Educational Advisory Board
The Foundation doesn’t release the names of its advisers, but from the beginning it has elected a small fraction of them as the Educational Advisory Board (EAB). Its members—all of whom are former Fellows—are appointed to renewable four-year terms. These terms are staggered, so that each year the terms of about a quarter of the board expire. The Committee of Selection, which determines which applicants’ names will be forwarded to the Board of Trustees for final approval, is composed of EAB members.

David
Mikics
Profession: Professor of English, New College of Florida; Moores Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and the Honors College at the University of Houston

Sarah
Maza
Profession: Jane Long Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University

Anne W.
Tucker
Profession: Photography Curator

Deborah
Willis
Profession: University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

Carol
Anderson
Profession: Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies, Emory University

Sean M.
Carroll
Profession: Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, and Fractal Faculty, Santa Fe Institute

Julie
Taymor
Profession: Film and stage director, New York City

Wendy K.
Tam Cho
Profession: Professor in the Departments of Political Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Asian American Studies, and the College of Law, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jerold
Kayden
Profession: Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Wil
Haygood
Profession: Writer, Broadway Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Miami University, Ohio

Terrance
Hayes
Profession: Poet, Artist-in-Residence, New York University

Stephen J.
Greenblatt
Profession: John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Persis S.
Drell
Profession: James and Anna Marie Spilker Professor and Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Janet
Yellen
Profession: Secretary of the Treasury

Geraldine L.
Richmond
Profession: Presidential Chair and Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon

Chang-Rae
Lee
Profession: Writer; Professor of Creative Writing, Stanford University

Michael
Spence
Profession: William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, New York University

Randy
Schekman
Profession: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Elizabeth
Fenn
Profession: Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professor of Western American History, University of Colorado, Boulder

Timothy
Ferris
Profession: Writer, San Francisco

Ira
Katznelson
Profession: Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University

Alison
Bechdel
Profession: Artist, Vermont

Mary C.
Waters
Profession: PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology at Harvard University

Alfred W.
Lerdahl
Profession: Fritz Reiner Professor of Music, Columbia University, New York City

Annette
Gordon-Reed
Profession: Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School, Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Professor of History, Harvard University

Philip J.
Hanlon
Profession: President, Dartmouth College

Kirin
Narayan
Profession: Professor Emerita of Anthropology and South Asian Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University

Elinor
Ochs
Profession: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and Director, Center for Language, Interaction and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles

Chen
Yi
Profession: Composer, Kansas City, Missouri; Lorena Searcy Cravens/Millsaps/Missouri, Distinguished Professor of Composition, Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Anthony T.
Grafton
Profession: Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

Drew Gilpin
Faust
Profession: Lincoln Professor of American History, Harvard University; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, ex officio, President Emerita, Harvard University

Michael
Collier
Profession: Professor of English, University of Maryland

Alan
Berliner
Profession: Filmmaker, New York City

Wendy
Doniger
Profession: Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, The University of Chicago

Deborah
Jowitt
Profession: Master Teacher of Dance, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Neil H.
Shubin
Profession: Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Professor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago

John F.
Szwed
Profession: Emeritus John M. Musser Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies, Yale University, Professor of Music and Jazz Studies at Columbia University