| 21 | 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. | |
22 | 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. | |
23 | 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. | |
24 | Name: | Dr. Jack H. Hexter | | Institution: | Washington University & Yale University | | Year Elected: | 1985 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1910 | | Death Date: | 12/8/96 | | | |
25 | Name: | Dr. Herbert Hunger | | Institution: | University of Vienna | | Year Elected: | 1980 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | International | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1914 | | Death Date: | July 9, 2000 | | | |
26 | Name: | Dr. Daniel H. H. Ingalls | | Institution: | Harvard University | | 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: | 1916 | | Death Date: | 7/17/99 | | | |
27 | Name: | Dr. Michael H. Jameson | | Institution: | Stanford University | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | 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: | August 18, 2004 | | | |
28 | Name: | Rev. John W. O'Malley | | Institution: | Georgetown 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: | 1927 | | Death Date: | September 11, 2022 | | | | | John W. O’Malley is University Professor at Georgetown University and is a specialist in the religious culture of early modern Europe, especially Italy. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Among his publications are Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome (1979), which received the Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association, and Trent and All That (2000), which received the Roland Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. The First Jesuits (1993) received the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society for Church History. It has been translated into twelve languages. A recent monograph, What Happened at Vatican II (2008), has been translated into Italian, French, and Polish. He has edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including three in the Collected Works of Erasmus series. His latest works on the Jesuits are The Jesuits and the Arts (2005), co-edited with Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and Constructing a Saint through Images (2008), an annotated facsimile of the 1609 illustrated life of Ignatius of Loyola attributed in part to Rubens. His recent monograph Trent: What Happened at the Council (2013) has been translated into four languages and received the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. In 2015 he also published Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present.
Father O’Malley has lectured widely in North America and Europe. He is the past President of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America. He has been elected to the Accademia di san Carlo, Ambrosian Library, Milan, and was awarded the Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for distinguished scholarship in religious studies. Father O’Malley received the lifetime achievement award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2002 and the corresponding awards from both the Renaissance Society of America in 2005 and the American Catholic Historical Association in 2012. In 2013 Father O’Malley was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of his paper “The Council of Trent (1545–63) and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1541),” read at the Society’s November Meeting in 2011 and published in the Society's Proceedings in December 2012. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus. Father O’Malley was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and served as its Vice President 2010 to 2016. Father O'Malley died on September 11, 2022 at the age of 95. | |
29 | Name: | Dr. Paul Oskar Kristeller | | Institution: | Columbia University | | Year Elected: | 1974 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1905 | | Death Date: | 6/7/99 | | | |
30 | Name: | Dr. Stephan George Kuttner | | Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1907 | | Death Date: | 8/12/96 | | | |
31 | Name: | Professor Jean Leclant | | Institution: | Collège de France & Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France | | Year Elected: | 1999 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | International | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1920 | | Death Date: | September 16, 2011 | | | | | Jean Leclant served as Secrétaire Perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres at the Institut de France since 1983 and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France since 1990. Previously he was a professor at the University of Strasbourg (1955-63), the Sorbonne (1963-79), and the Collège de France (1979-90) and served as Director d'Etudes at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (1964-90). Jean Leclant was among the outstanding Egyptologists of his generation. He participated in many conferences in France and abroad (Africa, Japan, USA) and was an acknowledged administrator. His publication record was outstanding, with emphasis on excavations, Egyptian-Sudanese relations, the cult of Isis abroad, and Pyramid texts. Leclant's bibliography of books, articles, reviews, etc., through 1993 consisted of 993 items. The anniversary publication in his honor, Hommages à Jean Leclant, consisted of four volumes with contributions by 88 colleagues, friends, and students. He is the author of Mentouemhat, Quatrième prophète d'Amon, Prince de la ville (1961); Recherches sur les monuments thébains de la XXVème dynastie dite éthiopienne (1965); (with J. Ph. Lauer) Mission archéologique de Saqqarah I, le temple haut du complexe funéraire du roi Téti (1972); (with J. Goyon and R. Parker) The Edifice of Taharqa by the Sacred Lake of Karnak (1979); (with H. Danin) Le Second Siècle de l'Institut de France, 3 vol. (1994-2005); Les Textes des Pyramides de Pepy I (2001); and (with C. Carrier, C. Rilly, et al) Répertoire d'Epigraphie Méroitique, 3 vols. (2000). Professor Leclant has received many honors, including Grand-Officier, Légion d'honneur; Grand-Officier, Ordre du Mérite; Commdr. Ordre des Palmes Académiques; Commdr. Ordre des Arts et Lettres; Chevalier du Mérite Militaire; Imperial Order of Menelik (Ethiopia); and Grand Officer ordre de la République d'Egypte. In 1993 he received the Balzan Prize. He was a member of many academies, including the Accademia dei Lincei, the British Academy, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academies of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Romania. He was elected as a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society in 1999. Jean Leclant died on September 16, 2011, in Paris, France at the age of 91. | |
