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The Distinguished Visitors Program provides support to bring a diverse portfolio of distinguished statesmen, scientists, artists and other scholars to the Haverford community.

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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

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Past Visitors

  • 2018-19
    • Madina Agenor, assistant professor of race, culture, and society, department of community health, Tufts University School of Medicine
    • Bruce Andrews,managing partner, Rock Creek Global Advisors
    • Anu Asnaani, research affiliate, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    • Crystal Bailey, careers program manager, American Physical Society
    • Heather Battaly, professor of philosophy, University of Connecticut
    • Kathryn Sophia Belle, associate professor of philosophy, Penn State University and founding director, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
    • Richard Besdine ‘61, professor of medicine, Brown University
    • Cal Biruk, associate professor of anthropology, Oberlin College
    • Sarah E. Bond, associate professor of classics, University of Iowa
    • Glencora Borradaile, associate professor and College of Engineering Dean’s Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
    • Elegance Bratton, director, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
    • Simone Browne, associate professor, department of African and African Diaspora studies, University of Texas at Austin
    • Alicia Schmidt Camacho, professor of American studies, Yale University
    • Alice Chen-Plotkin, Parker Family Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
    • Kamari Maxine Clarke, professor, international and global studies, Carleton University
    • Noelle Damico, senior fellow, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, NYU Wagner Graduate School
    • Scott Dodelson, professor and chair, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Kate Doyle, senior analyst of U.S. Policy in Latin America
    • Timothy Eatman, inaugural dean of the Honors Living Learning Community and associate professor of urban education, Rutgers University, Newark
    • Nicole Fleetwood, associate professor of American Studies
    • Nyle Fort, PhD Candidate at Princeton University
    • Allyn Gaestel ‘09, writer and journalist
    • Arunabh Ghosh, assistant professor of Chinese history, Harvard University
    • Christopher Harris, associate professor, head of film and video production, University of Iowa
    • Le Ly Hayslip, author
    • Paul Hendrickson, senior lecturer, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
    • Kelley Hess, Kapetyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen and ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)
    • Mateo Hoke, journalist
    • Melissa Homestead, professor of English, University of Nebraska
    • David Katzenstein, professor emeritus of infectious disease and geographic medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
    • Sean Kelsey, associate professor of philosophy, University of Notre Dame
    • Shamus Khan, professor and chair of sociology, Columbia University
    • Don Kimes, professor of fine arts, American University
    • Richard K. Larson, professor and chair of linguistics, Stony Brook University
    • Victor LaValle, associate professor of professional practice, writing, Columbia University
    • Emily Lee, professor of philosophy, California State University Fullerton
    • Chris Lintott, professor of astrophysics/Citizen Science Lead, University of Oxford
    • Vincent Lloyd, associate professor of theology and religious studies, Villanova University
    • Kathryn Lofton, professor of religious studies, American studies, history, Yale University
    • Jason Lutes, Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction, VT
    • Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies, professor of anthropology, Brown University
    • Lisa Manning, associate professor of physics, Syracuse University
    • Caroline Maposhere, Community-based ART Study Coordinator, Zimbabwe
    • Emily Mayer '14, Lead Organizer of IfNotNow
    • Marc Melitz ‘89, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
    • Michael Morgan, professor of philosophy and Jewish studies, Indiana University and University of Toronto
    • Courtney D. Morris, assistant professor of African American studies and women’s gender, and sexuality studies
    • Christian Nieves-Santiago, theater director, actor, and educator, affiliation in Buenos Aires “La Horrosa Banda Teatral, in Puerto Rico, “Grupo Caribe Bestial” and Colegio Rosa Bell
    • Cara Nine, senior lecturer, University College Cork
    • Anne O-Neil-Henry, associate professor of French and Francophone studies, Georgetown University
    • Scott Peacock, chef and President of Alabama Black Belt Foundation
    • Taylor Pendergrass, ACLU lawyer
    • Annika Peter, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, Ohio State University
    • Robin Petersen, professor and CEO, South African Soccer Association Development Agency
    • Eline Luning Prak, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, director human immunology core facility faculty, Clinical Immunology Laboratory of Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
    • Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics, Harvard University
    • Raquel Salas Rivera, Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate, 2018-2019
    • Robin Wolfe Scheffler, Leo Marx Career Development Professor of Science and Technology, MIT
    • Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, independent filmmaker
