- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Avi Rubin
Aviel (Avi) David Rubin is Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE, and an expert in systems and networking security. In 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association for a two-year term. Rubin is famous for bringing to light vulnerabilities in Diebold Election Systems's Accuvote electronic voting machines.
- Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 - May 2, 1985) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1930 he had a son, Milton Stover "Bud" Eisenhower, Jr. and in 1937, a daughter, Ruth Eisenhower.
- John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
- William R. Brody
Brody has led the university since September 1, 1996. His dozen years at Hopkins' helm make him the fifth-longest serving of its 13 presidents, and he has an extensive list of accomplishments to show for it. He created a university-wide Commission on Undergraduate Education to improve the undergraduate experience both in and out of the classroom.
- Fouad Ajami
Fouad A. Ajami, a Lebanese-born American neoconservative university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. In recent years, Ajami has been an outspoken supporter of the Iraq War, the nobility of which he believes there "can be no doubt". This view has drawn some criticism from others in academia.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger.
- Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is a noted cancer researcher at The Johns Hopkins University. His first degree was in mathematics graduating summa cum laude in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest was more in medicine and he received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University four years later. He was subsequently a resident in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, …
- Riordan Roett
Riordan Roett is an influential American political scientist specialized in Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political Science and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. (b. 12 April 1951) is the 15th and current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. His accomplishments at the NIH have included the establishment of a research program into the problem of widespread obesity, and supporting the reduction of healthcare disparities. In April 2006, he told a Congressional subcommittee, …
- Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He wrote "The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century", in which he argues that United States dominance in global affairs is better than the alternatives.
- Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, …
- Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institutes quarterly journal The Independent Review . He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague.
- Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot A. Cohen is a professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies department at SAIS and has specialized in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century and was called "the most influential neoconservative in academe" by energy economist Ahmad Faruqui.
- Ruth Wedgwood
Ruth Wedgwood has been Professor of International Law at Yale Law School since 1986, and writes on the use of force, peacekeeping, international tribunals, Security Council politics, international crimes, and American foreign affairs power. Ms. Wedgwood is also Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the incoming Director of Studies at the Hague Academy for International Law in the Netherlands.
- Peter Agre
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American medical doctor and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Ellen Silbergeld
Ellen Kovner Silbergeld is a leading expert in the field of environmental health. After graduating from Vassar College summa cum laude in 1967, she earned a Ph. D. in engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1972. A professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, she formerly was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and before that worked as a scientist for Environmental Defense.
- John Money
John William Money, Ph.D. (8 July 1921 - 7 July, 2006) was a psychologist and sexologist well-known for his research into sexual identity and biology of gender. Money identified several influential concepts and terms during his career, including gender identity, gender role, gender-identity/role, and lovemap. He was awarded in the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2002.
- Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first president of Cornell University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends. After serving as attaché of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia from 1853 to 1855, …
- Paul de Man
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard in the late 1950s. He then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich, before ending up on the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of deconstruction.
- Don Oberdorfer
Don Oberdorfer is an American professor at Johns Hopkins University and was a journalist for 38 years, 25 of them with the Washington Post. He is the author of five books and several academic papers. As a young man he graduated from Princeton University and went to South Korea as an Army lieutenant after the signing of the armistice that ended the Korean War. In 1955 he joined the Charlotte Observer, and eventually found a job with the Washington Post.
- Steven Knapp
Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996.. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006 succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. He will become president of the university on August 1, 2007. Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, …
- Bev Harris
Bev Harris is an American activist and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., a national nonpartisan, nonprofit elections watchdog group opposed to voting machines. She helped popularized the term Black Box Voting, while authoring a book of that title. She first gained national prominence in 2002 when she discovered that Senator Hagel of Nebraska owned a large share of ES&S, a major voting machine manufacturer of the machines that counted the majority of votes in Nebraska.
- Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance.
- Kweisi Mfume
Mr. Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the position by the NAACP's Board of Directors. Previously he held a seat in the United States Congress where he represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District for ten years.
- John Barth
John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland, and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, "The Shirt of Nessus").
- S. Frederick Starr
S. Frederick Starr (born Stephen Frederick Starr on March 24, 1940) is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucus Institute. He is also a noted musician.
- Solomon H. Snyder
Dr. Solomon H. Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist. Snyder graduated from Georgetown University in 1958 and Georgetown Medical School in 1962. At a very early age he published his research on ornithine decarboxylase and RNA synthesis which opened up countless vistas in the neurosciences. After a two-year fellowship at the NIH, Snyder moved to Johns Hopkins Medical School to complete his residency in psychiatry.
- Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American academic at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was born in 1942 in New York City and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1963. Sommer has an MD from Harvard Medical School (1967) and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1973). He is professor of Epidemiology and International Health, as well as Ophthalmology (at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine).
- Michael Williams
Michael Williams (born 6 July 1947) is currently the Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the department. Williams is a noted epistemologist, and has significant interest in philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and the history of modern philosophy. He is particularly well known for his work on philosophical skepticism. In his books (1992) and (2001), Williams performs what he calls a "theoretical diagnosis" of skepticism, …
- Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway, born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado, is currently a professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. She is the author of "Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology" (1976), "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" (1989), "Simians, Cyborgs, …
- Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is among the most important critics of the English poet John Milton in the 20th century, and is often associated with post-modernism, at times to his irritation. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, …
- Robert Slavin
Robert Slavin is a noted psychologist who studies educational and academic issues. He founded the Success for All reform program for primary and middle schools. He will lead the Institute for Effective Education at the University of York - this is an international, independent multi-disciplinary resource focused on producing high-quality evidence-based assessments of educational practice and policy, and translating it into effective action to benefit all young people.
- Bernard L. Schwartz
Bernard Leon Schwartz (born December 12,1926, Brooklyn, New York) was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., Chairman and CEO of Loral Corp., and president and CEO of Globalstar. During his time at Loral, he was instrumental in helping the Chinese military to acquire weapons techonology. He retired from Loral and his positions at its various subsidiaries and affiliates as of March 1, 2006.
- Thomas M. Cooley
Thomas McIntyre Cooley was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. Born in Attica, New York, he was Dean of the University of Michigan Law School. In 1877, he received an appointment to the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University, and resided in Baltimore, Maryland. Thomas M. Cooley Law School, located in Lansing, Michigan, is commemoratively named for him.
- Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a former US Army Colonel and is now a Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He says that a dangerous obsession has taken hold of Americans; it's a marriage of idealism and awesome military strength, and this has led to the belief that the military is the short and simple solution to the World's problems. His book is called "The New American Militarism, How Americans are seduced by War".
- Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner was, with Charles A. Beard, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He is best known for "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1884, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity. He gained his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 with a thesis on the Wisconsin fur trade.
- I. William Zartman
I. William Zartman is director of the Conflict Management department at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University. He earlier directed the school's African Studies program and continues to teach on Africa-related subjects.
- Steve Hanke
Steve H. Hanke is an American economist specializing in international economics, particularly monetary policy. He holds a doctoral degree. Earlier in his teaching career, he taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and the University of California, Berkeley. As of 2005, he is a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University. In 1981 and '82, during the Reagan administration, he was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisors.
- G. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1844 - April 24, 1924) was a psychologist and educator who pioneered American psychology. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Hall graduated from Williams College in 1867, then studied at the Union Theological Seminary.