32 | Name: | Dr. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski | | Institution: | Harvard University | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1931 | | Death Date: | March 2, 2018 | | | | | William R. Kenan Professor of English Literature and of History and Literature, Emeritus at Harvard University, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski was highly regarded for her scholarship on Renaissance literary genres, the poets John Milton and John Donne, and her balanced appreciation of female writers and patrons in the English Renaissance. She authored numerous books, including Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric (1979), Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms (1985), Writing Women in Jacobean England, 1603-1625 (1993), and The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography (2000). She was also the recipient of prestigious awards including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a NEH Senior Fellowship, and three Huntington Library Fellowships. Dr. Lewalski received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and, prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she taught at Wellesley College (1954-56) and Brown University (1956-76). Dr. Lewalski was a past president of the Milton Society of America and has edited texts such as Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century and Milton, Paradise Lost (2008). She served on the Harvard faculty 1982 until 2015 when she became professor emerita. Barbara Lewalski died March 2, 2018, at the age of 87 in Providence, Rhode Island. | |
33 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Lewis | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 1973 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1916 | | Death Date: | May 19, 2018 | | | | | Bernard Lewis received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in 1990 "in recognition of his pioneering work in Ottoman-modern Turkish studies, on Race and Colour, and on Muslim views of Europe; of his fundamental role in refining and promoting the writing of Islamic History; and of his contribution in explaining the Middle East to generations of students and to large audiences in the West." Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of London and was Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1949 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Princeton University as the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies with a concurrent membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he became the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus and began a four-year tenure as the Director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2006. An eminent scholar, Dr. Lewis was a prolific author, illuminating the Middle East with clarity and erudition. His impressive list of publications includes The Origins of Ismailism (1940); Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947); Land of Enchanters (1948, 2001); The Arabs in History (1950, 7th edition 1993); The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 1968); Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963); The Assassins (1968); Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (2 vols., 1974); History--Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975); The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); The Jews of Islam (1984); Semites and anti-Semites (1986, 1997, 1999); The Political Language of Islam (1988); Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990); Islam and the West (1993); The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1993); Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995); The Middle East: Two Thousand Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (1995); The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998); A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000); Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems (2001); What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror(2003); From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004); Political Words and Ideas in Islam (2008); and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Islam (1970) and The Encylopedia of Islam (2nd edition, vols. I-VI). Dr. Lewis's many honors and awards include the Ataturk Peace Prize (1998), the Irving Kristol Award (2007) and fifteen honorary doctorates. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1963), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1994). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. Bernard Lewis died May 19, 2018, at the age of 101 in New Jersey. | |
34 | Name: | Dr. Dmitri S. Likhachev | | Institution: | Russian Academy of Sciences | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | International | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1906 | | Death Date: | 10/1/99 | | | |
35 | Name: | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | 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: | 1922 | | Death Date: | October 5, 2009 | | | | | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Most recently, he completed a new three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
36 | Name: | Dr. John Lukacs | | Institution: | Chestnut Hill College | | Year Elected: | 2002 | | 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: | May 6, 2019 | | | | | John Lukacs was one of the master interpreters of the modern era, that is, of Western Civilization since 1500. His knowledge of politics and society in Europe and America was unrivalled for breadth and suffused with philosophic imagination. He at home in the wide survey (The Passing of the Modern Age), the local study (Philadelphia: Patricians & Philistines), and the cultural inquiry (Historical Consciousness), these being three of his distinctive contributions. He could conjure before us a city (Budapest: 1900) or the conflict of titans (The Duel: Churchill and Hitler, May-July 1940). By their conception and execution every one of Dr. Lukacs's works fills a gap in our intelligence of the world we live in. Born in Hungary, Dr. Lukacs was a graduate of Palatine Joseph University, Budapest (Ph.D., 1946). For over fifty years he served on the faculty of Chesnut Hill College, becoming Professor Emeritus after 1994. He remained at work into the latest year of his life, publishing his final book, "We at the Center of the Universe," in 2017. John Lukacs died on May 6, 2019 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania at the age of 95. | |