    • Daniel Kojo Schrade, professor of art, Hampshire College
    • Rabbi Joe Schwartz, Founder and CEO of IDRA
    • Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, assistant professor of chemistry, Princeton University
    • Sima Shakhsari, assistant professor, department of gender, women, and sexuality studies, University of Minnesota
    • Carla Shedd, associate professor of urban education and sociology, CUNY
    • Mariano Siskind, professor romance languages and literatures and comparative literature, Harvard University
    • James B. Skeath, professor of genetics and director, genetics graduate program, Washington University, St. Louis
    • Iddo Tavory, associate professor of sociology, New York University
    • R. Eric Thomas, senior staff writer, Elle.com
    • Julia Van Haaften, independent consulting curator and author
    • Manu Vimalassery, assistant professor, Barnard College
    • Beth Whitaker, associate professor of political science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    • Hyunsoo Woo, The Maxine and Howard Lewis Associate Curator of Korean Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, associate professor of political science, Babcock University
    • Perry Zurn, assistant professor of philosophy, American University
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  • 2017-18
    • Marlon Bailey, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
    • Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, associate professor of Philosophy and Religion, Gallaudet University
    • Nancy Bonini, Florence RC Murray Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
    • Ludovic Bonleux, filmmaker
    • Katherine Bradford, professor, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia and The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
    • Keith Breckenridge, professor and deputy director, Wits University Institute of Social and Economic Research
    • Ric Burns, writer, director, producer
    • Sean Carroll, research professor, department of physics, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
    • Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University
    • Eliane de Latour, film director
    • Yann Dedet, filmmaker, director, editor and actor
    • Greg Dunn, artist, Greg Dunn Design
    • Adrienne Erickcek, assistant professor, department of physics & astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • Rodrigo Espana, assistant professor, department of neurobiology and anatomy, Drexel University
    • John Flower, director, Chinese Studies Program, Sidwell Friends School
    • Farha Ghannam, professor of anthropology, Swarthmore College
    • Michael Gillespie, associate professor of Black Studies, City College of New York
    • Isabella Ginor, associate fellow, Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    • Bob Goldstein, James L. Peacock Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of North Carolina
    • Sam Green, independent filmmaker
    • Emily Greenwood, professor of classics, Yale University
    • Donald Greig, director, Orlando Consort
    • Rachel Gross, John & Marcia Goldman Professor of American Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
    • Lesle Honore, poet
    • Kim J. Hopper, professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
    • Susan Howe, poet
    • Claire Jean Kim, professor of political science and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine
    • Jana Klenburg, actress
    • Marla Kohlman '88, professor of Sociology, Kenyon College
    • Avery Kolers, professor of philosophy, University of Louisville
    • John Lardas Modern, professor and chair of religious studies, Franklin & Marshall College
    • Shane Larson, associate director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Northwestern University
    • Holley M. Murchison, founder and CEO of Oratory Glory
    • Simeon Man, assistant professor of history, UC San Diego
    • Virginia Man-Yee Lee, John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer’s Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    • Rahul Mehta, author
    • Dunya Mikhail, Iraqi American poet, write and lecturer of Arabic Language, Oakland University
    • Fiona Mwale, Judge of the High Court of Malawi and 2017-2018 Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Washington College of Law, American University
    • Kevin Nadal, professor of psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center at City University of New York
    • Christopher Ody '04, research assistant professor, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management
    • Karoline P. Cook, lecturer in the history of the Atlantic World, Royal Holloway, University of London
    • Rachel Pepper, William D. and Flora McCormick Chair in Biophysics  and associate professor of physics, University of Puget Sound
    • Anthony M. Petro, assistant professor of religion and women & gender studies, Boston University
    • Beth Piatote, associate professor of ethnic studies, University of California at Berkeley
    • Julia Reinhard Lupton, professor of English and associate dean for research, University of California-Irvine
    • Gideon Remez, associate fellow, Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    • Jonathan Rosa, assistant professor, Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, Stanford University
    • Joel Schneider, deputy director, Center for Cancer Research Chief, Chemical Biology Laboratory National Cancer Institute, NIH
    • Rashad Shabazz, associate professor, justice and social inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
