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List Of Brandeis University People
Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Brandeis University. Notable alumni Academia * Eve Adler, Classicist, professor at Middlebury College * Amnon Albeck, Chemist, professor and University's Vice-Rector at Bar-Ilan University * Frederick Alt, Geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. * Arjun Appadurai, Anthropologist and editor of ''Public Culture'' * Elliot Aronson, Social psychologist known for research on the theory of cognitive dissonance * Seyla Benhabib, Professor of political science and philosophy at Yale University * Bonnie Berger, Professor of applied mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Ilan Berman, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council * David Bernstein, Law professor and blogger * Deborah Bial, Education strategist, founder and President of Posse Foundation, MacArthur Fellow * Richard Burgin, Professor, fiction writer, critic, founder and editor of ''Boulevard'' liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , provost = Carol Fierke , city = Waltham , state = Massachusetts , country = United States , endowment = $1.07 billion (2019) , students = 5,458 (2021) , undergrad = 3,591 (2021) , postgrad = 1,967 (2021) , faculty = 544 (2021) , administrative_staff = 1,314 (2021) , campus = Small City, , mascot = The Judge and Ollie the Owl (named for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) , sports_nickname = Judges , colors = Brandeis Blue , athletics_affiliations = , academic_affiliations = , website = , logo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Foreign Policy Council
The American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit located in Washington, DC, which is largely chaired by conservatives and officials that served in conservative Presidential administrations. Its foreign and defense policy specialists provide information to members of the US Congress, the Executive Branch, and the US policymaking community, as well as world leaders outside the US (particularly in the former USSR). AFPC publishes reports monitoring the policy progress of other countries from a conservative standpoint (particularly Russia, China, countries in the Middle East and in Asia). Common topics include security (missile defense, arms control, energy security, espionage) as well as the ongoing status of democracy and market economies in countries of interest. Board of advisors As of March 2017, AFPC’s board of advisors consists of * Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs * Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Chicago Divinity School
The University of Chicago Divinity School is a private graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today lacks any sectarian affiliations. It is ranked number one in the field of the study of religion according to the National Research Council's measure of faculty quality in its survey of all doctoral granting programs in religious studies. The scholarly work of the School is organized through the work of three faculty committees, each of which is further subdivided into areas of study. PhD students concentrate their work in one of the eleven areas of study. Students in the various master's programs combine study in these areas with courses specific to their programs. All students are taught by the same faculty. History A distinguished Semiticist and a member of the Baptist clergy, Chicago's first university president William Rainey Harper believed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain (1941–2013) was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with a joint appointment in the department of political science. Biography Early life Elshtain was born on January 6, 1941, to Paul Bethke and Hellen Lind in Windsor, Colorado. She grew up in Timnath, Colorado. She was from a Lutheran background. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado State University and master's degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Colorado. She received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1973, writing her dissertation on ''Women and Politics: A Theoretical Analysis''. Career Elshtain taught from 1973 to 1988 at the University of Massachusetts and then from 1988 to 1995 she taught at Vanderbilt University as the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith College
Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. Smith is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other nearby institutions in the Pioneer Valley: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst; students of each college are allowed to attend classes at any other member institution. On campus are Smith's Museum of Art and Botanic Garden, the latter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Smith has 41 academic departments and programs and is structured around an open curriculum, lacking course requirements and scheduled final exams. It is known for its progressive, politically active student body, and rigorous academics. Undergraduate admissions is exclusively restricted to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Robinson Divine
Donna Robinson Divine (born 1941) is the Morningstar Family Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of Government at Smith College. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University, 1963, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1971, in Political Science. Divine has worked in the fields of Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, and Political Theory. Divine is fluent in three of the major languages of the Middle East, Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkish.. She conducts research about the Middle East, studying both historical developments and contemporary trends. She has written on Zionist immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate, analyzing how exile functioned as a contrast to the society created in Palestine during the period of British rule. According to Efraim Karsh, Divine sees many common links between Zionist state building and the situation facing the Palestinians, comparing the roles of the Histadrut in Israel with that of Hamas and other voluntary bodies in the Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A feminist and a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She is the author of more than ten books on class, gender, race, and the U.S. prison system. Born to an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Studying under the philosopher Herbert Marcuse at the Frankfurt School, Davis became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. Returning to the United States, she studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed a doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan (born 1950) is the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics. Caplan has made many contributions to public policy including: helping to found the National Marrow Donor Program; creating the policy of required request in cadaver organ donation adopted throughout the United States; helping to create the system for distributing organs in the U.S.; and advising on the content of the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, rules governing living organ donation, and legislation and regulation in many other areas of health care including blood safety and compassionate use. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he repeatedly stepped into controversy by universally criticizing those who were not fully vaccinated. Referring to them in a CNN appearance, he asserted, "I'll condemn them. I'll shame them. I'm blame them ... We can penalize them more, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Chodorow
Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor. She began her career as a professor of Women's studies at Wellesley College in 1973, and from 1974 on taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until 1986. She then was a professor in the departments of sociology and clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley until she resigned in 1986, after which she taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance. Chodorow is often described as a leader in feminist thought, especially in the realms of psychoanalysis and psychology. Chodorow has written a number of influential books in contemporary feminist writing, including ''The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender'' (1978);The Reproduction of Mothering [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulevard (magazine)
''Boulevard'' is a biannual literary magazine. It has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. History The magazine was established in 1985 by Richard Burgin, who served as editor-in-chief through 2015. Interview conducted by Eric Miles Williamson, summer 2003, and Robin Theiss, summer 2005. The Williamson portion first appeared in ''Pleiades'', 2004, vol. 24, no. 2. In 1991 the magazine began to be published by Drexel University in Philadelphia where Richard Burgin taught. In the fall of 1996, Burgin moved to St. Louis and St. Louis University became its publisher, until the magazine became independent in 2013. Poet Charles Simic has called it one of the eight best literary magazines in America.''The New York Review of Books''. July 2, 2003. In a 2003 interview, Burgin said, "My suspicion, especially of many MFA writers, is that they are writing what they think will get published and are not suff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burgin (writer)
Richard Burgin (June 30, 1947 – October 22, 2020) was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at Saint Louis University. He was also the founder and publisher of the internationally distributed award-winning literary magazine ''Boulevard''. Life and career Richard Burgin was born June 30, 1947, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father, also named Richard Burgin, was the Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother, Ruth Posselt, was a concert violinist, who was the first American-born woman violinist to extensively tour Russia. Both his parents were child prodigies. His sister Diana is a professor, translator, and critic of Russian literature. Burgin went to Brandeis University, where he received a B.A. He later received a Master's with highest honors from Columbia University. His first publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacArthur Fellow
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States. According to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential," but it also says such potential is "based on a track record of significant accomplishments." The current prize is $800,000 paid over five years in quarterly installments. Previously it was $625,000. This figure was increased from $500,000 in 2013 with the release of a review of the MacArthur Fellows Program. Since 1981, 1,111 people have been named MacArthur Fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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