PHI BETA KAPPA
VISITING SCHOLARS
2008-2009
Eric G. Adelberger, Professor of Physics, University of Washington
Lisa Anderson, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University
2008-2009 Phi Beta Kappa-Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar
Elaine K. Gazda, Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan
Philip D. Gingerich, Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, University of Michigan
Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, New York University
Linda Gordon, Professor of History, New York University
Robert Haselkorn, Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology,
University of Chicago
Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia
Anne K. Mellor, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Betty Smocovitis, Professor of History and Zoology, University of Florida
Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
William A. Wulf, University Professor and AT&T Professor of Engineering, University of Virginia
ERIC G. ADELBERGER, University of Washington
Eric Adelberger is professor of physics at the University of Washington, where he began teaching in 1971. In 1992-93 he was a scientific associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. He is now primarily interested in gravity, the fundamental force whose origins remain mysterious to this day. This has led him to make extraordinarily precise experimental tests of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle, Hidden Extra Dimensions and Newton’s Inverse-Square Law, as well as Lorentz Invariance.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Physics, and the American Physical Society and is a recipient of the APS Bonner Prize for outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics. His named lectures include the Loeb Lecturer in Physics, Harvard; Nordberg Lecturer, Goddard Space Flight Center; Selove Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania; Feenberg Lecturer, Washington University; and Leigh Paige Prize Lecturer, Yale.
AVAILABLE: September 7, 2008-March 21, 2009.
LISA ANDERSON, Columbia University
Lisa Anderson is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations in the departments of political science and international and public affairs. From 1997 until 2007, she served as dean of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. A scholar of state formation and regime change, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, she is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, among them The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980 and Transitions to Democracy. She also has published widely on the relationship between academic research and public policy, including Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the 21st Century.
She is chair of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and a past president of the Middle East Studies Association, and recently served on the governing council of the American Political Science Association. She is an emeritus member of the board of Human Rights Watch, where she was co-chair of its Middle East advisory committee.
AVAILABLE: September 7, 2008-February 9, 2009.
ELAINE K. GAZDA, University of Michigan
Elaine Gazda has been a professor of classical art and archaeology at Michigan since 1974 as well as a curator at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. She is recipient of the university’s Excellence in Research Award for 1999 and a trustee and frequent visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, where she co-directed an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers. Her scholarly interests include Hellenistic and Roman art, particularly Roman sculpture, painting, and building techniques; Etruscan art and archaeology; and the art and archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt. She has done fieldwork in Italy at Cosa and Pompeii as well as in Turkey at Pisidian Antioch and Sardis.
She is the editor of The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity; The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii: Ancient Ritual, Modern Muse; Roman Art in the Private Sphere; and Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times.
AVAILABLE: January-April 2009.
PHILIP D. GINGERICH, University of Michigan
Philip Gingerich is Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, professor of geological sciences, director of the Museum of Paleontology, and recipient of the 1997 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award. He has taught at Michigan since 1974. Among his honors are the Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society; Dumont Medal, Belgian Geological Society; and Alexander von Humboldt research award for senior scientists. He was named a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Paleontological Society. He is currently a member of the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, associate editor of American Journal of Science, and co-editor of Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene.
His research involves the origin of modern orders of mammals, and quantitative approaches to paleobiology and evolution. Fieldwork has been carried out primarily in the deserts of Pakistan and Egypt, where he and his research team discovered skeletons linking whales to land mammals. In 2001 he was a scientific adviser to a TV series titled “Walking with Prehistoric Beasts.”
AVAILABLE: In accordance with requests, 2008-2009.
FAYE GINSBURG, New York University
Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, founding director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, as well as of the Graduate Program in Culture and Media, and co-director of the Center for Religion and Media, which she established in 2003. Her research interests include cultural and visual anthropology, ethnographic film, indigenous media, and social movements in the U.S. Current research focuses on cultural innovation and disabilities; she is also head of NYU’s Council for the Study of Disability. Among her books are Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (recipient of four book awards), Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, and Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. In 2005 she was co-curator of “First Nations First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media.” She is currently completing her book, Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media in a Digital Age.
She was named a MacArthur fellow in 1994 and the same year received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has produced five documentaries based on her fieldwork in Australia, North Dakota, and northern Thailand.
AVAILABLE: In accordance with requests, 2008-2009.
LINDA GORDON, New York University
Linda Gordon is professor of history, specializing in the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Before joining the NYU faculty, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her publications include Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America (revised and reissued as The Moral Property of Women); Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence (Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history, AHA); Women, the State and Welfare (editor); Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare (Berkshire Prize for best book in women's history); The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Bancroft Prize, Beveridge Prize); Dear Sisters: Dispatches from Women's Liberation (co-editor); and Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (editor).
