Subdivision
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| | | Name: | Dr. Margaret C. Jacob | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Margaret Jacob received her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1968. She was an assistant professor of history and languages and literature at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and a lecturer in European history at the University of East Anglia, UK, before becoming professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York, in1971. She became dean of the Eugene Lang College and professor of history in the university in 1985 at the New School for Social Research. In 1996 she moved to the University of Pennsylvania as professor of history and of the history of science. She is currently Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A leading international authority on the interaction of science, commerce, and technology and how they contributed to the industrial revolution of the early 19th century. Dr. Jacob is the author of many books and innumerable articles. She works with English, French, Belgian, and Dutch sources. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, she is also a prominent academic leader. At UCLA, she has spearheaded a pathbreaking research project bringing scientists and humanists together to study chronic pain. Dr. Jacob's publications include The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (1976); The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans (1981); The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (1988); Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth Century Europe (1991); (with Lynn Hunt and Joyce Appleby) Telling the Truth about History (1994); (with Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs) Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (1995); Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (1997); The Enlightenment: A Brief History (2001); and (with Larry Stewart) Practical Matter, The Impact of Newton's Science from 1687 to 1851 (2004). She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002 and in the same year awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht. | |
| | Name: | Dr. David Levering Lewis | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
David Levering Lewis received a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962. He spent the following year as Lecturer in European History at the University of Ghana. He was a professor of history at the University of the District of Columbia for ten years and at the University of California, San Diego, for three years before moving to Rutgers, The State University, in 1984. He became the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University in 2003. David Levering Lewis has published prize-winning books in European, African, and U. S. history. All of his work is marked by meticulous scholarship, elegant prose, and interpretive distinction. Few historians of his generation have ranged so broadly. His two-volume biography of DuBois is historical scholarship and biography at its best. In addition to the two Pulitzer Prizes, Dr. Lewis has received the Bancroft Prize in History and Diplomacy; the Parkman Prize in History; the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; a MacArthur Fellowship (1999-2004); and was one of eight 2009 National Humanities Medalists. A list of his books includes Martin Luther King: A Critical Biography (1970); Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair (1973); A Bicentenniel History of Washington, D.C. (1976); When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981); The Harlem Renaissance: The Art of Black America (1987); The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism, and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa (1988); W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race (1993); The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994); W.E.B. DuBois: A Reader (1994); W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century (2000); and Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 (2008). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| | Name: | Dr. Charles E. Rosenberg | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1936 | | | | | | |
Charles Rosenberg received a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1961. He was a professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania for thirty-five years, and is currently the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Charles Rosenberg is the leading historian of medicine in the United States. His classic book on The Cholera Years shows how New Yorkers responded to three terrifying nineteenth-century cholera epidemics. His riveting account of The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau illuminates the murder trial of the man who killed President Garfield. And his chief book to date, The Care of Strangers, traces the evolution of the American hospital system into the institution that we know today. In all his work, Rosenberg demonstrates a total mastery of his subject, and he always places medical developments within the broader context of economic, scientific, intellectual, and social change. His other works include The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age (1968); No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (1976); Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine, 1992; and among numerous articles, "Meanings, Policies, and Medicine: On the Bioethical Enterprise and History" (1999). Dr. Rosenberg is the recipient of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society. He serves on the board of directors for the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Antiquarian Society, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, of which he was president from 1992-94. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
| | Name: | Dr. Jan de Vries | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
Jan de Vries was born in the Netherlands during World War II, emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of four, and was raised in Minnesota, where he attended the public schools in Deephaven and Hopkins. His higher education took place at Columbia University (A.B., History, 1965) and Yale (Ph.D., History, 1970). He is married to Jeannie Green de Vries, a high school Latin teacher; they have two children, Nicolas and Saskia. At Yale, Dr. de Vries followed a joint program in Economic History (joint between History and Economics), studying with William Parker and Harry Miskimin. After a first appointment at Michigan State University (1970-73), he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he remains, holding appointments in both the History and Economics Departments. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. de Vries has served as Chair of the Department of History, Dean of Social Sciences and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. His research interests in economic history have ranged from European agrarian history, to historical demography and urbanization, to environmental and climate history, and most recently, to the history of consumer behavior. He has written six books, 65 published articles and book chapters and 45 book reviews. In addition, he is a co-editor of 3 books. Dr. De Vries is a past president of the Economic History Association and served as editor of the Journal of Economic History, 1998-2002. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships, among others, has held grants from NSF and NIH, and has held visiting fellowships to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and All Souls College, Oxford. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is the 2000 recipient of the A.H. Heineken Prize in History and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |
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