| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Stanley Cavell | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 407. Philosophy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | June 19, 2018 | | | | | | |
Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and most independent American philosophers of the last half-century. His major interests center on the relation of the analytical tradition (especially the work of Austin and Wittgenstein) with key figures of the Continental tradition (for example, Heidegger and Nietzsche); with American philosophy (especially Emerson and Thoreau); and with the arts (for example, Shakespeare, film, and opera). At a time when one hears the fear that American philosophy is limiting itself to philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of language and logic and European philosophy is dominated by Postmodernism, Dr. Cavell was perhaps the outstanding example of a philosopher who is simultaneously humanistic and rigorous. The extent of his influence was testified to by the fact that he had been the subject of books and collections of papers in the United States, England, Germany, France, Spain and Japan. In 1997 Dr. Cavell became Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus at Harvard University, where he had taught since 1963. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961 and was a Junior Fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1953 to 1956. He earned his A.B. in music at the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 and returned to Berkeley as an assistant professor of philosophy from 1956 to 1962. Stanley Cavell died June 19, 2018, at the age of 91 in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Peter Galison | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Peter Galison is a main shaper of new thinking in the history of science. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University both in theoretical particle physics and in the history of modern science, and his wide-ranging expertise and innovative mind are evident in books such as How Experiments End, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, and Einstein's Clocks and Poincaré's Maps. Dr. Galison has also published essays on such diverse topics as the links between Bauhaus architecture and the philosophy of the Vienna Circle, and on the development of cybernetics. He has taught at Harvard University since 1992. He was the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, 1994-2007, and is currently the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor. From 1982-92 he taught at Stanford University, where he was the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Galison's other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation. His latest work is a documentary film titled "Secrecy". Made with Harvard lecturer Robb Moss and screened at the Sundance Film Festival, it explores the complicated role that classified activity has played in American political affairs and in democracy at large. In 2018 he received the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Robert P. Kirshner | | | Institution: | Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory; Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 101. Astronomy | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
Robert Kirshner is best known for his observational studies of supernovae, which helped provide the scientific grounding for the teams investigating these extraordinarily distant lighthouses, and this in turn led to the surprising conclusion that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, probably the most significant cosmological discovery of the past decade. His previous work included important research on the large scale distribution of galaxies. A lively and entertaining lecturer, he teaches Harvard University's largest core course in the mathematical sciences. When applying for graduate school at Harvard, he was denied admission on the grounds that he was interested in too many things to be serious about astronomy; he later became Chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department, and he is president of the American Astronomical Society. Dr. Kirshner presently holds the titles of Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University and Master of Quincy House at Harvard College. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the California Institute of Technology and was elected to the membership of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. In 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received the James Craig Watson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and the Wolf Prize in 2015. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Richard Losick | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 2. Biological Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 202. Cellular and Developmental Biology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Richard Losick received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He was elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow in 1969, and in 1972 he joined the faculty of Harvard University, where he is currently the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology, a Harvard College Professor, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He is a past chairman of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology. He teaches the introductory course on molecular biology at Harvard College, and as Head Tutor he is responsible for the undergraduate concentration in Biochemical Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and a former Visiting Scholar of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His research interests include RNA polymerase, gene transcription and its control, and development in microorganisms. Recently, Dr. Losick was honored with the 2007 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology for "discovering alternative bacterial sigma factors and his fundamnetal contributions to understanding the mechanicsm of bacterial sporulation" and the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for discovering the structure of bacteria. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Sally Falk Moore | | | Institution: | Peabody Museum, Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 403. Cultural Anthropology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | May 2, 2021 | | | | | | |
