| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Angelos Chaniotis | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Angelos Chaniotis is since 2010 Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously he held Professorships of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg and New York University, and a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College in Oxford. He has also served as Vice Rector of the University of Heidelberg. He specializes in epigraphy and the history of Hellenism from Alexander to Late Antiquity. His researches focuses on social history, memory, identity, and religion in Greece and the Roman East. Since 1998 he has been editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. He participates in the excavation of Aphrodisias since 1995, and since 2021 he co-directs the excavation in Lyktos (Crete). His books include War in the Hellenistoc World: A Social and Cultural History (2005), Theatricality and Public Life in the Hellenistic Age (2009, in Greek), Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian (2018), and Emotionen und Fiktionen: Gefühle in Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur der griechischen Antike (2023). For his research he has received numerous awards and distinctions, among them the Greek State Award for Essay, the Anneliese-Meier Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, the Research Award of the State of Baden-Württenberg, and four honorary degrees. In 2013 he was made Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in Greece. He has served in numerous research boards, among others the Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca in Italy (2012–2014), the Collegium for Advanced Study in Finland (2004–2009) the Research Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2008–2013), and the International Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2005–2010). Since 2020 he is President of the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Hardt pour l’Étude de l’Antiquité Classique in Geneva. In Greece, he serves in the Supreme Council of the Authority of Higher Education (2020–) and the National Council of Research, Innovation and Technology (2023–). He is member of the European Academy and corresponding member of the academies of Athens, Belgium, Finland, and Heidelberg. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. John Dupré | | | Institution: | University of Exeter | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 406. Linguistics | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Born in England in 1952, John Dupré is a philosopher of science, specialising in the philosophy of biology, and a naturalistic metaphysician. He received his PhD from Cambridge in 1981, also spending two years on a Harkness Fellowship as a visiting PhD student at Princeton and Stanford. He taught at Stanford University from 1982-1996, since when he has been at the University of Exeter. At Exeter he restarted the philosophy programme that had been closed in the 1980s, and in 2002 became the founding Director of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, now the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. Egenis is now internationally known as a centre for interdisciplinary research on the life sciences. Dupré’s 1993 book, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, provided an influential critique of the essentialism, reductionism and determinism then still prevalent in post-positivist philosophy of science. In Human Nature and the Limits of Science (2001), he developed a detailed critique of reductive theories of human nature, especially as presented by Evolutionary Psychology. Since the mid-2000s, his work has focused on developing a radically processual account of the life sciences, first articulated in his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam in 2006, and most recently extended to an interpretation of the nature of the human in his Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 2023. He has published numerous articles and books on these topics, and on evolution, genomics, values in science, race and gender, and a range of related issues in the philosophy of biology. Dupré was President of the Philosophy of Science Association for 2000-2002. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2023. | |
| 3 | Name: | Professor Dr. Monika Fludernik | | | Institution: | Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1957 | | | | | | |
Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Frei-burg/Germany (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau). She is an Austrian citizen. Fludernik studied English, Indo-European Philology, History and Mathematics at the University of Graz. She was a student of F. K. Stanzel the narratologist, who supervised her doctoral dissertation on "Narrators' and Characters' Voices in James Joyce's Ulysses" (1982). From 1984 to 1993, she was assistant professor in the De-partment of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. Her habilitation book dealt with free indirect discourse and speech and thought representation in Eng-lish literature and conversational narratives, later published as The Fictions of Lan-guage and the Languages of Fiction (1993). Fludernik then moved to Freiburg with a Humboldt Fellowship and was appointed Professor of English Literature in Freiburg in 1994.
Fludernik is one of the leading narratologists world-wide. Her work is particularly noteworthy for its diachronic range (she covers English-language narrative from the Middle Ages to postcolonial literature), its interdisciplinarity (she was one of the first narratologists to focus on cognitive issues) and its linguistic methodology (see her analyses of conversational narratives and her studies of tense and syntax in narrative texts as well as her work on second-person narrative and we narration). Fludernik teaches English literature of all periods and genres. She has established herself not only as a narratologist but has also produced significant research in the areas of post-colonial studies, eighteenth-century aesthetics and law-and-literature studies.