    • Alan Shapiro, professor of classics, and W.H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, Johns Hopkins
    • Peter Shapiro, author
    • Elliott Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor, department of philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Damien Sojoyner, assistant professor of anthropology, University of California, Irvine
    • Katrina Spade '99, Recompose, Founder and CEO
    • Gabriel Thompson, author, journalist, community organizer
    • Brian Utter, associate professor, Bucknell University
    • Sabina Vaught, associate professor and chair of the department of education, director of the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University
    • Tisa Wenger, associate professor of American religious history, Yale Divinity School
    • Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy, Harvard Divinity School
    • Hylton White, associate professor of anthropology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
    • Li-Shin Yu, writer, director, producer
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  • 2016-17
    • Branka Arsic, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
    • Esraa Awad, International team player and activist for women’s soccer in Egypt
    • Orit Bashkin, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
    • Danielle Bassett, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
    • Josh Begley, Data artist and web developer, The Intercept
    • Julia Watts Belser, Assistant professor, Georgetown University
    • Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
    • Richard J.  Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
    • Linda Bosniak, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University Law School
    • Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
    • Michael Burawoy, Professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    • Helena Cabello Moreno, Artist
    • Gregory Campbell, Independent consultant; former Director of Biostatistics, US FDA
    • Ana Carceller, Artist
    • Wendy Christensen, Associate Professor, William Patterson University
    • Amber Clifford, Associate professor of anthropology, University of Central Missouri
    • Joanna Davidson, Assistant Professor, Boston University
    • Beverly Davidson, Director of Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Chief Scientific Strategy Officer, CHOP
    • Jill Dolan, Dean of the College and Annan Professor of English, Princeton University
    • Nadia Ellis, Associate Professor of English, UC Berkley
    • Susan Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University; Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs
    • Kim Fortun, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, 
    • David Freund, Professor Emeritus of Photography, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    • Mary Frey, Professor Photography, Hartford Art School
    • Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Professor of English and Bioethics, Emory University
    • John Gibler, Journalist and writer
    • Maris Gillette, Des Lee Professor of Museum and Community History Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Director, Museum Studies Graduate Program
    • Jane Golden, Executive Director, Mural Arts Philadelphia
    • Robert Gooding-Williams, Professor of African-American Studies and Philosophy, Columbia University
    • Laura Greenfield, Director, Transformative Speaking Program, Hampshire College
    • Casey Due Hackney, Professor and Director of Classical Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
    • Ruthi Hortsch, Program Manager, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics
    • Michael Jamanis, Violinist
    • Amanda Kemp, Author
    • Shaun King, Senior Justice Writer New York Daily News
    • Regina Kunzel, Doris Stevens Professor in History, Women’s Studies, and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Princeton University
    • John Lear, Professor, University of Puget Sound
    • Riva Lehrer, Artist
    • Anne-Maria Makhulu, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African-American Studies, Duke University
    • Laura Mauldin, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
    • Nergis Mavalvala, Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics, Associate Department Head of Physics, MIT
    • Mark Mazzetti, Reporter/correspondent, The New York Times
    • Elizabeth McCracken, James A. Michener Chair in Creative Writing, University of Texas at Austin
    • Mark Miller, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
    • David Miranda, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College
    • Paula Monaco Felipe, Journalist and writer
    • Jeanne Morefield, Professor of Politics, Whitman College
    • Stuart Murray, Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric & Ethics, Carleton University, Canada
    • Nada Mustafa Ali, Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    • Alice Notley, Poet
    • Claudia Ochoa-Espejo, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
    • James Perkinson, Professor in Social Ethics and Theology, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit, MI
    • Adrienne Petty, Associate Professor, City College of New York, Harlem
    • Amy Pope '96, Nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council
    • Quartetto di Venezia, Quartet in Residence at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy
    • Brett Rogers, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Puget Sound
    • James Rogers, Professor of Computer Science, Earlham College
    • Barry Schwabsky, Chief Art Critic, The Nation, New York
    • Adrienne Shaw, Assistant professor, Temple University
    • Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University
    • Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
    • Andrew Skemer, Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
    • Judith E. Stein, Independent scholar and curator
    • Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor of Physics, Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
    • Rashid Sunyaev, Former Director, Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
    • Eric Tagliacozzo '89, Professor of History, Cornell University
    • Neha Vora, Assistant Professor, Lafayette College
    • Bode Wang, Independent scholar and photographer of Miao nationality (People’s Republic of China)
    • Ines Yujnovsky, Profesora de Historia Latinoamericana, Universidad de San Martin
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  • 2015-16
    • Hester Baer - Associate Professor and Graduate Director in Germanic Studies, University of Maryland
    • Emily Balskus - Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
    • Rachel Barney - Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto
    • Marion Belanger - Visiting Lecturer in Photography, Wesleyan University
    • Jessica Berman - Professor of English, Affiliate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Affiliate Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture; University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    • Gurtina Besla - Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
    • Matthew Carrigan - Associate Professor of Natural Sciences, Santa Fe College
    • Robbin Chapman - Associate Provost and Academic Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Wellesley College
    • Paul Cheney - Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
    • Ngawang Choephel - Filmmaker
    • David Ciepley - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Denver/Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
    • Susan Clayton - Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster
    • Peter Coviello - Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Mark Drumbl - Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Institute School of Law, Washington & Lee University
    • Lucy Easthope - Senior Lecturer in Forensic Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK
    • Steven Feld - Professor Emeritus, University of Mexico
    • Laurie Garrett - Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
    • Gilbert Gaul - Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter
    • Susanne Gehrmann - Professor, Humboldt University of Berlin
    • Cristiana Giordano - Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Fellow, Institute for Social Sciences, University of California, Davis
    • Carla Guelfenbein - Writer
    • Leah Hochman - Director Louchheim School for Judaic Studies, USC and Associate Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew Union College
    • Mateo Hoke - Editor
    • James House '65 - Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology, University of Michigan
    • Thomas Hurka - University Professor and Jackman Distinguished Chair of Philosophical Studies, University of Toronto
    • Nancy Isenberg - T. Harry Williams Professor of History, Louisiana State University
    • Ronica Jeffrey - World Boxing Council Featherweight World Champion
    • Thomas Jenkins - Professor of Classical Studies, Trinity University
    • Clara Jones - Lecturer in Modern Literature, King’s College London
    • Toby Jones - Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
    • Alice Kang - Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Institute of Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska
    • Leonard Kaplan - Professor Emeritus, Mortimer Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Claire Keifer - Education Program Associate for Voice of Witness
    • Steven Larson ‘83 - Assistant Dean for Global Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Founding Executive Director, Puentes de Salud, Philadelphia; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, HUP
    • Claudio Lopez-Guerra Fernandez - Associate Professor of Political Studies, Centro de Investigacion y docencia Economicas; Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
    • Lisa Lowe - Professor of English, Director of American Studies, Tufts University
    • Cate Malek - Editor, writer, and photographer
    • Karline McLain - Associate Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Chair in the Humanities, Bucknell University
    • Farah Mendlesohn - Professor of Literary History; Head of the Department of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University
    • Jean Mills - Associate professor, Department of English, CUNY
    • Kenneth Mills - J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan
    • Koritha Mitchell - Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University
    • Larry Moss - Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    • James Nachtwey - Photographer
    • Bonaventure Soyh Bejeng Ndikung - Art curator
    • Ranen Omer-Sherman - Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Louisville
    • Juno Parrenas - Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University
    • Rhacel Parrenas - Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California
    • Todd W. Reeser - Professor of French, University of Pittsburgh
    • Eileen Reeves - Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
    • Carl Richard - Professor of History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • Paul Saint-Amour - Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