37 | Name: | Dr. Domenico Maffei | | Institution: | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | | Year Elected: | 1986 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | International | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1925 | | Death Date: | July 2009 | | | | | A Professor of the History of Italian Law Emeritus, Domenico Maffei had served on the faculty of the University of Rome since 1979. He received his D. Juris from the University of Siena in 1947, where he was also professor of Italian law from 1961-69. Dr. Maffei has also taught law at the University of Macerata (1955-61) and Italian culture at the University of California, Berkeley (1967-68). A leader in medieval history (with a book on the donation of Constantine) and legal history (with studies of contract law), Dr. Maffei ably related jurisprudence to both social and intellectual history. His many books include Gli inizi dell'Umanesimo giurdico (1956) and Il giovane Machiavelli banchiere con Berto Berti a Roma (1973). Professor Maffei died in July 2009 at the age of 84 in Italy. | |
38 | Name: | Dr. Martin E. Marty | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | 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: | 1928 | | | | | Martin E. Marty, born in Nebraska in 1928, holds two degrees in theology and a Ph.D. in American intellectual and religious history. He served ten years as a Lutheran parish minister and thirty-five years as a professor in the Divinity School, the (Humanities) Committee on the History of Culture, and the History Department from 1963-98. His specialty is American religious history, particularly in the national founding period, the late 18th century, and the 20th century, about which he wrote the three-volume Modern American Religion. Since 1998 he has also specialized in comparative studies of militant religious movements, fundamentalism and ethno-nationalisms, and he directed the Fundamentalism projects for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a project that resulted in a five-volume publication by the University of Chicago Press. Alongside his scholarly work, Dr. Marty has also been a journalist, identified since 1956 with the ecumenical The Christian Century and many other publications. He was also co-editor of Church History (1963-98), the journal of the American Society of Church History, of which he has been president. He was also president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Academy of Religion. He is the author of over fifty books, one of which, Righteous Empire, won the National Book Award. An elected member of the American Academy of Religion, he is also an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and over seventy honorary doctoral degrees. In 2017 he was honored by the Newberry Library with their Newberry Library Award. He lives in Riverside, IL with his wife, musician Harriet Marty, and the two enjoy nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren. | |
39 | Name: | Dr. Jane Dammen McAuliffe | | Institution: | Library of Congress; Bryn Mawr College | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1944 | | | | | In 2015, Jane McAuliffe was appointed the inaugural Director of National and International Outreach, a newly created division of the Library of Congress. She retired in October 2019. Prior to that, she served as the Director of The John W. Kluge Center, the residential research center for scholars at the Library of Congress. She is President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College. She had served as the President from 2008 to 2013.
Her primary areas of specialization are the Qur'an and its interpretive tradition, the early history of Islam and the many modalities of Muslim-Christian interaction. For the last decade she has published the six volumes of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, an international scholarly project which has resulted in the first multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an in Western languages. Other publications include Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis (1991), Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Mansur (1995), With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (2006). Dr. McAuliffe is currently the Islam editor for the Norton Anthology of World Religions, co-edits a book series for Brill Publishers and serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals. For two decades she has been involved in many forms of Muslim-Christian dialogue, both nationally and internationally. Most recently this has involved work with the Vatican, Lambeth Palace, the Library of Congress and the Royal Jordanian Institute for Interfaith Studies.
Dr. McAuliffe's research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Connaught Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Before being named president of Bryn Mawr College in 2008, Dr. McAuliffe was Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is currently a distinguished fellow of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She previously held faculty and administrative positions at Emory University and at the University of Toronto. In 2004, she served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the elected leadership position for this 10,000 member professional organization. Dr. McAuliffe is married to Dr. Dennis McAuliffe, a scholar of medieval Italian literature at Georgetown University. They are the parents of four children. | |
40 | Name: | Mr. Lewis Mumford | | Institution: | Author | | Year Elected: | 1941 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
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| | Birth Date: | 1895 | | Death Date: | 1/26/90 | | | |
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