PATTEN - Key Persons
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- Essayist and Psychoanalyst
Adam Phillips has a BA in English from Oxford University; he is a Member of the Association of Child Psychologists; a Member of the Guild of Psychotherapists; and an Honorary Member of the Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, he is currently a psychoanalyst in private practice and General Editor of The New Penguin Freud. He lives and works in London, England.
More recently, Dr. Phillips has published Going Sane: Maps of Happiness (Harper Collins 2005) and Side Effects (Harper Perennial 2007).
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- Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University
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- Fisher Professor of Natural History, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
- Professor of Natural History at Harvard University
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- Member of the Patten Committee
- Biology
- Member of Committee
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- Co - Director of Sequentia
- Director / Co - Founder of the Medieval Music Ensemble SEQUENTIA
"Mr. Bagby comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has" (The New York Times, 7/22/97).
Vocalist, harpist and scholar Benjamin Bagby has been an important figure in the field of medieval musical performance for over 20 years. He earned degrees in voice (Oberlin Conservatory) and German (Oberlin College) and was awarded a Watson Foundation Fellowship to study the performance of medieval song during his first Wanderjahr. Subsequently, he began a long-term collaboration with Barbara Thornton, and together they completed a Diplom fur Musik des Mittelalters in 1977 at the Schola Cantorum (Basel, Switzerland), formed by Thomas Brinkley, Andrea von Ramm, and the Studio der Furhen Musik. Immediately afterwards they founded Sequentia (ensemble for medieval music) and established themselves in Cologne, Germany. Before Ms. Thornton's tragic death in 1998 they created over 60 innovative concert programs of medieval music and music drama, giving performances throughout Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Near East, Japan, Korea, and Australia. For their many recordings encompassing the entire spectrum of medieval musical practice, Sequentia has won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, two Netherlands Edison Awards, a French Disque d'Or and Diapason d'Or. Sequentia's best-selling CD Canticles of Ecstasy has sold more than 5000,000 copies worldwide.
In addition to his activities as singer and co-director of Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby directs the Sequentia ensemble of men's voices for the performance of medieval liturgical polyphony, and devotes himself to the medieval harp. Current and future projects include a reconstruction of portions of the Old Icelandic Poetic Edda, a CD-ROM recording of the entire Beowulf (German Harmonia Mundi/MBG Classics) and a collection of essays on the performance of medieval music (IU Press) edited by Ross Duffin.
In describing his mission, Mr. Bagby writes, "I am drawn to explore the basic elements which define the singer's art, a fascination which has led to my own attempts at rediscovering the lost medieval European traditions of what Albert Lord called 'The Singer of Tales'. In today's professional musical world, the singer is most often a highly-trained specialist, a polished vehicle for the interpretation of masterpiece compositions which are performed before discerning audiences consisting mostly of paying strangers. But in the more fleshy, pre-literate world of orally transmitted sung narratives the singer was much more than an accomplished vocalist: he/she was a repository of tribal history and myth; a symbol of the leader's power and his living link with the audience; a source of news and entertainment; and even a shamanistic lifeline to an archaic, spiritual tribal identity. I ask myself: how can we singers today gain access to the ancient techniques of the Singer of Tales, to the role of the voice and the vocalist as it was known in a pre-literate culture? For the past 14 years, my laboratory for this experimental vocal and rhetorical work has been the reconstruction of a bardic performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. The resulting performance attempts to help both me and the audience to enter into the world of the voice and the lyre as instruments in the service of the story, so that we can bypass the epic's modern status as a work of literature, as a masterpiece or even as a poem and instead begin to gain direct access to the power of the word as an aural phenomenon in which the voice, the sounds and the meaning are one with the listener."
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- Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC / San Francisco past President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Bruce Alberts, a respected biochemist with a strong commitment to the improvement of science and mathematics education, is a member of the faculty of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. Alberts returned to the university in 2005 after serving two six-year terms as the president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). During his tenure at the NAS, Alberts was instrumental in developing the landmark National Science Education standards that have been implemented in school systems nationwide. He initiated the Academy's Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, a book that aims to help US science teachers improve the teaching of fundamental principles of biology. As president of the NAS, Alberts also served as chair of the National Research Council, an operating arm of the National Academies that conducts independent science, engineering, and health policy studies. For the period 2000 to 2009, he serves as the co-chair of the Inter Academy Council, a new organization in Amsterdam governed by the presidents of 15 national academies of sciences and established to provide scientific advice to the world.
Bruce Alberts achieved fame as a biochemist from his research and creative activities while on the faculties at Princeton University (from 1966 to 1976) and at the University of California at San Francisco (from 1976 until he assumed the presidency of the NAS). He is known for his discovery of proteins that serve as essential chaperones to single-stranded DNA intermediates during processes of replication, recombination and repair. He also helped greatly to clarify the dilemma of how the two opposing strands of double helical DNA are coordinately replicated by enzymes that can build DNA strands in only one direction with his trombone model for the process. To the wider world of biologists and chemists he is well known from being the lead author of The Molecular Biology of the Cell, which has been the dominant textbook in its field for two decades.
Alberts has earned many honors and awards, including 14 honorary degrees. He currently serves on the advisory boards of nearly 20 non-profit institutions. He is an Overseer at Harvard University, a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a Trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the president-elect of the American Society of Cell Biology. He also played a very important part in the initiative to sequence the DNA of the human genome by serving as the chair of the National Research Council Committee on Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome and as a member of the Program Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Genome Project.
Alberts received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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- Editor
- Distinguished Fellow
Charles Hill has had a distinguished career in the Foreign Service, in government, and as a lecturer. He is at present the Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University, as well as a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
After receiving his B.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. and law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Hill went on to become a career diplomat. Along the way, he was both a witness and a maker of history. He became a political officer in the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong just as Mao Tse-Tung's cultural revolution was beginning. He then moved on to the American Embassy in Saigon, where he served as mission coordinator during the climactic period of the Vietnam War (1970-73). Returning to Washington to be on the staff of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, he became involved in the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations. During the Carter Administration, Mr. Hill focused his attention on the Middle East, including a period as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, where he played a significant role in the development of the Camp David accords.
In 1982, Mr. Hill returned to Washington, where he served in a variety of positions for Secretary of State George P. Schultz, including as his executive assistant. During this period, he was instrumental in developing a relationship with the Soviet Union (and Mikhail S. Gorbachev), which ultimately produced major reductions in nuclear arms and an end to the Cold War. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1989, Mr. Hill became assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, working closely with Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on policy issues, as well as on the Secretary-General's writings.