    • Celine Shimizu - Independent filmmaker and Visiting Professor in Cinema and Sociology (Sexuality) Studies at SFSU; Distinguished Scholar of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara
    • Evie Shockley - Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University
    • James Smith - Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
    • Helen Steward - Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action, University of Leeds
    • Jeffrey Stout - Professor of Religion, Princeton University
    • Rea Tajiri - Filmmaker and Associate Professor, Film and Media Arts, Temple University
    • Lucia Trimbur - Associate Professor of Sociology, John Jay College
    • Liese van Zee '91 - Associate Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University
    • Dhoruba bin Wahad - Independent scholar
    • Jacqueline Wernimont - Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University; Fellow, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
    • George Yancy - Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
    • Tan Ye - Professor of Comparative Theater at the University of South Carolina
    • Ken Zuckerman - Sarod virtuoso, lutenist and composer Director Ali Akbar College of Music, Switzerland; professor at Music Conservatory of Basel
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  • 2014-15
    • Ziad Abu-Rish - Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University
    • Ferrer Ada - Professor of History, New York University
    • Anne Balay - Independent Scholar and Author
    • Ilisa Barbash - Filmmaker, Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum at Harvard University
    • Kathryn Bond Stockton - Distinguished Professor of English, University of Utah
    • Anne Bowler - Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
    • Laurence Brahm - Global activist, author and chief economist of the New Earth Institute
    • Justin Broackes - Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
    • Peter Brown ’61 - Professor, McGill University School of Environment
    • Lucien Castaing-Taylor - Filmmaker, Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
    • Edward P. Comentale - Professor of English, Indiana University
    • Brian Conlon - Senior Research Scientist, Northeastern University
    • Alexander Dent - Associate Professor, The George Washington University; Associate Editor of the Journal Anthropological Quarterly
    • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Professor Emeritus, Department of Ethnic Studies, California State University, East Bay
    • Lauren Ekue - Novelist, writer and freelance journalist
    • Emmanuel Owusu Bonsu - Mensa Ansah FOKN Bois, Independent filmmakers, artists, musicians
    • Helene P. Foley - Professor of Classics, Barnard College
    • Sergey Fomin - Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    • Alison Frand - David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
    • Lessie Jo Frazier - Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
    • Nicholas Gaskill - Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University
    • Avery Goldstein - David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
    • Corinne Goria - Counsel, Immigration and Nationality Law
    • Maureen Gosling - Independent Filmmaker
    • Matthias Haase - Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Leipzig
    • Bassam Haddad - Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
    • David Hartsough - Executive Director, Peaceworkers
    • Tyson Hedrick - Associate Professor Department of Biology, North Carolina State University
    • Rebecca Herman - Senior Education Policy Researcher and Chair in Education Policy Research, Rand Corporation
    • Scott Hightower - Adjunct Professor, New York University, Gallatin School
    • Grace Kao - Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
    • Sara Kendall - Assistant Professor, Kent Law School, United Kingdom
    • Jodi Kim - Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
    • Jonathan Lear - John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago
    • Daryn Lehoux - Professor of Classics, Queens University
    • Deborah Lewinsohn - Professor of Pediatric/Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health and Sciences University
    • Julie Livingston - Professor of History, Rutgers University
    • Jennifer Lotz - Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
    • William Lubell - Professor of Chemistry, University of Montreal, Canada
    • Smith Mac - Staff User Researcher, Google [x], Google, Mountain View, CA
    • David Mollett - Associate Professor and Chair of Art, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    • Jorge Morales Toj - Human Rights lawyer
    • Coleen Murphy - Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    • Amber Jamila Musser - Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Washington University
    • Cristin O-Keefe Aptowicz - Writer and Poet, Independent
    • Javier Osorio -Assistant Professor of Political Science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
    • Cameron Partridge - Lecturer and Counselo for Episcopal and Anglican Students, Harvard Divinity School; University Episcopal Chaplain, Boston University
    • Nicole Pittman, Esq. - Stoneleigh Fellow & Senior Program Specialist National Council on Crime and Delinquency
    • Ato Quayson - Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
    • Laurence Ralph - Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana, Harvard University
    • Colleen Randall - Professor of Fine Arts, Dartmouth College
    • Josipa Roksa - Associate Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Virginia