Sally Falk Moore was Professor of Anthropology (emerita) at Harvard University, where she served as Dean of the Graduate School from 1985-89. Intermittently, she also has taught "Anthropological Approaches to Law" at Harvard Law School. She has an L.L.B. from Columbia Law School (1945). Her major anthropological fieldwork has been in East Africa. Her books include Power and Property in Inca Peru (1958), Law as Process (1978), Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980 (1986), Anthropology and Africa (1994), and most recently a reader, Law and Anthropology (2005). She is a past president of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Political and Legal Anthropology. She was elected Huxley Medalist and Lecturer for 1999 by the Royal Anthropological Institute and has been awarded the Kalven Prize by the Law and Society Association (2005). She died on May 2, 2021. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Robert D. Putnam | | | Institution: | Harvard University; Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Robert D. Putnam is Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association. He has received numerous scholarly honors, including the Skytte Prize, the most prestigious global award in political science. He has written fourteen books, translated into more than twenty languages, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work, both among the most cited publications in the social sciences in the last half century. His recent books include: (with David E. Campbell, 2012) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which won the American Political Science Association’s 2011 Woodrow Wilson award as the best book in political science, and (with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, 2020) The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again. He has consulted for the last three American presidents, the last three British prime ministers, the current French president, and hundreds of grassroots leaders and activists in many countries. He is now working on three major projects: (1) Inequality and opportunity: a growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility; (2) The changing role of religion in the United Kingdom and the US; and (3) The social consequences of hard times in the United Kingdom and the US. He was awarded the 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Mary Waters | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2005 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Mary Waters grew up in Brooklyn, New York and received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1978) and an M.A. in sociology (1981), an M.A. in demography (1983), and a Ph.D. in sociology (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University since 1986 as assistant professor (1986-90), associate professor (1990-93), professor (1993-) and Harvard College Professor (a named chair to honor excellence in teaching) (1999-2005) and Chair of the Department (2001-2005, acting Chair 2007), and M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology. In 2018 she was appointed the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology. Professor Waters' research is in the fields of race and ethnicity, immigration and demography. She is co-director (with John Mollenkopf and Philip Kasinitz of City University of New York) of the New York Second Generation Project. This study examines the lives of the new second generation -- young adults whose parents were immigrants to the United States from China, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, the West Indies and Russia -- contrasted with samples of comparable native born whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans. This project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Russell Sage, Mellon, Ford, Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations, includes a random sample survey of New York and its suburbs, in depth life history interviews with 350 young people, and seven ethnographic studies conducted throughout the city by a team of ethnographers. In 2002-03 a longitudinal element was added as these young people were re-interviewed as part of a large nationwide study of the transition to adulthood, part of the MacArthur Network on the Transition to Adulthood. The first book from this project, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation was published in 2004.
Dr. Waters is also the co-editor (with historian Reed Ueda of Tufts University) of The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965 . This handbook updates the landmark Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, which was originally published in 1980. She is also directing a multi-site qualitative study of the transition to adulthood in the contemporary United States. This study examines the process of leaving home, finishing education, beginning work, finding a partner and becoming a parent across a wide variety of racial, ethnic and immigrant groups, as well as across different regions of the United States.
Dr. Waters is the author of numerous articles and books on the subject of race, ethnicity and immigration. Her book, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (1999) is the winner of the Mirra Komorovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society for the best book published in 1999-2000, the 2001 Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, the 2001 Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the International Migration Section of the ASA, the 1999 Best Book Award of the Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics of the American Political Science Association, and the 1999-2000 Distinguished Book Award of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. Her other books include From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America (with Stanley Lieberson, 1988); Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America (1990); The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multi-Racial Individuals (with Joel Perlmann, 2002); The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (with Peggy Levitt, 2002); and Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective (co-edited with Fiona Devine, 2004).
Professor Waters was a Guggenheim Fellow (1993-94) and a Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage (1991-92). She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Economic and Demographic Impacts of Immigration on the U.S. She has consulted to the Census Bureau and testified before Congress on issues of measurement of race and ethnicity and is a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. She is a member of the International Migration Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005 and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. Mary Waters and her husband, Ric Bayly, have three children, Katie, Harry and Maggie. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
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