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| | 1 | Name: | Mr. S. James Anaya | | | Institution: | University of Colorado Law School, Boulder | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1957 | | | | | | |
S. James Anaya is currently Dean and Charles Inglis Thomson Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983. Prior to coming to the University of Colorado, he worked with the National Indian Youth Council, at the University of Iowa College of Law, as Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations, and the University of Arizona Regents’ and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona.
James Anaya teaches, writes, and litigates in the areas of international human rights, constitutional law, and the rights of indigenous peoples. He occupies a unique position in international indigenous rights and at the United Nations, and is internationally acknowledged as an articulate spokesperson. In 2014, he completed two terms as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Prior to working at the U.N., he helped indigenous peoples win groundbreaking cases before the Organization of American States and he produced important and innovative scholarship on indigenous international rights. He helped shape and influence the development of international law. As the Rapporteur, he reported on the conditions of indigenous peoples worldwide and responded to allegations of human rights violations. His work included visiting affected countries and writing official reports, and direct contacts with governments and indigenous peoples. He also helped draft the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Among his awards are: the Haywood Burns / Shanara Gilbert Award of the Northeast People of Color Conference (2009); the Bernard S. Rodey Award of the University of New Mexico Alumni Association (2014); and the Goler T. Butcher Award of the American Society of International Law (2016). He is the author of: Indigenous Peoples in International Law, 1996; International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, 2009; (with H. Hannum, D. Shelton) International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Practice, 2011. James Anaya was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 2 | Name: | Professor Sir David Cannadine | | | Institution: | British Academy; Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1950 | | | | | | |
David Cannadine is the former President of the British Academy, the Dodge Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, and a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University. He earned his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1975. His work history includes St. John's College and Christ's College at Cambridge University, being Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University, being Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at University of London, and Whitney J. Oates Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer with the rank of Professor at Princeton University.
David Cannadine is a distinguished historian of modern Britain (knighted for his work in 2009) who for many years has led a trans-Atlantic life, teaching at Princeton and Oxford while publishing a steady stream of well-received books. The first in his family to attend university, he has a deep research interest in the role of class in British life and history. He is active in many British learned societies and became president of the British Academy in 2017.
His works include Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990), The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (1998), Ornamentalism: How the British Saw the Empire (2001), Margaret Thatcher: A Life (2016), and Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800-1906 (2017). Among his honors are the Lionel Trilling Prize in 2009, the Dean's Distinguished Award in the Humanities of Columbia University in 1996, the Dickinson Medal of the Newcomen Society in 2003, Knight Bachelor in 2008, Tercentenary Medal of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008, and the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 2012. He is a member of the Royal Historical Society (1981), the Royal Society of Arts (1998), the Royal Society of Literature (1999), the British Academy (1999), the Society of Antiquaries of London (2005), and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2018). David Cannadine was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 3 | Name: | Mr. William Drayton | | | Institution: | Ashoka: Innovators for the Public | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
As the Founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Bill Drayton has pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship, growing a global association of over 3,900 leading social entrepreneurs who work together to create an “Everyone a Changemaker” world and bring big systems-change to the world’s most urgent social challenges. Bill also chairs Get American Working!, Youth Venture, and Community Greens.
He earned his BA from Harvard, an MA from Balliol College in Oxford University, and is a graduate of Yale Law School. Drayton had a 10-year career with McKinsey and Company, taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and served as Assistant Administrator for the EPA during the Carter Administration.
Bill has been selected as one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2011, Drayton won Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Award, commonly described as Spain’s Nobel, for his work in social entrepreneurship. Other awards include Honorary Doctorates from Yale, NYU, and more; the Yale Law School’s highest alumni honor; an Honorary Fellow at Oxford’s Balliol College; the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award International; the National Academy of Public Administration National Public Service Award; and the Harvard Kennedy School Richard E. Neustadt Award for Public Policy. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Jennifer Higdon | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1962 | | | | | | |
Jennifer Higdon was born on New Year’s Eve, 1962. She didn’t start playing an instrument until she taught herself to play the flute at the age of 15 and began formal studies at 18 when she entered college. Despite this late start, the Pulitzer Prize and two-time Grammy winner has become a major figure in Classical music, and is one of the few individuals in the U.S. who makes her living from commissions. Over the past two decades, Higdon has successfully broken the glass ceiling of Classical music, a musical form that has historically focused on the music of men, and even more restrictively, music from the 18th and 19th centuries. Higdon averages 200 performances a year of her works, in many genres within classical music: from opera to chamber, symphonic to band, solo works to concerti. She has even written works in forms not tackled before: a bluegrass/classical hybrid concerto, a concerto for the entire low brass section of the orchestra, and one that features 6 soloists.