    • Brian Rose ’73 - James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology and Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    • Jess Row - Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey
    • Lisa Shabel - Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University
    • Audra Simpson - Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
    • Helen Thorpe - Journalist, author
    • Ben Vinson - Dean of the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, The George Washington University
    • Abdourahman Waberi - Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies, The George Washington University
    • Binyavanga Wainaina - Novelist
    • Tyrone Werts - Co-Founder and Director The End Crime Project
    • Yang Xiao - Professor of Philosophy, Kenyon College
    • Jonathan Yewdell - Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section Chief, NIAID,National Institutes of Health
    • Alison Young - Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne, Australia
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  • 2013-14
    • Andrew Abbott - Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
    • Julia Adams - Director, Division of Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology International and Area Studies, Yale University
    • Allan Antliff - Canada Research Chair: in Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Victoria
    • Adam Ashforth - Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
    • Gerald Auten - Senior Lecturer and Director of The Studio Art Exhibition Program, Dartmouth College
    • Lisa Baglione - Professor and Chair of Political Science, St. Joseph’s University
    • Gretchen Bauer - Professor and Chair of Political Science, University of Delaware
    • Tom Boellstorff - Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine
    • Lee H. Butler, Jr. - Professor of Theology and Psychology, Chicago Theological Seminary
    • Caren Canier - Professor of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • Kateri Carmola - Director, Carmola Consulting, LLC
    • Jon Carter - Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology Le Moyne College
    • Victor Caston - Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, University of Michigan
    • Jack Censer - Professor of History, George Mason University
    • Rupali Chandar ‘91 - Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Toledo
    • Radcliffe Edmonds - Associate Professor and Chairman, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, Bryn Mawr College
    • David Eng - Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
    • Juliet Floyd - Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
    • Elizabeth Freeman - Professor of English, University of California, Davis
    • Jon Garrison - Retired Metropolitan Opera singer
    • Zemer Gitai - Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    • Dave Goldberg - Professor of Physics, Drexel University
    • L. Shane Greene - Associate Professor and Director for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana University
    • Susan Hagen - Philadelphia sculptor and Assistant Professor, Department of Arts, Bucks County Community College
    • Mark Harrison - Professor, University of Warwick, UK
    • Linda Hasunuma - Assistant Professor of Government, Franklin and Marshall College
    • John T. Hill - Photographer, designer and former Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Yale University School of Art
    • Seth Holmes - Martin Sisters Endowed Chair Assistant Professor, UC, Berkeley School of Public Health’s Community Health and Human Development Division
    • Eugene Jarecki - Filmmaker
    • Jonathan Kirschenfeld - Founder, Institute for Public Architecture
    • James Knierim - Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    • Jeff Kuhn - Astronomy, Institute for Astronomy, Haleakala Division, Maui, Hawaii
    • Ulrich Langer - Professor of French, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Mary Anne Layden - Director of Education and Director of Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    • Benjamin Lebrave - Founder of Akwaaba Music
    • Dana Leibsohn - Priscilla Paine van der Poel Professor, Art History, Smith College
    • Chris Link - Professor of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder
    • Samuel Lucas - Professor Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
    • Adrienne Mayor - Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
    • Luvuyo Ntombana - Senior Researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare
    • Hillory Oakes - Director of Writing and Director of Student Collaborative Learning, Bates College
    • Paul Offit - Chief of Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
    • Lyman Page - Henry deWolfe Smyth Professor of Physics and Department Chair, Princeton University
    • George Papandreou - Former Prime Minister of Greece
    • Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson - Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
    • Marina Peterson - Associate Professor, Performance Studies, Ohio University
    • Lucinda Ramberg - Assistant Professor, Anthropology & Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Cornell University
    • Claudia Rangel - Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero
    • Juan J. Rojo - Assistant Professor of Spanish/Department of Foreign Languages Lafayette College
    • Gary Ruvkun - Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
    • Ellen Samuels - Assistant Professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Evangelina Sanchez - Professor of Sociology, Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico
    • Douglas Smith - Director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair, Robert A. Groff Endowed Professor and Vice Chairman for Research and Education in Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
    • C. Riley Snorton - Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
    • Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - Founder and Artistic Director, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin
    • Chris Stedman - Humanist Chaplain, Harvard University and Yale University
    • Michael Stein - Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of Chicago
    • Barry Stroud - Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
    • Michael Taussig - Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
    • Alan Trachtenberg - Neil Gray Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, Yale University
    • Juan Uson - Associate Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Physics, Princeton University
    • Suresh Venkatasubramanian - John E. and Marva M. Warnock Associate Professor in the School of Computing, University of Utah
    • Edward A. Vessel - Research Scientist, New York University Center for Brain Imaging and Co-Director of the NYU ArtLab
    • Alycia Weinberger - Staff Astronomer, The Carnegie Institute of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
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  • 2012-13
    • Marjorie Agosin - Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies; Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College
    • Alan Aspuru-Guzik - Associate Professor, Harvard University
    • Mo Asumang - Filmmaker
    • Erik Balder - Profile Chair of Mathematical Economics and Decision Theory, Utrecht University
    • Shadi Bartsch - Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, University of Chicago)
    • Robert Bellah - Ford Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
    • Anthony Bogues - Harmon Family Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University
    • David Bucura - Clerk, Rwanda Yearly Meeting
    • David Charles - Professor of Philosophy, Oxford University
    • Veronica Cortinez - Professor Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Erik Davis - Freelance author
    • Peter Decherney - Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, English and Communications, University of Pennsylvania
    • Vincent Denis - Assistant Professor of History, University of Paris - Sorbonne
    • Richard H. Ebright - Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory Director, Waksman Institute of Microbiology and Distinguished Professor Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
    • Erica Flapan - Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics, Pomona College
    • Eckart Forster - Professor, Department of Philosophy, Department of German, and the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin
    • Paul Franks - Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
    • Rajmohan Gandhi - Research Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Twiggy Pucci Garcon - Performer and health activist
    • Bill Gasarch - Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park
    • Alfredo Jaar - Artist
    • Sara Jordeno - Visual artist-filmmaker
    • Charles L. Kane - Professor, University of Pennsylvania
    • Gina Kolata - The New York Times Senior Health and Science Writer
    • James Lantolf - George and Jane Greer Professor in Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics, Penn State University
    • Peggy Levitt - Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College
    • Thomas Maniatis - Isidore Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University College of Medicine, NYC
    • Nikolay Mitrokhin - Researcher, Research Institute for Eastern Europe, Bremen, Germany
    • Brett Pelham - Visiting Associate Professor, Swarthmore College
    • Marc Schneiberg - John C. Pock Professor of Sociology, Reed College
    • Rupert Sheldrake - Research Fellow of the Royal Society and former Fellow of Clare College Cambridge University
    • Kim Steinhauer - President, Estill Voice International; adjunct faculty, University of Pittsburgh School of Health
    • Jennifer Stoever-Ackerman - Assistant Professor of English, Binghamton University
    • James Sweet - Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Ebony Elizabeth Thomas - Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
    • Ilana Trachtman - Filmmaker
    • Gary Victor - French and Francophone Studies
    • Rubie Watson - Curator of Comparative Ethnology; Former Director, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
    • James Watson - Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Harvard University
    • Michael Weinstein - Chief Program Officer, The Robin Hood Foundation
    • Raul Zurita - Poet
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  • 2011-12
    • Mohammed Ben Abdallah - Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
    • Naif Al-Mutawa - Creator of The 99
    • Olive Ayhens - Artist
    • Jennifer S. Beer - Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin
    • Hall Bjornstad - Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, Indiana University (Bloomington)
    • Bruno Bosteels - Professor of Romance Studies, Cornell University
    • Richard Brantley - Alumni Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Florida
    • Peter Brown - Professor, School of Environment, McGill University
    • Anthea Butler - Associate Professor of Religion, University of Pennsylvania
    • Patricia Cabrera Lopez - Professor of Philosophy and Letters, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    • Jack Carnell - Associate Professor, School of Design and Media, Philadelphia University
