| | 41 | Name: | Dr. Carol J. Oja | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American Studies at Harvard and Faculty Director of the Humanities at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a cultural historian of music with a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on American music and culture, with an emphasis on interracial history and social justice. Her most recent book is Sounding Together: Collaborative Perspectives on U.S. Music in the 21st Century, edited with Charles Hiroshi Garrett (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Oxford University Press, 2014) won the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (Oxford 2000) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Book Award, and her Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (Smithsonian 1990) also won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Oja’s coauthored article "Marian Anderson's 1953 Concert Tour of Japan: A Transnational History," written with Katie Callam, Makiko Kimoto, and Misako Ohta and published in American Music (2019), won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. She was co-director of the digital humanities exhibit Eileen Southern and “The Music of Black Americans,” together with Christina Linklater, and she is author or editor of six other books.
Oja is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; she was inducted into the Collegium of Scholars of the Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College; she has served as Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic; she has twice chaired the Pulitzer Prize committee in music; and she was a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music, and she is a past president of that organization. She has held fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks, the Radcliffe Institute, ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current book-in-progress is Jim Crow in the Concert Hall: Revisiting Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial Concert and the Racist History that Made it a Flash Point | |
| 42 | Name: | Dr. Edith Porada | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1978 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1912 | | | Death Date: | 3/24/94 | | | | |
| 43 | Name: | Dr. Richard J. Powell | | | Institution: | Duke University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1953 | | | | | | |
Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989. After receiving his B.A. at Morehouse College, he earned the M.F.A. from Howard University. Shortly thereafter Powell completed a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Museum Education at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and, after a brief teaching stint in Virginia, he entered Yale University, where he received the M.A. in African American Studies and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. in the History of Art. While attending Yale, Powell was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which enabled him to conduct dissertation research in Copenhagen's National Museum of Denmark and throughout several Scandinavian countries.
It was during Powell's time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that he became interested in art criticism and organizing art exhibitions. In 1979 the Studio Museum in Harlem enlisted Powell as guest curator for Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics, one of the first art museum surveys of works by African American printmakers. After Powell's year in Denmark, he settled in Washington, D.C. where, while completing his dissertation under the auspices of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he became Director of Programs for the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA): one of several alternative art spaces in the 1980s whose contemporary exhibitions and programs fueled that era's "culture wars."
As a visual artist, Powell has exhibited his prints and drawings in group and solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and, in the 1980s, worked as a periodical and book illustrator, most notably for: The Massachusetts Review; Callaloo; Roseann Bell, Bettye Parker and Beverly Guy Sheftall's Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (1979); and Jessica Hagedorn's Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions (1981). His works are in the permanent collections of the Bradford Art Galleries and Museums (Bradford, UK), the Library of Congress, the Yale University Art Gallery, and in many private hands.
Richard J. Powell, a recognized authority on African American art and culture, has organized numerous art exhibitions, most notably: The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989); Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (1997); To Conserve A Legacy: American Art at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999); Back to Black: Art, Cinema, and the Racial Imaginary (2005); and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014). Among the major museums where his curated exhibitions have been presented are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Along with teaching courses in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies, he has written extensively on topics ranging from primitivism to postmodernism, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Black Art: A Cultural History (1997, 2002 & 2021), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008), and Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020). From 2007 until 2010, Powell was Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin, the world’s leading English language journal in art history. In 2013 Powell received the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, and in 2016 was honored at the College Art Association's Annual Conference as the year's most Distinguished Scholar. In 2018 Powell was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | |
| 44 | Name: | Dr. James B. Pritchard | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 1/1/97 | | | | |
| 45 | Name: | Dr. Anne Walters Robertson | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 2015 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Anne Walters Robertson is a music historian who writes on subjects ranging from the plainchant of the early church to the Latin and vernacular polyphony of the late middle ages. She is currently Dean of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. In her work, liturgical and secular music, and often the interactions of the two, mirror theological and courtly ideas and shape the development of medieval spirituality and personal devotion, architecture, institutional identity, and politics. The theme of French royal culture also winds its way through Robertson’s books, which focus on the history of music at the cathedral of Reims, where the kings of France were crowned, and the music and liturgy of the abbey of St-Denis of Paris, where the kings were buried. Her research on fourteenth-century polyphony points to the fundamental roles of local musical dialect in understanding Philippe de Vitry’s life and music, and of mystical theology in illuminating the compositions of Guillaume de Machaut. More recently, she has studied the symbolic and folkloric aspects of the seminal masses and motets of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, as the title of her 2006 article, "The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and Motet," suggests. She has taught at the University of Chicago since 1984, where, throughout her career, she has been involved in the work of the broader University and the professional organizations, serving as Deputy Provost for Research and Education (2001-4) and Chair of the Music Department (1992-98, 2008, 2014-17), and as Co-Chair of the OPUS Campaign of the American Musicological Society (2005-9) and President of the AMS (2011-2012).