Since 1992, Mr. Hill has been affiliated with Yale University. Together with Paul Kennedy and John Lewis Gaddis, he has created and regularly teaches a year-long Grand Strategy seminar that combines the study of classic texts and international relations with internships in international agencies and completion of policy briefs on complex geo-political topics. Mr. Hill's seminar has become a model for training in international politics, with West Point, Duke, and other universities developing their own versions of this innovative course.
Mr. Hill is editor of the three-volume The Papers of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Yale University Press 2003). He is also the author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order (Yale University Press 2010) and Trial of a Thousand Years: World Order and Islamism (Hoover Institution Press 2011).
Among other awards in recognition of his outstanding public service, Charles Hill has received the Superior Honor Award of the Department of State (1973, 1981), the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1986), and the Presidential Distinguished Service Award (1987, 1989).
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- Member of the Patten Committee
- IU Student Government
- Member of Committee
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- Senior Research Scientist
- Professor
- Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dame Alison Richard
Senior research scientist in the Department of Anthropology and the Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor Emerita of the Human Environment at Yale University
Professor Dame Alison Richard is a senior research scientist in the Department of Anthropology and the Franklin Muzzy Crosby Professor Emerita of the Human Environment at Yale University. She received her undergraduate degree in anthropology at Cambridge University and her doctorate from the University of London. She joined Yale University as a faculty member in anthropology in 1972, and served as director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History from 1991-1994, and as university provost from 1994 until 2002. Professor Richard was vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2010, a position carrying the responsibilities of university president. In recognition of her contributions to higher education, she was appointed a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) in 2010.
Professor Richard is widely known for her research and writings on the evolution of complex social systems among primates. Her work has taken her to Central America, northern Pakistan and, in particular, to the forests of Madagascar. A biological anthropologist, Richard specialized in the demography, ecology, and behavior of the Sifaka lemur (Propithecus verreauxi) -- a charismatic primate that lives in the spiny forests of southern Madagascar. She has published over 65 peer-reviewed publications and four books. Two of her books, Behavioral Variation: Case Study of a Malagasy Lemur (1978) and Primates in Nature (1985) established her as a leader in her field. Today, Primates in Nature serves as the ‘gold standard' for introducing students to the fascinating lives and evolutionary history of primates. Her current book project, Madagascar: Journeys Through Time, integrates personal reflections from working in Madagascar with research on the geology, evolution, archeology, and cultural anthropology of the island.
In addition to her research, Dame Richard helped found the Bezà Mahfaly Special Reserve in Southwestern Madagascar in 1975. Established in partnership with local communities, the University of Antananarivo, and Washington University, this 4,600 hectare reserve protects endangered forests and wildlife, and serves as a center for research, training, and education for Malagasy and international students. Alarmed by the rapid rates of deforestation, Professor Richard worked with community partners to design this nature reserve that would both protect species and provide useful resources to the surrounding villages, including economic and educational opportunities.
Dame Alison Richard is a trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation. She chairs the advisory board of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the leadership council of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and serves on the advisory board of the Arcadia Fund. She has received numerous honorary doctorates, and was appointed Officier de l'Ordre National in Madagascar in 2005. This is the highest order of honors bestowed by Madagascar.
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- Professor
- University Professor and Co - Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Daniel C. Dennett, the author of Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin, 2003) and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon & Schuster, 1995), is University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He was born in Boston in 1942, the son of a historian by the same name, and received his B.A. in philosophy from Harvard in 1963. He taught at U.C. Irvine from 1965 to 1971, when he moved to Tufts, where he has taught ever since, aside form periods visiting at Harvard, Pittsburg, Oxford, and the Ecole Normal Superieure in Paris.
His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The International Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996), and Brainchildren: a Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and Penguin, 1998). He co-edited The Mind's I with IU's Douglass Hofstadter in 1981. Dennett is the author of over two hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He was the Co-founder (in 1985) and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.
Dennett has given the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide, Australia, and the Tanner Lecture at Michigan, among many others. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fullbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
Dennett's career is a model of inter-disciplinarity and scientifically-engaged philosophy. Three major themes in Dennett's work are the power of computational, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to explain the nature of intelligence and mind. Dennett persistently opposes any suggestion that the human mind is mysterious or magical. If consciousness or free will appear to be beyond the range of scientific explanation, we are most likely in the grip of an illusion, he argues. Of course we are conscious and free, Dennett would say, but perhaps not in the sense that we originally thought. Consciousness is explained (or at least eminently explainable) once we dump the illusions.
Professor Dennett is the preeminent example of philosopher as cognitive scientist, and he has inspired many students to look for new ways of engaging philosophy with science. His influence extends far beyond academic philosophy. His books are frequently tackled by reading groups from biology departments to English departments, and they have been widely reviewed in a range of venues, from science journals to general publications such as the New York Review of Books. Dennett's ideas are frequently controversial, but this hardly detracts from his influence upon the intellectual landscape. Recently Dennett has been working on a Darwinian understanding of religious belief, and he has taken an uncompromising position defending atheism in the public arena, including op-ed pieces in the New York Times and a January 2006 interview in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.
Clark Hine earned a Ph.D. in history at Kent State University in 1975, and published her first book, Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas, in 1979. Early in her academic career at Purdue University, she launched the Black Women in the Middle West Project, a grassroots effort that recovered and assembled the history of the community work of ordinary black women in Illinois and Indiana. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, it resulted in the publication of When Truth is Told: A History of Black Women's Culture and Community in Indiana, 1875-1950 (1981). In the decades that followed she has become one of the most anthologized American historians and a self-described fervent believer in the power of history. The groundbreaking two-volume encyclopedia Black Women in America (1995) is one of her many collaborations. It has become the most frequently referenced compendium of black women's history. Together with the sixteen-volume Black Women in the United States(1990), the co-edited We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History, and the co-authored A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (1998), her work has helped to popularize and institutionalize black women's history. She is also a co-author of The African-American Odyssey (2002), a textbook, and co-editor of both The Harvard Guide to African American History (2001), and Men's History and Masculinity (1999).
Her current research is on the black professional class in the early to mid-twentieth century, specifically nurses, physicians, and lawyers and the race-defending organizations they created in the period preceding the Civil Rights Movement. An engaging speaker, Clark Hine will focus on different aspects of this work in progress in her two Patten Lectures.
In her presidential address to the Organization of American Historians she stressed the need for historians to cross boundaries and to imagine new and different ways to think about teaching American history. She said, I wish to encourage American historians to engage in more collaborative and comparative work, experiment with new configurations of old fields and advertise and promote the study and teaching of history whenever and wherever possible to diverse audiences. Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, who will join the Department of History at Northwestern University in the fall of 2004, is one who practices what she preaches.
