- 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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, … - Paul Greengard
Dr. Greengard's interests have ranged from basic neural explorations to the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. His quest has significantly advanced scientific understanding of the molecular basis of nerve-cell communication. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to elucidating how neurotransmitters work in signal transduction in the nervous system. * - Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book "Paradox in Chesterton". - Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Francis Deng
Dr Francis Mading Deng is Research Professor of International Politics, Law and Society at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he is also the Director of a newly established Center for Displacement Studies. He has served as Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Secretariat, as Ambassador of Sudan to Canada, the Scandinavian countries and the United States of America, and as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. - Nelson W. Polsby
Nelson Woolf Polsby was an American political scientist who specialized in the study of the United States presidency and United States Congress. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of the American Political Science Review from 1971-77. Polsby was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and grew up in the state. He earned his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University. He earned a master's and a doctoral degree from Yale University. - Steven Salzberg
Steven Salzberg is an American Biologist and Computer Scientist who since 2005 has been the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also the Horvitz Professor of Computer Science. He was previously the head of the Bioinformatics department at The Institute for Genomic Research, one of the world's largest genome sequencing centers, … - Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb (born October 9, 1941) helped found the C-SPAN television network in 1979, and has been its chief executive officer since its founding. He hosts "Washington Journal" once a week, and hosted the C-SPAN show "Booknotes" from 1989 to 2004. Lamb now hosts a weekly one-hour program called "Q&A" in which he interviews people from a wide range of backgrounds, such as journalists, teachers, politicians, authors, and technology innovators. - Isaiah Bowman
Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. (26 December 1878, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - 6 January 1950, Baltimore, United States) was an American geographer. He was educated at Harvard and Yale where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935. - Menachem Elimelech
Menachem Elimelech is the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering and Chairman of the Chemical Engineering Department at Yale University. In 1998, he founded Yale's Environmental Engineering Program for which he continues to serve as director. Elimelech specializes in problems involving physicochemical, colloidal, and microbial processes in engineered and natural environmental systems. - George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia." Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians. - J. B. Schneewind
Jerome B. Schneewind (born 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. - Ronald Paulson
Ronald Paulson (Born May 27 1930 in Bottineau, North Dakota), is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and the leading modern expert on William Hogarth. *BA Yale University, 1952 *Ph.D. Yale University, 1958 *University of Illinois, Instructor 1958-59, Assistant Professor, 1959-62, Associate Professor, 1962-63 *Professor, Rice University, 1963-67 *Professor, The Johns Hopkins University, 1967-75 (Chairman, … - Susan Wolf
Susan R. Wolf (born in 1952) is a moral philosopher and philosopher of action who is currently the Edna J. Koury Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her husband, Douglas MacLean, is also a philosopher teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is an acclaimed Nigerian writer. She was born in the village of Abba but grew up in the university town of Nsukka in south-eastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father was a professor of statistics at the University, and her mother was also employed there as the university registrar. At the age of 19, she left Nigeria and moved to the United States. - Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is the current President of The George Washington University. He has announced his retirement effective July 2007. He will be replaced by Steven Knapp, provost of Johns Hopkins University. Trachtenberg also sits on the board of directors of Riggs Bank, where he has sparked controversey by opposing efforts to close the accounts of such Riggs clients as former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Trachtenberg is a native of Brooklyn, NY. - Mary Poovey
Mary Poovey is an important literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era. She is currently the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University,and the director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 1976. Poovey has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College, and Yale University. - David P. Calleo
David P. Calleo is an American intellectual and political economist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Born in 1934 into an Italian immigrant family of humble origins (his father was a firefighter), David P. Calleo earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Yale University, where he also served as President of the Yale Political Union as an undergraduate. David P. Calleo is a noted American theorist on Europe and its future. - Jared Cohon
Jared Leigh Cohon is the eighth president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned in 1972 and 1973 respectively. - V. O. Key Jr.
