I am passionate about urbanism and the prospects for creating walkable, socially diverse, sustainable urban neighborhoods in the U.S. and elsewhere. I am primarily an urban planner and urban designer, but my work also spans the fields of geography and sociology. I started my career working as an urban planner for the cities of Columbus,
Ann Blair is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on book history, science and religion, and early modern Europe (with an emphasis on France). She has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and was named Harvard College Professor in 2009 in recognition of her dedication to teaching. Blair
Author and translator Susan Bernofsky directs the program Literary Translation at Columbia in the M.F.A. Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Among her many published translations are retranslations of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha (Modern Library, 2006) and Franz Kafka’s classic black comedy of nightmarish transformation, The Metamorphosis (Norton, 2014). She specializes in
I received my Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1992 and have been teaching ever since at Vanderbilt University, where in 2004 I was appointed the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair in History. In the past decade, I have also been very involved in broadly interdisciplinary and humanistic work, most recently as Director of the
In the book project that will occupy most of my time during my Guggenheim Fellowship term, Skins: The Metamorphoses of John Singer Sargent, I use medical metaphors to account for what it is exactly that Sargent does with and through all those seemingly mobile layers of color he painted, and why it matters. I argue
My project in 2014–2015 has to do with two topics that have intrigued and teased me for decades: translation (and what, in translating, escapes the narrow definition of translation) and the early Chinese philosophical book Zhuangzi (or Chuang-tzu). It was a happy day when I realized that these two topics had a deep mutual relation.
Mark Aronoff spent the first twenty years of his life in Montreal and came to the United States to pursue graduate studies. He is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, where he has spent his entire academic career studying the structure of words. His research has concentrated on fundamental theoretical questions in linguistic
Nezar AlSayyad is an urbanist and a public intellectual. His scholarship, teaching, and practice demonstrate a wide and diverse range of interests and expertise. Educated as an architect, planner, urban designer, and urban historian, AlSayyad’s main focus has been the cross-cultural and comparative understanding of cities in their historical contexts. In 1988, he co-founded the
Catherine Prendergast is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also an affiliate of the Russian, East-European, and Eurasian Center. In 2008 she was awarded the title of University Scholar, one of the highest honors in the University of Illinois multicampus system. She has served as Director of First Year
Max Paul Friedman is Associate Professor in the History Department at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his B.A. from Oberlin College (1989) and worked as a journalist at National Public Radio before earning his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) from the University of California at Berkeley. Friedman was a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow
Steve Pincus is Bradford Durfee Professor of History and of Area and International Studies at Yale University, where he has taught since 2005. He specializes in early modern British, European, and Atlantic history. He has published widely on issues as diverse as the rise of the coffeehouse, the foreign policy of the Cromwellian protectorate, the
L. A. Paul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Professorial Fellow in the Arché Research Centre at the University of St. Andrews. She received her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Antioch College and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. Her main research interests are
Robert P. Weller writes on topics ranging from religion and resistance to urban unemployment, and from numerous field sites around China (Nanjing, Tianjin, Anqing, Leshan) as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. A broad concern with the workings and limits on the exercise of power in daily life—the power of spirits and of states, of
John Palmer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida. He specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, particularly its earliest phase. After receiving his B.A as a Woodruff Scholar in 1987 from Emory University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, he received a B.A./M.A. from Cambridge University in 1989
Brett L. Walker is Regents Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and was assistant professor of history at Yale University prior to returning home to Big Sky Country. He teaches courses on environmental history, Japanese history, and world history. He has written three books
Currently I am Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Trained in middle imperial (Tang-Song) Chinese history at UC Berkeley and Yale, I taught briefly at the University of Rochester and Connecticut College before joining the history faculty at UCLA in 1987, where I teach courses in Chinese history and world history
Michael Nylan has been fortunate in her teachers, beginning with her headmistress at the Shipley School for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Margaret Bailey Speer, who was head of Yenching Women’s College before the Japanese occupation of Beijing. Once in college, at the University of California, Berkeley, Nylan was lucky enough to acquire some sense
Carrie Noland is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her central area of research is modernist poetry and poetics, but she has also published widely on phenomenology, the Fr
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