IAS - Key Persons
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- Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor
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- Director
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- Member of the Board and Corporate Officers Team
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- Director of Development Operations
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- Distinguished Affiliated Professor
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- Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
- Visiting Professor
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After the death of several dozens of refugees, most of them fleeing Afghanistan, in a shipwreck off the coasts of Calabria, in the South of Italy, on the 26th of February 2023, Lorenzo Alunni, current Member in the School of Social Science, and Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, wrote a column for Le Monde, analyzing how Europe had shifted from a politics of rescue to a criminalization of humanitarianism.
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- Development Coordinator, Friends Programs
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- Chairman Emeritus, IAS / Technical
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- Co - Chairman
- Co - Founder
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- Director
- Director and Leon Levy Professor
- Member of the American Academy of Arts
Dav id Nirenberg is the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A historian and author, Nirenberg is recognized for wide-ranging scholarship on the interaction of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. His research provides insight into questions of racism, Anti-Semitism, and Christian-Muslim relations.
"I grew up in a Spanish-speaking household in upstate New York, sparking my lifelong attraction to conversations across languages and cultures. As a Visitor at the Institute in 1996, I remember feeling as if I had suddenly found home. My experience was typical: the Institute's polyglot conversations change every scholar who enters them, creating new connections and enabling discovery."
Nirenberg previously served as founding director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences; Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor; Executive Vice Provost; and Interim Dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
While Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, Nirenberg led efforts to create the Computational Social Science program and to establish the Center for International Social Science Research and the Committee on Quantitative Social Science. These endeavors shared the goal of accelerating the diffusion of new
Nirenberg is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America.
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- Director of Annual Giving
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- Chairman of Public Health
- James D. Wolfensohn Professor
Didier Fassin is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted fieldwork in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, focusing on the AIDS epidemic and health inequalities. He later developed the field of critical moral anthropology, which explores the historical, social, and political signification of moral forms involved in everyday judgment and action as well as in the making of national policies and international relations. He has also carried out an ethnography of the state, through a study of urban policing and the prison system. His recent work is on the theory of punishment, the politics of life, and the public presence of the social sciences, which he presented for the Tanner Lectures, the Adorno Lectures, and at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, respectively. Recipient of the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award, he is currently involved in a global program on crises, examining in particular the cases of migrants and refugees. For his course at the Collège de France, he explores contemporary stakes in public health, with special reference to the coronavirus pandemic. He regularly contributes to newspapers such as Le Monde and magazines such as the London Review of Books. His recent books include Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011), Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (2013), At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (2015), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016), The Will to Punish (2018), Life: A Critical User's Manual (2018), and Death of a Traveller. A Counter Investigation (in press).
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted fieldwork in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, mortality disparities, and global health. He later developed the field of critical moral anthropology, which explores the historical, social, and political signification of moral forms involved in everyday judgment and action as well as in the making of international relations with humanitarianism. His current work is on punishment, asylum, inequality, and the politics of life, and he is developing a reflection on the public presence of the social sciences.
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, and Bernard E. Harcourt, Visiting Professor (2016-17) in the School, have edited A Time for Critique (Columbia University Press, 2019).
The book calls for a systematic...
Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. An anthropologist and sociologist, he was trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, and focused his early work on the AIDS epidemic and health inequities. He has conducted research in Senegal, Congo, South Africa, Ecuador, and France. An expert on topics including immigration, discrimination, and social justice, he has carried out ethnographic studies on the police and the prison system. Elected to the Annual Chair in Public Health at the Collège de France, he is currently preparing a series of lectures and a book on the anthropology of public health. Confined in his French home near Paris, he spoke over Zoom with Joanne Lipman, IAS Distinguished Journalism Fellow, about the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. This conversation was conducted on May 8, 2020. It has been edited for length and clarity.
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- Librarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
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- University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience
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- Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer
Fred Hu - Chairman, Founder
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- Director of Institutional Giving
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- James D. Wolfensohn Professor
- Professor
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- Information Technology Manager, School of Natural Sciences Computing / Communications, Development, Events
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- Administrative Officer, School of Historical Studies
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- Assistant Treasurer
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- Trustee, Neubauer Family Foundation / Principal, JP Lerman & Co
Jeff Gatto - Chief Investment Officer
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Chief Human Resources Officer / Title IX Coordinator
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- Distinguished Journalism Fellow
- Public Health Experts
Joanne Lipman is one of the nation's leading journalists and a bestselling author. A regular CNBC contributor, Lipman previously served as Chief Content Officer at Gannett Co., Inc., and as Editor-in-Chief at USA Today. Lipman also served as the first female Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, where she created "Weekend Journal" and "Personal Journal," and oversaw creation of the Saturday edition. While at IAS, Lipman will investigate the impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence on the media and on journalism specifically. She will also continue her work on gender in the workplace, and engage with scholars in the School of Social Science for its theme year on "Economy and Society."
Joanne Lipman: Public health experts have been warning about a global pandemic for years. Is Covid-19 playing out as they expected?
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- Chairman of the Board
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- Information Technology Manager, Information Technology Group
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- Chief Development Officer
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- Development Database Administrator
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- Information Technology Manager, School of Mathematics Computing
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- Executive Assistant to the Director
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- Communications and Public Relations Manager
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- Librarian, Historical Studies and Social Science ( Also Coordinator of Information Access for Computing, Telecommunications, and Networking Administration )
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- Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science
Marion Fourcade is Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, she is studying new forms of social stratification...
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- Associate Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship
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- Program Manager / Library Administration
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- Administrative Officer, School of Natural Sciences
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- Administrative Officer, School of Social Science
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- Managing Director
- Member of the Board and Corporate Officers Team
- Vice Chair of the Board
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- Member of the Board and Corporate Officers Team
- Secretary of the Corporation
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- Member of the Board and Corporate Officers Team
- Chief Executive Officer & Co - Chief Investment Officer
- Treasurer of the Corporation
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- Administrative Officer, School of Mathematics
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- Senior Director of Philanthropic Engagement
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- Director, Park City Mathematics Institute
Nirenberg was born to immigrant parents from Argentina who eventually settled in Albany, NY. He graduated with an A.B. (1986) from Yale University and earned his M.A. (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) from Princeton University's Department of History.
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- President Emerita / Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs
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- Founder, Exempt Organizations Group / Retired Partner
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- Director, Women and Mathematics