Valdimer Orlando Key, Jr. (March 13, 1908 - October 4, 1963), usually known simply as V. O. Key, was an influential American political scientist known for his empirical study of elections and voting behavior. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1929; M.A., 1930), earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1934, and taught at UCLA, Johns Hopkins University (1938-49), … - Claire Messud
Claire Messud is an American novelist. Her debut novel, "When The World Was Steady" (1995), was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 1999, she published her second book, "The Last Life", about three generations of a French-Algerian family. Her 2001 work, "The Hunters", consists of two novellas. Her most recent novel, "The Emperor’s Children", has been longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. - Leo Braudy
Leo Braudy (born June 11, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA) is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film, … - Harold Seidman
Harold Seidman (1911-2002) was an American political scientist who is best known for a classic work in government studies and public administration - Politics, Position and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization, now in its fifth edition. He was a well-known expert in Washington DC bureaucratic politics and was particularly expert in the organization of government corporations. - Debra Hamel
Debra Hamel is an American historian specializing in ancient Greece. Hamel was born in 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with departmental and general honors. Hamel studied at Yale University and graduated with an M.A. and M.Phil. in classical languages and literatures in 1993. - Huntington Willard
Dr. Willard was appointed the first Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in December, 2002. He is also the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, with appointments in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the Department of Biology. - Charles McLean Andrews
Charles McLean Andrews was an American historian and professor. Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, he received his A.B. from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1884 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1889. He was a professor at Bryn Mawr (1889-1907) and Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910) before going to Yale University. He was the Farnam Professor of American History at Yale from 1910-1931. - Nathan Jacobson
Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910 - December 5 1999) was an American mathematician. Born in Warsaw, Poland he emigrated to America with his Jewish family in 1918. Recognized as one of the leading algebraists of his generation, he was also famous for writing more than a dozen standard textbooks. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awarded a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1934. - Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891. - Michael K. Dorsey
Dr. Michael Dorsey (born May 28, 1971) is Assistant Professor on Dartmouth College's Faculty of Science (Hanover, New Hampshire). Dr. Dorsey teaches in the Environmental Studies Program. Dorsey is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment; Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the University of Michigan Dept of Anthropology, from which received his PhD. - Myra Sklarew
Myra Sklarew (b. 1934), American poet, former president of the artist community Yaddo and currently professor of literature at American University, is the author of three chapbooks and six collections of poetry, most recently "Lithuania: New & Selected Poems" (ISBN 1-885214-02-2) and "The Witness Trees" (ISBN 0-8453-4525-7), a collection of short fiction, "Like a Field Riddled by Ants" (ISBN 0-918786-36-3), and a collection of essays, … - Charles Rockwell Lanman
Charles Rockwell Lanman (July 8 1850-February 20 1941) was an American scholar of the Sanskrit language. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale University in 1871, was a graduate student there (1871-1873) under James Hadley and WD Whitney, and in Germany (1873-1876) studied Sanskrit under Weber and Roth and philology under Georg Curtius and August Leskien. - Tyler Cymet
Tyler C. Cymet, D.O. (born 1963 Smithtown, New York) is a physician in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University, served as an intern at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center, and performed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at Yale University and did additional training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. He has done extensive research in musculoskeletal medicine focusing on fibromyalgia, … - William Thompson Sedgwick
William Thompson Sedgwick (December 29 1855, West Hartford - January 25 1921, Boston) was a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. William T. Sedgwick completed his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1877 and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1881. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1883 until his death in 1921, aged 65, initially as Associate Professor (1884), … - Sylvia Brownrigg
Sylvia Brownrigg is an American writer. Born in Mountain View, California, she grew up in Los Altos, California and also in Oxford, England. After graduating magna cum laude at Yale University she obtained a MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins University. From 1993 until 2000 she lived in London. - Daniel Webster Hering
Daniel Webster Hering, Ph.D. (1850-) was an American physicist and university dean. He was born in Washington County, Maryland, and graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School (Yale). He occupied positions at Johns Hopkins, Western Maryland College, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), and NYU, where he was dean after 1902. He was the author of "Essentials of Physics for College Students" (1912). - Richard Root
Dr. Richard K. Root was a clinical teacher at the University of Washington Medical Center and former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He launched the infectious disease division at the University of Pennsylvania while a professor there in 1971. After leaving the University of Pennsylvania, Root worked on infectious diseases at Yale University and served as vice chairman of medicine.
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