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21Name:  Dr. Sarah B. Pomeroy
 Institution:  City University of New York
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  404a
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 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.
 
22Name:  Dr. Keren Rice
 Institution:  University of Toronto
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  406. Linguistics
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1950
   
 
Keren Rice is a linguist at the University of Toronto. She has made contributions to the areas of theoretical phonology, theoretical morphology, language description, and community-academy linguistics. She focuses on the study of Athabaskan languages of northern Canada. Her book A Grammar of Slave (1989) was awarded the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America for the best book of the year. She currently serves as chair of the Department of Linguistics, and she was the founding director of the Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Toronto. She served as editor of the journal International Journal of American Linguistics for thirteen years, and she has served as president of both the Canadian Linguistic Association and the Linguistic Society of America; she is president-elect of Section Z of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is University Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, and the recipient of the Killam Prize and the Molson Prize, as well as an Officer of the Order of Canada and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2015 she was both elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and was awarded the Pierre Chauveau Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.
 
23Name:  Dr. Richard J. Tarrant
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402b
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1945
   
 
Richard Tarrant was born in Brooklyn, NY and received his BA from Fordham University in 1966. He pursued graduate study at Oxford (Corpus Christi College) with support from Marshall and Danforth Scholarships, and obtained his D.Phil. In 1972. While at Corpus he was appointed to the P. S. Allen Junior Research Fellowship. In 1970 he took up a position at University College, Toronto, where he remained until moving to Harvard University in 1982. At Harvard he has been successively Professor of Greek and Latin, Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Roman Civilization, and Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He was Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1995-96 and Interim Dean in 2012. In 1991-92 he was Visiting Mellon Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Visiting Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 2008 he delivered the Comparetti Lectures at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His interests lie mainly in Latin literature, specifically Senecan drama and Augustan poetry, and in the transmission and editing of Latin texts; he has also explored the reception of classical literature in art and music. His books include editions with commentary of Seneca's Agamemnon (Cambridge UP 1977) and Thyestes (Scholars Press 1985), a critical edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Oxford Classical Texts series (2004), and a commentary on Virgil Aeneid Book XII for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (2012); the last of these received the 2013 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. He is also one of the main contributors to the volume Texts and Transmission: A Guide to the Latin Classics, edited by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford 1983). He is currently completing a book entitled Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism (to be published by Cambridge UP), is at work on a book on Horace's Odes for Oxford University Press, and is preparing a new critical edition of Horace for Oxford Classical Texts. He has been the editor of Phoenix (the journal of the Classical Association of Canada) and of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology; he has served as the Vice-President for Publications of the American Philological Association; and he is a member of the editorial boards of Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, and Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. His teaching at Harvard has been recognized with the Levenson Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, appointment as a Harvard College Professor, and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has twice been named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for contributions to scholarship. Since 1968 he has been married to Jacqueline Brown. His outside interests include baroque and classical music, choral singing, and all things Italian.
 
24Name:  Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
 Institution:  Spelman College
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1954
   
25Name:  Ms. Alice Waters
 Institution:  Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1944
   
 
Alice Waters was educated at the University of California, Berkeley. Among her wards are: Best Chef in America, James Beard Foundation, 1992; Best Restaurant in America, Gourmet magazine, 2001; Force for Nature Award, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2004; Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant magazine’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants, 2007; co-recipient, with Kofi Annan, Global Environmental Citizen Award, 2008; and National Humanities Medal, 2014. She authored (with C. Petrini, W. McCuaig) Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) in 2004, The Art of Simple Food: Notes and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution in 2007, and The Edible Schoolyard, 2008; In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart in 2010. She was elected a member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2007. Alice Waters has been one of the world’s premier advocates for healthy, homegrown, and exceptional food. If there are now scores of books and articles written about food and health, Waters has been one of the world’s leaders in the movement toward Americans and others eating more healthy food – and having them do it as part of a family experience. Indeed, she has been “credited with revolutionizing American cooking in the 1970s and 1980s,” according to The New York Times. She is the executive chef, founder (in 1971), and owner of the, now legendary, Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café in Berkeley. She is one of the leaders of the slow food movement. She started projects at Yale University on sustainable foods; she extended the program to the American Academy in Rome. She works in the California school system to enhance awareness among our youth of the value of eating better food. For her work on multiple fronts, she has won a host of awards, including the Global Environmental Citizen Award in 2008 (which she shared with then U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan). There have been few people in the past several decades who match Alice Water’s positive influence on the eating habits of Americans.
 
26Name:  Dr. Marna C. Whittington
 Institution:  Allianz Global Investors Capital; Oaktree Capital Group
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1947
   
 
As former CEO of Allianz Global Investors Capital, Marna Whittington was responsible for overseeing all business and investment functions within the firm. In addition, she was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Management Board of Allianz Global Investors, the holding company for Allianz's asset management activities. Prior to joining Allianz Global Investors, she was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley Asset Management. Dr. Whittington started in the investment industry in 1992, joining Philadelphia-based Miller Anderson & Sherrerd which was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1996. Previously she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the University of Pennsylvania where she served from 1984 to 1992. Earlier, she had been first, Budget Director and later, Secretary of Finance for the State of Delaware. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She earned a B.A. with a concentration in mathematics from the University of Delaware and an M.S. and Ph.D. in quantitative methods from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently serves on the boards of trustees for the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Middlebury College. She is also on the board of directors of Macy's Inc., the Philadelphia Contributionship (a company founded by Benjamin Franklin), Fireman's Fund, Allianz Life, Phillips 66, and Oaktree Capital Management L.P. Marna Whittington was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014.
 
27Name:  Mr. Richard B. Worley
 Institution:  Permit Capital LLC
 Year Elected:  2014
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1945
   
 
Richard B. Worley is Managing Partner of Permit Capital LLC which he founded in 2002. He began his career in 1970 as an economist at Goldman Sachs. In 1978 he joined Miller Anderson and Sherrerd, an independent investment management firm in the Philadelphia area. At MAS he was elected Partner in 1980 and Chairman in 1988, a position he held until the firm was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1996. At Morgan Stanley he served in several capacities including as President and CEO of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Worley holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree from the University of Tennessee. He also attended graduate school at the University of Texas for two years before joining Goldman Sachs. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association and of Neuberger Berman, a global investment management company headquartered in New York City, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a director at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a director at Two River Theater and is on the board of directors at The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. Mr. Worley was the Chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association a position he held from 2009 to 2019. He is a former trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine, the National Constitution Center and he is a former director of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the Independence Seaport Museum. Richard B. Worley was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2014.
 
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