Gary Anthony Soto is an American poet,novelist,and memoirist.
Caroline Walker Bynum,FBA is a Medieval scholar from the United States. She is a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies,served as president of the American Historical Association in 1996,and President of the Medieval Academy of America in 1997–1998.
Grace Louise McCann Morley was a museologist of global influence. She was the first director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and held the position for 23 years starting in 1935. In an interview with Thomas Tibbs,she is credited with being a major force in encouraging young American artists. The government of India awarded her the Padma Bhushan,its third highest civilian award,in 1982.
Phyllis Emily Granoff is a specialist in Indic religions. In July 2004,she joined Yale University as a Professor of World Religions. She also serves as the editor of the Journal of Indian Philosophy.
Virginia Helen McCord Mecklenburg is an American art historian and curator. Mecklenburg is currently the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,where she has worked since 1979.
JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist best known for her work on ribonucleotide reductases,for which she was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2009. In 2017,she retired as a Professor of Chemistry and Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nell Irvin Painter is an American historian notable for her works on United States Southern history of the nineteenth century. She is retired from Princeton University as the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita. She has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and as president of the Southern Historical Association,and was appointed as chair of MacDowell's board of directors in 2020.
Pauline Yu is an American scholar of Chinese literature and culture noted for her contributions to the study of classical Chinese poetry and comparative literature. She is also known for her research and advocacy on issues in the humanities.
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Art at Columbia University. She was previously the Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California,Berkeley. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019.
John Pollini is an American art historian,archeologist,and educator. A scholar of Ancient Rome,Pollini is the USC Associates Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California.
Wanda M. Corn is an American art and cultural historian.
Amy Lyford is an American professor of art history. She is on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles,California. A specialist in Modern Art,Lyford is the author of two books:Surrealist Masculinities:Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France and Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism:Negotiating Race,Labor,and Nation,1930-1950.
Patricia Fortini Brown is Professor Emerita of Art &Archaeology at Princeton University.
Gyöngy Laky is an American sculptor living and working in San Francisco,California. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S.,Europe,Asia and South America. She gained recognition early in her career for her linear sculptures constructed in the architectural methods of textile arts. “Laky’s art manifests architectonic sensibility. She is as much an engineer as she is an artist in the conventional sense.”She is also known for her site-specific,outdoor,temporary installations.
Margaret Alison Stones,FSA,is a British/American medievalist and academic. She has held the position of professor emerita of history of art and architecture at University of Pittsburgh since 2012. Her work has been published in national and international academic journals and she has contributed to international exhibitions.
Annabel Jane Wharton is an American art historian with wide-ranging interests from Late Ancient &Byzantine art and culture through to modern architecture and its effect on ancient landscapes. She is currently William B. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Art History at Duke University,North Carolina and has been working on a project regarding the use of new technologies for visualising historical materials.
George Lawrence Gorse,Jr. is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of medieval and Renaissance architecture,Gorse is the Viola Horton Professor of Art History at Pomona College.
Beth Severy-Hoven is Professor of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East at Macalester College. She is an expert in Roman history and archaeology,and gender and sexuality in antiquity.
Kristina Sessa is Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is an expert on the cultural history of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean world from ca. 300-700 CE.