Fludernik is the author of several monographs and over thirty edited volumes and special journal issues. She is particularly well-known for her seminal Towards a 'Nat-ural' Narratology (1996), which won the Perkins Prize of the Narrative Society, and her recent Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy (2019). Among her edited volumes, the following have been particularly well received: Hy-bridity and Postcolonialism (1998); Diaspora and Multiculturalism (2003); In the Grip of the Law (with Greta Olson, 2004); Postclassical Narratology (with Jan Alber, 2010); Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory (2011); Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in British Literature (with Miriam Nandi, 2014); Narrative Factuality: A Handbook (with Marie-Laure Ryan, 2019); and Being Untruthful: Lying, Fiction, and the Non-Factual (2021). Fludernik has been the director of a Collaborative Research Cluster (Sonder-forschungsbereich) on identities and alterities (SFB 541), of a graduate school on Factual and Fictional Narration (GRK 1767), and was a board member of the CRC/SFB 1015 that focused on the study of otium (Muße). She is currently directing a project on "Diachronic Narratology", funded by the German Research Foundation's Reinhart-Koselleck grant programme. From 1997-2006 Fludernik was the president of IALS (International Association of Literary Semantics). She has received several priz-es and fellowships and is a member of both the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as the Academia Europaea. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Kellie Jones | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Kellie Jones, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), and holds an honorary Doctorate from The Courtauld in London. She has also received awards for her work from the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, The College Arts Association, and Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation. She was the inaugural winner of the David C. Driskell Prize in African American Art and Art History for the High Museum of Art in 2005. In 2016 she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Prof. Jones is Chair of the Department African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latinx and Latin American Artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory. She has spent close to two thrilling decades at Columbia University. From 1999 to 2006 she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Prof. Jones received both her PhD and MA degrees from Yale in the History of Art. Her BA is from Amherst College.
Prof. Jones’s writings have appeared in a multitude of exhibition catalogues and journals. She is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017), which received the Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the American Book Award in 2018 and was named a Best Book of the Decade in 2019 by ArtNews, Best Art Book of 2017 in The New York Times and a Best Book of 2017 in Artforum. She is at work on book projects on sculptor Augusta Savage as well as on Conceptual Art. Her book October Files: David Hammons (MIT Press, 2024) is at press.
Kellie Jones has also worked as a curator for over four decades. In the first decade of her career she worked fairly exclusively within institutions including the Walker Art Center and The Studio Museum in Harlem. However, for much of her curatorial career she served as a guest curator for a variety of venues. She has organized shows for the São Paulo Bienal (1989, showing Martin Puryear; which won best individual exhibition at the Bienal that year) and Johannesburg Biennale (1997, Life’s Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s). She has numerous major national and international exhibitions to her credit. Her exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011 and 2012 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She was co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s” (Brooklyn Museum), named one the best exhibitions of 2014 by Artforum. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Wai-yee Li | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402b | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| 6 | Name: | Dr. Geoffrey Parker | | | Institution: | Ohio State University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Geoffrey Parker is a Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, as well as an Associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, at the Ohio State University. He was born in Nottingham, England, and studied history at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he received his BA (1965); his M.A. and Ph.D. (1968); and his Doctor of Letters (1981). He taught at the universities of Cambridge and St Andrews (UK), British Columbia (Canada), and Illinois and Yale (US) before joining the OSU History Department in 1997, where he teaches courses on Reformation Europe and military history at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
In 2006, he received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest honor for teaching excellence; and in 2022 the Rodica C. Botoman award for distinguished undergraduate teaching and mentoring. He has also directed 35 doctoral dissertations to completion, and in 2013 his advisees presented him with a Festschrift in honor of his 65th birthday, The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History.
