- Walter Mossberg
Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27 1947) is the principal technology columnist for the "Wall Street Journal". His "Personal Technology" column has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He also writes the "Mossberg Solution" column each Wednesday (co-authored with his assistant, Katherine Boehret), and the "Mossberg's Mailbox" column on Thursdays. - Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman, OBE (born July 20, 1953), is an American journalist, author and a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is an op-ed contributor to "The New York Times", whose column appears twice weekly and mainly addresses topics on foreign affairs. Friedman is known for supporting a compromise resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, modernization of the Arab world, environmentalism and globalization. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an American writer and journalist. She graduated from Brandeis University and became a writer and feminist advocate in the early 1970s. In 1971, she was one of the founding editors of Ms. magazine, where she worked for 17 years, and a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus. She was also a consultant on Free to Be… You and Me and edited "Stories for Free Children". Pogrebin is a well-known advocate for feminist, Jewish, … - David Crane
David Crane (born August 13, 1957 in Philadelphia) is an American writer and producer. He was one of the creators of the TV sitcom "Friends", along with his longtime friend Marta Kauffman. He is primarily known for his comedic writing. Crane lives with his partner, Jeffrey Klarik. Together, they have created a new "Friends"-like sitcom, "The Class". Crane recieved his bachelor's degree from Brandeis University - Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom 's bestselling books remind us of what truly matters in life. Called "a beautifully written book of great clarity and wisdom," Tuesdays with Morrie is Albom's touching memoir of his visits to his dying professor, Morrie Schwartz , and the life lessons learned along the way. Filled with humor and hope, what began as a way for Albom to help Morrie pay his medical bills became an international phenomenon and the bestselling memoir of all time. - Marta Kauffman
Marta Kauffman (born September 21, 1956) is an American TV producer and writer and the creator of the TV series "Friends" with David Crane. Both Crane and Kauffman were also executive producer of the show, along with Kevin S. Bright. Crane and Kauffman have also produced "Veronica's Closet", starring Kirstie Alley, and "Jesse", starring Christina Applegate. As of 2005 she was an executive producer on "Related". - Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. - Joette Katz
Joette Katz, born Feb. 3, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Katz was nominated for the Superior Court bench by Gov. William A. O'Neill in 1989 and nominated for the state Supreme Court by Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. in 1992. She currently serves as administrative judge for the state appellate system, a position she also held from 1994-2000. - Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy and SAG winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in "Will & Grace" and for appearing in a series of film roles. - Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University. - Philip Rubin
Philip E. Rubin , Ph.D., director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation, received a Commendable Performance award in September from the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council for his superior leadership of all federal government departments and agencies involved in the protection of human subjects. - Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author who researches culture, adolescents, and morality in American society. Her best known books are "Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women" and "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men". A former university philosophy professor in Ethics at Clark University in Worcester, MA, she is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, … - Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is a widely published American journalist, especially on American politics and foreign policy. Born in Chicago, he started his career in Boston as a journalist who wrote for "The New Republic". Over a career of twenty years, he became editor of several departments and wrote for several publications including "The Washington Post", "Vanity Fair", and "The New Yorker". - Edward Witten
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical physicist, Fields Medalist, and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the world's leading researchers in string theory (as the founder of M-theory) and quantum field theory. - Karen Lynn Gorney
Karen Lynn Gorney (born January 28, 1945 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American actress, best known for her roles on television and film. Gorney earned degrees from both Carnegie Mellon University and Brandeis University. In the 1970s, the actress created the role of Tara Martin on the soap opera "All My Children". She left the show but agreed to return when her replacement, actress/writer Stephanie Braxton, decided to leave the show. - Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels. - Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Julia Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst born 20 January 1944 in New York City. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966 and later received her PhD in sociology from Brandeis University. She has written many influential books, including "The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978)"; "Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989)"; "Femininities, Masculinities, … - Abbie Hoffman
Abbott Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 - April 12, 1989) was a self-identified communo-anarchist, social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies"), and later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. - Bob Simon
Bob Simon (born c. 1941) is a CBS News correspondent. From 1964-67, Simon served as an American Foreign Service officer and was a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar. From 1969-71, he served a tour in the CBS News London bureau. From 1971-77, he was based in the London and Saigon bureaus where he served as a Vietnam War correspondent. From 1977-81, he was assigned to the CBS News Tel Aviv bureau. From 1981-82, he spent time in Washingon, D.C., … - Morton Brilliant
Morton Brilliant has over a decade of local and statewide experience as a political operative in a variety of roles, including campaign manager, communications director, and a senior gubernatorial staffer. - Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Herskovitz (born February 23, 1952, Philadelphia) is an American film director, writer and producer. Among his productions are "I Am Sam" and "The Last Samurai". Since May 2005, he has been a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post". - Geir Haarde
