| | 21 | Name: | Dr. John G. A. Pocock | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | | | | |
J.G.A. Pocock grew up in New Zealand and holds his first degrees and an honorary doctorate from that country's university system. He earned his Ph.D. (1952) from Cambridge University, where he studied with Herbert Butterfield, J.H. Plumb and Peter Laslett. He has taught at the Universities of Canterbury and Otago in New Zealand, and in the United States at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Johns Hopkins University since 1974, becoming a professor emeritus in 1994. Since 1984 he has been convenor of the Steering Committee of the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. His publications include: The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (1957, 1987, French, 2000); Politics, Language and Time, Essays on Political Thought and History (1971, 1989); The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975, Italian, 1980, French, 1997, Spanish, 2002/2003, Japanese, 2008); an edition of The Political Works of James Harrington (1997); Virtue, Commerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (1985, Japanese, 1990, French, 1998); an edition, with Gordon J. Schochet and Lois G. Schwoerer, of The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (1993); Barbarism and Religion, volume I: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, volume II: Narratives of Civil Government (1999), volume III: The First Decline and Fall (2003), volume IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires (2005); and The Discovery of Islands: Essays on British History (2005) . Barbarism and Religion was the 2000 recipient of the APS's Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History. Selections of his essays have been published in Italian, German, Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese. He is currently about to publish Political Thought as History: Essays on Theory and Method, and completing Barbarism and Religion, volume V: Religion: The First Triumph. J.G.A. Pocock was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1994. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University. | |
| 22 | Name: | Dr. Sarah B. Pomeroy | | | Institution: | City University of New York | | | Year Elected: | 2014 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Sarah Pomeroy received a Ph.D. at Columbia University. She then studied Roman law at Columbia for two years. She joined the faculty of Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York in 1964 and in 2003 she became Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita.
Sarah Pomeroy has set her mark on the history of women, as the leading scholar of ancient Greek women’s history since the publication in 1975 of her ground-breaking book Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. Her law degree and knowledge of papyrology have given her special access to under-used categories of primary evidence and allowed her to expand the range of women’s history, as well as ancient history. Her book Spartan Women was the first book-length examination of Spartan women ever published. In Women in Hellenistic Egypt, The Murder of Regilla: A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity, and in the recent Pythagorean Women, she uses archaeological evidence to flesh out the small bits of literary references available. The study of ancient history has benefited from her work through the widely used textbooks on ancient history on which she has collaborated with colleagues from different areas.
She is also the author of Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra (1990), Women’s History and Ancient History (1991), Xenophon’s Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1995), and Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1999). Her book (with J. Kathirithamby) Mari Sibylla Merian: Artist, Scientist, Adventurer, won the 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Gold Medal in the Non-Fiction Chapter Book category. Sarah Pomeroy was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014. | |
| 23 | Name: | Dr. Brent D. Shaw | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2012 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
For advanced research work in Classics I went to Cambridge University in 1973 where I completed my doctoral dissertation research on pastoral nomadism and state regulation in the Roman empire under the aegis of Joyce Reynolds. After serving some of my first years in academia in the University of Birmingham and then at undergraduate institutions in Canada, I moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, following a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study and a year as Visiting Professor of Classics at Princeton University. I then went to Princeton University in 2004, where I am currently the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics and Chair of the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity.
My principal areas of research have included the regional history of the Roman world with special emphasis on the African provinces of the empire; the demographic and social history of the Roman family; problems of violence and social order, beginning with studies on banditry in the mid 1980s, but shifting to problems of sectarian violence to which my current large work, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge University Press 2011) is devoted. My current research is split between a major collective project on global history, entitled "Worlds Together, Worlds Apart," shared with other faculty in the Department of History at Princeton, and my own current work on the problem of economic activity and metaphorical representation. | |
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