After receiving the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for her Violin Concerto, Higdon also won a Grammy for her Percussion Concerto...a singular feat which no other classical composer has ever managed: two of the biggest major awards for two different pieces in one year. Additionally, she has been awarded the prestigious Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from Northwestern University, the Guggenheim Fellowship, two awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation Fellowship, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, an Independence Foundation Grant, funding from the NEA, and ASCAP Awards. A winner of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition’s American Composers Invitational, her Secret & Glass Gardens was performed by the semi-finalists. Her first opera, Cold Mountain, sold out its premiere run in Santa Fe, as well as in North Carolina, and Philadelphia (becoming the third highest selling opera in Opera Philadelphia’s history). Cold Mountain won the prestigious International Opera Award for Best World Premiere in 2016; the first American opera to do so in the award’s history.
Her music has been hailed by Fanfare Magazine as having "the distinction of being at once complex, sophisticated but readily accessible emotionally," with the Times of London citing it as "...traditionally rooted, yet imbued with integrity and freshness." The Chicago Sun Times recently cited her music as "both modern and timeless, complex and sophisticated, and immensely engaging in a way that both charms and galvanizes an audience craving something new and full of urgency, yet not distancing." John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune called her writing, "beautiful, accessible, inventive, and impeccably crafted."
Higdon's list of commissioners is extensive and includes The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well such groups as the Tokyo String Quartet, the Lark Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the President’s Own Marine Band. She has also written works for such renowned artists as baritone Thomas Hampson; pianists Yuja Wang and Gary Graffman; and violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Jennifer Koh, and Hilary Hahn. The demand for her music is such that there is a waiting list of soloists, orchestras and chamber groups who want to commission new works.
Higdon has been a featured composer at many festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Vail, Norfolk, Grand Teton, and Cabrillo. She has served as Composer-in-Residence with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Fort Worth Symphony. She was honored to serve as one of the Creative Directors of the Boundless Series for the Cincinnati Symphony. Higdon was honored to serve as the Barr Laureate Scholar at the University of Missouri Kansas City and, as winner of the Eddie Medora King Award, completed a residency at the University of Texas Austin.
Her orchestral work, blue cathedral, is one of the most performed contemporary works in the orchestral repertoire, and is widely considered the first work in the 21st century to have become part of the standard repertoire.
Higdon’s works have been recorded on more than 70 CDs. Her Percussion Concerto won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2010 and her Viola Concerto won in 2018. Her work, All Things Majestic, written for the Grand Teton Music Festival, is part of that national park’s visitor center experience.
She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Bowling Green State University, an Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Higdon has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Hartt School and Bowling Green State University.
Dr. Higdon currently holds the Rock Chair in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her music is published exclusively by Lawdon Press. | |
| 5 | Name: | Mr. John Lithgow | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 501. Creative Artists | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
John Lithgow is an actor and the founder of Arts First. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 1967.
John Lithgow is one of the country’s most distinguished actors, and has been for decades. Trained as a Shakespearean actor, he is also accomplished on the stage in modern drama; in movies, in drama and comedy; and on television in roles ranging from an extraterrestrial to Winston Churchill. He is the author of an engrossing memoir, and has performed around the country in a one-man play derived in part from it. Deeply committed to arts education, he has written and recorded children’s books and has served on several commissions aimed at enhancing education in the arts. His alma mater, Harvard, has celebrated his accomplishments on many occasions, including with an honorary degree.