He is the author or editor of 40 books, including The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road. The logistics of Spanish victory and defeat in the Low Countries Wars, 1567-1659 (1972; revised edition 2004); The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (1988; third edition 1996), winner of the "best book prize" from the Society for the History of Technology; The Grand Strategy of Philip II (1998), winner of the Samuel E. Morison Prize from the Society of Military History; and The Global Crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the 17th century (2013; updated edition, 2017), winner of the Best Book Prize from the Society of Military History and a British Academy Medal for a "landmark scholarly achievement which has transformed understanding of a particular subject or field of study." His biography Emperor: A new life of Charles V (2019), won the 2020 Ohio Academy of History award for "the outstanding publication of the previous year." His latest book, co-authored with one of his former doctoral students, Colin Martin, is Armada. The Spanish Enterprise and England’s deliverance in 1588. His books have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages.
He won the biennial Heineken Prize for History, awarded every two years to the scholar "deemed to have had the greatest impact on the profession," in 2012; the Sullivant Gold Medal, awarded once every five years by OSU’s Board of Trustees "to a member of the university whose achievements have been extraordinary and distinctive", in 2021; and the Ohio Academy of History annual Distinguished Historian Award in 2022. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received honorary doctorates from several European universities. In 1992, King Juan Carlos of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella la Católica; and in 1996, the Spanish government made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio.
He has four children and three grandchildren. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Susan Stewart | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1952 | | | | | | |
Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Professor of English Emerita, and member of the Associated Faculty of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University is a poet, critic, and translator. She has taught at Princeton for nineteen years. She served as the Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts from 2009 to 2017 and edited the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets from 2013 to 2023.
Born in York, Pennsylvania in 1952, she completed her B.A. from 1970-1973 at Dickinson College, majoring in English with minors in Anthropology and Fine Arts. She went on to the University of Pennsylvania, completing her Ph.D. in Folklore & Folklife Studies in 1978 after five years of study interleaved with an M.A. in poetry from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, in 1974-75. In 1978 she joined the faculty of the English Department at Temple University, where she helped found the creative writing program and annual Rome seminars in aesthetics. She returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, where she was Regan Professor of English. At Princeton, she was Annan Professor of English from 2004 to 2010 before assuming the Avalon chair.
Her degrees, in English, poetry, art history, and folklore, are reflected in the range of her publications ever since. She has alternated books of criticism and of poetry: as of 2023, there are seven of each. Her first book of criticism, Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), brings a curiosity shaped by structuralist anthropology to the senses of senseless speech, across writing from nursery rhymes to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Her second, On Longing, Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), translated now into several languages, has been an ongoing resource for visual artists inspired by its attention to feelings about objects. (Collaboration with artists, including Ann Hamilton, William Kentridge, and Eve Aschheim, continues to inform her work across all of her genres, as it has informed her teaching.) The next book was Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation (Duke University Press, 1994), and then came Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which won both the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism and the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa.
Four books of poems appeared over these years, Yellow Stars and Ice (Princeton University Press, 1981), The Hive (University of Georgia Press, 1987 and 2008), The Forest (University of Chicago Press, 1995), and Columbarium (University of Chicago Press, 2003), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have engaged not only visual artists, but also musicians, with many set by her frequent collaborator the composer James Primosch. Their work included the song cycles "Songs for Adam," commissioned by the Chicago Symphony, and "A Sibyl," commissioned by Collage New Music in 2015 and performed by the Juilliard Orchestra at MOMA in the summer of 2017.
At Princeton, Susan continued her practice of alternating books. Her books of poems have included Red Rover (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Cinder: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2017). Translations and co-translations have regularly interrupted the pattern, including volumes of poems by Alda Merini, Milo de Angelis, Antonella Anedda, and Marcel Proust. Chicago also published a collection of her writing on art, The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2005), along with The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making (2011), and, most recently, The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
Her public honors and invitations have included a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. She has been a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2014), a visiting writer at the American Academy in Rome (2001), a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2005-2011), and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005-present), among many residencies, visiting positions, and memberships. Princeton gave her its Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities in 2014, and in 2023 she is delivering Oxford’s Clarendon Lectures. | |
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