- Kc Johnson
Dr. Robert David Johnson (1968-), also known as KC Johnson, is a history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a prolific critic of Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and some members of the Duke University faculty and administration throughout the Duke Lacrosse Scandal and writes a blog titled "Durham in Wonderland" about the case. Johnson is also co-writing a book about the case, … - Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? - Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. - Marty Markowitz
Marty Markowitz is the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, in Political Science, in 1970. Prior to being elected Borough President, he spent over two decades as a New York State Senator for Brooklyn. During his time as a state senator, he was known for creating a series of oceanfront concerts and other festivals rather than drafting legislation. Markowitz believes that all politics are local. - Barbara Boxer
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) speaks at a News conference to release principles for global warming legislation. She says that this moment marks the start of legislative efforts to become energy efficient and create millions of green jobs which will make America a leader. (1:05) - Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, … - David Berger
David Berger is a rabbi, a professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and a visiting professor at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School. He is most famous for his critique of Chabad messianism. In 2006, Berger accepted his appointment as a full time faculty member at Yeshiva University. He will teach primarily Medieval Jewish history at the graduate level. - Noah Creshevsky
Noah Creshevsky is a composer born in Rochester, New York in 1945. Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School, Creshevsky has lived and worked in New York since 1966. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York for thirty-one years, directing its Center for Computer Music from 1994 to 1999. He also served on the faculties of Juilliard and Hunter College, … - Corey Robin
Corey Robin is an American liberal political theorist, journalist and professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Despite being a progressive, he devoted his scholarly attention to the study of the contemporary forms of american conservatism and neoconservatism, as well as of the difficulties of both the liberals and the New Left in dealing with American supremacy, after the end of the Cold War. - Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman (born 1945) is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College, where he is known affectionately by his students as "Mac the Spoon"--a verbal play on The Threepenny Opera character, Mack the Knife. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, McNight and a Guggenheim Fellowship. - Sharon Zukin
Sharon Zukin is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is the author of "Loft Living, Landscapes of Power", and "The Culture of Cities". Her current work includes the study of culture and economy, shopping and spaces of consumption, urban development and art, and real estate as well as racial ghettos. - Christoph M. Kimmich
Christoph M. Kimmich is the President of Brooklyn College. He was educated at Haverford College (BA 1961) and Oxford University (PhD. 1964) and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was trained as a historian of modern Europe. - Stuart Taylor Jr.
Stuart Taylor Jr. is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institute as well as a regular columnist for "National Journal" and a Contributing Editor at "Newsweek". Taylor has previously served as a Senior writer for American Lawyer Media, from 1989-1997, a lecturer at Princeton University for one year, a reporter and Supreme Court correspondent for "The New York Times", an attorney at the D.C. law firm of William, … - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an ambition he has now achieved). As a result this is a curious memoir of a man who has spent many years reluctantly at the chalk face. He conveys something of the workload of a typical classroom teacher: all that lesson planning and marking; and also the difficulties of idealistic teacher battling with technocratic school authorities. - Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt ("Ad" Reinhardt) (December 24, 1913-August 30, 1967) was a painter, writer, and pioneer of conceptual and minimal art. He was also a critic of abstract expressionism. Reinhardt's earliest exhibited paintings avoided representation, but show a steady progression away from objects and external reference. - Homer Jacobson
Homer Jacobson was a professor at Brooklyn College, New York City. In the 1950s he illustrated basic self-replication in artificial life with a model train set. A seed "organism" consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the system to consistently create new "organisms" identical to itself, so long as there was a random pool of new boxcars to draw from. - Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel (born 1943) was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000. Siegel attended Brooklyn College and NYU Law School with Rudy Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City, and NYCLU's frequent courtroom opponent. - Edwin G. Burrows
Edwin G. Burrows (born in 1943) is a professor of history at Brooklyn College, and is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898". He currently resides in Northport, New York. Burrows is the husband of vice president of Hofstra, Patricia Burrows. - Foster Hirsch
Foster Hirsch is a professor in the film department of City University of New York's Brooklyn College, and the author of sixteen books on subjects related to theatre and film. A native of California, Hirsch received his B.A. from Stanford University, and holds M.F.A, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Hirsch joined the English Department of Brooklyn College in 1967, … - Jacob Druckman
Jacob Druckman was an American composer born in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Druckman studied with Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, and Bernard Wagenaar. In 1949 and 1950 he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood and later continued his studies at the École Normale de Musique in Paris (1954-55). He worked extensively with electronic music, in addition to a number of works for orchestra or for small ensembles. - Carey Harrison