    • Anne Carson - Poet in Residence, NYU Creative Writing Program; London based artist
    • Gianluca Caterina - Co-Director, Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy, Endicott College
    • China Ethnographic Film Festival and Conference - Tami Blumenfield, Jenny Chio, Kenneth Dean, Maris Gillette, Steve Harrell, Benjamin Gertsen, Tik-sang Liu, J.P. Snaidecki, and Angela Zito
    • Janet Clark - Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Drexel University
    • Michael Clarke - Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
    • D. Kacy Cullen - Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
    • Peter Davis - Film Director at Villon Films
    • Colin Joan Dayan - Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
    • Mircea Dumitru - Professor and Vice-Rector, University of Bucharest
    • Percival Everett - Fiction writer and Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California
    • Tabetha Ewing - Associate Professor of History, Bard College
    • Joshua C. Farley - Associate Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont
    • Denis Feeney - Giger Professor of Latin, Professor Classics, Princeton University
    • Paul Fierlinger - Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts
    • Maria Luisa Fischer - Associate Professor, Hunter College, CUNY
    • Marcos Frank - Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
    • Rocco Gangle - Co-Director, Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy, Endicott College
    • Margaret Geller - Senior Scientist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
    • Tania Giovannetti - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Temple University
    • Philip Goodchild - Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
    • Lewis R. Gordon - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University
    • John Greyson - Associate Professor, York University
    • Emily Grosholz - Liberal Arts Research Professor, Department of Philosophy, affiliate Department of English, affiliate Department of African and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
    • David Miranda Hardy - Filmmaker
    • Haverford Digital Humanities Retreat
    • Holocaust Awareness Museum
    • David Hu - Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Pamela Johnson - Artist and Professor of Art and Visual Culture, Bates College
    • Mohsen Kadivar - Visiting Research Professor, Duke University
    • Sara Kendall - Researcher, Grotius Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands
    • Scott Kenyon - Senior Scientist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
    • Anthony Kroch - Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professorship, University of Pennsylvania
    • Ernest Lepore - Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and Professor of Philosophy
    • Stephen J. Lippard '62 - Arthur Amos Noyes Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Mark Louden - Professor of German, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Eriberto Lozada - Associate Professor Anthropology, Davidson College; President, Asia Network; President, Society for East Asian Anthropology
    • Omid Memarian - Director of Programs, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
    • Ali Mirsepassi - Professor of Middle Eastern studies and sociology at the Gallatin School and Director of Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University
    • Fathali Moghaddam - Professor, Department of Psychology; and Director, Conflict Resolution Program, Department of Government, Georgetown University
    • Jonathan Moreno - Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor; Professor Medical Ethics & Health Policy & History & Sociology of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    • Sam Moyn - Professor of History, Columbia History
    • Robert L. Nadeau - Professor of History of Science and Public Policy, George Mason University
    • Michael Nock - Associate Director, Tanglewood Music Center
    • Camille Paglia - Professor of Humanities and Media Studies, University of the Arts
    • John S. Parkinson '65 - Distinguished Professor, University of Utah
    • Nicholas J. Patterson - Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University
    • Iain Haley Pollock '00 - Award winning poet, English teacher, Springside-Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia
    • Margaret Price - Associate Professor of English, Spelman College
    • Vicente Rafael - Professor of History, University of Washington
    • Julius Rebek, Jr. - Professor, Scripps Research Institute
    • Bernard Reginster - Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
    • Alan Richardson - Professor of English, Boston College
    • Barbara Ryder - Head, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
    • Mahmoud Sadri - Professor of Sociology, Texas Woman’s University
    • Lahra Smith - Assistant Professor of African Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
    • Rachel Sutton-Spence - Julian and Virginia Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
    • Larissa Swedell - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Queens College CUNY
    • Ricardo Viera - Professor of Art, Director of Lehigh University Art Galleries
    • Benjamin Warschawski - International opera singer, Cantor of Congregation Ezra-Habonim, Chicago, IL
    • Elizabeth Wing - Freelance translator of French literature and theory
    • Mary Wiseman - Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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