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- National Enterprise Editor of the Washington Post
- Writer, Washington Post and Center for a New American Security
David Finkel is a renowned war correspondent and Pulitzer-winning author. At present, he is a writer and editor at the Washington Post and senior writer-in-residence at the Center for a New American Security in Washington D.C. He was earlier a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Mr. Finkel received wide acclaim for his book The Good Soldiers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009). In this nonfiction work, he chronicled an infantry battalion fighting for survival on the streets of Baghdad at the height of the 2007 surge. It has been described as a modern-day Iliad for its account of the emotional and psychological toll exacted by the war. Finkel's account is the narrative of someone embedded in a military unit, witnessing first-hand the lives of soldiers in a combat zone. He captures the on-the-ground enforcement by ordinary soldiers of foreign and military policy decisions made by government leaders. His work is not only riveting for what it offers, but also for its contribution to the larger cultural and political project of understanding this global conflict.
Finkel's recently-released book Thank You for Your Service (Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013) continues the story begun in The Good Soldiers. He follows the travails of American veterans as they return home from the war, coping with its aftermath. Many of these soldiers are dealing with PTSD, personal struggles in their day-to-day lives, and a strained support system. Recognized for his deeply human and ethical approach to reporting, Finkel is able to tell this story so effectively because of his unparalleled ability to earn his subjects' trust.
Finkel's work, however, extends far wider than his reporting on Iraq. For the past three decades, he has reported around the world, from the refugee camps of Kosovo to the death row cells of Florida. In 1986 he won a distinguished writing award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for his coverage of a variety of subjects. He received a Missouri Lifestyle award in 1995 for a piece on racial and class conflict in Washington D.C. In 2001, Finkel was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy award for a series on worldwide patterns of illegal migration. His Pulitzer Prize in 2006 was in recognition of his series on U.S.-funded attempts to export democracy to Yemen. More recently, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2012.
As National Enterprise Editor of the Washington Post, David Finkel has championed an immersion-based, long-form reporting method that is becoming less common in contemporary journalism. In its recognition of Finkel, the MacArthur Foundation notes that his "finely honed methods of immersion reporting and empathy for often-overlooked lives yield stories that transform readers' understanding of the difficult subjects he depicts."
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- Choreographer and Dance Historian
Dr. Millicent Hodson, American choreographer and dance historian, is best known for her research and pioneering reconstruction of the 1913 Nijinsky Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, one of the defining moments of 20th century culture. This reconstruction work was done in tandem with designer and art historian Kenneth Archer, the leading expert on the work of Nicholas Roerich, the designer of the first production of Sacre. Hodson's and Archer's reconstruction was produced by the Joffrey Ballet in 1987, revised (Chicago, 2001) and has had a significant number of productions since, including the Paris Opera Ballet (1991), the Finnish National Ballet (1994), Companhia Nacional de Mailado, Lisbon (1994), the Zurich Ballet (1995), the Ballet of the Theatro Municipal, Rio (1996), the Rome Opera Ballet (2001), and last April with the Kirov Ballet as part of the 300th Anniversary of the City of St. Petersburg.
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- John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Duke University
- Professor of Religion at Duke University
Elizabeth A. Clark, the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University, is one of the leading scholars of Late Antiquity in the world. A pioneer in opening up the study of Christian history and culture to new questions, Clark applies contemporary cultural, literary, social, and feminist theory to ancient sources. Educated at Vassar College and Columbia University (where she earned her doctorate), she founded the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia. After eighteen years, she joined the faculty of Duke University in 1982. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Clark has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Clark virtually invented the study of women in the post-New Testament early Christian period. Looking behind the androcentric literature of the church fathers, she deciphered and brought to light evidence for the important activities of prominent women. In the course of two books of collected essays -- Jerome, Chrysostom, and Friends (1979) and Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith (1986)--- Clark analyzed the power of women gained through asceticism and demonstrated the extent to which their acts of renunciation served as a precondition for equality between the sexes. While previous scholars had tended to cast Christian ascetics as masochists or arch neurotics, Clark broke with this tradition, instead construing asceticism in terms of sociocultural power and the construction and revision of gender roles. In addition, Clark translated many of the relevant sources into English for the first time.
Clark's two most recent books, both works of magisterial weight, exemplify what can be achieved when patient historical labor is combined with theoretical sophistication. The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (1992) brilliantly uses social network theory to contextualize debates over the representation of God, the construction of the body, the freedom of the will, and the justice of the divine that inflamed intellectuals at the turn of the fifth century. Her newly published book-- Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (1999) employs contemporary literary theory to illumine patristic efforts to find ascetic meaning in a Bible that seemed rather to promote family and reproduction. This study examines various reading strategies employed by early ascetic interpreters in a way that students of literary theory of any period would find fascinating.
At present, Clark has focused her attention on the greatest challenge that history has hitherto encountered: the problem of the 'linguistic turn' in poststructuralist thought and the difficulties it presents with regard to the referential status of any reconstruction of the past. Early returns on what will result in a book-length project tentatively entitled Rewriting Christian History --have been suggestive. For instance, Clark's article "The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian after the Linguistic Turn" (1998) examines, in her own words, "what opportunities and pitfalls confront the feminist historian who wishes to engage the postmodern intellectual scene." Ending with a model analysis of Gregory of Nyssa's biography of his sister, Macrina, Clark demonstrates that the historical lady does, indeed, vanish -- transformed into fluid symbols at the hands of patriarchal authorities.
Clarks energetic service has contributed greatly to interest in the early church. She has made the literature of gender and church history available in the classroom through her reader Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Studies (1977; rev. 1996). In 1992, she founded the prize-winning Journal of Early Christian Studies, of which she continues to be co-editor. Her colleagues have recognized Clark's scholarly leadership by electing her president of the North American Patristic Society, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Society of Church History. Generously serving as teacher, mentor, and editor, she has already left an indelible mark on a generation of younger scholars.
Through her groundbreaking work, Clark continues to bring the sheltered world of "patristics" into the central theoretical conversations that currently shape literary and historical studies.
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- Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington
- Professor of Psychology and Law University of Washington
Elizabeth Loftus, Professor of Psychology and adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, is probably the world's foremost authority on problems and errors of memory. Her work bridges the gap between basic science in the classroom and applications in the real world, particularly in the domains of legal and clinical practice.
