| | 1 | Name: | Dr. George F. Bass | | | Institution: | Texas A & M University | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1932 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2021 | | | | | | |
George F. Bass graduated from The Johns Hopkins University with an M.A. in Near Eastern archaeology and attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. From 1957 to 1959 he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and then began doctoral studies in classical archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1960 he learned to dive so that he could direct the first archaeological excavation of an ancient shipwreck, a Bronze Age wreck off Turkey.
While excavating Byzantine shipwrecks off Turkey, Dr. Bass developed a submersible decompression chamber, a method of mapping under water by stereo-photogrammetry, and a two-person submarine, the Asherah, which was launched in 1964. That same year, he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty. In 1967 his team was the first to locate an ancient wreck with sonar. In 1968 and 1971, he returned to land excavations in Greece and Italy.
In 1973, Dr. Bass founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, which in 1976 affiliated with Texas A&M University, where, until his retirement in 2000, he was the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Distinguished Professor of Nautical Archaeology. He also held the George O. Yamini Family Chair. He is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A & M. The Institute conducts research on four continents, but Dr. Bass concentrates on Mediterranean sites from the Bronze Age though Byzantine times.
Dr. Bass has received a National Medal of Science, the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement, the Bandelier Award from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology which accompanied a lectureship established in his name at the Archaeological Institute of America, a Lowell Thomas Award from the Explorers Club, the J.C. Harrington Medal from the Society for Historical Archaeology, the National Geographic Society's La Gorce Medal, and one of its fifteen Centennial Awards. Dr. Bass holds honorary doctorates from Boghaziçi University in Istanbul and the University of Liverpool. He is also an honorary citizen of Bodrum, Turkey. Dr. Bass was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1989. He died on March 2, 2021. | |
| 2 | 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. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Henry A. Millon | | | Institution: | National Gallery of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | April 3, 2018 | | | | | | |
Henry A. Millon was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1927. His father was an aerial photographer; his mother, a daughter of the publisher of a French language newspaper in New York. In March 1944 he entered a U.S. Navy ROTC program at Tulane University where, after active duty in 1946, he returned to obtain sequential undergraduate degrees in English, physics, and architecture. Thereafter he attended Harvard University where he received a Master's in Architecture and Urban Design, and a master's and Ph.D. in History of Art. After three years in Italy as a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome preparing a dissertation, he returned to Cambridge in 1960 to teach at MIT, where he continued as a visiting professor. From 1974-77 he was director of the American Academy in Rome. In 1980 he became the first dean of the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art, a post held until is retirement at the close of 2000. Professor Millon's work concentrated on the history of architecture. His publications include Baroque and Rococo Architecture (1961), Key Monuments of the History of Architecture (1964), Filippo Juvarra. Drawings from the Roman Period, Part I, (1984, Part II, with A. Griseri, et al (1999), three exhibition catalogues, Michelangelo Architect, with C.H. Smyth (1988), The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, with V. Lampugnani (1984), The Triumph of the Baroque (1999), and numerous articles. Dr. Millon had held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Research Institute, and a Senior Fulbright. He had received awards from the American Institute of Architects: Academie des sciences morale et politique, Institut de France as well as the College Art Association. Dr. Millon served as President of the Society of Architectural Historians; Convener of the Architectural Drawings Advisory Group; President of the Foundation for Documents of Architecture; Committee for the History of Art; Vice-Chair of the Council on American Overseas Research Centers; Chair of the Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellows Committee, Program in History of Landscape Architecture; President of the International Union of Academies of Archaeology, History and History of Art in Rome; President of the University Film Study Center; Vice-Chair of the Boston Landmarks Commission; and Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Cambridge Architectural Historical Survey. Elected a member in 1989, he served as Curator of Fine Arts for the American Philosophical Society 1998 to 2015. Henry A. "Hank" Millon died April 3, 2018 at the age of 91 at home in Washington, DC. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Gregory Vlastos | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1989 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1907 | | | Death Date: | 10/12/91 | | | | |
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