Educational Advisory Board

2005-2009 

Roger D. Abrahams
Hum Rosen Professor Emeritus of Folklore and Folklife
University of Pennsylvania

John Brewer
Professor of History and Literature
California Institute of Technology

Chen Yi
Composer; Lorena Searcy Cravens/Millsap/ Missouri Distinguished Professor in Music Composition
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Stephen F. Cohen
Professor of Russian Studies and History
New York University
Professor Emeritus of Politics
Princeton University

Howard Gardner
John H. and Elisabeth Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Harvard University

Guillermo Jaim-Etcheverry
Professor of Cell Biology and Histology and former Rector
University of Buenos Aires

Martin E. Jay
Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley

Claude Rawson
Maynard Mack Professor of English
Yale University

Peter H. Smith
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies
University of California, San Diego

2006-2010

Nicholas Christopher
Poet and Novelist, New York City
Professor, The Writing Division
School of the Arts, Columbia University

Andrew H. Delbanco
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University

Deborah Jowitt
Senior Dance Critic, Village Voice
Master Teacher of Dance and Dance History
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Laura Kipnis
Video Artist, New York City
Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film
Northwestern University

Richard V. E. Lovelace
Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University

Peter H. Raven
Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
Engelmann Professor of Botany
Washington University

John F. Szwed
John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology and Afro-American Studies
Yale University

Jeffrey Ullman
Stanley W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University

Brenda Wineapple
Writer, New York City
Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies
Union College

2007-2011

Stephen J. Greenblatt
Harry Levin Professor of English Literature
Harvard University

Lynn A. Hunt
Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History
University of California, Los Angeles

David Levering Lewis
Silver Professor, Professor of History, and University Professor
New York University

Eric Maskin
Albert O. Hirschman Professor
School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton

Jack Miles
Writer, Pasadena, California
Senior Advisor to the President
J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles

Sylvia Molloy
Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities
New York University

Francine Prose
Writer, New York City
Visiting Professor of Literature
Bard College

Neil J. Smelser
Director
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Stanford, California

Marvalee H. Wake
Chancellor's Professor
University of California, Berkeley

2008-2012

John I. Brauman
J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry Emeritus
Stanford University

Michael Cunningham
Writer
New York City

Drew Gilpin Faust
President, Harvard University
Lincoln Professor of History
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Anthony T. Grafton
Dodge Professor of History
Princeton University

Ada Louise Huxtable
Architecture Critic
New York City

Sabine G. MacCormack
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C. Professor of Arts and Letters,
and Fellow, Kellogg Institute,
University of Notre Dame

María Teresa Ruiz
Professor of Astronomy
University of Chile

Charles Simic
Poet and translator; Distinguished University Professor of English
University of New Hampshire

Anne Wilkes Tucker
The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston

Rufus Reid, 2008, Fellow, Music Composition. Photograph by John Abbott.

Evidentia III, 2008.  Oil on Linen 94.5 x 70.9. Rosalyn Bodycomb, 2007, Fellow, Fine Arts.