His awards include: Best Featured Actor in a Play, 1973, Best Actor in a Musical, 2002, Tony Awards; Best Supporting Actor, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, 1982; Best Supporting Actor, New York Film Critics Association, 1982; Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, 1986, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, 1996, 1997, 1999, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, 2010, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, 2017, Primetime Emmy Awards; Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy, 1997, Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, 2010, Golden Globes Awards; Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, 1997, 1998, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, 2017, Screen Actors Guild Awards; Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Critics Choice Awards, 2016; Harvard Arts Medal, 2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2010). He is the author of Drama: An Actor's Education (2011) and a number of children's books. John Lithgow was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Nancy Weiss Malkiel | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | | |
Nancy Weiss Malkiel is professor of history emeritus at Princeton University. A scholar in 20th century American history, she joined the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 1969, was promoted to associate professor in 1975, and to full professor in 1982. She transferred to emeritus status in 2016.
Professor Malkiel is the author most recently of "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation (2016; paperback edition, 2018). Her previous publications (as Nancy J. Weiss) include Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1989), Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (1983), and The National Urban League, 1910-1940 (1974). She is currently working on a biography of William G. Bowen (1933-2016), president of Princeton University and of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
From 1987 to 2011, Professor Malkiel served as Dean of the College, the senior officer responsible for Princeton's undergraduate academic program. She was the 2018 recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Sidney Hook Memorial Award, which recognizes national distinction in scholarship, undergraduate teaching, and leadership in the cause of liberal arts education.
Professor Malkiel served from 1975 to 2019 as a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. As well, she is a former trustee of Smith College, Princeton Day School, and McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
Professor Malkiel received a B.A. (1965) and an honorary degree (1997) from Smith College and an M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1970) from Harvard University. | |
| 7 | Name: | Mr. David M. Rubenstein | | | Institution: | The Carlyle Group | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion from 27 offices around the world.
Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.
Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).
Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story and How to Lead. David Rubenstein was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. Patrick Spero | | | Institution: | George Washington Presidential Library
at Mount Vernon | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | 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? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1978 | | | | | | |
Patrick Spero received his B.A. from James Madison University in 2000, his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He held a number of public history jobs while pursuing his Ph.D., including serving has Historian at the David Library of the American Revolution. From 2009-2011, he served as the Pew Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bibliography at the American Philosophical Society Library, where he surveyed the Society’s early American manuscript collections and wrote a guide to these collections. Dr. Spero then joined the faculty of Williams College until 2015, when he returned to the Society as its Librarian. Before joining the Society, Spero organized several international conferences and directed numerous teacher workshops. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews and has published two books, Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776 (W.W. Norton, 2018) and Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). He is also co-editor of The American Revolution Reborn: New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). | |
| 9 | Name: | Professor Patricia J. Williams | | | Institution: | Northeastern University; Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 2019 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 504. Scholars in the Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1951 | | | | | | |
Patricia Williams is currently James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University as well as Columnist for The Nation. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1975. Prior to moving to Columbia, she worked in the Office of the City Attorney of Los Angeles, for the Western Center on Law and Poverty of Golden Gate University School of Law, at the City University of New York Law School at Queens College, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Patricia Williams is a preeminent theorist of race in relation to law in modern American public life, an esteemed scholar and celebrated public intellectual. Her first book was an immediate classic, not only for her penetrating insights at the intersection of race, gender and rights consciousness, but also for her analysis of everyday life as the setting where equality’s vexed and contradictory lifeworlds matter and are worked out – if they are. She is highly regarded as a critical race theorist, feminist theorist, and civil rights scholar; her influence makes these veins of scholarship necessary and accessible to each other. She also brought a new voice to scholarship and journalism – immersed in observed experience, yielding evidence unseen in the more filtered formality of conventional academic writing. Signs of her stature include her many awards, the Reith Lectures (BBC), and her place in Columbia’s oral history archive.
Her awards include the Pioneer of Civil and Human Rights Award of the National Conference of Black Lawyers in 1990 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. She is on the board of advisors at the Center of Constitutional Rights and the board of directors at the National Organization for Women. She is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor (1991), The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice (1995), and The Blind Goddess: A Reader on Race and Justice (2011). Patricia Williams was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. | |
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