She is known for demonstrating in the laboratory the possibility of inserting false memories into participants' minds, memories that are sometimes remembered vividly and with high confidence. She has long researched the problems of using eyewitness testimony as a primary basis for our legal system, despite the inaccuracy of such testimony, and the ease with which such memories can be modified by intervening events such as questioning by police. She has also investigated the issue of the accuracy of memories formed in childhood, and the possibility of recovery later in life of memories of traumatic events that had apparently been forgotten (or repressed). She has devoted much research to the possibility that recovered memories may be false, false memories that in some cases are due to therapeutic treatments designed to help patients find them. All of these issues, and their importance for society, have made Dr. Loftus one of the most well-known psychologists in the world today.
Professor Loftus received her B.A. from UCLA, with highest honors, in Mathematics and Psychology, and received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Psychology. She has of course received much recognition by her peers, in the form of honors and election to major posts in the field. The posts include: President of the American Psychological Society, President of Divisions 3 (Experimental) and 41 (Law) of the American Psychological Association, President of the Western Psychological Association, and the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society.
She has received four honorary doctorates, and her awards include the American Academy of Forensic Psychology award for Distinguished Contributions to Forensic Psychology, and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology award for Distinguished Contribution to Basic and Applied Scientific Psychology. She has served on panels and task forces beyond counting. Her research record runs to 25 pages, with hundreds of scientific articles in journals. She is author or co-author of twenty books. These include several widely-used textbooks on memory, and on statistics, a highly respected book on psychology and the law, and what are probably the leading research tomes on eyewitness testimony, and on repressed memory.
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- Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication
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- Author and Activist Co - Founder of Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund
Frances Moore Lappé's work has had a profound impact on civic participation, democratic movements, and social justice in the United States and across the globe. Author or co-author of 20 books, including her 1971 best-seller Diet for a Small Planet, Lappé's work has educated the public on the global food supply and the role of democratic publics in addressing issues of hunger and environmental degradation. In 2002, she co-founded the Small Planet Institute (with her daughter Anna Lappé), a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life, as well as the Small Planet Fund to channel resources to democratic social movements worldwide. Frances Moore Lappé received her undergraduate degree at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1966. Only five years later, she changed how we think about food, agriculture, and the environment with the publication of her three-million copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet (Ballantine Press, 1971; updated 50th anniversary issue, 2021).
With vision ahead of her time, her work has made an enduring impact on our values, policies, and culture. Lappé's research, writing, and activism have guided and transformed the way we understand connections (and disconnections) between food production systems, the environment, poverty, and malnutrition. As Howard Zinn put it, "A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those." Her work addresses what she now characterizes as simultaneous political, economic, and climate crises with interacting roots, including an insufficiently regulated form of capitalism, the power of big money on democracy, and climate catastrophe. She seeks to empower people to see how this presents an historic opportunity for us to work together to solve these issues. Despite media reports of political polarization, she sees unity regarding democracy's strength and value as Americans work to build a democracy movement seeking reforms. Her work marshals together facts showing that scarcity of food is not what causes hunger for 800 million people globally, but instead it is the scarcity of democracy and democratic problem-solving. She focuses on solutions that end hunger by initiatives empowering farmers and their communities. Lappé's work has spanned practical cookbooks for everyday people, from Great Meatless Meals (with Ellen Buchman Ewald; Ballantine Books, 1974) to world hunger, as in World Hunger: Twelve Myths (with Joseph Collins; Grove Press, 1986). Her work has challenged many, individually and with our families, to engage in our communities and democracy.
A recipient of numerous national and international awards and 20 honorary degrees, Lappé has lectured widely. She has been a visiting scholar at MIT and U.C. Berkeley. In 1987, Lappé received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the "Alternative Nobel." She is a founding member of the World Future Council and serves on the national advisory board of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Professor Moretti's early books, especially Signs Taken for Wonders (Verso, 1983), The Way of the World (Verso, 1987), Modern Epic (Verso, 1996), and Atlas of the European Novel (Verso, 1998), established him as perhaps the most distinguished living critic of the European novel in the "realist" tradition. The Way of the World, for example, examines the youthful protagonist as a symbol for European modernity itself: that sudden mix of "lost illusions and great expectations" exemplified in the novels of Austen, Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, and Turgenev. Modern Epic turns to perhaps the most foundational question of all in novel studies: its relationship to the epic form. Atlas of the European Novel is a pioneering study of the physical geography of the novel.
Professor Moretti's academic accomplishments are many and wide-ranging. He is the author of seven books, editor of the five-volume encyclopedia of the novel Il Romanzo (G. Einaudi, 2001-03), which was translated into two vastly influential English collections, The Novel, Volume 1 and The Novel, Volume 2 (2006). He is a frequent contributor to the New Left Review.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
- Member of Committee
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- Professor of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley
In the last years of the 20th century, after decades of search, astronomers succeeded in detecting planets around other stars. More than a hundred extra-solar planets have now been discovered, and research has shifted to understanding the nature of these new solar systems, and the ways in which they resemble and contrast with our own. Are our own solar system and planet Earth special, or are they common in the Universe? And are habitats for life as we know it common as well? Geoffrey W. Marcy, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with his team of planet-finders, pioneered discovery of extra-solar planets, and have found most of those we now know. Among the planets he and this team have discovered are the first multiple-planet solar system and the first planets with masses as small as Neptune and Uranus. Recently, Professor Marcy has contributed to the discovery of a new class of Neptune-sized planets with masses only 10-20 times that of Earth. Such planets may be gaseous like Jupiter, or may even be rocky planets like Earth.
Professor Marcy is a gifted lecturer, and receives numerous invitations worldwide to address not only groups of astronomers and scientists but also to present distinguished lectures to broader public audiences. He regularly fills large auditoriums with enthusiastic listeners. They are never disappointed. He received the Carl Sagan Award from the American Astronomical Society and the Planetary Society for his contributions to public understanding of science, and he has made many appearances in the media, including the McNeil Lehrer News Hour, ABC Nightline, the NBC Today Show, the CBS Nightly News, and the Late Show with David Letterman.
The Physics committee of the Swedish Academy of Science recognized Professor Marcy's contribution to astronomy with the Manne Siegbahn Award in 1996. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded him the prestigious Henry Draper Medal in 2001, citing pioneering investigations of planets orbiting other stars. Professor Marcy was California Scientist of the Year in 2000, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. He received the Beatrice Tinsley Award from the American Astronomical Society in 2003, as well as the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. Discover Magazine selected him as Space Scientist of the Year in 2004.