Robertson studied piano at the University of Houston (B.Mus., August 1974, summa cum laude and valedictorian; M.Mus. 1976) and music theory at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University (M.Mus. 1979) before taking the Ph.D. in musicology at Yale University (1984). She is the first scholar to win all three awards of the Medieval Academy of America: the Haskins Medal (2006) for her book Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works (Cambridge University Press, 2002), the John Nicholas Brown Prize (1995) for The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), and the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize (1987). Another trio of prizes, bestowed by the AMS, includes the H. Colin Slim Award (2007), the Otto Kinkeldey Award (2003), and the Alfred Einstein Award (1989). In 2007, the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association presented her with the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. She has received grants and fellowships from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation (1996-97), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1992), the American Philosophical Society (1990), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1990, 1986-87, 1985), the American Council of Learned Societies (1988, 1986), the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music (1982 83), the Fulbright Program (France, 1981 82), and the American Association of University Women (honorary, 1982). Robertson became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2015. | |
| 46 | Name: | Dr. Kay Kaufman Shelemay | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2013 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1948 | | | | | | |
Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. An ethnomusicologist who received her Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan (1977), Shelemay has carried out ethnographic and historical research in Ethiopia and among a cross-section of musical communities in the United States. Shelemay’s first book, Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (1986), won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1987 and the Prize of the International Musicological Society in 1988. Among her other books are A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991); Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology (3 vols., 1993-97), co-authored with Peter Jeffery; Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews (1998); Sing and Sing On. Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora (2022) and the textbook Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (3rd ed., 2015). Shelemay has also edited a seven-volume series of readings in ethnomusicology and other collections of essays, including Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture (2007, co-edited with Sarah Coakley) and Creating the Ethiopian Diaspora, a special double volume of Diaspora, A Journal of Transnational Studies (2011, co-edited with Steven Kaplan). Among her numerous articles, "The Power of Silent Voices. Women in the Syrian Jewish Musical Tradition" won the Society of Ethnomusicology’s 2010 Jaap Kunst for best article of the year. Shelemay has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. A Past-President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Shelemay was a Congressional appointee to the Board of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress from 1999-2012. In 2000, she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2004, a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Shelemay was named the Chair for Modern Culture at the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress during 2007-2008, and served as the Phi Beta Kappa/Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar during 2010-2011. Kay Kaufman Shelemay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2013. | |
| 47 | Name: | Dr. William Kelly Simpson | | | Institution: | Yale University & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | March 24, 2017 | | | | | | |
William Kelly Simpson (B.A. Yale, 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954) was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1958, and as Professor of Egyptology in 1965. He embraced nearly every aspect of the subject, including history, literature, art and archaeology. His numerous books include publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, Giza mastabas, several volumes of papyri and other Egyptian writings; a standard history of Egypt; and an anthology of Egyptian literature in translation. He was the author of nearly 150 articles in the field and was also former editor of the Yale Egyptological Studies. Furthermore, Dr. Simpson served for many years as Curator of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Kelly Simpson died March 24, 2017, at the age of 89. | |
| 48 | 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. | |
| 49 | Name: | Dr. Joseph R. Strayer | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1904 | | | Death Date: | 7/2/87 | | | | |
| 50 | Name: | Dr. Homer A. Thompson | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1951 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1906 | | | Death Date: | May 7, 2000 | | | | |
| 51 | Name: | Dr. Emily Townsend Vermeule | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1972 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | February 6, 2001 | | | | |
| 52 | Name: | Dr. Gordon Randolph Willey | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | April 28, 2002 | | | | |
| 53 | Name: | Dr. John Wilmerding | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2006 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | Death Date: | June 6, 2024 | | | | | | |
John Wilmerding is Sarofim Professor in American Art Emeritus in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, and former visiting curator in the Department of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a trustee of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and a commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington. He was formerly Senior Curator of American Art and Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, where he organized the landmark exhibition "American Light: The Luminist Movement" in 1980. In 2002, he was reappointed by President George W. Bush to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House. Professor Wilmerding is the author of many books and catalogs on American art, including American Marine Painting, American Views, and The Artist's Mount Desert as well as studies of Robert Salmon, Fitz H. Lane, John F. Peto, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Richard Estes, Robert Indiana, and Tom Wesselmann. An exhibition of his collection, "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins", was held at the National Gallery of Art in 2004, at which time he announced the gift of the collection to the Gallery. | |
| 54 | Name: | Dr. Irene J. Winter | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2016 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Born in New York City, Irene Winter received her AB in Anthropology from Barnard College (1960), her MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Chicago (1967), and her PhD from Columbia University in the History of Art and Archaeology (1973). She taught at Queens College, CUNY, from 1971-1976, at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976-1988, and is presently Boardman Professor of Fine Arts Emerita at Harvard University, having served on the faculty from 1988 to 2009, and as Department Chair from 1993-1996. In 1996-97 she was Slade Professor at Cambridge University, delivering the Slade Lectures in the Spring of 1997. She subsequently delivered the Flexner Lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1999, and in the Spring of 2005 presented the Andrew H. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, DC.