Carey Harrison is an English novelist and dramatist. Harrison was born in London to Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, and raised in Los Angeles and New York, where he attended the Lycée Francais. Subsequently he attended Sunningdale Preparatory School, Harrow School, and Jesus College, Cambridge. His first play, "Dante Kaputt", was staged at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, in 1966. Subsequent plays were premiered at the Traverse Theatre, … - Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon for her career. - Robert Starer
Robert Starer (born 1924 in Vienna - died 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer and pianist. Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and continued his studies at the Vienna State Academy. After the 1938 plebiscite in which Austria voted for annexation by Nazi Germany, Starer left for Palestine and studied at the Jerusalem Conservatory. In World War II he served in the British Royal Air Force. And in 1947 he settled in the United States. - Danny Kopec
Dr. Danny Kopec is an international chess master, author, and computer science professor at Brooklyn College. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1975. Kopec later received a PHD in Machine Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. Kopec has achieved the FIDE International Master title and has been a semi-professional chess player since 1976. He has written numerous books on the subject of chess, produced eight chess instructional DVDs, … - Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb (born August 8 1922) is an American historian known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era, particularly of Social Darwinism; and as a conservative cultural critic. She is also known as an outspoken commentator of university education. She received the National Humanities Medal in 2004. She was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated at New Utrecht High School and Brooklyn College. - Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky (born April 25, 1930) is an American actor and film director. Born Irwin Mazursky in Brooklyn, New York, he was a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1951 and made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's first feature, "Fear and Desire", in which he changed his first name to Paul, and later appeared in the 1955 film "The Blackboard Jungle" as a juvenile delinquent. - Saul Bass
Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 - April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen. During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. - Stanley Cohen
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). He is a distinguished researcher and academic, associated with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. He received his bachelor's degree in 1943 from Brooklyn College, where he had double-majored in chemistry and zoology. After working as a bacteriologist at a milk processing plant to earn money, … - Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese (pronounced Key-ah-nes-e) (born February 24, 1931 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor and performer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Corrado Soprano on the HBO TV series, "The Sopranos", a role that netted him two Emmy Award nominations. Chianese is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. He worked as a bricklayer with his father and attended night school during the 1950s, … - Juan Gonzalez
Juan Gonzalez is an American investigative journalist. He has been a columnist for the "New York Daily News" since 1987. He co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn. After a stint as editor of his high school newspaper, the "Lane Reporter", Gonzalez enrolled in Columbia University, … - Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler is an artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1965) and the University of California, San Diego (1974). Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and teaches art at Rutgers University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt. - Kevin Parker
Kevin Parker represents District 21 in the New York State Senate, which is comprised of East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington, and Boro Park. He is African American. Elected to the State Senate in 2003, Parker is the current Ranking Minority Member on the Energy and Telecommunications Committee as well as a member of standing committees on Environmental Conservation, Higher Education, Insurance, Commerce, and Veterans. - Paul Cohen
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey into a Jewish family and graduated in 1950 from Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He then studied at Brooklyn College from 1950 to 1953 but left before receiving a bachelor's degree when he learned he could pursue graduate studies in Chicago with just two years of college under his belt. - Lee Bontecou
Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended New York's Arts Students League from 1952 to 1955 where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 1959. During the 1960s, she taught at Brooklyn College. - John Yau
John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published more over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism. His most recent book is Paradiso Diaspora (2006). His collections of poetry include "Borrowed Love Poems" (Penguin, 2002), "Forbidden Entries" (1996), "Berlin Diptychon"(1995), … - Harvey Lichtenstein
Harvey Lichtenstein (born 1929) is a retired American dancer and arts administrator, best known for his 32-year tenure (1967-99) as executive director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lichtenstein, the son of a Polish immigrant, graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1946, and from Brooklyn College in 1951. He danced in the companies of Sophie Maslow, Pearl Lang, and Mark Ryder-Emily Frankel. After working in arts management at Brandeis University, … - Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw (February 27 1913 - May 16 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist who was also a highly regarded short story author. He was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian-Jewish immigrants. Shortly after Irwin's birth, the Shamforoffs moved to Brooklyn, and Shaw changed his surname upon entering college. He spent most of his youth in Brooklyn, … - Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Bodhi (born 1944) is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1972. Drawn to Buddhism in his early 20s, after completing his university studies, he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late Ven. - Robin D.G. Kelley
Author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley is one of the most distinguished experts on African American studies and a celebrated professor who has lectured at some of America's highest learning institutions. He is currently Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father.
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