| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Milton V. Anastos | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angles | | | Year Elected: | 1967 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | 4/10/97 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. D. R. Shackleton Bailey | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1977 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | November 28, 2005 | | | | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. John W. Baldwin | | | Institution: | Johns Hopkins University | | | Year Elected: | 2004 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | February 8, 2015 | | | | | | |
John Baldwin was a leading American specialist on the history of medieval France. Like Charles Homer Haskins, he had worked on the institutional and intellectual history of the twelfth century. His early works on the "just price" and the schoolman Peter the Chanter opened new vistas of research on economic growth and the culture of power. His book on the government of Philip Augustus won major prizes in America and France. The recipient of major honors in France and the United States, Dr. Baldwin was a generous colleague, a venerated teacher, and a distinguished medievalist in the mode of C. H. Haskins and J. R. Strayer. He had been at Johns Hopkins University since 1986 as Charles Homer Haskins Professor of History and Professor of History Emeritus. He was awarded the Medieval Academy's Haskins Medal in 1990 and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, France in 2001. He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America (president, 1996-97); the British Academy; and l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. James Barr | | | Institution: | Vanderbilt University | | | Year Elected: | 1993 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1924 | | | Death Date: | October 14, 2006 | | | | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Wm. Theodore de Bary | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1919 | | | Death Date: | July 14, 2017 | | | | | | |
Wm. Theodore de Bary began his career as a teacher at Columbia in 1949 when he undertook to develop the undergraduate general education program in Asian Studies. For this he developed basic source readings in Asian Civilizations for India, China, Japan and now Korea. These volumes dealing with the major traditions of Asia, published in 1958-60, have seen wide use in colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad. They have now been supplemented by over 140 other texts and translations for use in general educations on Asia. As chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures from 1960-66 and as first director of the National Defense Languages and Area Center he led a major expansion of the language programs in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. From 1969-70 he was President of the Association for Asian Studies. From 1969-71 he served as the first chair of the Executive Committee of the University Senate. From 1971-78 as Provost of the University, among other duties, Dr. de Bary assisted in the renovation and expansion of the East Asian Library and established the Heyman Center for the Humanities, which includes among other programs, offices and a reading room for the Human Rights Program. In 1974, Dr. de Bary was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and in 1999 to the American Philosophical Society. He had received honorary degrees from St. Lawrence University, Loyola University in Chicago, and Columbia. Professor de Bary's scholarly work focused on the major religious and intellectual traditions of East Asia, especially Confucianism in China, Japan and Korea. Among the more than twenty-five works authored by him, he has dealt principally with the issues of civil society and human rights in China. They include Asian Values and Human Rights (1998) and Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good (2004). In 2014 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. Wm. Theodore de Bary died July 14, 2017, at age 97, in Tappan, New York. | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Bloch | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1911 | | | Death Date: | September 6, 2006 | | | | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. Derk Bodde | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1961 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1909 | | | Death Date: | November 3, 2003 | | | | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. William J. Bouwsma | | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1923 | | | Death Date: | March 2, 2004 | | | | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Gerhard H. Bowering | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1939 | | | | | | |
Gerhard Böwering is Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale University. He was born and educated in Germany. After philosophical studies at Munich, he received a Diploma in Islamic Studies from Panjab University in Lahore, Pakistan and also studied Arabic in Cairo, Egypt. Following theological studies in Montreal, Dr. Böwering studied Islam at McGill University where he earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies in 1975. From 1975-84 he was first assistant and then associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1984, Dr. Böwering became Professor of Islamic Studies at Yale. He is the author of The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam (1980) and a critical Arabic edition of a Commentary on the Qur'an (1995 and 1997). He is presently preparing a monograph on the "Idea of Time in Islam" as well as a book entitled Wie die Muslime denken. His scholarly publications also include numerous articles and contributions to major reference books. Dr. Böwering was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1994. | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. T. Robert S. Broughton | | | Institution: | University of North Carolina | | | Year Elected: | 1955 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1900 | | | Death Date: | 9/16/93 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Professor Alan Cameron | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | Death Date: | July 31, 2017 | | | | | | |