Geir Hilmar Haarde (born April 8, 1951) is Prime Minister of Iceland and chairman of the Independence Party. Geir became Prime Minister on June 15 2006 following the announcement of Halldór Ásgrímsson's resignation as the Prime Minister of Iceland on June 5, 2006. He then led a coalition between his party and the Progressive Party. After the 2007 parliamentary elections, where the Independence Party increased their share of the vote, … - Katherine Ann Power
Katherine Ann Power (b. January 25 1949) is an American ex-criminal and long-time fugitive, who was placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Most Wanted List in 1970, along with her accomplice Susan Edith Saxe, a fellow student at Brandeis University. The two participated in robberies at a Massachusetts National Guard armory and a bank in Brighton, Massachusetts where Boston police officer William Schroeder was shot and killed by one of their accomplices. - Robert Remez
Robert Remez is a leading American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and theoretician. He is best known for his work on perceptual organization, speech perception, and the use of the technique of sinewave synthesis in his experimental and theoretical work. He is the Ann Olin Whitney Professor of Psychology at Barnard College and a member of the Board of Directors of Haskins Laboratories. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Connecticut. - Gates McFadden
Cheryl Gates McFadden (born March 2, 1949 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), usually credited as Gates McFadden, is an American actress and choreographer. She is best known for portraying the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher in the television and film series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". - Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck is an American stage, screen, television, and radio writer. She was born in Kenwood, Ohio (part of the Cincinnati area), and graduated from Cincinnati's Ursuline Academy in 1976. She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and followed that with three degrees from Brandeis University: an MA in 1983, a M.F.A. in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Victorian era melodrama, awarded in 1989. - David Grossack
David C. Grossack (born 1956) is a libertarian attorney, writer, and activist born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the son of noted psychotherapist and author Dr. Martin Grossack and Judith Grossack. David Grossack was educated at Thayer Academy, Brandeis University, Babson College (where he received a B.S. in Management in 1976), and the New England School of Law, where he was awarded a Juris Doctor in 1981. - Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer (3 March 1935) is a political theorist and writer on society, politics, and ethics. Currently, he is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and editor of "Dissent", a left-wing quarterly of politics and culture. He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, social criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obligation. - Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is a prolific American feminist political philosopher. She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for "The New Republic". She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bible Literacy Project, publishers of the curriculum "The Bible and Its Influence" for public high school literature courses. - Joe Conason
Joe Conason (born 1954 in New York City) is a Jewish-American journalist, author and political commentator, who usually holds liberal views. He writes a column for the weekly "New York Observer" newspaper, for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including "Big Lies" (2003), which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives. Conason received a B.A. in History from Brandeis University in 1975. - Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, prose stylist, playwright, essayist, and sex-positive feminist writer. Considered the leading experimental writer of her generation, she was strongly influenced by the Black Mountain School, William Burroughs, David Antin, and by French critical theory, philosophy and pornography. - David Bernstein
David Bernstein is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law. He is one of the contributors to the weblog The Volokh Conspiracy. He was born in Queens, New York, in 1967. Professor Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. He is the author of over sixty frequently cited scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies, … - Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She has taught at U.C.L.A. and Occidental College in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor's degree from City College of New York and her master's and doctorate from Brandeis University. - Leslie Lamport
Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Brandeis University, respectively in 1963 and 1972. His dissertation was about singularities in analytic partial differential equations. - Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller (*1936) is an American physicist, author, and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. - Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor (born 1955) is an historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about Colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. Taylor was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated from Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. Currently he is a professor of history at the University of California, … - John Hopps
John H. Hopps (May 14, 2004) was an African-American physicist and politician. A native of Dallas, Texas, Hopps was a Ford Scholar to Morehouse College, also receiving degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.) and Brandeis University. After his graduation in 1971, Hopps joined the faculty at Ohio State University, and later accepted a research position in nuclear engineering at MIT, … - Harry Siegel
Harry Siegel is a journalist and editor based out of Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Siegel began his career at The New York Sun, first as a news assistant, then as an editorial writer and OpEd page editor. He would go on to found the New Partisan. Siegel was hired as the short lived editor-in-chief of the New York Press in 2005 on the recommendation of its founder, Russ Smith. He brought in an editorial team that included City Hall man Azi Paybarah, … - Robert Zimmer
Robert J. Zimmer (born November 5, 1947) is an American mathematician and academic administrator. On March 13, 2006, Zimmer was elected the thirteenth president of the University of Chicago, a position he assumed on July 1, succeeding Don Michael Randel. Previously, Zimmer was the provost of Brown University. As a mathematician, Zimmer specializes in geometry, particularly ergodic theory, Lie groups, and differential geometry.
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