| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Aronstein Black | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
Barbara Aronstein Black is George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History Emerita at Columbia University. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1953, as well as an LL.B. from Columbia University in 1955 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. She holds honorary doctorates from Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan, Osgoode Hall, New Rochelle, New York Law School, Smith College, Vermont Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. Dr. Black was an editor of the Columbia Law Review and was an associate in law at Columbia from 1955-56. In 1965 she began a doctoral program in history at Yale, specializing in Anglo-American legal history. She served as an instructor and lecturer in history while completing graduate study, and, on award of the Ph.D. degree, became assistant professor of history at Yale. She was appointed associate professor of law at Yale in 1979. Dr. Black has also been a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School and a visiting professor at Columbia Law School. She joined the Columbia faculty in 1984, retiring in 2008, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1986-91. She was president of the American Society for Legal History from 1986-87 and 1988-89 and is a member of the Selden Society; the Massachusetts Historical Society; and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is on the Board of Directors of the Supreme Court Historical Society; the Board of Guarantors for the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University; and the Permanent Advisory Board for the Jay Papers Project at Columbia University. She was also a member of the New York State Ethics Commission from 1992-95 and served on the Board of Trustees of New York Law School from 1992-98. Dr. Black has published widely, and her principal areas of interest are legal history and contracts. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Paul M. Kennedy | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | | | | |
Internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic and strategic issues, Paul M. Kennedy is currently J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University. Dr. Kennedy earned his B.S. at Newcastle University and his doctorate at the University of Oxford and is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. Books such as The Samoan Tangle (1974), The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (1976) and The Realities Behind Diplomacy: Background Influences on British External Policy (1981) reveal his mastery of diplomatic and military history, as well as his analytical precision, narrative skill, and courage in dealing with large subjects. Furthermore, he has employed comparative techniques to study the relationship between economic and military power in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1988). Dr. Kennedy has the rare ability to use history to illuminate contemporary problems. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Dr. Kennedy also helped draft a report for an international commission on "The United Nations in its Second Half-Century," which was prepared for the 50th anniversary United Nations debate on how to improve the world organization, and he has co-edited two large collections of papers relating to contemporary strategic issues: The Pivotal States: A New Framework for U.S. Policy in the Developing World and From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. His latest book is entitled Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. In 2014 he was awarded the Hattendorf Prize for Distinguished Original Research in Maritime History by the US Naval War College. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. James M. McPherson | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
James M. McPherson was born in North Dakota but grew up in Minnesota from the age of six to twenty-one. He graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1958 and pursued graduate study at the Johns Hopkins University from 1958-62, receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1963. From 1962-2004, he taught in the Department of History at Princeton University, working his way up from instructor to George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History from 1991-2004, when he retired and became Davis Professor Emeritus. In the year 2000, he served as president of the Society of American Historians and in 2003-04 he was president of the American Historical Association. He has also served, and continues to serve on several historical advisory boards and preservation organizations, mostly concerned with Civil War museums and/or the preservation of Civil War battlefields and other sites. He is the author of some fifteen books, mostly about the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and editor of almost another dozen books on a variety of historical subjects. His most recent works are Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief (2014) and Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008), which won Gettysburg College's 2009 Lincoln Prize for scholarship. A number of his books have won prizes, most notably the Pulitzer Prize in History for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1989) and the Gettysburg Lincoln Prize for his book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1998). In 2007 he was named the first recipient of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in writing. In 2018 he was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who. Dr. McPherson lives in Princeton with his wife, Patricia. His daughter Jenny Long, her husband and three children live nearby. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Richard E. Quandt | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | | | | |
In his four decades at Princeton University, Richard E. Quandt has ranged over the length and breadth of economics, making fundamental contributions to theory and to measurement method, as well as using first-rate method in a stunning variety of applied studies. As an econometrician, he witnessed and participated in a modelling revolution as well as the computer revolution, and many elements of the econometrician's standard analytical toolkit have their origins in his work. A pioneer in discrete dependent variables, in switching regime models, in tests of the standard regression assumptions, in relaxing assumptions about the distribution of error terms, and in many other now-common areas, he has made numerous contributions of lasting value to econometric analysis. As an economic theorist, Dr. Quandt made important early contributions to the theory of demand and to models of oligopoly supply. His model of demand by consumers with uncertain tastes made an important contribution to demand theory. It also introduced a technology for modelling consumer heterogeneity and its effects that greatly advanced the theory of individual choice. He worked on the impact of uncertainty, on rules of thumb, on capital rationing, on stability and on equilibrium existence. Perhaps more important for the development of economics was Dr. Quandt's view that economic theory should be integrated, along with econometric theory, in applied work. Born in Hungary and a graduate of Harvard University (Ph.D., 1957), Dr. Quandt has edited numerous professional journals and is the author of works such as Microeconomic Theory (3rd edition, 1980) and The Econometrics of Disequilibrium (1988). He is currently Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Patrick Suppes | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | November 17, 2014 | | | | | | |
Philosopher Patrick Suppes was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1922. Initially he studied meteorology, graduating from the University of Chicago, and was later stationed at the Solomon Islands during WWII. After the war, he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he was a student of Ernest Nagel. In 1952 he went to Stanford University, where, from 1959-92, he directed the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS). He remained active at Stanford through 2014 and was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.
Dr. Suppes was best known for his contributions to philosophy of science, theory of measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology, and educational technology. In the 1960s, he and Richard C. Atkinson conducted experiments in using computers to teach math and reading to schoolchildren in the Palo Alto area. Stanford's Education Program for Gifted Youth and Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC, now named Pearson Education Technologies) is an indirect descendant of those early experiments. In 1978 Dr. Suppes was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on mathematical psychology. In 1990, he was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Science by President George H. W. Bush. He was also the laureate of the 2003 Lakatos Award for his contributions to the philosophy of science, and in 2004 he received the Lauener Preze in philosophy. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1991.
Patrick Suppes died November 17, 2014, at the age of 92 in Stanford, California. | |
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