- Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his adopted city, …
- James Heckman
James Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an economist at the University of Chicago. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2000 with Daniel McFadden for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics. After graduating form Colorado College, he attended the University of Chicago for a single year before going to Princeton University where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1971. Dr.
- Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi,<sup>1</sup> (born October 30, 1944) was interim oil minister in Iraq in April-May 2005 and December-January 2006 and deputy prime minister from May 2005 until May 2006. Chalabi failed to win a seat in parliament in the December 2005 elections, and when the new Iraqi cabinet was announced in May 2006, he was not awarded a post. Once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by American neoconservatives, …
- Edward Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser (born May 1, 1967) is an economist. He was educated at The Collegiate School in New York City before obtaining his B.A. in economics from Princeton University and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. Glaeser joined the faculty of Harvard in 1993, where he is currently Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor at the Department of Economics and Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, …
- Paul Hoffman
Paul Hoffman is host of the PBS television series, "Great Minds of Science." He was president and editor in chief of "Discover", in a ten-year tenure with that magazine, and served as publisher of "Encyclopaedia Britannica" before returning full-time to writing. He lives in Chicago and Woodstock, New York. Author of at least ten books, he has appeared on "CBS This Morning" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" as a correspondent.
- Stuart A. Rice
Stuart Alan Rice (born January 6, 1932 in New York City) is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist. He is well-known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999.
- Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the University of Michigan in 1948. Initially, Smale was a good student, placing into an honors calculus sequence taught by Bob Thrall and earning himself A's. However, his sophomore and junior years were marred with mediocre grades, mostly Bs, Cs and even an F in nuclear physics.
- Morton Kaplan
Morton A. Kaplan (born 1921) was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and was the editor of World&I magazine, published by the Washington Times Corporation, from its founding in 1986 until 2004.
- 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.
- Richard Shweder
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. degree in social anthropology in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University in 1972, taught a year at the University of Nairobi in Kenya and has been at the University of Chicago ever since.
- George Dillon
George Dillon (November, 12 1906-1968) was an American editor and poet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English. His "The Flowering Stone" won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He was the editor for Poetry Magazine from 1937 to 1949, during which time he also served in WWII.
- Steven Levitt
Steven D. Levitt is the author of the 2005 nonfiction hit, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. In the book,Levitt challenges the paradigm by reviewing data in an unusual way to reveal facets of issues that would otherwise remain obscure. Levitt believes that economics is, at its root, the study of incentives-how people can get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.
- Piers Nash
Piers David Nash, Ph.D.,(born August 8 1969) is a scientist who investigates protein-protein interactions involved in signal transduction, and the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues. He is the son of Roger Nash and Chris Nash (Bronwen Christine Harrhy). He is an Assistant Professor in The Ben May Department for Cancer Research and a Scientist of the Cancer Research Center at The University of Chicago which he joined in 2004.
- Thomas Kramer
Dr. Thomas A.M. Kramer (b. 1957) is Director of Student Health and Psychiatric Services at The University of Chicago. He has held administrative positions at the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the University of Arkansas, and the medical school at Mt. Sinai.
- Geoffrey R. Stone
Geoffrey Stone has been a member of the law faculty since 1973. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Stone served as Dean of the Law School, and from 1993 to 2002 he served as Provost of the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone received his undergraduate degree in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree in 1971 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review .
- Jack Goldsmith
A renowned international law expert who served most recently as head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Jack Goldsmith was appointed by the faculty in May. Prior to his federal service, Goldsmith taught law at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia. He has written extensively on foreign relations law, conflicts of law and regulation of the Internet. This year at HLS, he is teaching Conflicts of Law and Presidential Power.
- Hans R. Stoll
- Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007).
- Chen Han-Seng
Chen Han-seng (February 5 1897-March 132004) was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He studied at Pomona College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1920, and he then pursued a M.A. in history at The University of Chicago. In Spring of 1922, he enrolled at Harvard University for his history PhD, as he excelled in his studies that he even assisted Charles Haskins.
- Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is arguably the country's most respected scholar writing about newspapers and their relationship to society, politics and culture. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media including the seminal " Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers a; " The Power of News "; " The Sociology of News "; " Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion "; and " Rethinking Popular Culture ."
- John Haugeland
John Haugeland has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago since arriving here (from the University of Pittsburgh) in the fall of 1999. He holds a bachelor's degree (in physics) from Harvey Mudd College (1966) and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley (1976). His main interests include (early) Heidegger, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind (including cognitive science), philosophy of language, and like that.
- David E. Wellbery
David E. Wellbery , who joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2001 as the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, holds appointments in the Departments of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature and in the Committee on Social Thought. He is the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture.
- Michelle Lavaughn Obama
With the ascent of her husband as a prominent nationwide politician, she has become a half of pop culture. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her amongst "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women." [24] In July 2007, Vanity Fair magazine listed her surrounded by "10 of the World's Best Dressed People." In September 2007, 02138 magazine listed her 58th of "The Harvard 100," a listing of the prior year's many influential Harvard alumni. Her husband was ranked fourth. [25]
- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University and Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is also Emeritus Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago, where he chaired the department of psychology. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of creativity.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004) was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987. Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Washington, D.C. Boorstin was of Jewish descent. Boorstin graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD. at Yale University.
- Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel Laureate in chemistry . Born in Germany , he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy .
- Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Tosten Bunde Veblen July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. He was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899).
- John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. Professor Yoo received his B.A. summa cum laude in American history from Harvard.
- Robert Alexander Mundell
Professor Mundell has lectured widely in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, several governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury.
- Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or co-written 18 books, maintains a blog, and lectures around the world presenting his analysis of world trends. His work has attracted both admiration and criticism as a result of his view that Islamism is incompatible with democracy, freedom, multiculturalis m, and human rights.
- David W. Oxtoby
David W. Oxtoby became the ninth president of Pomona College on July 1, 2003. An internationally noted chemist, he previously served as dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago. At Pomona, he holds a coterminous appointment as professor of chemistry.
- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, PhD Founder and President Center for Work-Life Policy
- Ronald Grigor Suny
Ronald Grigor Suny is currently the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan , and Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago . He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan , after beginning his career at Oberlin College . Suny graduated from Swarthmore College and got his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968 .
- Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer has been Governor of the Bank of Israel since May 2005. Prior to joining the Bank of Israel, Prof. Fischer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup from February 2002 through April 2005, where he was also Head of the Public Sector Group from February 2004 to April 2005, Chairman of the Country Risk Committee, and President of Citigroup International.
- James E. McDonald
James E. McDonald (May 7, 1920 to June 13, 1971) was an American physicist. He is probably best known for his research regarding UFOs. McDonald was senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson. McDonald campaigned vigorously in support of expanding UFO studies during the mid and late 1960s, arguing that UFOs represented an intriguing, …
- Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a leader in the field of macroeconomics. He also is the William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University and the Donald L. Lucas Professor in Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University. A professor of economics at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1987, when he joined the Hoover staff, he was also the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 1998.
- George Wells Beadle
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 - June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics. He shared half of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Lawrie Tatum for their discovery that genes act by regulating biochemical events within the cell. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold "Neurospora crassa" to x-rays, causing mutations.
- Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin M. Murphy is George Pratt Shultz Professor of Business Economics and Industrial Relations. A faculty member since 1983, he received a Ph.D. in economics from Chicago in 1986. His most recent research focuses on returns to education and skill, unemployment, human capital and growth, and income inequality.
- John McCain
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