Alan Cameron was a British classicist and Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He taught for nearly 30 years at Columbia, before which time he served for 13 years as lecturer and reader in Latin and professor of Latin Language and Literature at Kings' College London. Dr. Cameron's areas of expertise include Hellenistic and Roman poetry; later Roman literature; Byyzantium; and the transmission of texts. He was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship in 1997 and was honored with the Lionel Trilling Book Award for an outstanding book by a Columbia faculty member for his work Greek Mythography in the Roman World (2004). The latter work traces the beginnings of different versions of myths, including those fabricated in ancient times, while exploring the ways in which ancient Romans learned the myths that pervaded their culture's art. Dr. Cameron's other important works include Porphyrius the Charioteer (1973); Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium (1976); and Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine World (1985). He was a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. Alan Cameron died July 31, 2017, at the age of 79, in New York. | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Giles Constable | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1987 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | January 18, 2021 | | | | | | |
Giles Constable was Medieval History Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study's School of Historical Studies. An outstanding medievalist with a particular interest in monastic culture and the religious life of the 12th century, he has published more than 20 books in the area of medieval religious and intellectual history; these include Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (1964), The Letters of Peter the Venerable (2 volumes, 1967), Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography (1976), People and Power in Byzantium (with Alexander Kazhdan, 1982), Three Studies in Medieval Religious and Social Thought (1995), The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (2009), The Abbey of Cluny (2010) and a translation of How to Defeat the Saracens by William of Adam (2012), as well as over a hundred articles, most of which have been reprinted in five volumes. In addition to his work in monastic studies, Dr. Constable has also conducted research on medieval social, economic and intellectual history of the Middle Ages, and he is known as a scholar of unusual depth and sensitivity. Dr. Constable received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1957 and taught there from 1958-84, serving as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History (1966-77) and director of Dumbarton Oaks (1977-84), among other positions. He died on January 18, 2021. | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Patricia Crone | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 2001 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1945 | | | Death Date: | July 11, 2015 | | | | | | |
Patricia Crone was a brilliant historian who illuminated the social history of early Islam, the meaning of legal systems, and the history of trade. She had extended her expertise to general stories of social history and to the edition and translation of texts. A native of Denmark, Dr. Crone received her Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental Studies in 1974 and went on to teach at Oxford University (1977-90) and Cambridge University (1990-97) before joining the Institute for Advanced Study as Mellon Professor from 1997-2014. Dr. Crone's many publications include (with M. Cook) Hagarism (1977); Slaves on Horses (1980); Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law (1987); Meccan Trade (1987); Pre-Industrial Societies (1989); The Book of Strangers (1999); and Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005). Her book From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State and Society in the Near East c. 600-850 (2008) is a collection of articles that study the development of early Muslim society. The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism earned four major awards. In 2013 she was awarded the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Excellence in Islamic Studies. Patricia Crone died July 11, 2015, at age 70 in Princeton, New Jersey. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2001. | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Merle Curti | | | Institution: | University of Wisconsin | | | Year Elected: | 1948 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1897 | | | Death Date: | 3/9/96 | | | | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. Charles Till Davis | | | Institution: | Tulane University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | 4/10/98 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Wendy Doniger | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1996 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1940 | | | | | | |
Wendy Doniger is accomplished in the study of myth, especially Hindu mythology. One of the most influential scholars in the field, she has helped introduce a generation to a concept of myth with special reference to themes of creation, the erotic and the deceptive. A respected teacher and speaker, Dr. Doniger has been Mircea Eliade Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago since 1986 while also serving as director of the university's Martin Marty Center. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968 as well as a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1973. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Doniger is also the author of numerous articles, such as in The New York Times Book Review, and has served as editor of History of Religions and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Her many books include Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (1973) and Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities (1984), and she has also edited Mythologies, an English-language edition of the 1,300 page Dictionnaires des Mythologies. Among her latest works are The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) and The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewellery (2017). | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Robert Fagles | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | Death Date: | March 26, 2008 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. William A. Graham | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1943 | | | | | | |