Professor Marcy graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976, with degrees in both Physics and Astronomy. He earned his PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982, and carried out research at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and San Francisco State University before moving to the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
With the large number of extra-solar planets now known, Professor March has founded a new branch of astronomy: the study of the physical characteristics of the planets and their solar systems. Professor Marcy is the first director of the Center for Integrative Planetary Science at UC-Berkeley, designed to study the formation, geophysics, chemistry, and evolution of planets. The properties of the planets so far discovered differ remarkably from the familiar planets of our own Sun. Huge planets, Jupiter-sized and even larger, orbit closer to their suns than does Mercury, the closest planet in our own solar system. And unlike our solar system's planets, the orbits of most known extra-solar planets are far from circular.
Professor Marcy is a scholar of extraordinary national and international distinction who has made a contribution to human knowledge of transcendent value. He has opened the imaginations of people throughout the globe with his visions of worlds beyond our own.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
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Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she also holds affiliations with law and public affairs, jazz studies, and gender and sexuality studies. A public intellectual and interdisciplinary scholar, Perry has written on a range of topics regarding African American experience, legal history, feminist critique, music, literature, and cultural studies. She is the author of six books and numerous other publications, and her writing regularly appears in national newspapers and magazines.
Perry's first monograph, Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke University Press, 2004), situates close readings of lyrics, sound, and performance as vital for understanding hip-hop's aesthetic and historical complexity during the post-Civil Rights era. Jettisoning a polarized approach to hip-hop that had often characterized debates during the 1990s about hip hop's alleged "violence" and "commercialization," Prophets of the Hood instead conceptualizes hip-hop as an artistic culture, a source of knowledge, and as a set of valuable reference points for its communities of fans. In her next monograph, More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (New York University Press, 2011), Perry draws on her expertise in fields of legal studies and policy analysis, as well her work on vernacular or everyday practices of cultural meaning, in order to rethink ideas about national identity and "post-racialism" in the wake of Barack Obama's election in 2008 as U.S. President.
Three further books by Imani Perry were published in 2018. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (University of North Carolina Press, 2018) provides an in-depth study of one particular song, "Lift E'ry Voice and Sing," written in the early twentieth century, and often known since as the "Black (or Negro) National Anthem." Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation (Duke University Press, 2018) analyzes triangulations of gender, race, and modernity in everyday life by unearthing different "iterations of patriarchy" within a range of sites across and beyond the U.S. over the past two centuries. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Beacon Press, 2018) - winner of several prizes, including the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, and the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 - offers the first biography in decades of the playwright, writer, and activist Lorraine Hansberry (most famous for her 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun). Perry's Looking for Lorraine delves intimately into Hansberry's rich network of dealings with the Beat poets, radical black figureheads, and the Cold War machinations of the U.S. government. Perry's sixth book, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, is forthcoming in 2019, also by Beacon Press. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons promises a searing meditation on blackness, parenthood, and coming of age in contemporary America.
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- Executive Director
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- IU Student Government
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- Chairman of the Patten Committee
- Chairman of Committee
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- Professor of Classics and Provost at Georgetown University
Professor James O'Donnell is one of the leading scholars of Late Antiquity in the world, a specialist in the history and culture of the later Roman Empire and the wider culture in which it was a part. Through scholarship, lectures, consultancies, and work with numerous learned societies, Professor O'Donnell has demonstrated that the student of the distant past can engage productively with the technologies of the future, a testament to the depth and range of O'Donnell's interests and his commitment to the future of the Classics and the Humanities.
Professor O'Donnell's experience as teacher, administrator, and information scientist informs a holistic perspective that is rare in the scholarly communication debate. He is a dynamic speaker able to contemporize antiquity, and to bridge scholarly and general audiences.
Now in his sixth year as professor of classics and Provost at Georgetown University, O'Donnell has taught courses on Erasmus, Augustine, The Future of the Past, Cultures of the Book, Latin Letter-Writing and Prose Composition, and the Worlds of Late Antiquity. Previously, Professor O'Donnell served as Chief Information Officer at the University of Pennsylvania (1996-2002) where he earned wide recognition as an early adopter and innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education and humanistic scholarship.
In 1990, Professor O'Donnell co-founded the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second online humanities journal ever created and premier e-resource for book reviews in ancient history and classics. In 1993, he co-founded an analogous journal for medieval studies, now called The Medieval Review, which has recently moved its operations to the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University.
O'Donnell is the author of numerous books, including Cassiodorus (1979), a highly acclaimed three-volume critical edition of Augustine's Confessions (1992), as well as Augustine: A New Biography (2005), which gained widespread attention in the popular press and was reviewed by US News, The Economist, The Washington Times, and The New Republic, among others. Avatars of the Word (1998) addresses the distribution of scholarly research on the Web and the opportunities it promises, examining the context of the electronic media and rethinking the modern university. His most current work, The Ruin of the Roman Empire (2008), tells the timely story of an empire at war simultaneously dealing with problems of immigration.
Professor O'Donnell is also the recipient of six distinct National Endowment of the Humanities Grants, including five to direct summer seminars for secondary and college teachers, two Andrew Mellon Foundation research grants, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He holds degrees from Princeton (where he was Salutatorian) and Yale and has taught at Bryn Mawr, The Catholic University, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Georgetown, with visiting appointments at John Hopkins, the University of Washington and Yale. He is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and served in 2003 as President of the American Philological Association.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
- Member of Committee
Jill Lepore is one of the most distinguished historians of her generation and a powerful shaper of public opinion. She is the David Wood Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. The author of nine widely noticed books, a (co-authored) novel, and many articles in The New Yorker, Professor Lepore has established herself as one of a handful of contemporary American scholars who have earned the title of "public intellectual." Fueled by insatiable curiosity and iconoclastic resistance to the tried and true, Lepore is as comfortable working with census charts and tax lists as she is with Hollywood movies, Margaret Sanger's birth control pamphlets, feminist comics, and the technologies of evidence and of privacy.
A relentlessly accessible writer, Lepore has throughout her career combined scrupulous archival work with an uncanny sense for hitherto untold stories and an almost iconoclastic drive to challenge the official version of historical events. Her novelist's eye portrays characters as different as the severe Noah Webster, Benjamin Franklin's forgotten sister, and William Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman. Lepore's first book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Knopf, 1998), restores the presence of Metacom to the beginnings of American identity, a violent, unsettling force that challenges versions of early Americas as a "multicultural picnic." A similarly neglected story is the subject of her New York Burning, which evoked the fates of the New York slaves who were burned at the stake after the deadly fire that swept through Manhattan in 1741.
