| | 61 | 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); and the textbook Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (2nd ed., 2006, 3rd ed. forthcoming). 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. | |
| 62 | Name: | Professor Erika Simon | | | Institution: | University of Würzburg | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1927 | | | Death Date: | February 15, 2019 | | | | | | |
Erika Simon was born in Ludwigshafen (then in the suburb Rheingönheim), and from 1930 she lived in Aschaffenburg/Main (not far from Frankfurt) where she attended high school. Then from 1947 on she was a student at Heidelberg University and Munich University. From 1953-59 she was an assistant at Mainz University, and from 1959-63 she was a Docent at Heidelberg University. She had a visiting position from 1961-62 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. From 1964-94 she was Professor of Classical Archaeology at Würzburg University and Director of the Antiquities in Martin-von-Wagner Museum. She has been professor emerita since 1994. Dr. Simon is the author of Die Götter der Griechen (1969); Das antike Theater (1972); Pergamon und Hesiod (1975); Festivals of Attica, An Archaeological Commentary (1983); Die konstantinischen Deckengemälde in Trier (1986); Die Götter der Römer (1990); and Ausgewahlte Schriften I/II (1998). She is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and has honorary doctorates at Athens and Thessaloniki Universities. | |
| 63 | 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. | |
| 64 | 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 | | | | |
| 65 | Name: | Sir Ronald Syme | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1959 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 401. Archaeology | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 9/4/89 | | | | |
| 66 | 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 | | | | |
| 67 | 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 | | | | |
| 68 | 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 | | | | |
| 69 | 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 | | | | | | |
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. | |
| 70 | 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. | |
| 71 | 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 | | | | |
| 72 | 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. | |
| 73 | 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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