William A. Graham is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University. His scholarship focuses on early Islamic religious history and texts and comparative studies in the history of religion; his most recent work involves Qur'anic studies. Raised in Chapel Hill NC and a 1966 summa graduate of the University of North Carolina in European history and comparative literature (German, French, Classics), he also studied German literature in Göttingen (1964-5). Supported by Woodrow Wilson and Danforth fellowships (1966-73), he earned his PhD at Harvard in the history of religion, specializing in Islamic studies with secondary work in Sanskrit and Indian studies. In 1967-8 he studied Arabic at Britain's Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies in Lebanon and in 1971-2 pursued thesis research in London and Tübingen. A member of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Study of Religion) since 1973, he has chaired several academic units, directed the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (1990-6), and served as master of Currier House (1991-2003). In 2002 he also joined the Harvard Divinity School to serve as its dean (2002-12). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past chair of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion. Honors include Phi Beta Kappa; John Simon Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships (India and Germany, 1982-3); the 2000 Excellence in Research in Islamic History and Culture quinquennial award from the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (Istanbul); honorary doctorates from UNC-CH (2004) and Lehigh (2006); the 2012 Lifetime Achievement award of The Journal of Law and Religion. His Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977) shared the ACLS History of Religions Prize in 1978. He is also author of Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (1987) and Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies (2010); a co-author of Three Faiths, One God (2002) and The Heritage of World Civilizations (1986ff.; 10th ed., 2016); an associate editor of The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (1995- ); and co-editor of Islamfiche: Readings from Islamic Primary Sources (1983-7). A longtime mountaineer, elected to the American Alpine Club in 1981, he was faculty adviser to the Harvard Mountaineering Club for forty years. He is married to Dr. Barbara S. Graham; they have one son, Dr. Powell L. Graham, M.D. | |
| 19 | Name: | Dr. Christian Habicht | | | Institution: | Institute for Advanced Study | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1926 | | | Death Date: | August 6, 2018 | | | | | | |
Christian Herbert Habicht greatly illuminated the transition between the world of the Greek city state and that of imperial Rome, and dealt in a masterly way with some of the fundamental problems of the religious, political and social life of the ancient Mediterranean. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1926, Dr. Habicht received his academic training in ancient history, Greek, Latin and classical archaeology at Hamburg, Heidelberg and Göttingen, earning a D. Phil. degree in 1952 from the University of Hamburg. From 1952-57 he served as an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg and traveled throughout Italy, Greece and the Near East through a German Archaeological Institute stipend. He served as Privatdozent at the University of Hamburg from 1957-61 before becoming Professor of Ancient History at the University of Marburg from 1961-65. Dr. Habicht served as co-editor of Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, Göttingen (1962-96), Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, Gütersloh (1973-98) and The American Journal of Ancient History (1976-2000). From 1965-73 he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg and was also Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy there from 1966-67. From 1972-73 he was a Visiting Member at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, where he later became a professor (1973-98) and professor emeritus (1998). AFter 1973 he was also Honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Habicht was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Heidelberg Academy (elected 1970), and the Academy of Athens and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy. He received the Reuchlin Prize in the Humanities (1996), the American Philosophical Society's Henry Allen Moe Prize and the Criticos Prize of the London Hellenic Society, among his many honors. In 2017, he edited a new version The Histories by Polybius (Loeb Classical Library, Vols 1 & 2, 2010; Vol 3 2011), translated by W.R. Paton. Christian Habicht died on August 6, 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 92. | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Albert Henrichs | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1998 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1942 | | | Death Date: | April 16, 2017 | | | | | | |
Through his work in papyrology, Albert Henrichs made himself one of the most original and versatile scholars in Classics. His most signal and seminal contributions were in the field of religious thought, ranging from an edition of magical texts to new interpretations of religious tenets of leading Sophists, from a commentary on the book of Job to a text of Mani. His research led to innumerable insights into Greek tragedy and comedy, into Homer and into Greek history (where his work on the Theramenes papyrus deserves special mention). Dr. Henrichs has written on mythography and on rhetoric; in short, there is hardly a field of Greek (and related) studies that has not been enriched by the profound questions he asked and the novel answers at which he had arrived. A native of Cologne, Germany, Dr. Henrichs was Eliot Professor of Greek at Harvard University from 1984 to 2017. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1985); the American Philological Association; l'Association Internationale de papyrologues; and the Egypt Exploration Society. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1998. Dr. Henrichs died April16, 2017, at age 74 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
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