Lepore's other books include Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf, 2013), a Times magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and a winner of the Mark Lynton Prize; The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Knopf, 2012), a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction; The Story of America: Essays on Origins (Princeton, 2012), shortlisted for the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay; and The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle for American History (Princeton, 2010), a Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Lepore's most recent book is The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014), a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize. Her next book, Joe Gould's Teeth, will be published by Knopf in 2016. Apart from The New Yorker, she also regularly writes for The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, American Scholar, the Yale Law Journal, Foreign Affairs, and American Quarterly, as well as Common-place, an online journal she co-founded.
The recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Jill Lepore is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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- Professor of History, Michigan State University
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- Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico / New York University
Jorge Castaneda, at present a visiting professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at New York University, is one of the most influential public intellectuals and most outstanding social scientists in Mexico. Through regular publications in foreign policy journals, leading newspapers and magazines, Castaneda commands extraordinary international visibility as a scholar, author, and columnist, speaking to issues concerning US-Mexican relations and the post-Cold War impact on third world prospects for democratic development and social change.
Throughout his distinguished career, Castaneda has established himself as one of the leading social scientists in the hemisphere. After receiving his B.A. from Princeton University, Castaneda went on to pursue several advanced degrees at the Universite de Paris including a doctorate in Economic History. His numerous fellowships and appointments attest to his level of achievement and recognition. Castaneda has served as a professor in the Graduate school in the National Autonomous University of Mexico for over 20 years. During that time he has held appointments as a visiting professor at Dartmouth, New York University, University of California, Berkeley and Princeton. In addition, he is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation research grant. Castaneda's scholarly recognition derives from the quality of his publications. Since 1980 he has authored ten books, including four written in English.
His 1993 publication, Utopia Unarmed, is a tour de force. This book offers a careful historical recreation of the contemporary history of the Latin American Left since the Cuban Revolution. He combines a top-down analysis of the impact of the Cuban Revolution with a detailed social history of those environments in which social and political movements emerged. Castaneda, himself, had personal and political relations with some of the key historic figures on the Left and therefore the level and scope and intimacy of detail achieved in this work has never been matched. At the same time, Castaneda directs his research towards the everyday life of marginalized barrios to connect thoughtfully with its inhabitants, using the skills of an accomplished ethnographer. Castaneda concludes with a stunning portrait of the Left suffering a severe identity crisis in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and offers insightful suggestions for a new road that might be followed.
Castaneda's influence extends well beyond the academic community. Through regular columns in the Los Angeles Times, Reforma (Mexico), El Pais (Madrid), La Nacion (Argentina), El Tiempo (Columbia), El Nacional (Venezuela) and Newsweek International, he has attracted a large international audience. His articles are widely read and appreciated in large part because of Castaneda's unique policy perspective, which in turn derives from his peculiar insider/outsider status. Although a dissident from the Partido Institutional Revolucionario, the official party, Castaneda has nonetheless been called upon by the Mexican government to serve in an advisory capacity. Particularly important was his role in formulating Mexican Policy about Central America during the decade of civil wars if the 1980s. Similarly, though often critical of the United States policy in the region, Castaneda has become an important voice in the United States foreign policy community. Thus he has testified before Congress, has been a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has served as visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
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- Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of political communication, including news coverage of elections, political parties and candidates, and presidential campaigns. Her work has focused on what people know about politics, how the media portray political phenomena, and how these processes affect public policy. Professor Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kathleen Jamieson's prolific publication record includes books such as Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1984), Eloquence in an Electronic Age (Oxford University Press, 1988), Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good (Oxford University Press, 1997), unspun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation (Random House, 2007), Presidents Creating the Presidency: Deeds Done in Words (University of Chicago Press, 2008), Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment (Oxford University Press, 2008), and The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Messages Shaped the 2008 Election (Oxford University Press, 2010). Several of these books have received political science or communication book awards, including the 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in the area of government and politics. In addition, she has published extensively in some of the most prestigious journals in the field. Her paper "Implications of the Demise of ‘Fact' in Political Discourse" received the American Philosophical Society's 2016 Henry Allen Moe Prize. Professor Jamieson has also written dozens of Op Ed pieces for some of the most prestigious national media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN.
Kathleen Jamieson's work has been funded by the FDA and the MacArthur, Ford, Carnegie, Pew, Robert Wood Jackson, Packard, and Annenberg Foundations. In addition, she is the co-founder of FactCheck.org and its subsidiary site, SciCheck, and is director of The Sunnylands Constitution Project, which has produced more than 30 award-winning films on the Constitution for high school students. Her work has also had an impact on media professionals covering elections. For example, based on her adwatch effects studies in the 1990s, the Annenberg Center distributed booklets and videos to television newsrooms demonstrating how to visually report news stories that debunk false or misleading campaign ads so that the viewers would correctly process the information in the news report.
Professor Jamieson has delivered the American Political Science Association's Ithiel de Sola Poole Lecture, the National Communication Association's Arnold Lecture, and the NASEM Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Henry and Bryna David Lecture. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Communication Association, and a past president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
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- School of Public Health / 2022 - 2025 / Email
For thirty years until her unexpected death in December 2006, Mary Coffman Tilton served as the Executive Director of the Patten Foundation.
During her tenure, she welcomed such renowned scholars and leaders as writers Umberto Eco and Toni Morrison, linguist Noam Chomsky, astrophysicist Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, Indian development economist Amartya Sen, zoologist John Richard Krebs, and composer Joan Tower.
Mary's commitment to the IU and Bloomington community did not , however, stop at the Patten steps. Much of her professional, charitable, and volunteer activities centered on music: she held a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Wooster College and a Master of Arts degree from the Yale School of Music. Her doctorate degree, in literature and performance of early music, is from the School of Music at Indiana University. A talented harpsichordist, she taught and performed throughout her life, and encouraged the study and appreciation of Baroque music. As president of the board of Early Music Associates, she helped firmly establish the annual Bloomington Early Music Festival. A member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, she performed in the choir.
With great sadness, but with lasting appreciation, Indiana University-and the Patten Foundation in particular-honor Mary Tilton and her contribution to enriching all of our lives.
Michael Oppenheimer is one of the key contemporary figures working at the boundary of climate science and policy. He is a geoscientist, providing critical scientific expertise on one of humanity's most pressing problems-climate change, the risks and impacts that climate change entails, and adaptation and other human responses. Oppenheimer is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University. He received a B.S. in chemistry from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago and pursued post-doctoral research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Oppenheimer is best described as an atmospheric scientist, but this title belies the extraordinary breadth of his scientific work. His research spans a remarkable range of topics, ranging from highly theoretical and observational chemical analyses of interstellar clouds to highly applied work on atmospheric pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, atmospheric carbon and climate change, and sea-level change. Author of over 200 scholarly articles, he has published in the most prestigious journals of his field, including an extraordinary record of 14 articles in Nature (and its derivative journals Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change) and 16 articles in Science. Oppenheimer is co-author of Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect (1990) and Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy (2020).