A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians, she was the Lawrence Stone Visiting Chair at Princeton in 2004, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and recipient of numerous fellowships. In 2002 she received the Wilbur Cross medal of Yale University.
AVAILABLE: In accordance with requests, 2008-2009.
ROBERT HASELKORN, University of Chicago
Robert Haselkorn is the F. L. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of molecular genetics and cell biology at Chicago and a recipient of the university’s Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. A member of the National Academy of Sciences as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is past president of the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. His research interests lie in the areas of cellular differentiation in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, in bacterial genomics, and in the workings of the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase in plants, parasites, and people.
He is a recipient of the Darbaker Prize of the Botanical Society of America for his contributions to understanding the molecular biology of nitrogen fixation in blue-green algae, and of the Mendel Medal in Biological Sciences of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences. Currently a trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he was for many years a scientific advisor to the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology located in Italy and India.
AVAILABLE: September 14-27; Thursdays-Fridays, October, November 2008; January 6-27, February 19-28, March, April, May 3-16, 2009.
LOCH K. JOHNSON, University of Georgia
Loch Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at Georgia, and recipient of the university’s Meigs Prize for outstanding teaching as well as the Owens Award for research in the social sciences. Senior editor of the international journal Intelligence and National Security, he is the author of over 150 articles and numerous books on U.S. national security, among them Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy, Handbook of Intelligence Studies, and Strategic Intelligence (5 vols.). His primary research and teaching interests are intelligence and security studies, American foreign policy, and executive-legislative relations in the United States.
He has been a visiting professor at Yale and a visiting fellow at Oxford, and was awarded the V.O. Key Prize from the Southern Political Science Association for Runoff Elections in the United States. He has served as secretary of the American Political Science Association and as president of the International Studies Association, South.
AVAILABLE: Mondays-Tuesdays, 2008-2009, in accordance with requests.
ANNE K. MELLOR, University of California, Los Angeles
Anne Mellor’s major research interests are British Romantic-era writing, women’s studies, and 18th- and 19th-century British art and literature. She is the author of Blake’s Human Form Divine, English Romantic Irony, Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, Romanticism and Gender, and Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780-1830; the editor of Romanticism and Feminism; and the co-editor of British Literature, 1780-1830, The Age of Sensibility in a Time of Terror, and, most recently, Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman and Wrongs of Woman.
After teaching at Stanford for eighteen years, she joined the UCLA faculty in 1984, and is now Distinguished Professor of English and recipient of the university’s 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award, as well as of the 1999 Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award. She has directed three NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers and received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, ACLS, NEH, and the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra.
AVAILABLE: September 17-December 1, 2008; April 1-May 15, 2009.
BETTY SMOCOVITIS, University of Florida
Betty Smocovitis, recipient of six teaching awards during her twenty years at Florida, currently holds joint appointments as professor in the departments of history and zoology. Her research focuses on the history, philosophy, and sociology of the 20th-century biological sciences, especially evolutionary biology, systematics, ecology, and genetics; and the history of American botany. She is the author of Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology (Choice, Outstanding Academic Title, 1997); and of two works in progress, One Hundred Years of the Botanical Society of America and G. Ledyard Stebbins and the Evolutionary Synthesis.
A fellow of the AAAS and recent chair of its history and philosophy of science section, she is the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities as well as grants from the Botanical Society of America, the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the NEH. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Athens, Cornell, Emory, and Stanford, and a visiting research associate at the National Museum and Art Gallery, Papua New Guinea.
AVAILABLE: September 7-13, October 12-18, 2008; January 25-31, March 1-7, 2009.
ANNA TSING, University of California, Santa Cruz
Anna Tsing is a professor of anthropology at Santa Cruz. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Chicago, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Her current research focuses on scientific and commercial connections involving matsutake, an aromatic wild mushroom appreciated in Japan and picked in forests across the Northern Hemisphere. The research, which opens questions about cosmopolitan science and global capitalism, builds on her earlier work in Southeast Asia on the environment, cultural diversity, and global connections. She is the author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological Association) and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (Benda Prize, Association for Asian Studies); and co-editor of Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Shock and Awe: War on Words, Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture, and, forthcoming, Words in Motion.
AVAILABLE: November 2008; January-June 2009.
WILLIAM A. WULF, University of Virginia
William Wulf is a University Professor and the AT&T Professor of Engineering in computer science at Virginia. From 1996 to 2007, he was on leave from the university to serve as president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and during 1988-90 he was an assistant director of the National Science Foundation, where he led its efforts in computer and information science and engineering. Prior to these positions, he was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and founder and CEO of Tartan Laboratories, a computer software company. His research focused on computer architecture and computer security as well as on programming languages and optimizing compilers. In recent years he also has been deeply involved in public policy issues and in facilitating the use of information technology to support humanistic scholarship.