby pioneered investigation of the biological side of European expansion, transforming older ideas of how and why European settlers thrived overseas in temperate climes. By analyzing the "cloud of organisms" which accompanied the Europeans - disease germs, pests, weeds, domesticated animals and plants - all accustomed to living in company with one another, Dr. Crosby made clear for the first time the crushing force of what he calls "ecological imperialism." This is a great advance in the understanding of our past. His last book is about time and its measurement in late medieval and early modern Europe, so he is a general historian as well as an expert in biological and epidemiological history. His books include: America, Russia, Hemp and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812 (1965); The Columbia Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972); Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (1976); Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (1986); The Columbian Voyages, the Columbian Exchange and Their Historians (1987); Germs, Seeds and Animals (1994); The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 (1997) (French, 2001); and Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History (2002). He was also the co-editor of Studies in Environment and History. Dr. Crosby was presented the Medical Writer's Association Award in 1976, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1988, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History in 2001. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000. Alfred W. Crosby died March 14, 2018, at age 87 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Robert W. Fogel | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | June 11, 2013 | | | | | | |
Specializing in economic history from the point of view of statistical analysis, Robert Fogel was one of the most distinguished economists in the world. A deep student of the Simon Kuznets tradition, he later introduced formal econometrics in the statistical study of economic history, and his book on the economics of slavery, with Stanley Engerman, was a landmark study. Later, he has focused on research in the fields of demographics, health, medicine and technical change. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1963), Dr. Fogel served on the faculties of the University of Rochester (1960-64, 1968-75), Harvard University (1975-81) and the University of Chicago (1963-75, 1981-2013), where he was Charles Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics. He died on June 11, 2013, at the age of 86, in Oak Lawn, Illinois. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Alexander L. George | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | August 16, 2006 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Frederick W. Mote | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | February 10, 2005 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Gary B. Nash | | | Institution: | National Center for History in the Schools & University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | July 29, 2021 | | | | | | |
Gary B. Nash received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from Princeton University. He is currently Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught for over four decades. He served as Director of the National Center for History in the Schools for 18 years, stepping down in January 2013. One of this nation's preeminent social historians, his work focuses on race, class, and power dynamics in American history.
The latest of Dr. Nash's many books are First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2002), The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005), African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom (2005) [with Clayborne Carson and Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner], and The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006). In 2011, he co-edited Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation. Gary Nash was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2000. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Jan M. J. Vansina | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | February 8, 2017 | | | | | | |
Jan Vansina was one of the historians most responsible for the emergence of African history as a recognized field of historical study during the past five decades. He had been the outstanding pioneer in exploring the pre-colonial history of tropical African societies and in investigating change in non-literate societies elsewhere, first with methods for interpreting oral traditions and later with combinations of linguistic and ethnographic evidence. He was principally a historian, but he had also written widely in the fields of anthropology and linguistics. His publications include Kingdoms of the Savanna (1966); The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo (1973); The Children of Woot: A History of the Kuba Peoples (1978); Art History in Africa: An Introduction to Method (1984); Oral Tradition as History (1985); Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa (1990); and Living with Africa (1994). Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Dr. Vansina earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leuven in 1947. He had served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin since 1960, where he was J. D. MacArthur and Vilas Research Professor Emeritus in History and Anthropology at the time of his death on February 8, 2017, at the age of 87. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Hayden White | | | Institution: | University of California, Santa Cruz & Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 2000 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | March 5, 2018 | | | | | | |
Perhaps more than anyone since Collingwood, Hayden White has influenced the ways in which we think about historical writing. With his now classic Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe (1973) he almost single-handedly introduced the so-called "linguistic turn" into the study of historiography, showing that historical texts are decisively shaped by genre and narrative codes and that form and meaning are as inextricably entwined in history as in literature. In Germany, Holland, Italy, Great Britain and increasingly now also in Russia, Poland and Hungary, as well as in the U.S., Dr. White's work is an essential point of departure for reflection on the nature of history. He was University Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Bonsall Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University at the time of his death on March 5, 2018, at age 89.
Dr. White was the author of works such as Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe (1973) and The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation (1986). | |
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