Over the past two decades, Oppenheimer has played a critical leadership role in the most important international scientific review process ever assembled, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Most recently, he has served as a coordinating lead author on IPCC's Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (2019) and as a review editor on the recently released Sixth Assessment Report. In addition, he has played a leadership role in numerous interdisciplinary reports by the National Academy of Sciences and a variety of leading professional organizations. He also serves as scientific advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a non-governmental, environmental organization. In the late 1980's, Oppenheimer and a handful of other scientists organized two workshops under the auspices of the United Nations that helped precipitate the negotiations that resulted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (signed at the 1992 Earth Summit) and the Kyoto Protocol. During that period, he co-founded the Climate Action Network. His research and advocacy work on acid rain also contributed to the passage of the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. In short, he is both a first-rate scholar, a leader of the scientific community, and a public intellectual with the scientific credentials that have allowed him to speak with authority on the major environmental issues of our time.
Michael Oppenheimer is a winner of the 2010 Heinz Award and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is co-editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary scientific journal, Climatic Change.
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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Oleg Grabar, an emeritus professor in the School of Historical Studies at Princeton's world-renowned Institute for Advanced Study, has fundamentally reshaped the study of Islamic art and architecture. When he began his career more than forty years ago, there were few historians of Islamic art and architecture. Now there are dozens of scholars in that field, and Grabar has been involved in training most of them. His pioneering The Formation of Islamic Art (Yale University Press, 1973), revised, translated into several languages, and reprinted many times, laid the intellectual and structural frameworks for all subsequent investigations into medieval and contemporary Middle Eastern ornamental representation. The Alhambra (Penguin, 1978), also reprinted and translated often, introduced western audiences to the intricacies of monumental construction of Muslims during the Middle Ages. More recently, Grabar produced visually stunning and intellectually insightful investigations of one of the holiest sites in the world at Jerusalem through his The Dome of the Rock (Rizzoli, 1996) and The Shape of the Holy (Princeton University Press, 1996).
Originally a native of Strasbourg, France, Oleg Grabar was born into a highly-educated family; his father, Andre Grabar, was a well-known historian of Byzantine art. Oleg Grabar attended the University of Paris, receiving certificates de licence in ancient, medieval, and modern history (1948 and 1950). He obtained a B.A. in medieval history from Harvard University (1950), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Oriental Languages and Literatures and History of Art from Princeton University (1953 and 1955). Grabar gained a reputation as a lucid and witty undergraduate lecturer and as an exacting and invigorating graduate seminar director at the University of Michigan, where he began his teaching career in 1954. His fame in research and teaching grew at Harvard University, where he accepted a professorship in fine arts in 1968. He was named the first Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture there in 1980. In 1990, he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as a professor and permanent faculty member devoted to research and lecturing. During his years as an academic, Grabar visited the Middle East and Asia on numerous occasions for research and presentation in archeology, architecture, art history, and fine art. Now retired, he continues to be in great demand as a public speaker, academic advisor, and seminar director.
Grabar, the author of more than eighteen books and one hundred and forty articles, has been honored for his contributions to the humanities by election as a fellow or as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Austrian Academie, the German Archaeological Institutes, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Italian Istituto per gli Studi del Medio e Estremo Oriente. He has also served as a distinguished lecturer at College de France, Columbia University, New York University, the National Gallery of Art, Oberlin College, and the University of California at Los Angeles.
In addition to the Patten Foundation lectures at Indiana University's Bloomington campus, Grabar will be conducting a two-part colloquium at the Lilly Library on April 20th and 22nd. The colloquium will focus on the sources and development of Islamic art. It will be held under the auspices of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Turkish Studies Program, the History of Art Program, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and the Medieval Studies Program. During that time, Grabar will also be a resident fellow at Indiana University's Institute for Advanced Study.
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- President of Costa Rica, 1986 - 1990, 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate
Former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Laureate Oscar Arias holds international stature as a spokesperson for the Third World, championing such issues as human development, democracy, and demilitarization. He has traveled the globe spreading a message of peace and applying the lessons garnered from his award-winning Central American Peace Process to topics of current global debate.
Born in Heredia, Costa Rica, in 1940, Dr. Arias studied law and economics at the University of Costa Rica, where his honor thesis, Grupos de Presion en Costa Rica (Pressure Groups in Costa Rica), earned him the 1971 National Essay Prize. He received his doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Essex, England, in 1974. After serving as Professor of Political Science at the University of Costa Rica, Dr. Arias was appointed Costa Rica's Minister of Planning and Economic Policy. He won a seat in Congress in 1978 and was elected secretary-general of the National Liberation Party (NLP) of Costa Rica in 1981. Subsequently, in 1986, Oscar Arias was elected President of Costa Rica, a position he served until 1990, during which time Costa Rica maintained its stronghold as the richest country in the region, with the healthiest economy and highest standard of living coupled with a strong social welfare program.
At the time Dr. Arias assumed the presidency there was great regional discord, including the 1979 fall of the Somoza dictatorship and the election of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, which had already been a source of contention in Central America. There was also the East-West ideological and military interference of the superpowers during the cold War years. Sadly, regional civil wars had already claimed more than one hundred thousand lives in Guatemala alone. The situation subsequently aggravated internal unrest both in El Salvador and Nicaragua, as well as border tensions between Nicaragua and its neighboring nations of Honduras and Costa Rica. It was this turmoil and instability that Dr. Oscar Arias helped to quell with his peace plan known as the Esquipulas Il Accords (Procedure to Establish a Firm and Lasting Peace in Central America), which was signed by all the Central American presidents on August 7, 1987, and earned for him the Nobel Peace Prize.
By bringing human concerns to the forefront of the international agenda, Dr. Arias provides a link between the impoverished south and the developed North, between the more politically stable West and the conflict-ridden East. To the people of the industrialized countries he carries a sincere message of solidarity and partnership, to counter the growing threats face by all nations today and to initiate and era of peace and prosperity for all humankind.