Professor Winter has participated in archaeological excavations at Godin Tepe and Hasanlu, Iran, and at Tell Sakhariyeh, Iraq, with additional comparative fieldwork in India. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (1983-88), along with an Olivia James travel Grant of the Archaeological Institute of America, and a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1999, was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2003-04, was named a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, in 2005, received the Medal of Distinction from Barnard College in 2009, and was designated an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2013.
She has served on the Board of the College Art Association, several editorial and grants boards, and the Scientific Committee of the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East since its inception in 1988. She has also been a member of the Iraq Task Force of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Her principal work has been devoted to the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, writing on topics ranging from ivory carving and cylinder seals to royal sculpture. Throughout her career, her stress has been on the relationship between the visual arts, language, history and culture in an attempt to join empirical data with theory in an inter-disciplinary context. Two volumes of collected essays, published by Brill, appeared in 2010, entitled On Art in the Ancient Near East. The Mellon lectures will be published as Visual Affect: Aesthetic Experience and Ancient Mesopotamia. | |
| 55 | Name: | Mr. Edwin Wolf | | | Institution: | Library Company of Philadelphia | | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | 2/20/91 | | | | |
| 56 | Name: | Dr. Christoph Wolff | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Christoph Wolff received a Dr.Phil. at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, in 1966, where he was an instructor at the Institute for Sacred Music (1963-65) and a lecturer in the Department of Music (1965-69). Later he served as an assistant professor of music at the University of Toronto and as professor of music at Columbia University before moving to Harvard University in 1976. He is currently the Adams University Professor at Harvard. Christoph Wolff is one of the foremost musicologists of our time, and without peer as a scholar of Johann Sebastian Bach. In addition to his work as editor and archivist, in 2000 he published a widely-praised biography of Bach aimed at a general audience, now in its fourth printing and translated into eight languages. His amazing discovery in 1999 of a trove of Bach family manuscripts in Kiev drew international attention. He has served widely on professional bodies and has also been a successful academic administrator at Harvard, where for eight years he was Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His list of books include The Bach Family (principal author, 1983); Bach: Essays on His Life and Music (1991); Mozarts Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies-Documents-Score (1994); and Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000). Dr. Wolff is the recipient of the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association, London (1978) and an Honorary Professor of the University of Freiburg since 1990. He currently serves on the board of directors of the the Packard Humanities Institute and chairs the executive board of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Wolff is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences at Leipzig. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| 57 | Name: | Dr. Michael Wood | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
As the list of his publications suggests, Michael Wood is a critic of astonishing range, working with literature in several languages and from several periods. He has also written screenplays. His books have been enthusiastically reviewed, and many of them have won more than academic readership. He writes and speaks with perspicacity, wit and penetration, and he concerns himself with large issues (the importance of literature; the social and moral meanings of film; the need for knowledge of diverse cultures) as well as small ones (the texture of prose, the function of an image). Also brilliantly successful as a teacher and administrator, Dr. Wood has been the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University since 1995. Born in England, he holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (1961) and has also taught at Columbia and Exeter Universities. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society of Literature, he has authored many books, including Stendhal (1971); America in the Movies, or "Santa Maria, It had Slipped My Mind" (1989); Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1990); The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (1995); Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction (1998); and The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles (2003). | |
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