| 1 | Name: | Dr. R. Howard Bloch | | Institution: | Yale University | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 402b | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | A native of North Carolina, raised in New York, R. Howard Bloch attended Amherst College and Stanford University. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, University of California Berkeley, Columbia, and Yale University, where he is currently Sterling Professor of French and Chair of the Humanities Program. R. Howard Bloch has written numerous books and articles on medieval language and literature, law, family structure, economic and social history, visual culture, as well as on the history of medieval studies in the nineteenth century. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a recipient of the Lowell and the Scaglione Prizes of the Modern Language Association, and a medalist of the Collège de France. | |
2 | Name: | Dr. Leslie Kurke | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | Year Elected: | 2010 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 402b | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1960 | | | | | Leslie Kurke is a specialist in ancient Greek literature and culture, with special emphasis on archaic Greek poetry in its socio-political context, Herodotus and early prose, and the constitution of ideology through material practices. She received her BA in Greek Literature from Bryn Mawr College (1981), and her MA and PhD in Classics from Princeton University (1984, 1988). She spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1987-90), and has taught in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1990. She is the author of The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (1991); Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece (1999); and Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose (2011). | |
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