Paul Muldoon is a celebrated poet, professor of poetry, scholar, critic, arts activist, and translator. His work has received recognition nationally and internationally. Author of twelve collections of poetry, Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland and raised near a village called The Moy. In his early twenties, he became a producer for the BBC in Belfast, but eventually gave up the job to become a freelance writer. He moved to the United States and has taught at Princeton University since 1987. He has been poetry editor of The New Yorker since 2007. Muldoon has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War." Roger Rosenblatt, writing in The New York Times Book Review, described Muldoon as "one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems - word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury."
Paul Muldoon's poetry collections include One Thousand Things Worth Knowin g (2015), Maggot (2010), Horse Latitudes (2006), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Hay (1998), The Annals of Chile (1994), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), Meeting the British (1987), Quoof (1983), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Mules (1997), and New Weather (1973). His Selected Poems, 1968-2014 was recently published (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). Muldoon's essays and criticism are collected in The End of the Poem, Oxford Lectures (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) and To Ireland, I The 1998 Clarendon Lectures (Oxford, 2000). He has also edited and introduced several anthologies of Irish Folk Tales and published innumerable smaller collections, works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, and radio and television dramas. Muldoon is also a songwriter and has a band that performs with special guests to sell-out audiences at an event he hosts and curates in New York called Muldoon's Picnic, An omnium-gatherum of words and music.
Muldoon's poems use word-play and humor to tackle the deadly serious. They speak of the quotidian, as well as the impenetrable: articulating great joy, pain, loss. Some of his poems are imaginative forays into the past, other poems are remarkable elegies to his close friends, his mother, his mentor and friend the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. His poetry has been translated into twenty languages.
In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Paul Muldoon has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the Shakespeare Prize, the Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the European Prize for Poetry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- Religious Studies
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- Director, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany
Philosopher and public intellectual Susan Neiman's international eminence is attested by her large scholarly contributions and public engagement on issues of race, racism, and the memory of the Holocaust in Germany, as well as other works about good and evil. She became director of the Einstein Forum, a think tank in the former East Germany, in 2000 where she became a major public intellectual in the lively civic culture of post-Cold-War Berlin. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard University and the Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany. Neiman was a protégé of John Rawls at Harvard. Prior to assuming directorship of the Einstein Forum, she was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University.
The author of such celebrated works as Evil in Modern Thought (2002; 2015) and Moral Clarity (2008), Neiman is both an academic philosopher and widely published essayist. In Learning from the Germans (2019), she brings her celebrated mixture of personal reflection and analytical acumen to reflect on how the U.S. remembers its legacy of slavery and racism in comparison to the way Germany has sought to work through its Nazi past. Her childhood as a white Jewish girl in the segregated American south and then as an adult raising children in Berlin informs her sense of the way we narrate and symbolize the most difficult moments of our past through the over-simplifying lenses of perpetrator and victim, winner and loser. Rather than hardening these positions, Neiman seeks ways to imagine a future that moves beyond them. She interrogates how we can change conflict, misunderstanding, and ignorance about the injustices of our past into a moral vision for organizing our shared path into the future. Neiman's way of thinking about paths to redemption include recalling historical episodes of slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and civil rights in the U.S. as well as the rise of antisemitism, political fracture, Nazi fascism, World War, and Cold War division in Germany. She is interested in the full range of commemorative practices-didactic, expressive, analytical and political-and those given shape in any media, from cast bronze to historical bricks and beams; and from the internet to the public library. Her book, Evil in Modern Thought, provides the conceptual underpinnings for her study into memory and memorials. Neiman's Heroes for an Age of Victims is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in 2023.
In recognition of her immense scholarship, Susan Neiman has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Cambridge and the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Michigan, the International Spinoza Prize, the American Academy of Religion Award, the Lucius D. Clay Medal for her contributions to German-American affairs, and the August Bebel Prize of the German Social Democratic Party. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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- Member of the Patten Committee
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- Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
Tony Judt labels himself a historian of political ideas, but he could easily pass muster as an intellectual historian, a political historian, or even a student of politics (in the soft European sense, as he puts it). Most of his published scholarship has centered upon one or more interrelated themes: the left in the twentieth-century, the oral dilemmas of intellectuals and others in politically-polarized settings, and the self-understanding and misunderstanding of a divided Europe. He also made important contributions to Jewish history.
Judt is a graduate of King's College (Cambridge University), where he completed both his undergraduate education and his doctorate in history. Several years of work in Paris at the Ecole Normale Superieure led to the publication of two books on the French Socialist Party in 1976 (La Reconstruction du Parti Socialiste 1921-1926) and 1979 (Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914. A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left). The second book, in particular, shows his skills in writing social history and provides a detailed look at the support, characteristics, program, appeal, and trajectory of the early French socialists in the small towns of southern France. After an interlude of work on the relationship of Marxism and the French Left, he became interested in eastern Europe and the program of opposition and dissent, learned Czech, and lectured in the underground university of Prague.
In 1993 he produced a ground-breaking study of the relationship between French intellectuals and their political ideologies entitled Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals 1944-1956. This in turn led to his most recent study of three famous French activist intellectuals- Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron (The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century), about which one French historian wrote: amidst the din of current culture wars, Judt's voice of reason cuts through the babble like a knife through butter.
Judt's current interest is a new history of Europe since the war, but his views on the present condition of Europe may be discerned in a small but brilliant book entitled A Grand Illusion: An Essay on Europe. He is presently Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, where he is the director of the Remarque Institute. His numerous honors include memberships in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Historical Society; fellowships from the Guggenheim and Nuffield Foundations, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; and invitations to lecture at the most important institutions of higher learning in the world.
What sets Professor Judt's career apart from many historians is his role as a genuine public intellectual: he avoids academic jargon and appeals not only to disciplinary specialists but also to the general educated public. As a result, he is a frequent contributor of essays and lengthy review articles to The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Daedalus, and Foreign Affairs.
William T. Patten was born August 10th, 1867, on a homestead farm in Sullivan County, Indiana. Several members of his family served in the Union Army during the Civil War, including his father, grandfather, and four uncles. He attended school sporadically while working on his family's farm and then taught in the county schools for two years before enrolling at Indiana University at the age of 21. Patten was a diligent student. While working his way through college he also found time to participate in oratorical contests and to serve as associate editor of the Indiana Student newspaper. He received his AB degree in 1893 in history and maintained his interest in the subject throughout his life.
After graduation, William Patten settled in Indianapolis, where he made a career in real estate and politics, including service as county auditor. During the First World War he was deeply involved in relief efforts organized by the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. He remained appreciative of the educational opportunities that IU had afforded him, and toward the end of his life established the foundation that bears his name. He died in 1936 following several years of ill health and was buried in Sullivan, Indiana.