- Ruth J. Simmons
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by the Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates. Simmons holds appointments as a professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. In 2002, Newsweek selected her as a Ms. Woman of the Year, while in 2001, …
- Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (1919-2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally-known beekeeper. Taylor took his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester, and had visiting appointments at about a dozen other institutions. His best known book was "Metaphysics" (1963).
- David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University.
- Andries van Dam
Andries "Andy" van Dam (born 1938) is a professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Originally appointed as a professor of applied mathematics, he helped to found the computer science program as a joint project between the departments of applied mathematics and engineering. When the program was promoted to a full department, van Dam served as its first chair, from 1979 to 1985.
- Thomas Banchoff
Thomas F. Banchoff is a geometer, and a professor at Brown University since 1967. During the fall semester, 2008, he is teaching Math 35 , "Honors Multivariable Calculus." During the spring semester, 2008, he taught Math 104 , "Fundamental Problems in Geometry", which concentrated on Euclidean and non-Euclidean Geometry, with an emphasis on Spherical Geometry and Hyperbolic Geometry.
- Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He taught for many years at the University at Buffalo. He lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University.
- C. D. Wright
C. D. Wright (born 1949) is a U.S. poet. Carolyn D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas to a chancery judge and a court reporter. She earned a BA from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) in 1971 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 1976. In 1979, she took a position at the San Francisco State University Poetry Center, which exposed her to many of the leading proponents of language poetry.
- Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel (born November 16 1951, in Washington, D.C.) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and university professor. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned To Drive", which deals with child sexual abuse and incest. "The Baltimore Waltz", a tribute to her brother, won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. Other plays include Hot 'N Throbbing, "Desdemona", "And Baby Makes Seven", …
- Robert Coover
Robert Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1955, then served in the United States Navy.
- John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer.
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, pron., (born June 18, 1931) - also known by his initials FHC - was the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two terms from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2003. He is also an accomplished sociologist.
- Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. Born in 1928 in Panama City, the son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes was raised in Washington, D.C. Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile.
- Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York, he went to Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique and the Paris Conservatory. In 1956, Nelson joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, …
- Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside
Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, C.C., Ph.D., LL.D. (7 July 1898 - September 27, 1992) was Canadian diplomat and civil servant. He was the Canadian ambassador to Mexico from 1944 to 1947 and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from January 14, 1947 to September 15, 1950. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Ellis William and Margaret (Irvine) Keenleyside, he moved with his family to British Columbia when he was a few months old.
- Leonard Carmichael
Leonard Carmichael was a U.S. educator and psychologist. Born on November 9 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received his B.S. from Tufts University in 1920 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1924. He was a brother in the Theta Delta Chi fraternity during his time at Tufts. After being part of the Brown University faculty, Carmichael served as the president of Tufts from 1938 to 1952.
- David Kertzer
David I. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology (1992-), Professor of History (1992-2001), and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. He became Provost of Brown on July 1, 2006. He is the author of ten books on various aspects of Italian society, especially 19th- and 20th-century history.
- Gordon S. Wood
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for "The Radicalism of the American Revolution". His book "The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787" won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in Worcester and Waltham.
- Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement. He has written a book on the subject entitled "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution", in which he furthers the argument that a belief in God and evolution are not mutually exclusive.
- Roderick Chisholm
Roderick M Chisholm (Seekonk, Massachusetts, 1916 -- Providence, Rhode Island, 1999) was an American philosopher, known for his work on epistemology, metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of perception. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University under Clarence Irving Lewis and Donald C. Williams, and taught at Brown University. Chisholm's first major work was "Perceiving" (1957). His epistemological views were summed up in a popular text, …
- Alexis Caswell
Alexis Caswell (1799-1877) was an American educator, born in Taunton, Massachusetts. He graduated Brown University in 1822, and entered the Baptist ministry. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Brown University from 1828 to 1850 and of mathematics and astronomy from 1850 to 1864. Professor Caswell was president of Brown University from 1868 to 1872.
- Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer, M.D., is an American psychiatrist and faculty member of Brown Medical School specializing in the area of depression. He considers depression to be a serious illness with tangible physiological effects such as disorganizing the brain and disrupting the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
- Leon Cooper
Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. The concept of Cooper electron pairs was named after him. He is a professor at Brown University. Cooper graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1947 and received a B.A. in 1951, …
- Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.
- Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander (b. 1956) is an American poet and the author of various books of poetry, essays, and work in translation.
- Sergei Khrushchev
Dr. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (b. 1935), son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, now resides in the United States where he is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Khrushchev holds several advanced engineering degrees. From the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he earned his Soviet doctoral degree, and he earned a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University.
- Lina Fruzzetti
Lina Fruzetti is an American anthropologist and documentary film director. She is a professor of Anthropology at Brown University. Her films, co-directed with Ákos Östör, include "Seed and Earth" (1994), "Fishers of Dar" (2002) and "Singing Pictures" (2005). "Singing Pictures" is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. It won an award at the XV International Festival of Ethnological Film (Belgarde November 1 - November 5, 2006)
- Henry Kucera
Henry Kucera is a Czech linguist who was a pioneer in corpus linguistics and linguistic software. Kucera was born in the former Czechoslovakia. When the Communists came to power in 1948, his studies in philosophy and linguistics were interrupted. In the 1950s, Kucera found his way to Brown University, in the United States, where he was able to further pursue his interest in linguistics (he remained there for the rest of his career).
- David C. Lewis
- Eugene Charniak
Eugene Charniak is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science professor at Brown University. He has an A.B. in Physics from The University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. His research has always been in the area of language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning. Over the last few years he has been interested in statistical techniques for language understanding.
- William Feller
William (Vilim) Feller (July 7 1906 - January 14 1970), born Willibrord, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Barbara Herrnstein Smith is an American literary critic and theorist, best-known for her work "Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory". She is currently the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University, and also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.
- David F. Duncan
David F. Duncan, Dr. P.H. was Born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 26, 1947. He is President of Duncan & Associates, a firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown University School of Medicine. His education included a B.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, …
- Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo is a celebrated Ghanaian playwright and scholar, writing her first play The Dilemma of a Ghost in 1964.She has written several short stories, novels, plays and essays on the status of the African woman. Her book 'Changes' (1991)won her the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Africa). In addition to that she has received many other literary awards. A recurring theme in her works is women's liberation and empowerment.
- Glenn Loury
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT). In addition to this scholarly work, Professor Loury is also a prominent social criticand public intellectual.
- Maurice Herlihy
Maurice Herlihy is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. He is currently (2007) a professor of computer science at Brown University.
- William S. Massey
William Schumacher Massey (born 1920) is an American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology. The Massey product is named for him. He worked also on the formulation of spectral sequences by means of exact couples, and wrote several textbooks, including "Algebraic Topology" (ISBN 038797430X). William Massey was born in Illinois in 1920. He was an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago.
- David Berson
Dr. David M. Berson is Professor of Medical Science at Brown University. He helped lead the way in the discovery of a third class of mammalian photoreceptors by providing the first electrophysiological recordings from intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells.
- Dwight B. Heath
Dwight B. Heath (born November 19, 1930) is Research Professor of Anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has published extensively in many areas of anthropology, especially on the subject of alcohol drinking patterns and their relationship to culture.
- George Lamming
George Lamming, is a novelist and poet. He was born in Barbados and teaches at Brown University.
- Vesa Kanniainen
Vesa Lennart Kanniainen (March 13, 1948~) is a professor of economics at the University of Helsinki.