APS Member History

1	Name:	Dr. Jack P. Greene
	Institution:	Johns Hopkins University
	Year Elected:	1992
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1931

	Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and the author and editor of 16 books and many articles on early modern colonial British America and the American Revolution. Among his works are Peripheries and Center (1986), which examines the foundations of governance in British America; Pursuits of Happiness (1988), which challenges the notion that American culture was largely a derivative of New England culture; and The Intellectual Construction of America (1993), which investigates the roots of the idea of America as an exceptional place. Dr. Greene's other major works include Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural History (1992); Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History (1994); Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors (1995); and Interpreting Early America: Historiographical Essays (1996).

2	Name:	Dr. Jonathan Dermot Spence
	Institution:	Yale University
	Year Elected:	1992
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1936
	Death Date:	December 25, 2021

	An outstanding historian of China, Jonathan Spence specializes in the intellectual history of that nation from the seventeenth century through the present, and on Western images of China since the Middle Ages. A graduate of Yale University (Ph.D., 1965), he has served as a professor at Yale since 1971 and is currently Sterling Professor of History there. His books include The Death of Woman Wang (1978); The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984); The Question of Hu (1987); Chinese Roundabout: Essays on History and Culture; The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980; The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds; God's Chinese Son (1994) and Return to Dragon Mountain (2007). Winner of the John Adison Porter Prize (1965), the Los Angeles Times Book Award (1982) and the Vursell Prize, Dr. Spence is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His research frequently takes him to China and to many Chinese universities.